The Express. — London, England, 1863-10-24 00:00:00

;TRITE MEDAL AWARDED.: ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS with square o LAMB WARDROBE TRUNKS, DEIS8r61 14 : 18 , walk dim httinna. DESPATCH BOXES, WRITING and DEVISING CAREE, MR ROO other articwe toe home or continental trowelling. Mast:Mat attalogues poet Dna Also Alien's Barrack ?urnKul @Saida Drava; Easy Chairs, WI catalogue of Portable Bed Ithend-ateade. Canteens. &c.. •.st ties. J. N. ALLEN, bt&notactarer and Patentee, 37, Welt 31=14 Leedom. W.C. ALFRED WE BB MILES, Ever/boo knows Mr. MILLI, REMOVE() from Bondstreet, to 73. BROOK STRUT. Renewer square, in Mg The leg TROINEIOI ,originated by Min) In all the New Patterns for Winter. better than ever." SPECIAL NOTICE TO OENTLIIMEN. A. W. MILKS beg. treat reageoltaU3 to announce that his stock in the deportments coi his establishment Is now replete for Over coats. Vesting'. Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for hunting. The wootdied Black and Bine Frock Coats, sok A choice et SO pieces of indestractlble wooded West of England Cloths. ESTABLIBIIRO Ib4l. Only address. the OrpreyilS. TO CORR itqPONDLNTIL dverttsements tut;t7dedTc;; -;.- 1 7 lt Lemke Iv Paper. must be at the Otos. 10, ftme10410•00, by Two ciebxdc oa Uwe da publloolloa. COVINT4ARDES. THIS ICTinstan, TRH DEAN= /PLOWER. Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Corsi, A. Cook, and W. Harrison . Misses Liu sa and Susan Fyne. •Condnctor Mr. A. !Mon.—Commence at & 0 AY WALLET. Tilts EvErnea, THE WOLF AND THE LOMB.—FINESSEI or, SPY AND COUNTEMPY. Messrs. A-Wigan and Buck stone Morton. Wrs. A. Wigan, and Miss Anuel.—And CHARLES XIL Messrs. Wigan end Endplate. LITSUY.. 01 SATURDAY, OCT. 3CBILBVIONIO, a rove Starr. Meant. Pechter. Brougham, Imery, Limits, and Jordon ; Moen Tom Lamm, sad ilswertlq, sad him Lee. TEI ammo. THa 61S11(FITOCIS ay. Ws. 8. Lana. —TIM GREAT GROdr EVFIECT. Hegira laimukla end coots : Meadalnell Cranford and Yam:dd. —lllldinff by Rem Colin" Hr. Randall, and lime. Pleon.—And ELY O'CONNOR. HIGH SAT= AT LONDON ILIUDIM TEO DAT —llsehs. Oh. 05... . Afirscos Oh. Om ToAssaow Manatsg. Oh. 075... .Aftwass. Oh. Ms. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24. THERE are times when it really looks as if the Fates bad set themselves against the institution of female domestic service. Our housewives it is driving to aometbiug like despair. The reasons of the prevalent badness of domestic service are so grave that they cannot be too openly or too seriously discussed, and the time has come when mere petulant complaint and comparison of old times with the present are worse than folly, because the most energetic practical efforts are necessary to remove the evil. The .colonies are incessantly crying out to us to send them domestic servants—young women who can cook, and clean, and sew, and take care of young children. At the Social Science Meeting Mr. Kai Poarmi said that at Canterbury, New Zealand, not less than a hundred female servants were wanted, in a population of a thousand, and we hear the same sort of thing from British Columbia, and • score of other colonies. We propose to superintend emigration here, and urge the estab lishment of a similar superiutondence at the other end of the voyage ; and everything seems ready for the accomplishment of a very good work, when the question occurs—" Row can we send good " servants to the colonies when they are " not to be had at home ? We ourselves want "them so much that if they could be found "they would not need to emigrate, for they could " obtain such wages at home as were never " dreamed of in a former generation." There is no difference of opinion, we believe, about the reality and the severe pressure of the evil ; and we have ourselves shown how far it is due t. special changes in the industrial world of our time. At Edinburgh last week there was more said about employments for women of the middle classes than about domestic service, because the particular business of the speakers or readers was with the case of poor ladies. But some good sugges tions were made. It was urged in a paper by one of the ladies that training for domestic business should be a part of the school education of girls of the working class. The Rev. Mr. Wrisow advocated the training of workhouse girls to domestic service, and gave an account of some efforts in this direction made at Edinburgh. The universal difficulty was brought forward again —the reluct ance of girls to go into service, and of their parents to send them ; and the pride which causes an absolute rejection of the opportunity of learn ing, when an industrial department is opened in any school for the purpose of training girls in house hold offices. Whatever be the causes of this pre ference of any other employment to that of boom. hold service, and however absurd and grievous may be the opposition of parents and children to anything being taught in school which has not more or less of a bookish character, these influences are not all that are concerned in the case. Bat for other and deeper evils there would bo still a supply, greater or smaller according to circum stances, of the sound, and simple, and hearty, and thorough service which made the homes of our fore fathers so comfortable; and the presence of such an industrial element would render impossible the silly and disagreeable uppishness of the clam bait above, which makes girls who have none but domestic prospects of a humble kind refuse to qualify themselves for the most imperative duty of their lives. If our villages sent forth the healthy, tidy, hard-working girls who were once to be found in rural cottages all over the land, our streets of small shops would not send out thou sands of girls to school, who will spend six hours a day over books and slates, but will stay at home rather than stoop to learn any of the duties of housekeepers. It seems a clear point that the badness of servants, and the low quality of humble' housekeeping, are closely connected, in whatever proportion they may act upon each other. And what further explanation do we need of the absence of the main element of good domestic service, than the recent disclosures of the economy of our labourers' dwellings ? The first effort needed when such statements as those from Nor folk (on several occasions lately, and especially in our paper of Saturday last) are put before us is to believe what we read, and then follows the dif ficulty of seeing how the children born in such places can ever become fit for anything whatever. The