The Express. — London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1851. the •IPrelgi. able to strike out a fourth plan : these, therefore, are the projects on the absolute and comparative merits of w hich it is desirable that the opuuons of our representatives in parliament and the, public generally should be matured against the dine when parliament is to re-assemble. It that time is allowed to come on without some such preparation, the next session will be as resultless in the matter of metro politan water 'apply as all its predecessors. The questions before the public may indeed prac tically be considered as limited to two. The alterna tive of a government board to administer the water supply of London is no longer regarded as feasible by any persons—except by the crotchetty brains in which it first originated. For the absurdity of the egregious schemes so summarily dismissed as soon as they were fairly submitted to the judgments of practical men, their authors, it iv true, are alone re sponsible; but the fatal objection to a government board is, that it not only affords no security against the employment of such crotchet-mongers, but m fact renders their selection probable in a gred majority of instances. Ministers of state cannot be expected to be intimately ver.ed in the engineering and other scientific questions involved in that of water supply. Their studies are, or ought to be, of a very different kind. The very utmost that can be expected from them, is a sufficient amount of general knowledge and sound common sense to enable them to make a good selection of the persons to whose coun sels they listen, whose services they employ. Now, regard Ewing bad to the class of men from whom our ministers have been, arc, and for some time to come TO CORR627Cvrvsa. a.. A Mood Edition of T om , aith ems oonlog's " Gametes," pablishei every sell rththaf .414 to time Lt pat Meer theentthatatheeled far "Tbe Zaprth"Lthern tenth, piper, moot no ot the math, io. Beethree-thath. 10 7 Trra erthra ara the NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tm I.hts—btanisg. h. M Afternoon. 2L IS.. T.....abow—gersiag. 2 . 1. 7/a Afternoon, 21. 225. LONDOY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. Tim Great Exhibition is closed, at least for the masses. The more rich have still a few hours, during which they may cast a parting glance at the greatest congregation of wealth and wonder, that art, science, human industry and ingenuity, and nature's bounty could produce. The Great Exhibition dies in its strength, and whilst still attracting its hundreds of thousands. It has not outlived its welcome nor survived its vogue. It has not, like a mere vulgar speculation, been allowed to wear itself out. It has lived its summer, during which all had a fair opportunity of contemplating its treasures. All classes have vied, not merely in coming themselves to contemplate the great mass of worldly wonders, but in facilitating the coming of the poorer clues and more remote population of the empire. We must confess to feeling glad that it is over. It was certainly a great interruption of ordinary habits, interest, and business. It had its e ff est upon the humblest industry as upon the highest efforts of thought, turning the one into new ways and channels, and suspending the latter. It hung up philosophy, bade poets be dumb, and hinted to the annual novelists that he or she might for the nonce cease their vocation. 11001c:sellers' shops it closed, and a great many other shops beside. And even parliament was one of the shops of which it well nigh put up the shutters ; nor could any power, except the stalwart sinews and activity of Cardinal Wi'nwtc, have kept it open. Many, therefore, of the sincere admirers of the Exhibition, and of thaw who acknowledge) that it has been, and will be, productive of the best effects, still are rejoiced to admire it in the past, after having safficiently enjoyed it in the present. lhere is, how ever, another reason fur satisfaction in its close, and that is, the great amount of danger and the increased lia bilities to accident. which the crowding and transport of so many thousands inevitably occasioned. For-' ' tunately we have not a single accident to register arising from the Exhibition. And yet when we have wen on our leading lines of railroad lung train succeed long train, at intervals of five minutes, and at a speed of forty miles an hour, we must confess to have shuddered then, and to be heartily glad now to think that it is over. Hot if railroad managers have triumphed over,or escaped from such serious difficulties, the people themselves hose by their conduct obviated other perils, which by a grit many in April last were looked upon as the most powerful concomitant of the Exhibition. are likely to be selected, this knowledge and this judgment are more than we are entitled to look for. Asa rule, the voluble and plausible quack and dexterous intriguer has a far better chance with our aristocratical publicists than sound practical men. Without some efficient check, ministerial appointments to a central metropolitan water board could not bo relied upon. And for ap pointments to a government board, entrusted with mere local objects, there is no responsibility ; mem bers of parliament are (even when attentive to their duties), too much occupied with great public pica (ions, or with the affairs of their respective constitu encies, to hope for efficient general parliamentary action in matters of merely kcal concern. In this country all government boards are practically irre sponsible. The inhabitants of London, therefore, dismissing as impracticable the idea of a government water board, have to decide with themselves which of two alternatives is preferable,—to entrust the care for their water supply to a municipal administration— to elected boards laving power to impose and levy water-rates, and direct the introduction and distribu tion of water in the metropolis; or to leave it, as it has hitherto been left, to private enterprise. One weighty objection to the plan of municipal administration is the want of any municipal organi sation for the whole of the metropolis. A general board, or a nullifier of district boards, fur the solo purpose of administering . the water supply would not have such a standing in public estimation as to attract the best class of candidates, or to impress electors with the importance of choosing only those of the first class. A municipal council, armed with adequate authority, and having a sufficiently wide Held of action, might supply an arena attractive to able minds and generous ambitions., but the crea tion of such a council will be a work of time. Can we afford to wait so long to have our London water supply placed on a satutfactory footing ? 