statement in our columns was extracted from the Norfolk News, and its close agreement with the report of Mr. CLARK; the Sanitary In spector, which we lately noticed, leaves no reseals for doubting its substantial truth. Yet which of us mould have credited or imagined s uc h a s t a t e of things if it had been possible to avoid it f The hard selfishness which grows up under the Act of Settlement is bad enough—the seffisbneas which crowds twice or three times as many inmates into a cottage as it will properly hold, and which refuses to provide homes near the field of work for the labourers who do the work, lest a day should come when they clan week no longer, but must be supported by the rates. This is sufficiently disgusting and shameful ; but it can be accounted for. The deeper horror of the ruinous state of such cottages as there are is altogether perplexing. It is impossible to conceive of any advantage to anybody from letting cottages, any more than other property, crumble into ruin; and there are other evils to landlords than expo-I sure from the decay and destruction of that class of property. We try in vain to imagine a squire or nobleman (whoever he may be), the owner of • park which has four lodges, and of 2,000 acres of land, who never repairs the cottages of his tenants, and makes them pay 3/. 10s. • year for two rooms, the floor of which is mere damp earth, with holes of 15 inchesdeep, and the threshold so rotted away that there was no deficiency of air, though the window was not made to open. It is scarcely possible to imagine the rich man and his.wife being actually in this hovel, seeing the state of it, doing nothing to mend it, in answer to piteous petitions ; paying the tenant nine shillings • week as wages, and demanding 31. 10s. rent out of it ; counting the children, and giving notice to quit, on account of their number, well knowing that there was no other dwelling to be had in the neighbourhood. Considering that there are three other lodges in the same park in much the same condition as to damp, stagnation, crowding, and bad repair, and that the owner must have many more labourers living on his property in co:tages not likely to be better cared for than his park lodges, we see at once who is answerable for the cutting off of the supply of decent and respectable labour which used to issue from the rural cottage. The main part of the domestic service of the kingdom has always been derived from the country. The cottage housewife used to send out her girls, tidy, healthy, and more than willing to go into a place where they could be further trained. What can we expect now, in districts where children are brought up as in these Norfolk cottages 1 Stifled in their sleep, crowded in their beds, boys and girls together, with vermin and mouldy thatch dropping upon their faces ; in the day shuffling barefoot over a damp clay floor, or rotting boards ; half naked, and not thinking of being ashamed ; cooking nothing, because the food is dry bread ; washing nothing, because the nearest water is a mile off ; learning nothing, because there is no-1 thing to be done ;—is this the preparatory school to which any of us would go for our domestic servants f Mr. Mzuni not long since repro- bated the employment of women in agri-1 culture, which is the practice in parts of the north of England ; and some of the ladies at Edinburgh expressed the same disapproval ; but if they had seen what the condition of the labourer's wife and daughters is at home, in such cottages as too many of them live in, the most kindly observers would consider them better off under the open sky, engaged in wholesome weed ing, picking, binding, gathering, or haymaking, than rotting in such holes and hovels as their landlords put them into, and make them pay for. There must surely be some way of reaching such men as this owner of "a fine park with four " entrances," to punish him for injuries to his tenants, or to compel him to make his lodges and cottages properly habitable. We must reraembe that he is but one in a district of landholders and cottage owners. Their intolerable tsetse and offences mast be put an end to by laws which exist or must be created. Meantime, upon them is chargeable the destruction of the true old English custom—the good and happy custom by which the rural labouring clam supplied the domestic service of the country. Every cottage owner of tills intolerable sort introduces discomfort, dis credit, and waste into the homes of citizens whom he has never thought or heard of ; and when this becomes more and more clearly understood, from the increasing embarruament about Domestic Service, such landlords, callous thus far, may set about doing their duty to their labourers at last. What no consideration of justice or humanity obtains from them now, they will sooner or later yield from impulses of shame and fear. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1863. Or Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 22. The Queen, accompanied by Princem Louise, well out yeeterday moaning. In the afternoon, the Qo4ooli, seeeenpsaied by the Crown Prime sod Primness of Prude' sod Princess Louis of Haw, want op to the Prime's Cairn no Craig Lowness'. The Crown Prime sad Princess of Prussia lunched with her Majesty. Despatcher; were sat yesterday tees the Coloeisl-olßee to the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of dinar. THE QUEEN'S RETURN. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Rieman's Prime Leopold, Primerica Helios, LO/1/811, end Beatrice, sad the &Urea M the Crews Prism sad Prisons of Pinera, sad attended by Sir G. Grey, Ge mmel Grey, Lady A. Brace, .Lady Churchill, Dr. Jeerer, and Dr. Becker, will leave Balmoral about halt•pest 12 o'clock on Teeethay next for the Aboyaa terminus of the Deride Railway, en their way to Windsor Castle. The royal train will leave Aboyne at half-past 2, and the jamas, win be by way of Aberdeen to Perth, where a stoppage of as boor will be made for refreshened, ; sad at 7.18 the royal party will resume their reels, gaming Carlisle at 11.40 p.m., Riedel Junction at Ll 3 a.m. is Wednesday amnia& Prestos Junction at 3.1, Berkbary Junction at 5.10, Leamington at 6.21, Oxford at 7.30, sod Windsor will be reached at 9 o'clock, a journey of 6uo miles Wins been performed in 20 horns. The Duke of Flatland will leave on Monday for Alexandria, for the wham. The Earl of Brownlow and Lady lfarian Alford leave England as the 7th of east race* far Madeira. The Countess Cowper and the Ladies Cowper, the Earl Cowper, sod the Hoe. Hoary Ororper, will return to testa on Monday frogs Wrest Park. 13sdfordshire, so route to Rome, when her ladyship has takes • reridenes for • few seethe. Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jone sad yn loft Cambridge Homo yesterday ea a visit r Vineoaat Viacaaattsa Palmatataa. at Broadlatalla Lady Herbert of Lea will leave Wilton early asst mouth as a caatiaaatal tour. Lord and Lady John Manners have arnved at their redder* is Repot's-perk, from Boothia& In an address delivered on Thursday at the " ortatencantear of the Catholic Univerrity for the ses sion of 1863-4, held is the chapel of the University, Itsephee's-green, Dublin, the 'Very Rev. Monsignor Wood. lock, rector of the University, illustrated the alleged evils of seized educatios by the eras of Moore, the post. Having nerd a couplet from ea* of hie "Melodies," lJaprieed are her eras Ka they leers to betray, te." Dr. Woodlosk oar :—" Mae! perhaps • madder proof of the went el such a training, truly ringlets sad reardise, because catholic, cannot be ford the. is mappliml by the history of him who passel tree expressive liar, and did is rare by the charms of his erg to ring before the world the wrap of his country !-4 eharader so sweet and loving la childhood, capable, with due development, of realising all his ewe brightest dreams of religion and pa- Weeks, which far west 01 that der iersent whisk a thoroughly catholic educalisa sire is. impart, berme I stunted sad miserable, living on the smiles of base arertlers, betraying him cluldrea's mauls to a reheat which he be lieved tale, sal dybeg, as It is to be feared, without the blessings of that faith width be bad ear lured, and whir every true Irish alillthe vanes r his rhheet rearm" The certificates awarded t.r the saareasful eamdi dates at the rear examinatits at lister in oraortioa with the University of Oxford, togalber with moose local Prizes to the more distlegniamd oompetitorv, were on Thursday presented, at a meeting held la the Royal Public Rooms, by Mr. I'. D. Aiad , w►e presided. ♦ large number of ladies and gentionan were pneset. and NE Aer hod was Imemparded ea the *Mem by Lei Pereseese, Er John Coleridge, the Very Re►. the Der af Inskr, fee LATEST INTELLIGENCE. °REIM A letter from Athens says :—" An English com. pony is now making application to the Greek Pro visional Government for the concession of different railways. The intention is to have one principal line, about TM miles in length, which, starting from the Gulf of Arta, would run along the coast of Acarnania and the Bay of Corinth, to Thebes and Porto Baphti, a port situated near Cape Bunium ; also, two secondary lines from Thebes to Athens, and from the latter city to the Isthmus of Corinth." (11ZIT/13e8 TZLZGRAMS.) POLAND. CAPTURZ OF A RUSSIAN CONVOY. BRESLAU, Om. 24. _ _ _ The Brea/after Zeitung publishes advices from Warsaw, Mating that the fire at the Hotel de Ville destroyed all the archives of the secret police since 1831. At Palawy (on the Vistula) the insurgents have captured a Russian convoy. A new insurgent corps has made its appearance, commanded by Baron Plotz. FRANC& PARIS, Ocr. 24. General Lawmatine has been appointed Governor of the Invalidee, and General Mellmet chief com mandant of the National Guard of the Seine. The Monikur of this morning, giving an account of the reception of the Empress of the French by the Queen of Spain, says :—"The visit of the Empress is destined both in the present and in the future to exercise a happy influence upon the rela tions which unite France aid Spain." SPAIN. MADRID. Ocr. 24. Eighteen thousand reserve troops have been called out. The Empress of the French will re-embark for France at Valencia. The following telegram has been received at Mr• Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : cewurre AND CHINA MAILS. The Vectie, with the above mails, left Alexandria for Marseilles at 0 a.m. on the 21st. The Pera, with the heavy portion of the mails, sailed for Southampton at 7 a.m. the same day. The Mooltan brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 18th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MEXICO AND FRANCE. (mom ouz OWN PARIS. TIMMY Emma. The short accmint given in the Moniteur of the reception of the Mexican deputation by the Em peror tends to confirm the view I insisted upon yesterday, that the Archduke Maximilian farce is played out, and that henceforth the ingenuity of the French press will be taxed to find plausible rowans for making Mexico a French possession. You will have seen that neither the deputation nor the Emperor are represented to have said a word about the Austrian prince, and that gratitude to France on the part of the country and of Marshal Forey's triumvirate is the only sentiment ex pressed. Among the Mexican towns which, according to official intelligence, have lately " adhered " with enthusiasm to the French interven tion is Tialpam. This is what has taken place in that locality :—All civil laws are sus pended. Martial law is proclaimed, and a French major named Cousin is invested with abet). lute power over life and property. In consequence of the assassination of a French Zouave named Muller a fine of 6,000 piastres, to be paid within four days, is levied upon the inhabitants. Notice is given that a number of the inhabitants have been arrested, and that for every French soldier or citizen •ihering to the new government who may I be killed, a prisoner will be regularly executed by way of reprisals. The France says that the inhabit ante of Tialpam have been profoundly impressed by these energetic measures. Small blame to them ! The measures have • strong family likeness to those of Mouravieff in Poland. They may be very necessary as military expedients on the part of an invading army in a hostile country, bat they clash terribly with the representation that the people are languishing for Archduke Maximilian to come to reign over them. The Journal du Cher says : Colonel Head, of the staff, who is charged with the ar rangements for sandbag back the Maxi= officers to their country, has base at Bourses for the last few days. He has terminated his miasioe, sod is preparing to leave for Mou lins. Out of 106 offfners now at Houma, 30 only have oroarmied to take the oath required from them for the partite* of the now order of things established in Mexico. M. Gudroult, deputy for Paris, takes notice in the Opinion Nationale of the rumoured intention to annex Mexico to France, and opposes the project most vehemently. He says that instead