'fhe old proverb seems applicable here :—" While the grass grows, the steed starves." With regard to private enterprise, it may be Resumed as an axiom that such an undertaking as the supply of London with water is beyond the competence of individual exertions. If private enterprise is to be called into play, it must be in the forms of associated capitalists—of joint stock compa nies. The objections to delegate tasks of public utility or necessity to incorporated joint-stock companies are well enough known, and have of late been often enough insisted on. They arc, however, of a nature that judicious legislation can so fir remove. Existing companies can be kept is check by the power reserved to the legislature 09 call new companies into existence. The legislature, when it decrees the incorporation of new companies, or extends the powers of old ones, has it always in its power to drive an advantageous bargain for the public. It can insist upon maximum rates ; it can make stipulations as to the quantity of water to be supplied and the mode of its supply : it can grant pnvileges to companies for a limited term of years, thus ensuring to the public periodical revision of the tenns conceded to them. This consideration,too, acmes to have some weight attached to it. The special stipulations imposed upon companies by net of parliament can be made exigible by cheap and surninary forms of process in courts of law. Such a provision would enable the poorest ratepayer at any time to compel the authorities of the water com pany to do him . justice, whereas the round-about process of an election is the only means of checking mail-administration should municipal affairs at any time get into incompetent or dishonest hands. In all matters of this kind much must depend upon local circumstances. In some places private enter- No governor, or government, or authority, charged with the public peace, like the congregation of thou wide. (to the ismtinent the bare idea MUMS states men to faint, and sovereigns to go into convulsions. When, therefore, Prince Mintier proposed a grand industrial fete, to which all England, end a great portion of America and of Europe were bidden, people abroad deemed the Prince mad ; persons even hero thought him rash. Fears of the pes.ple, however, are not indigenous in Eng lish inducts. And, notwithstanding grave remon strances from fonign courts and police-offices, the Exhibition was pirsisted in—and a splendid answer it has given to the fears of foreign despots. Whilst Austria deems her last hour come, because Kossevti is liberated whilst France warns front her shorts a man who has the dan gerous character of a patriot, the French home Minister has seen, during a visit here, how loyal and eimtented are our multitudes. And instead of our Home Minister watching over the tranquillity of the capital, Sir 0. GREY has been yachting and visit ing the shores of Norway, whilst hundreds of thou sands of artisans went and came between the manu facturing districts and the Palace of industry in the capita . Nor is it merely that there has been no insurrec tion, but tlwre has been no riot. Thu English are accused of being brutal in their Vcasiires, of loving drink and low excitement. Ilytle-park in 1:451 gives the he to such a calumny, and proves that no Pr lation can more fully appreciate an intellectual p ea sure, or enjoy it nob greater decorum and with granter mutual courtesy. Prince Ataimtr has thus succeeded in exposing something more than the excellence of the English in the industrial arts. Ile has displayed it in a moral and political light, and shown that free thisighted religion, representative rights, a free press, and industrial development are not only compatible with order and content, but guarantees of both. Whatever foreigners may learn of our machinery, our tissues, our manipulation of metals or of fibres, they could have beheld nothing so worthy of wonder and imitation as that social miler and political quiet, obtained without any employ of rude or noisy, terrify ing or cruel machinery. Of this great display, this proud achievement. in which all England, from the Prince to the people, ' may claim a share, them should, wo think, be sonic lasting and worthy commemoration. The memory and renown of the Great Exhibition cannot indeed perish. But we should show ourselves sen sible of and grateful fur its happy conduct, completion, and termination by some monument that will speak to future ages. Tho building of the Exhibition itself would be both too cumbrous and perhaps too perishing as a monument. For a host of reasons it as right that it should be taken down. We cannot, however, but think that on some portion of its site —in the centre, fur example, of where the transept stood—there should arise in stone or in hronze, or in both, an ornamental and artistic commemoration of the edifice and the event. On it should he inscribed a brief statement of the plan, a list of its originators, with the names of the various countries from which contributions came. Indeed, to record their co-operation, and the kind of European and American union that it indicates, alone deserves the rearing of such a monument. prise may work best; in other; municipal adminis tration. In London there are two circumstances in favour of leaving the task to private enterprise : the want of any general municipal . government for the metropolis; and the actual existence of so many water companies, the investment of so much capital in that line of business. There is another considera tion to be taken into account, which is perhaps of more weight than either. It would not be easy to administer the affairs of a railway by a municipal council. All enterprises which, like railways, have for their field a wide district, seem better fitted for being carried ou by joint-stock companies than by representative councils. It would appear from analogy that where a cheap and good, and abundant water-supply can be best ensured by centralised efforts, extending over a large tract of j country, it had better be left to joint-stocic companies than to a municipal government Of the various sources that have been suggested fur the water sup ply of London, none seems to combine so many re commendations as the chalk springs in the Watford district. Now wo observe that the company which first brought this source into notice, proposed to com bine the supply of many towns and villages in Mid dlesex intli that of London. There can be no doubt that these places need an artificial supply (at least towards the end of summer), and that a system embracing them in connexion with the metropolis would admit of all being supplied at lower rates than any one of them could by a sys tem of its own. For this reason, therefore, it ap pears to us that awater company,orwatcr companies empowered to extend their operations over a wich; district, would afford the metropolis a better prospect of being well supplied with water than any efforts of a municipal council. We do not offer these remarks as conclusive; oar object at present being merely to contribute to the ventilation of so important a question. Tut:parliamentary enquiries of last session respect ing metropolitan water supply, ended in merely ne gative results. No satisfactory information was elicited as to the best mode of ensuring an abundant perennial supply of good wholesome water to London ; no practical measure initiated to accomplish so de sirable an object. The government plan for ad ministering the water supply of London, and the source reeommeaded by government fur obtaining that supply. were laughed out of court, and nothing more was done. For this unsatisfactory termination of the sessional labours on so important a branch of civic economy, we have to thank the prior and exclusive attention which parliament. at the urgent request of ministers, has for some sessions back omeeded to government plans for metropolitan water supply. All proposals by existing or contemplated compsuiesforincreasingor improving the London water-service were refused a hear ing, till the sago of Gwydyr House should have elaborated and propounded an infallible method. This wonderful project, the theme of so many antici patory official colorants, was no sooner subjected to the scrutiny of competent chemists, and an impartial parliamentary committee, than it was uneeremo mously dismissed amid the general public applause, as a piece of rank quackery. Bat government having taken care that no plan, except its own, should be in a condition to be subjected to the committee's scrutiny, and having, moreover, limited the commit tee's range of inquiry, and postponed its appoint ment to a period of the merlon so late that additional powers could not be applied for, further investigation was prevented. Next year the whole inquiry moat be begun de n,,ro. LORD NEWROROCOD, with thecountess and family have senched Malta in their beautiful *crew steam yacht Vesta. COLLIERS ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday morning a serious occurrence took place at the colliery worked by Mr. Holmes, on Churwell-hill. The pit is an old one, with ex tensive workings under ground, the thin bed of ooal having been got. The principal shalt is sunk sixty yards below the surface of the ground, and there is a well of water sunk some ten or twelve yards lower still. When the accident happened, the men were engaged in boring lower for more water, when an escape of sulphur or gas took place, and ignit.4, from a lighted candle in use there. Instantly the top of the well presented a body of raging flame, which, from the strong currents of air in the pit, spread hrough the workings with great rapidity, and ascended up the ; shaft, burning even the landing boards at the top of the pit. At the time there were thirteen men, four bora, and several ponies under ground. In consequence of a great quantity of coal having been got, those in the pit found plenty of room in the old wo r • to escape from the dames, and eventually they were drawn up by the air pit, without sustaining any serious injury. The dames spread themselves to the coal, which took fire, and it is not improbable that it may still be horning. As the best means of extinguishing it the pit was covered close up, so as to prevent any draught ; and It has not since been opened. On the same morning an explosion from fire-damp took place in the colliery of Mr. Leather, of Pontefract-lane, near Leeds, when five of the wor kmen were severely burnt, but all are likely to recover. On Thursday the coroner for Leeds held an inquest ea view of the body of John Hopton, the steward of Nevin Hill Colliery, Osmond thorp, near L eeds.: Wide the theassed was descending the shaft the rope broke, and arealgtomed him to the bottom, • distance of from forty to My para. He died an hour afterwards. The jury were ad that no blame was mashed se any ewe, and talawad a wart of " Accidental eleale." The deemed 1.1 Mk a eft ad ate children to , mom hseyeeelle Issi. Thie . e methods of ensuring to the metropolis a constant and abundant supply of good water have been submitted to public discussion. According to one scheme, the superintendence and management of the London water supply would with most advan tage be confided to a central government board; another recommends the agency of municipal offi cers, elected by and responsible to the householders of the district or districts supplied with water; a third proposes to Inve the business to the of private enterpri&e, associated in companies. It lot Nem likely that any degree of ingenuity will be FRANCE. against Isrea ealleesetreue as it must appear to Eng - lish readers) was the,fact that he had been tried for - PARIS, TrivassisT EVENING. a rape and acquitted . The article of the Cossatitutionnel to which I drew Yon will remember that the sketch of L. N. Bona ,ypier attendee yesterday, Is the leading topic of die- parte by M. de la Guerroniere, in the Pays, was the mission. The Petrie is ate less far terms to express first of an intended series of contemporary political its stupefaction at such language being traced by the characters, announced as about to appear in that pen al M. Granier.de Ceragnac. It is not the attack journal. The sketch contained certain os dr law of May that shocks the organ of M. Leon so complimentary to the President, M I T I . Jr,anebe but the demoralising form " in which the Lamartine, alarmed for the republican character Meek is made, and, above all, the nature of the of his newspaper, wrote a letter severely criticising arguments addu cedC against the law. The introduc- the political tendencies of the performance. The tion of the name of the President into the debate is next portrait of the series was to have been that of styled as wearing the appearance of "a wilful and the Count do Chembord. But the Pays of this morn calculated treason." Wonder is expressed that any ing contains a correspondence been M. do Lamartine one can imagine that he can serve the interest of the and M. de la Guerroniere, wherein the former, as the President by shedding in his name insult, irony, and political leader of the journal, puts his veto, so far as disrespect upon the Assembly, with which he is con- the columns of the l'ays arc concerned, upon the staidly obliged to march in harmony, upon the ad- proposed labours of his coadjutor. M. Lamartine ministration of which he is the supreme head, and upon thinks that the duties of an historical and a political the ministry,with theconcurrenceof which he governs. writer are essentially different. They are, he admits, But the censure bestowed by M. de Cassag,nac upon of the same nature, inasmuch as they ought to be the the administration stirs the wrath of the Petrie more incarnation of tho same truths, but their respective then all else ; and the statement that they are a province is to embody these truths in different ways. troop of poltroons and egotists ready to sacrilke to History is absolute; it has no need of diplomacy with socialism to keep their places, is designated as a the time in which it lives, of consideration for the flagrant outrage and odious calumny. It is coin- weaknesses of parties, nor of allowances to be made planted that the moment chosen for this attack is for the false interpretations to which the public mind that in which the administration shows most energy is liable. But fleeting politics must all those and resolution, that in which the hand of power minor considerations. Ile considers th r e e l a Ct d eh of Louis makes itself felt with unusual force. Perhaps hero Napoleon as a striking instance of this distinction, lies the secret of the bell-mouthed mastiff of the because in that M. de la Guerroniere has, without Elysic being unleashed at M. Leon Faucher and his intending to do so, struck a chord in the imagination entp/oyAi ; perhaps it is thought that the pressure of of the people which has awakened surperstitions the hand of power is