of the 30,000 French troops which now occupy but a small part of Mexico, at least 100,000 would be required to hold the coantry permanently. To show that this estimate is not extravagant, he observes that 100,000 men Were actually employed in Algeria for many years, although the mead that country is eight or more times less than that of Mexico. In this prevision be leaves out cif the question the probable ease of war with the United States, but if only 30,000 fili busters and volunteers were sent annually to help Juarez in keeping up a guerilla warfare, be thinks that a third of the French budget would be absorbed in making head against them. To put the case shortly in an econo mical point of view, he says that France has already spent 200 millions to get back 60 ; and that if she continues the occupation to get back the 200 she must spend a million. He I calls for the withdrawal of the army of occupation without delay. At a military banquet given at Versailles a few days ago, and which was attended by Marshal Magnin and Marshal Itegitault de St. Jean d'Angely, Colonel Pajol, eommaoding a dragoon regiment, spoke as follows : Perhapsetwe distant day the Emperor may mill epee es to try oar strength with the oppressors of a people who enjoy the sympathy of Franca sad then we, like our pre determine shall show the world what or. be does by a coos- Weansa el all the diderest arms of the cavalry. It is rightlyobserved that a colonel would not have spoken in this way in the presence of such high mili tary authorities, unless he had been assured before hand that the demonstration would be plea/nog. The anecdote, however, does not add much practical knowledge to the elucidation of the great Polish question. It is well known that the Emperor wants war, and is moving various springs in Russia, England, Austria, and Turkey, in order to get up one. A military after-dinner demon stration, however, although it areentuates the Emperor's wish, does not materially diminish the diplomatic difficulties which still seem to dug in the way of an offensive triple alliance. It is announoed that General Lawcestine, who was made Commander-in-Chief of the Ilaidonal Guard at Paris, in order to connive at the soup d'etat, and wbo has remained without com mand ever since, is to succeed Marshal d'Ornano, as Governor of the Invalides. General MeMust, a Crimean officer, who has the mark of a bullet in his cheek, will be the new commandant of the National Guard. THE BALLOON JOURNEY. A letter in the Paris Tempe says :—"All the tra veller is the ' are at the Unicm Hotel in Hanover. The whole tows sympathise' with them. Most kind quiriee have been made by the King. The French minister, M. Ferrilre, who is on the point of leaving for the Court of Belgium, to which be is accredited, has had the kindness to send Madame de Forriire's own lady's maid to nurse Madame Nader. The only three of the party compelled to keep their beds are M. and Madame Nader and N. de Saint Felix. IL Jules Godard, to whose courage and intelligence the travellers owe their liven, has left for Paris. M. Thirion, M. Arisoult, and M. de Montgolfier remain at the hotel. The state of M. Hadar and his wife, although happily there is no positive gravity in the hurts they have received, causes their Mends • good ;deal of anxiety, and requires great care ea the part of their medical advisers. They are both in • high state of nervous excitement, sad this is increased by the frequent repetitions of their story which they have made within the last three or four and twenty hours to their many visitors. It is feared, although it has not yet been thought desirable to ascertain the fact positively, that there may be a fracture in K. Nadar's right leg. Both his legs are kept motionless and enclosed in dextrine apparatus. Madame Nader, who exhibits extraordinary fortitude, re quires extreme care. It may be truly mid that there is scarcely • part of her body which is not the mat of • coo _ fusion, sad lame of them are coosidemble. Fortunately, there are no positive wounds. She did spit blood the first two days, but now th►t symptom has entirely reamed. When the balloon came down she was entangled in the at by her dress, and it took several men throequarters of as hoar to dig her out, and cut away the parts of the at which pressed upon her. It is hoped that in a few days the arrivaLof all the party in Paris will dispel the anxiety felt en their amount." The above narrative in regard to Madame Hadar conflicts with that sent to the Nation by M. d'Arnoult, one of her fellow travellers, who said she fell out of the oar into a pond. Saab is the noelertainty of ocular testimony ! Dr. Richard has seat the following telegraphic despatch from Hanover, dated yesterday morning, half•put 8 : "It is quite a miracle that they were not all killed. All are more or less bruised, but are going on well. the only one whose cue presents a certain amount of gravity is M. Saint Felix, bat even he will soon be about again. They are all here, and are carefully attended to by Dr. Muller, physician to the King, and member of the Faculty of Paris—amsequently my presence here was altogether necessary. I leave to-day at 2 o'clock." The Brawls journals state that the King of the Belgians, who ecentinties in the enjoyment of excellent health, will remain at his villa on the Lake of Como to the end of nex► week. " Paris," writes a correspondent, " begins to present its signs of coming winter. Familiar faces and familiar equipages are seen is the Champs Elys.".es ; windows of imposing hotels, which have been long closed, once more let iu the daylight; the streets are more animated; and tradesmen are doing business. The hotels are crowded, and apartments begin to let at price* which show that there must be a great num ber of rich people ie the world, and a peat Dumber of foreigners who prefer Paris to their native cities. When the Empress returns from Spain there are to be issued the usual series of winter invitations to the court. The ministerial and diplomatic world this winter are espe cially bent on getting up soiree dramatiques. Madame Croups de Lhuys organises a company, which is composed of pretty women and young attachis of the foreign lega tions. The Princess de Beauvais has formed another set of amateur artists, whilst a third company will play at Ma dame la Marquise de Bfthiay's. There are to be a number of masked bells, and the usual amount of ooucsrts. In fact, the cocain winter promises to be a gay owe." The following singular paragraph appears in a