growing very like stmngula- ideas of a fanatical worship of drums and cannons. tion, and that it is time to remove tho gripe, and let M. Lamartine thinks the legitimist party the most people breathe a little. Perhaps it is thought that logical and the most respectable, next to the great by a timely dismissal at the height of compression national party of liberty. But, believing that a the fallen minister might serve as a paratenticere restoration would be in the present state of thing for public indignation, and popularity might unstable and calamitous, he objects to the publien once more gild the Elysde with its bairns. tion in a republican newspaper of such an apprecia- The Petrie stigmatises as an outflash of war- tion of the grandeur of the Bourbon family and of chy the abuse bestowed by Cassagnac on the the misfortunes of its living representative, as might Assembly, whose leaders he accuses of being de- kindle dange rous political sympathies while satisfy voted to the old pretentions, the old influences, the ing the requirements of unparttal history. M. de la old intrigues. It only remained for the Constite. Guerromero meekly submits to his political chief, tionisel to hound on the socialists to the violation of and engages to pursue his design as an historical the law when the hour comes for voting. This it work apart from the newspaper. has done by surpassing even Dr. Veron in his viru- M. do Larochejaquelin has just addressed a long knee against the law of May. Lastly, the mostfatal letter to the Gazette de France, in the course of part of the article is the premium held out to which he states that it is his intention at the meet cowardice by pressing the party of order to yield be- ing of the Legislative Assembly to bring forward the fore the menaces of the mob, and counselling flight following proposition : before an imaginary danger. For these wretched The Legislative Assembly decides that the constitution eons of sedition who have been disfranchised would ought to be revised in totality. (Art. 11l of the constitu run before the first charge of the troops; at least titan.) there would he no doubt of the victory of the latter if c In consequence a constituent assembly, nominated by tho u lectors inscrib ed t on electoral the advice of M. Delamarrc were followed, and the n ii.ts, to be immediately drawn virtue 2 f o m th .y e n la e w it of h1 ,1 5 2 ,4 ,18 4 . 9a iesse the m eo b n le . elections were carried on by a concentration of the 25 of army in six departments at a time. Such is the sub- stitution.) stance of this violent attack of the organ of the The electoral domicile of each Frenchman shall be on the ministry upon the organ of the Elyrk. premises of his real one. It shall be decided by the condi (Armt.227 ti 4 rs s , t i ..ted in chap. 3 of book 1 of the civil code, and shall The belief in a ministerial crisis is grown so gene- public according the forms therein declared. cal that already lists of the new ministry arc invented by the caterers of political intelligence and circulated The elections in the papers. The Messager, which has of late forthe constituent assembl y shall take place on the fourth Sunday of the month of April, of the constitution.) 18-12. (Art. 31 beat its old rival, the defunct Ecelnenient, in canards, comes out with a bran new cabinet, in which the names of Barret, Falloux, St. Arnaud, Abbatucci, seco n d ucn Su n day of May, The l election of the President of the Republic shall take of e le t c e onstit 1842. (Arts. 46 and and Fould are strangely jumbled. For Barrot to accept the helm once more, it seems a day too late. General e Castellano has prohibited, in the oth and Folio= has attacked Louis Napoleon from the tri- 6th military divisions, the sale of five democratic al manacksbone of the Assembly in a tone which renders it ire- :—The " Almanach du Travail," by Agricol probable that ho would be invited to return to the Perdiguier, Leneveu, and V. Scluelcher ; the " Al manach du Village," by Joigneaux, Mathieu (de la ministry of public instruction. The remaining th ree names are probable enough, as being thoroughly d o p rance, . I)reme), and Perdiguier • the "Almanach l'opulaire by F. Bouvet, P. Dupmt, &c.• the Bonapartist, and the last pretty certain, Fould seeming the indispensable keystone of all pos. Almantich des Oppri mes," by Mayen ; and' the Ikpublique du Peuple,n authors unknown. Bible ministerial combinations. But if a change At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 25c, and of ministry be really contemplated, as seems closed at 91.50 ; and the Three per Cents. fell 10e., probable from many symptoms previously alluded to, and It will be executed with a view to two ends, o r closed at 35.90. Most of the railways fell. Rouen and Orleans fell Sir. ; Marseilles, 3.73 ; Havre rather to one end, the renewal of the powers of and Northern, 2.00. Louis Napoleon through revision, purchased at the cost of repealing the law of May. Given this pro gramme, Cassagnac says that a hundred cabinets might be formed to carry it out. In the absence of all certain knowledge, which of such hundred combi nations stand the best chance of being chosen, is a point on which it is needless to speculate. A great deal is said about the daring schemes recommended by the courtiers of the Elysee . ; and their impatience to see the President launched into the path of ad ventures is represented as getting keener and more impetuous. But Louis Napoleon's fortunes are not yet so desperate that he should give in to such in fatuated counsels; and there is yet time to talk about coups (fetal. The Bulletin do Paris, the lithographic organ of the Minister of the Interior, attacks the Constila tionuel this evening with no less fury than the Patric. SPAIN. Certainly it is difficult to see how M. Leon I Faucher can help resigning, unless the article in the Constitution/id be allowed to receive some official rebuke in the -lioniteur, or at least be disavowed by the President. Nobody doubts but that such at tacks as that made by tinnier de Cassagnac must be connived at, if not prompted, at head-quarters, to become possible. Yesterday M. Leon Faucher, accompanied by M. Buffet, visited the Association-ouvrieres of the sad dlers, porcelain painters, and makers of false jew cllery. Mdlle. Chotcau, sister of the imprisoned ye7rant of the IV" Peacoat, has been condemned in the trial to which she was brought at Lille, for insulting the Procurcur de la Republique. The reports of ministerial crisis which prevailed yesterday, have fallen considerably to-day, and for the moment all notion of a change of ministers is dropped. The insults which mans- republican representatives have experienced from the gendarmerie during the vacation, have been followed by a direct attack upon the personal inviolability which the constitution pro vides for them. M. Sarten, the representative for Allier, has written to M. Dupin as president of the Assembly, stating, that being at dinner at the house of M. I)ubousset, at Montlucon, two brigadiers of gendarmerie entered the dining•room, and told the company that inasmuch as the number of gn•ssts ex ceeded 15, it was a political meeting contrary to the order of the prefect. The company were orderetlby the gensdarmes not to leave the room. M. Sartin pro duced his medal of a representative of the people, and insisted upon his right to go out. The gendarmes replied that the inviolability of a representative did not exist when the Assembly was not sitting; they resisted M. Sartin, a scuffle ensued, and a sabre-cut, intended for M. Sartin, wounded a lady who was at table. The above facts are attested by the signature of M. de Girardin in the Presse, who qualifies them as most serious, and calling for prompt and decisive satisfaction. The point of law taken by the gens darmes, that the inviolability of a representative does not exist during the vacation, is wholly un tenable. The unusually severe sentence, even in these times of persecution of the press, of 5 years' imprisonment and 2401. fine for a political libel, which I mentioned yesterday to have been passed upon a M. C. Marchal, was for an offence widely different from that laid to the charge of the numerous republican writers who now crowd the Macas prison. M. Marchal seems to have presumed too much upon the recent excuse of the advocate-general for confining his prosecutions to republican writings, that juries could not be got to convict royalist attacks upon the constitution. In credible as it must appear to your readers the crime of M. Marchal is a pamphlet entitled " The end of the Republic," in which he seeks to inculcate the fa vourite and long standing ultramontane doctrine that the latitudinarian education of the university of France has corrupted the minds of youth, and dis affected them from the catholic faith; and argues, moreover, that experience has now proved that re publicanism must always been within a hair's breadth of socialism ; that the superiority of monarchical to republican institutions has been made manifest; and that the sad republican comedy which has been play ing for the last sixty years is approaching to its end. for which, be adds, the public conscience cries, " God be thanked." This is really nothing more than the royalist papers, the Union and Opinion Publiqrse, are saying every day with impunity, and moreover the Bonapartist papers freely indulge in attacks upon the instability of republican government. I cannot r pretend to account for this apparently inconsistent conduct of the prosecuting department of the go . cerement; but I suspect that Marshal's anti-republi canism was ironical, for his advocate urged that he ' had written the pamphlet with a view to re-estab lish his character in the opinion of honest men. It appears that he had been convicted in 1847 of a libel upon Louis Philippe's Queen, and this was pressed We have received the Madrid journals of tho 4th. The Sneius states that ►etters have been received from the Ifavannah, announcing that the govern ment of the United States has signified its readiness to indemnify the Spaniards of New Orleans, who suffered losses from the outrages committed by tho mob in that city. The Clamor Puldico says that the Cortes will meet on the 10th November, instead of the Ist, as originally intended. A letter from Madrid informs us that the King, his father, and all the ministers had waited on Queen Christina, to con gratulate her on her return to the capital. GERMANY. VIENNA, Orr. 6: I have just heard, upon good authority, that the Minister of the Interior, 1)r. Bach, has sent in his resignation. It is not yet known whether it has been accepted, and many doubt that the Emperor will be allowed by his advisers to dismiss from his councils a member who has proved himself so will ing and useful a tool as Dr. ,Bach. Various motives arc ascribed for this step ; the most incredible of all is, that the Minister of the Interior is suddenly con science stricken at the extent of anarchy and confu sion which exists throughout the whole administra tion, and is disinclined longer to aid the maintenance of the present systematic want of system in the go vernment. It this motive, notwithstanding its apparent incredibility, should prove the true one, yonr readers who are acquainted with Dr. Bach's private and ministerial career will at once be able to form a more correct idea of the abyss into which Austria must be sinking. The resignation of Dr. Bach, if it is accepted, brings to mind the rats deserting an un seaworthy ship. THE LEVANT. A letter from Constantinople, 25th ult., says: Tho reply of Abbas Pacha to the note of the Porte is not yet arrived, but it is momentarily expected; until that ar. rives the Egyptian question remains in suspense. The government received intelligence on the 20th ult., by an extraordinary courier, of the death of Emir Paella, General in-Chief of the army of Syria. This news has caused • painful sensation at the Porte. Emir Pacha was educated in France and England, and, although his reputation was not perhaps so high as that of some others of his country men, yet he was a very distinguished man, and his loss will be severely felt, particularly under existing circumstances. It is said to be in contemplation to fill this important post by Mehemet Pacha, formerly ambassador at London, and now governor at Aleppo, from which city he has recently arrived here. It is thought that the nomination will be made without delay, as, were the two most important posts in Syria to be left vacant, it is feared that the agitators might take advantage of it to excite fresh disturbances. The new Minister of Finance has made a report to the Sultan on the state of the treasury. and on the means of putting an end to the financial crisis. A firman is every day expected to be issued for levying a forced tax through out all the empire, of 30 piastres (7fr.) on each person, for the purpose of facilitating the withdrawal of paper money from circulation, and another finnan for making • reduction of 20 per ,cent. on the salaries of ell public functionaries. Letters trona Deyrout announce that the principal leaders of the two factions which have for a number of years kept up a civil war in Palestine, have been arrested, and aro to be sent to Constantinople. Serious disturbances have re cently broken out at Van on the frontiers of Armenia and the Kurdistan. The Armenians,i who are in a majority in that town, have, from time immemorial, had singotchs (or criers) to call the inhabitants to the churches. Latterly they have also fixed up bells. The Mussulmans, on the pretence that these bells disturb their devotions, have demanded their suppression, but the governor refused their request until he had received orders from Constantinople. On the 3ed inst., the Mussulmans pursued a sangotch into one of the churches, and killed him, when the Armenians armed them selves, and attacked tho Turks. A desperate combat took place, in which several persons were killed on both sides ; but, the troops taking part with the Turks, the Armenians were defeated. A body of troops had been sent from Erze. roum to prevent further disorders and the Porte has ordered all the persons implicated in the affair to be arrested, and sent to Constantinople. SUPPLY OF G.►s FOR THE CITY.