Parisian journal :—" The origin of whist dose not go fur ther lack than 80 years. Lord Lyndhurst, born in 1772, wan one of the most devoted adepts of this game. It is to him that is owing that manner of playing, namely, when a person holds a single card of • suit that he at once plays it oat, and which is known by the name of 'Singleton.' This name it derived from its inventor, Sir John Copley Single ton. His public services will be forgotten, but his rums will survive at the whist-table." Berger, the celebrated billiard player, ia at pre sent exhibiting his skill et Lyons. at the Café du XIX. flikele, sod excites general admiration. Re &noontime the extraordinary feat of playing against any of the beat amateurs a game d des compter of ICO op—that is, he must make one hmadred before his adversary ma more one ! In addition, it most be remembered that Berger plays the moon game only. M. Auber's Fiancee du Roi de Garber is iii active ramrod at the Opira Comique, Paris, and Lee T, ovens, by M. Berlioz, at the TVitre Lyrique. Both are anuoneeed u "just ready, • or to appear in the Course of November. Mr. BaHe's new opera, founded on The Duke's Mono, is, we hear, already in reties sal at Coveot•gardee. A new opera by Xr. Leaven may possibly (says the deltencrum) be produosd during the season. It is also re ported that, having let IL Gotined's Feast slip by, the management has some intention of producing Spohr's Faust, the book of which opera, as also that of its writer's Jeasonda, Will some jean ago translated, we believe, by Xe. Bar tholomew. The Popular Concerti; will be resumed on the 2nd of November. The concerts of Mr. Henry Leslie's choir will begin on the 4th (being the aouwereary at Meodelesohn's death), wit► a Ilendelesohn evening. Her Majesty's Theatre opens this evening (Batorlay) with Gounad's attractive open of "'dust, u the first of five performances of opera at rednoed prices. The artistes who will appear duriug this evening and the week ensuing are Mille. Titian', Male. Volpini, Mdlle. Trebelli, Mr. Sims Reeves, Signor Bettini, Signor Boni, Signor Vol plui,Sigoor Marina, and Mr. Santley. Signor Arditi fills the important poet of musical conductor. Madame Fioretti is again at St. Petersburg. bidlle. Artist has appeared in German opera at Cologne. with her usual success. Min Pampa is said to have given peat satisfaction at the openiag coocerts of the Gewaad haus at Lacuna Madame Vern-Lorini has gone to New York. The Illtutrated Times says :—" While the reeom meedrticias of the famous committee are yet soadopted, there are several vacancies amoog the academicians and associates of Trafalgar-square—vacancies which will pro bably be tilled op neat month. There are two academician, to be elected, and it seems tolerably certain that Mr. Mil lais, who has been for ten years an associate, will be chose. new. coo. Mr. E. W. Cooke and Mr. Feed seem to have about equal chasm of the other vacancy. For the five as missies' places the favourites ere Messrs. Calderon, Leigh ton, Marks, artists ; Mr. Street, architect ; and Mr. Dur ham, esulptor." The City Solicitor states that the City magis trate bad so ler than 160 polka aummoosas to bear last Saturday, costly spied osh-driven, for groan breeches of the 6 sad 7 Vio., retails( to loitering, plying elaewhere than at an appoiated &Studios pleas, Ir.. The Electric Telegraph Company's submarine asamaniestios with the Isle of Mau wee restored re Wednesday lasi, sod mange& aka sow he forwarded to Douglu, Peel, aad Homey. The United States Pacific Steam Navigation Company are *bout to establish a weekly communication betweenNos= and Oalliio. See Lin-Homes.—Lady Maxwell, of Mon- N M I House. sear Newsom Stewart. N. 8., has forwa►ded to the Naked Lifirboat lostitatioa • lied &retribution of two guiDeaa, being the amount of the coateete of a coatri. baths box which her ladyship and Sir William Maxwell placed is the estraewhall of their mashie • abort time Woos. marked " Royal National Life-boat Food." The institutioe haa sow thirteen life4mate ea the Switch etas% which require betimes 00301. sad 1001. saaa•»y to keep the.. in a state of perfect edloiteog. The Crystal Palace will be lighted up for a late 'Reno= pronmeade to-day. Large mien of gessaisnie in full dower hate hose arranged i• the 'satire lasasept sad nava THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. that one of the settlers wee killed, and hearing firieg in the vicinity of Yukshewereks, about two miles from my camp, I immediately proceeded with 100 men of the detachment coder my command, and close to the above. named plea I fell in with natives, who were espied with 16 Volunteers. I opened fire, and the natives retreated tofu former entrenchment above the whim% at Hari Ken, th e firing of the skirmishers drove them down the side of th e bill into the brush wood, the leading skirmishes, on the right, under Lieutenant Wray, took possession of the hill and kept up fire on them, I, with another body of skir mishers, proceeded to take that on the right dank, but found that the natives, who mustered a strong force, nearly surrounded me ,• here I lest one man killed, whose ride mid bayonet was taken pommies of by the natives, though not without serious loin to them. I then coocestrated my men on the entrenchment, and having heard from an Artillery officer, who rode up to my position, that the 65th Regiment • wan is my immediate vicinity, 1 requested that he would inform the officer oommandiag 65th Regiment that there ' was a track in the enemy's rear, and if an attack were made in that direction it would be of great service. A s it we. quite impossible for me to follow so strong a force of the enemy into the bush with my so small a forces, 1 re. named in the entrenched position until close on comet,, keeping a steady fire on the enemy, who were endeavouring to obtain the body and ammunition of the private who Ina i killed, and whom I would not leave. I repeatedly tried to obtain possession of the body by sending out volunteers of the man's company, but desisted, finding that it would wail greater loss. I was about retiring, leaving a rearguard in the entrenchment, when the Mounted Artillery wind. t Immediately after I saw the 65th appear. The Datives then drew off their right honking movement, and retreatieg into the bush enabled me to obtain the body of the man of my detachment. This accomplished, the whole force with. drew. (From WI night's Gazette.) WAR-OFFIOII.—Our. x 2,1869. The Secretary of State for War has received three arpachips with their iaclostiree, addressed to him by Lientooont-General Cameron, C. 8., axamanding the troop' in New Zealead, of which the following are copies: Head Quarters, Queen's Redoubt, Auckland, New Zealand, July 20, 1861. My Lord,—On the 17th instant, at 10 a.m., • large number of natives were observed entrenching themselves on the heights of the Koherca, in front of the camp of the 2nd battalion 14th Regiment, apparently with the intention of obstructing our further alvance up the Waikato. Lieut.- . Colonel Austin, who was commanding on the spot, immo• drately called in all his working parties, got his battalion under arms, and moved in skirmishing order against the enemy, followed by the detachments of the 12th and 70th, which were at the time arriving at the camp as • reinforcement. The strength and composition of the force was as follows : Detachmeet let battalion 12th Foot-2 captains, 3 subalterns, 8 seeress* 3 drummers, ' 135 rank and fib; 2nd battalion 14th Regiment- 1 field officer, 3 captains. Bsubalterns, 2 staff, 11 aergranta, 7 drum. men, 260 rank and file; detachment 70th Foot-1 field officer, 1 captain, 6 sergeants, 3 drummers, 93 rank and file.' Total-2 field officers, 6 captains, 11 subalterns, 2 staff, 25 sergeants, 13 drummers, 494 'auk and file. Lieutenant-Colonel Gamble, deputy quarter:nut/rises. ral, who happened to be on the Kolieroa superintending the encampment of the 12th and 70th, having sent me • report of what was going on, I at once hastened across the Muagatawhiti, and overtook the troops during their ad vance. When we came within musket shot of the enemy, be opened a sharp fire upon us, to which our skirmishers replied with such effect that he was soon compelled to retire. This he did slowly, and without any precipi. teams. The ground over which he retired was most , favourable for defence, as the only road by which we could advance against him led for about five miles over very narrow and tortuous fern ridges, the sides of which were too precipitous to admit of our turning his position by • flank movement, and at several welleolecied points, cow. pletely commanding the narrow necks over which we were compelled to move to the &thick, be had ormistrooted linos of rifle-pits. Thsss he defended with great obstioacy, and as we had no artillery in the field we could only dislodge him from them with the bayonet, which was dose with great gallantry by the young soldiers of the 14th, lad by their commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Austen, who, I regret to say, received a wound in the arm daring the action. After we had drives them from the second line of tieopite, where they made their most determined stand, • large number of them left the ridge. and toning to the right retreated down a narrow and steep godly, when they were exposed for u long time to a close and destructive fire from oar men on the height.' above, by which many of them were killed. The rest were driven before us uutil they reached the Marainarria (a small tributary of the Waikato), which they crossed precipitately, some in canoe* and others by swimming. Having no means of effecting the pump of the riven, we were obliged to discontinue the pursuit, sod I accordingly ordered the troops back to camp. I enclose a list of our casudties, which were few con iddenng the time the engagement lasted (from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.), and the strength of some of the enemy's potations. I cosset speak too highly of the conduct of all the allows and men sowed, or of the able manner in which the troops were led by their commanding officers, viz, Lieutenant- Colonel Auden. 14th; Major Ryan, 70th; and Major Miller, 12th. Among the olBoers who had the good forum' to have the opportunity of distinguishing themselves by covepicuous forwardness in the attack were Captain Strange, 14th, who did good service with the advanced skirmishers ; Captain Phelps*, who led his company to the charge ; Lieutenants Armstrong and Glancy, and Ensign Green, 14th. &arras -Major Cate, M. 8., 2nd battalioo, 14th, the senior medical officer in the fiekl, rendered prompt assistance to the wounded, many of whom he attended under fire. Colonel Mould, C. 8., commanding Royal En gineers, was also present, and ready to afford his valuable assistance, if required. Lieutesant-Colonel Gamble, the deputy quartermaster-general, Major 11'Neill, sidede- I camp, and my extra aide-de-camp, Lieutenant St. Hill, the only officers of the staff who had an opportunity of taking part in the °alinement, were most active during its program, sod gave me the greatest assistance throughout. The enemy had from 300 to 4(X) men in the field, the whole belonging to the tribes of the Waikato. His lm' must have been considerable. Immediately after the action we counted 21 killed, nine more oa the following day, and others have since been foiled. Several chiefs fell, among them one of the uncles of the Maoti Kiog. The enemy himself acknowledged to have had • greet many wounded. . _ . I beg to the following list of casualties :—Nn. Company, N 0.925, Private John Ewing, killed; No. I Coo. pony, No. 806, Private John Hamilton, wounded severely ; No. 7 Company, No. 324, Private Thomas Dunb ar , wounded slightly ; No. 7 Company, Coesray, wounded &lightly. The officers engaged oa this occasion were Lieutenant Wray, Ensign J. B. Jackson. and Ensign Butts, whose assistance, coupled with the steadiness of my men, merit' unqualified approbation.—l have, &a., (Signed) James Rum, Captain Royal Irish, Commanding Detachment. The Officer Commanding Troops, Drury. SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT. I beg to enclose the enclosed list just received from Cept„ Clear, of the Auckland Militia, who at first were engaged with the enemy. and these joined my foto., and rendered every passible assistance, and behaved ia a moat creditable manner.—l have, Ito., (Signed) J. Row, Captain. CamP Draryauly 23, 1861 . . - Sir —I have the honour to request you will inform th e Lieutenant-General that yesterday forenoon, having been in. formed by amounted volunteer that a man had been shot by the natives on Mr. Hayes' grounds, and that his house was threatened I immediately got my available force tisane arms as fol lows :—Royal Artillery—l subaltern, 1 staff, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer , 26 rank and file. (13th Regiment,— 1 field coosr, 1 captain, 3 subalterns, 1 staff, 6 sergeants, 3 drummers. 72 mak and file. Volunteer Militia-1 cep. rain, 1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, 33 rank and file. Total, 1 field officer ' 2 captains. 