--Groat activity, commencing at dusk, and terminating at daylight, is now observable in Cheapaide and throughout the City, in consequence of the necessity found to exist for enlarging the supply of gas, to meet the increased demand following on reduction of price in supply, many establishments having adopted it for domestic uses, besides multiplying their burners. Additional maim, of larger diameter, are now being laid down over the length of the City. The operation necessary causes great obstruction to the traffic, but it is only carried on at night time, relays of workmen being engaged, and the line of operations being lit up in the usual way with temporary gas jets. These operations are carried on simultaneously at both ends of Cheapsidc, and will, consequently, be completed in a day or two. gbe Court. BALMORAL, OCT. 7. Her Majesty drove yesterday to Invereauld, ac companied by the Prhseessitoyal, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred. Prince Albert west out decr.stalking. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent and the Baroness de Speth. EDINBURGH, OCT. 7. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, Prince Alfr ed, left Balmoral this morning at 8 o'clock, a.m. 2 and travelled to Stonchaven, where a special train was in readiness to take the royal party to Edinburgh, at which place they arrived at about 8 o'clock, p.m., and pro ceeded directly to Holyrood Palace, a slight accident to one of the engines having delayed the train for nearly an hour. In attendance were the Viscountess Canning, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Miss Hildyard, Earl Grey, Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel lion. A. Gordon, Sir James Clark, and Mr. Birch. The Duke of Parma visited her Majesty and Prince Al bert in the evening. KOSSUTII. RECEPTION OF KOSSUTH. A number of gentlemen, anxious to testify their admiration of the Hungarian patriot, have formed them selves into a committee, and are taking active measures for giving a worthy reception to this distinguished man on his arrival in the metropolis. At a general meeting, last evening, at 10, Wellington-street, Strand, the chair was taken by Mr. Thornton Hunt. Several gentlemen were in attendance as deputations from committees formed for the same object in various parts of the metropolis, and a goodly amount of subscriptions was given in.—Mr. Gibson said that he attended, along with Mr. Thomas Webber, as a deputation from the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association for the borough of Lambeth, who had held a meeting on the preceding evening to take into considera tion the measures to he adopted for the recep tion of Kossuth. They had determined on send ing a deputation to this committee, to signify their willingness to co-operate in any feasible plan. Ile should be glad to know what steps this committee had taken, and whether Kossuth had been communicated with as to the desirability of a public demonstration. The chair man said their object was to unite in their expression the general feeling of the metropolis, and to render the demon stration such as should be acceptable to Kossuth himself. lie had been deputed to wait on that distinguished indivi. dual, at the earliest possible opportunity. The present in tention was to present an address to Kossuth on his arrival, to receive him by a public demonstration, and to invite him to a general banquet. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Petite said that intimations had been received front acveral of the trades of the metropolis of their intention to turn out with flags and banners on the occasion of Kossuth's arrival, so as to give him an enthusiastic public welcome. In answer ton question, Mr. Petite stated that he had intelligence from General Fetta that Kossuth would immediately on his arrival at Southampton proceed to Winchester, where be would spend a couple of days, then return to Southampton, and probably arrive in London on the fourth day. 'ley had made arrangements for having the earliest telegraphic in telligence of his arrival at Southampton ; and as there was sin observatory there, it was probable, if the weather proved favourable that the vessel would be discerned at a distance of 80 miles; and the fact would be immediately communicated to London by telegraph. (Hear, hear) Mr. Hinchley, one of a deputation from painters of the west.end, handed in their subscription.—Mr. Petite moved, seconded by Mr. Milne, that deputations from provincial towns should be received in the same way as those from tho districts of the metropolis, so as to secure, as far as possible, united action on the part of all the friends of Hungarian liberty. The resolution was unanimously agreed to.--Mr. Aruott said he had been requested by the west-end boot and shoemakers to state their intention of turning out as a body on the arrival of Kossuth. (Cheers.)—Mr. Milne moved that the financial committee should be authorised to defray the expenses of the deputation to Southampton.—Mr. Shute seconded the resolution.—Agreed to. A pilot boat has been sent out from Southampton to meet the Jupiter steamer, which is expected to-dav or to-morrow, and which might possibly bring Kossuth, in order that a signal might be hoisted on board of her, so that the authorities may be made aware of his arrival, if he does come in the Jupiter. It has been determined that the illustrious exile shall remain about five or six hours in Southampton previous to his departure for the mayor's seat near Winchester, in order that time may he given for a special train to arrive from London with friends, and for the numerous addresses to be presented to him. After landing, he will be conducted in a carriage and four to the Royal York hotel, from whence he will proceed to the Guildhall to receive the corporation address. The Mayor continues to receive an immense num ber of communications from all parts of the country respect ing Kossuth, and also an immense number of letters and despatches addressed to his care for the great Magyar him self. Amongst the letters addressed to the latter is a regis tered letter, containing apparently a Bank not,. This letter appears to have been posted in England in August last. It is addressed to " Ludwig Kossuth, Kutayah," and there is writing on it signifying that the party to whom the letter was addressed has left Kutayah, and also the words " Try Southampton." The following address has been scut to Southampton for presentation to Kossuth Manchester, : Manchester, Oct. 4, MIL Sia,—We offer you our heartfelt congratulations on your escape from confinement in Turkey, and heartily welcome you to the shores of England. We have watched your career when in power in your native land with the appro bation that the friends of free institutions give to the noble and patriotic exertions of u man devoting his life to the welfare of his country. We deeply sympathised with you when your liberties were crushed by the power of Russia, and we pray that providence will, ere long, through your efforts, and those of your devoted friends, restore Hungary to freedom. Feeling thus towards you we invite you, at your earliest convenience, to visit us in Man cheater, to give to the thousands of our townsmen who share our sentiments an opportunity of presenting to you, in the Free Trade Hall here, an address, embodying our congra tulations fur your escape, our sympathy with your noble