5 subalterns, 2 staff, 8 sergeants, 4 dram. men, 131 rank and file—and proceeded in that direction, directing es I went along, the detachment of the militia to grown a small knoll, and thus protect the approaches to Drury, and also ordering Lieutenant P.aitt, ILA. , and his trooper, to mooed in the direction of the Walrus l'alley, for the purpose of calling off any marauding India. On arriving at Mr. Hayes's, his son Ensign James B. Hayes, of the militia, volunteered to net as guide to my party, and I grouted all the bush he that vicinity with 30 men. haying previously directed Lieutenant arid Adjutant Lewis, with 40 roes, to remain outside, and thus cut off any natives attempting so escape. On reaching the native settlement of Ken Kai, I heard some desultory firing on my left, and was led to understand by some militiamen, that they had fired at some natives towards the Walrus escaping into the bush. Being satisfied with this explanation, I returned towards Drury, having previously picked up the body of the mur dered man, and sent it there. When within nee mil, and a half of that settlement, I was overtaken by Veterinary Surgeon Anderson, It. A., who informed me that a detich meat of the 2nd battalion lith Regiment was in a very precarious position near Waircia, and required a reinforce ment, as they could not do more than hold their position. On this I retraced my steps towards Ken Ken. end just before sunset entered the main bush under the guidance of Ensign Hayes. As my party advanced, Snug and shooting were more distinctly heard, and after proceeding about half-a-mile, a turn of the road brought me suddenly upon the combatants, the 2nd battalion 18th Regiment, upon so entrenched knoll, and the natives on the lower ground, but pressing them hard on three aides, when the detachment, 65th Regiment, cut off in their turn the immediate rear of two of them. Lieutenant Peooefather, who commanded the rear-guard, finding himself exposed to a cram fire from both the 2nd battalion 18th Regiment, and natives, directed the bugler to sound the regimental " call," and the " firm" and with a loud cheer, which was saserared by the 2nd battalion 18th Regiment, a rapid and continuous fuel lade was opened on the natives ensconced in the gullies, and el-altered by trees from the fire of the god bugaboo 18th Regiment. Being completely taken by sy•prise, they, after a smart action of about ten minutes, tied towards the denser hush. I but the darkness which had now began to set in rendered all attempts at searching for their dead and wounded per. fectly futile. The enemy's fire being now completely silenced, I directed both parties to move off to their reaper, 67 ca and while so dales a few desultory shots were fired ov er their heads. hr ic . . . I enclose a sketch of the ground. made by Lieutenant- Colate' Gamble after the action.—l have, &c., (Signed) D. A. Ctionon, Liestenaot•GeneraL The Right Has. the Secretary of State for War, War•afdce, Loudon. god Battalion 14th Begiroseit—Nominal Baum of Killed and Wounded at Koheroa as the 17th July, 1863.—Lieute must•Colonel C. W. Austen, gunshot wound of left forearm; Private Moses Burton, gunshot wound through muscles of left aide of back, bail extracted, alight; Private John Ingram, gunshot wooed fracturing lower jaw, also grate of right shoulder severe • Private James thilig:n perforating wound of abdomen , licandiug intestine', caused by a mos. ket ball, proved fatal 22 home after receipt of injury ; Private Patrick M'Kay, gunshot wound of left thigh, frac turing femur, very severe; Private James 'relieved, gunshot wooods of forehead, demising outer tables, also left leg, miming through head of tibia, hall lodged. very severe ,• Private William Murphy, gunshot wound of left leg, ball hurled in head of tibia, attracted on 20th July, eery severs; Private William Kavanagh, gunshot wound through right shoulder, a little below articulation, also alight wound of chin and throat, severe ; Private Henry Clark, gunshot wound of right arm and forearm. severe ; Privet Hebert Williamson, gunshot wound of right thumb, alight; Private Alfred Picton, gunshot wound of back of left hood, alight ; Private William Smith, gunshot wound of left thigh, femoral artery wounded, did sot recover from shock of wound, and died on the field. (Signed) J. MOUAT, Deputy Laspecter-Gen. P.M.O. The Assistant Military Secretary, Heed Quarters, Queen's Redoubt. Heed Quarten, Queen's Redoubt, July 31, 1863. muit bring to the lientenatit•geterars notice the cool and intrepid gallantry evinced on this occasion by Lieutenant Bait, Royal Artillery; Captain Cresson, Lieutenant and Adjutaut Lewis (who ootowended No. 1 Company, the officers being both sick), and Lieutenant Pennefather, who commanded the advanced guard ; and I trust you will re. coTtneod Resign James B. Hayes, of the Militia, to the favourable considers .ion at his excellency the governor, for his coolness and eleven''es in guiding the party under my command so rapidly into the aeons of this brief bat smart same. With a proud heart I most bring to the lieutenant. general's notice the cool and quiet order and gallantry die. played by all rooks of Use forte under my command, maths urqloching patience with which the men bore the hamming nod toilsome march to and from the scene of SCUM I am happy to say that the casualties of my party 1111 limited to one private killed. —I have, &c., . . My Lord,—l have the honour to forward copy of • report (17th July, 1863) front (3tptaiu Risg, god Battalion 18th Regiment, of an attack upon a (*Grey cruder Lis Burge by an ambuscade of natives. on the 17th instant, oa the road between the Queen's Redoubt sod Drury. 1 have atom meertained that the ambuscade consisted of not lees than 140 natives, arid coosideriug the very superior Dumber' by which Captain Rioes small detachmeut was a•tacked, I feel cure that your lordship will concur with me that no troops could have acquitted themselves better under such trying circomstaisces.-1 have, La. (Signed) ♦. CAILIMON, Lieut.-GeneraL The Right Ron. the Secretary of State for War, Wer•Ofgce, Loodoo. (Signed) ALFRED F. W. Wear; 04=4 sad Lieuteman.-Colonel Commanding iisth Regimmt and troops at Drury. The Military Secretary, Head Quartos, Drury. Nashua Return of killed sad wounded at Kai Kari, oa the 22nd of July, 1863 :—Private J. Erma, shot through the chest, fatal ; Piivoto Thomas Made. riot through the heed, fatal ; Private J. Hamilies, severe gunshot wound thrash noose part of right thigh ; Private W. Conroy, slight gra* of right temple ; Private J. Fitzpatrick, slight graze or left shoulder ; Private T. Dunbar, slight coritosioo. (Simard) J. Moses, Dep.