cause, and our prayers for your future welfare and success. Signed on behalf of the mectin/, SMITH P. ItontssoN, Honorary WM. WCARTNEY, Secretaries. To his Excellency Louis Kossuth, Southampton. The Mayor of Southampton has received a letter from the Liverpool committee, who undertook the support of 230 Polish and Hungarian refugees a few months since, begging to be informed of Kossuth's arrival, in order that they may present him an address. Kossuth will be the guest of the mayor until the day of the banquet. On the night of the banquet the great Hungarian will sleep at the American consulate. The day after a balcony will be erected outside the consulate, when a magnificent flag, which was made for the distinguished chief by Magyars of New York and sent to him during the heroic strugg.e in Hungary for freedom, but Which was detained at some custom-house in this country and rescued by accident, will be displayed. From this balcony Kossuth will most probably address the popu lace. The consulate faces on open space which will hold 30,000 persona. Intelligence has reached Southampton that no Hungarian refugee will be allowed to leave France to visit England during the stay of Kossuth in this country, and then return to France. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Ocr. 11. ,'llighest. Lowest coasts 55 93 53 95 55 80 55 90 91 53 91 63 91 45 91 50 36 90 51 91 55 91 ! per Ces?. For Account. S psr OeM~ ... J Per Cents. New 4 per Cent.. 44 per Ceuta i 80"""0 I I i .. ... ... Exchange on London: at eight, 25 2i ; 90 days, 25 ' 7++ Belgian, 3. 1810 Ito. 5, 1841 Do. 44 Do. 24 . ....... ... I Treasury Ikeda Piedmont S p.Ct..... 79 GO .- I Bank Shares PAID*, Ocr. 9.—Versuillos (right bank), ; ditto (left bank), 217 30; Paris and Weans, 800; Parts and Rouen, 965; Rouen and lime 212 30 ; Marseilles and Avignon, 211 25; Strasbourg and Bale, 148 . 75; Centre, 4211; Boulogiee and Anne's. 340; Orleans and Bordeaux, 382 73 ; 141rthern, 436 25 ; Pans and Stnisbourg, 231 25 ; Montereau awl Troyes, 98 73. . . MADRID, OCr. 4. Three per Cent!., 361 ; after Bolse, 361- cash. Four per Cent!., —' • after Boss, —. Five per Cent!., 161; after Bolls, 161. Coupons, 8 ; after Bolsa, 8. Passives 6 5.16 ; after Bolea , 61 p. Bank of St. Ferdi n and, 99. Exchange on London, 50.90. (By Fleetrla Telegraph.) ANTWERP, Om. 9.—Five per Cent. Maalliques, 7G. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 14 7-16. Three per Cent. Inland, 331. Russian Four-and-a-Ralf per Cents., Exchange on London, 25.30. BaussExs,Ocr. 9.—Belgian Five per Cents., 100. Ditto Fonr-and-a-Half per Cents., 911. Ditto, Two and-a-Half per Cents., .50,1. Exchange on London, 125.30. VIENNA, Ocr. 9.—Five per Cent. Metalliqucs, 93. Exchange on London, 12.00 ; on Paris, 143. HAMBURG, OCT. 9. Three per Cents. Inte rior, 33 t. Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Russian, 964. FRANKFORT, OCT. 9.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 75f. Three per Cent. Interior, —. Exchange on London, 119. Ditto on Vienna, 991. BERLIN, OCT. 9. Voluntary Loan, 1031; Na tional Debt, 881 ; ItussianFour-and-a-Half per Cents., Exchange on London, 6.22; Hamburg, 150 f ; Petersburg, 1031. AMSTERDAM, OCT. B.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, 73Z. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 14; ; Three per Cents. Interior, 354. Russian Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 99f. Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Integrals, 58 I-18. Exchange on London, 11.94 THE QUEEN IN LANCASHIRE. KNOWSLEY AND CROXTETIL CROXTETH, WELiNESDAY NIGHT. The royal train, which left Lancaster at 2, arrived at Rainhiil at 4.20. The arrangements made here fur her Majesty's and the Prince's reception were the work of the directors of the London and North Western Railway ; and were ample and appropriate. A little beyond the station a magnificent pavilion had been erected, into which the royal party were to be conducted on alighting from the train. The pavilion extended 110 feet in length by 2.1 feet in breadth. It was open in front of the line, having some , what the appearance of a colonnade ; the flour, which bordered closely upon the rails, being covered with crimson baize. The walls and pillars were draped with white silvered calico a fabric having all the appearance of satin. It was fluted with pink satin of the same elegant material. Ranged upon the floor of the platform were a number of rare greenhouse plants. An arched opening had been made in the centre of the pavilion, opposite the point at which it had been arranged her Majesty should alight ; and through this, by a flight of broad steps, a second platform, covered in the same manner as the first, was reached, from which her Majesty could step at once into her carriage; a drive, sweeping under tho pavilion, having been formed for the convenience of tho royal equipages in drawing up. The whole of the pavilion, including' the portion which encircled the drive, was lined with the silvered calico previously noticed. Over the arched entrance from the line of railway was placed a carving of the royal arms, in white and gold. From the summit of tho pavilion itself waved two large royal standards; a union jack floating from either extre mity of the erection. At one end of the inner plat form a private apartment had been contrasted for her Majesty's use. It was small, but mo-t sumptuous in its arrangements. The carpet was Brussel, of choice pattern, and chairs and couches were upholstered in flowered satin, and covered with lace. A handsome pier glass was placed at one end of the apartment, and an elegant table in the centre. The room was lighted from above by a single square sheet of plate glass. The walls of this roam, like those of the pavilion, were draped with silvered calico. Not far from the pavilion a triumphal arch had been constructed from a design by Messrs. Milling and Son, of Rainhill Iron work., the floral part of the decoration having been super intended by the gardener to the County Asylum. The whole of the artificial flowers, with which it was pruAisely adorned, were made by the fetrale patients of the asylum, under the direction of the matron. An escort of the 16th Lancers, consisting of twenty men, under the command of Capt. Heaviside and Lieut. Goff, arrived on the ground early in the afternoon, from Prescot, where they have been quartered since Monday, in order to aocompany her Majesty to Croateth. A guard of honour, consisting of one hundred men of the 23rd Fusiliers, drew up on the line opposite the pavilion, about three o'clock, and the band commenced playing a variety of stirring and martial tones. The guard was under the direction of Major Lysons. The roads in the neighbourhood of the station were densely thronged with the country people. Soon after three the Earl of Sefton, with a largo party from Croxteth, arrived at Rainhill, to await his illustrious guilts. The royal carriages and outriders took up their positions in good time in front of the pavilion. A few minutes after 4 the pilot engine, bearing the royal flag, the signal that the royal train was at hand, puffed rapidly past the station, and soon after the train itself came up, the cheering commeno- ing from the crowd who lined the rails long before the wheels of the locomotive were stopped, and the band striking up the national anthem. Iler Majesty and the l'ri nee alighted and, with the royal children, proceeded at once, and as if hurriedly and to escape notice, to their carriage; sad the suite bustled a ith imitative rapidity past the pavilion and the people into the vehicles which were in readiness. Earl Grey was the minister in attendance upon the Queen, and the royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Can ning, ady in Waiting ; the Hon. Beatrice Ilyng, Maid of Honour in Waiting ; Sir James Clarke, Pliy.ician to her Majesty ; the lion. Alexander Gordon, tutor to the l'rinoo of Wales ; and Miss Hilliard, governess to the princesses. The Earl of Carlisle had accompanied the train as far as Lancaster, where he alighted. . . . . Indiscriminately and 'unequivocally, Lancashire hurrahs attended the passage of the royal party from the train to their carriages ; but it was certain that her plainly-attired Majegy was lust in the number of her attendants, and that neither she nor the Prince were very generally recognised. The carriages drove at a sharp rate in the direction of Knowsley. The route lay through Eecleston-gate, when there were hundreds of people, and more cheering and equal doubts as to the person of the Queen, into Knowsley-park ; but, contrary to expectation, her Majesty did not alight here. The tenantry of the Earl of Derby were in the park in immense numbers; and all along the roads to Croxteth the people front the surrounding loges had stationed themselves to wave their lists and hand kerchiefs and to roar a hearty welcome. The Earl of Derby, with the countess, was awaiting her Majesty in a carriage drawn by four horses at Eeeleston.gatc, and his lordship preceded the party throughout Knowsley park. The cor tege arrived at Croxteth Hall, where there was little out ward preparation, aboutso'cloek. The Queen and therrinoa I were received on the terrace steps of the old hall by the Coun tess of Sefton and her younger children; and the Queen was conducted at once to the upper drawing rooms where tho invited Fuesta were assembled to be pre.ented. Soon after her Majesty was shown' to the private apartments fitted up for her; while the Prince was accompanied by the Earl of Sefton to sec the Croxteth model film. The suite of hand somely furnished rooms set apart for the royal couple con sisted of library, drawing -room' for bedrooms, a houdois for the Queen, and a dressing. room Prince Albert. The names of the visitors at Croxteth, in addition to those in attendance on the Queen, were:—Viscount Anson, Mr. Townley and Lady Caroline Townley, Mr. John Townley, M.P., Mr. Oswald and Lady Louisa Oswald, Lady Vincent and her daughter Miss Herbert, Mr. Charley Grenfell, M.P. for l'reston, the Misses Grenfell, Mr. J. I. Blackburn° and Miss Blaekburne, of lisle, Major Herbert Byng Hall, Captain and Mrs. Mulyneux, and Mr. Barnard. The party at dinner were Earl and Countess of Si.tion, Earl Grey, the Earl and Countess of Derby, Viscount Anson, Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley, Mr. and Lady Louisa Oswald, the Lord Bishop of Chester, John Bent, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool, William Brown, Esq., M.P., Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., Benjamin Heywood, Esq., Hardman Earle, Es Atter dinner, and on the Queen's return to the drawing room, the party was increased by visitors from Knowsley. This afternoon, before her Majesty's arrival, there wcro endless festivities in the grounds of Croxteth. Several hundred of the gentry of the neighbourhood were enter tained by the Earl of Sefton at lunch, laid out in a hugs Edirington marquee; and, the tenantry, constituting a still larger and even more festive party, enjoyed in another direction the prodigal hospitality of the noble and popular landlord. At West Derby, Present, and other places, there was similar loyal excitement and kindred development of it in unrelaxed eating and drinking from morning to night. DEPARTURE VROM CROXTETII. TIII:RAUAT MORNING. This morning, the Queen, ever punctual, departed from Croxteth at a quarter past 9, and notwithstanding the very unfavourable weather, there were many thousands assembled throughout the intended line of route. It was proposed that her Majesty should be formally met at the boundary of the borough by the Mayor, who, accompanied by the town clerk, was in waiting in his state carriage, but owing to the inclement weather, her Majesty, after graciously bowing a recognition to his worship, proceeded onwards, and tho ceremonies which had been set forth were dispensed with. With that courage and resolution which her Majesty has always displayed, the excursion on the river was still re solved on, and although the exhibitions of loyalty lost much of their intrinsic attraction, there was yet sufficient to con vince the Queen that she emphatically holds her empire in the hearts of her subjects. At twenty-five minutes to 10, the revel cortege reached Newsham-house, the borough boundary, and at half-past 11 the landing-stage. LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, 4} P.M. The five hundred thousand men, women, and ehilden who dwell on the shores of the great Mersey estuary were fully determined, when they went to bed last night, to give her Majesty on her first visit to them Ruch a reception as she had never had before: and from the Mayor down wards they were fully satisfied that they had done their duty in the way of preparation. They had not only a great town but a glorious river to show the Queen; not only palatial streets and splendid buildings, but marvellous docks, and quer, and shipping, in variety and extent presenting a picture unparalleled in the world ; and the " authorities," and each and every individual, had done their best to dress up town and river to the very greatest advantage. They had done much when Prince Albert was here talons, in 1846, laying the foundation stone of the Sailors Home, and opening the Albert Docks ; but, this time, they had done much more, and ascended in magnificence in honour of her Majesty. Before twelve struck last night the work was done, to the last driving of the last nail, and the effort had transformed the town into surprising prettiness. Flags and banners had been hung out from every house along the route which her Majesty was to traverse ; and every hundred or two hundred yards, lines, heavy with bunting, bidding all sorts of good wishes, and saying all sorts of pleasant things, I were slung across the streets, from window to window, hiding the ugliest and hilliest of lanes, and giving a charming aspect to the dullest places. Balconies were erected wherever there was an inch of room—these balco nies decked out with evergreens and draperies. Barriers bad been constructed from one end of the esiute to the other, between which the royal procession was safely and comfort ably to pass—certainly keeping back the people, and so far indicating a distrust of the mob which elsewhere in Eng land has never been shown on like occasions ; but, on the other hand, ensuring a systematic order, and giving ilnl al his 061: tit) the ion inP thc wa thi the int rel po( pai coN !tilt;