-loapsctor-Gen., The dasistaut Military Searetary, Mead Quarters, Queues Madonbc. Osamu Drury, July 17, 1863. Sir,—l ham the honour to report, for your information, that oo my march from the Queen's Redoubt to Drury this day, my escort, k.c., as follows, 1 subaltern, 2 sergeant* and 47 reek and file, were fired upon by the natives at Stone Depot, sear Baird's Farm. The fire was opened on my advance vault on both Banks ; and my right dank sad rear was immediately fired upon. The fire took effect upon the maitre of the convoy. One driver and two bonsai of his cart fell, which, dividing the convoy, &c., was taken advan tage of by the natives, who, rushing in force WOOS the road, (mooed fire on the left flank, thus exposing my rear guard, consisting of prisoner and escort, lea severe fire from the bush ou each flack and right rear. I immediately retired with as many men as I could coecentrata, sad, firing, kept the enemy from surrounding my very s wall party, though in skirmishing order. =a the contest the tire of the enemy was well and I peremally saw five or six natives fall. Th e y came out in the open, but a charge quickly drove them tato the bosh. Finally, their attempting to surround mlpag obliged me to retire to Mr. Martin's house, which I occu until reinforced. I beg to asset the following list of killed and wounded :—Killed : Private A. Jamieson, Private F. McGrath, Pnvate T. Scott. Wounded : Sergeant Lemon, Corporal Chan, Corporal Kee, Lama-corporal Kavamigh, Privets Kamm Private Gibbose, Private H. Hurst, Privets H. Ryan, Private A. M. emus, Private T. Connors. Mis sing F. Byrnes, supposed to have returned to Queen's Redoubt. This man was a prisoner, and manned at the time —I have, Ica ( Si nd) JAMES SIN% RegimCa lid , Battalion 18th ent. P.& —I beg to state that the °Deduct of my subaltern, Ensign Bickuell, and the men, was admirable. and particularly that of Ensign BicknelL (Signed) J. Rnio, Captain, R.I. Partici: ALTRID ow Hirsao.—Their Royal High. seises Prince Allred and Prince William of Here sod suites arrived on Thursday evening about six o'clock at Kelso, hem Edinburgh, by the 4 p.m. express train of the North Beitieh Redwine, and were received at the statioa by his Gras the Duke of Boxbarghe, the Marquis of Bowmont, ' Lord Polwarth, and Sir George DoagLui, Bart. The Kelso Rifle Volunteers were drawn up in line on the platform, and gave a royal solute as their royal 'Urbanism alighted. The royal party drove off to Floors Castle in • carriage and roar. sad during their progress several rounds were tired by a detachment of the Kelso volunteers from cannot placed in • field sdjoinieg the bridge. The square and streets of Kelso were bril liantly illuminated and decorated with tlags, sad from the unusual numbers that bad been present at the races, the streets were crowded with • vast concourse of people, who welcomed Prince Alfred with repeated and enthusiastic bursts of cheering. 14 the evening his Grace the Duke et Roxburgh/ gave • dinner at Florin Castle. The specious dining-rooni,the walls of which ere hum; with the old family portraits of four dukes and three duchesses, had a most magnificent appearance. In the centre of the table were placed a massive silver catelPhihroin and antique boa pads (shown in the Exhibition of 1101). and • somber of other costly candelabra were disposed along the table sod on the sideboards. The whole of the costly and rare family plate was also produced for the occasion. Besides the duke and duchess and family. the following ladies and Ein• %lemon had the honour of dining with the Princes — Hon. H. Grey, the Hos. W. Edwards, Major Cowell, Captain Von . iniges, Lord Liaisons, Lady Strati de Radcliffe, Lord Henry Scott, the Muter 04 Lovat, the Hoe. H. Flues, Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa Mosicreiff, the Miss Moricniff, Mr. and lady Georgina Balfour, Miens Balfour. Mr. sod Mae Head Qssrters, Queen's Redoubt, July 31, 1863. Yoe Hoc . C. White. On Thunslay sight a grand My Lord,-1 keys the howoor to forward oopiss of repeete ball took at Floors Castle in honour of the Med (July RI, 1864) from Ceptaic Ring, 2nd banshee lo th , visitors. e specious and elegant ball-room was brilliantly sod Colonel Wyatt, 68th Regiment, of a skirmish whi c h illuminated by three gaseliers beautifully decorated with took place between detachments under their coo and flowers. At one end of the room wen • raised platform ar a body of rebels, in the bush tear Drury. Beth Calomel dais with coaches for the sconinmedatioo of the royal guests. Watt arid (*wain Rieg appear to have acted with great The drawing-room and other rooms adjoiniog were also Bid jut toent on this ocessiosi, sad the attain and men under out is • ranee' tasteful manner, and the PreP•ntid" P" their command deserve great credit for their ocoduct ; indications of this being the ma st thocenful ball which Ins those under Captain Ring for the firmness with which they bees gives by soy member of the south of Scotland sobihty held their ground for • long time against sunrise somber. ; foe' • food motel of Yese•• — .*wfonn sad those of Colonel Wyatt's detachment (including • Tee CAPS AND APS/CAN COMMANS.—We email denaturant of volunteers, who were foe the first time derstriod that Rear-Admiral George St. V. King, C. 8., will under tire), for their prompt support of the former, and the command the East India station, the limits of which will gallantry with which they attacked and haat off the enemy. be from the Claps of Good Hope to Pantie. The West —I have, k.c., , Coast of Africa will be • separate command. and the corn (Segued/ D. A. CainsiOnt, Lient.- General modore will probably have a nal pendant. A commodore, The Right Hoe. the Pienelauf Stets far War , j probably Commodore Mostresor, will be stationed a t the War-ofte, 'Ceps of Good Here.—United Serrire On:ette. WetrsaAry Oer. 23. —The Queen lies been Camp wear Merl Keri, Wairos.roed, July 23,1863. pleased to constitute and appoint Major-Geseral Burl!' Sir,-4 have the beano to Ms* fur j a m eea si e s, ennuis to he benteeast-governor of the Wand of Jeney, in that at thoo,.the 22nd inteat, I received ieforeention that the room of Major.Geserel Sir Robert Percy Douglas, Bert., two 'stain had bees fred.ithes by • 12.* of satins, said resigned.—Gazate. 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