The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. Alfred ebb Mike REMVED FROM BOND-STREET to TS, W BROOK-STREET. O Hanorerguare. In 1869. The 16e. Trousers (aMnsted by him) In al the New Patten; • BETTER THAN EVE." /the erprefsgi. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertiormisto Intended for " The Uprose" Landau Evening I = r i o m n o ;:e b dly " of y lb. lit Slcro'n l 0. l'""rt.wlrw°4 by Two BRITANNIA. THIS Emma, THEANGEL OF PEACE AND PARDON. Irtn.dm twz TIIE GREAT otiomr E yFrser ; Professor Pepper's adaptation of Mr. Dircks's Invention.—Slessm. Woodman and Randall.—Wlth DING DONE Skli.L.—A.ud BLUE BEARD. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEM DIY Morning. Ilh. Om.. . Attommem. Ilh. Wa♦. To•RotiOß—Monthm. Oh. 0m... .Altemoom. On. LONDON, MONDAY, CG UST 10. SonE of our French contemporaries are express ing more than surprise at the absence of any effec tive response of English opinion to their call for a war with Russia on behalf of Poland. They remind us of the enthusiasm of our public meet ings, the unanimous condemnation of the Russian Government by our press, and the stern tone of our diplomatic notes, and appear to think that these justify them in claiming us as comrades in a great European war. Tho claim has not been recognised. There is no war party among us. English opinion is only beard on the aide of peace. Peace is not only the demand of those who make the material interests of society their care, but of those who more especially represent Liberal tendencies in politics. These manifes tations of opinion perplex and annoy our contem poraries, and it is right that they should be ex plained. As old and sincere friends of Poland, as old and sincere friends of the French alliance, we will briefly state why we find it impossible to urge our leaders to war ; why, on the contrary, we are compelled to deprecate such an issue of the present negotiations. And although we shall speak only for ourselves, we believe that the considera tions which weigh with us are also those which underlie the general wish of the nation. . . The war for Poland to which we are invited is an enterprise so contradictory in its nature that its inconsistency would trouble us with misgivings at every stage of its prosecution. Nominally a war for the independence and liberty of a nation, it would have at its head the greatest enemy of the liberty and independence of nations who has appeared since the days of the Holy Affiance. The fourteen years which have elapsed since LOUIS NAPOLEON acquired supreme power in France have been wholly spent in defeating and destroying liberty in that country, and in undermining the independence of other States. The author of the deportations to Cayenne and Algeria may profess horror at the Warsaw conscription and exile to Siberia, and the author of the confiscations in Mexico may think he is shocked by the confiscations of Motraavissr, but we, as a nation, are incre dulous. Nobody amongst ns believes that the French EMPEROR would engage in a war with Russia from a chivalrous regard for the inde pendence of Poland. We see how much regard he has shown for the independence of Italy. He began the war in that country with an appeal to the people to rise from the Alps to the Adriatic ; and although he finished it without freeing Venice, he exacted, as the price of his help, one province which was the cradle of the reigning house, and another which was the birthplace of the popular hero. And still he maintains a French garrison at Rome. Can we believe in the simplicity and sincerity of Louis NAPOLEON'S love of Polish independence when anch is the respect he pays to the independence of Italy? His latest exploit is more flagitious than any enterprise against a foreign State with which history reproaches the Czar NICHOLAS. The in vasion and conquest of Mexico was a daring crime, for which not the shadow of an excuse can be pretended, and which marks out its author for universal suspicion and constant vigilance. It is sometimes said that we should join the French Exritrox in a war for Poland in order to secure the limitation of the war to its proper and legitimate objects. But an undertaking, in which we should not only have to overcome an enemy but repress a powerful ally, is too adventurous for a sober nation. No doubt we could go into such a war , cheaply enough ; if not, we could not enter into it at all. Compelled to maintain an immense volun teer army for our own safety, we have not at our disposal the resources that would enable us to take our proper place in a war for Poland. The force which might place us at the head of the free peoples of Europe is dispersed all over the world. It occupies petty rocks, and it has a footing on distant continents, where its presence may any day involve us in hostilities which would task °urn tmost strength. It may be that, associated with France and Austria, we should have little more to do than co-operate with our fleet in blockading the coasts and annihilating the commerce of Russia. Possibly an arrangement of that kind might be made. France, with such alliances as she could command, could no doubt dispense with our help by land. But our influence and authority in the conduct of the war would certainly be measured by the sacrifices made in its prosecution, and it would not become the dignity of Great Britain, perhaps it would not be consistent with our safety, to sanction by our participation an enterprise over which we could exercise no effective control. We cannot forget the manner in which LOUIS NAPOLEON'S share of the war with Russia was managed : the scope given to the common enemy in Asia, and the attempt to huddle up the business to a prema ture conclusion when the ends of the EMPEROR'S peculiar policy had been gained. The joint Mexican expedition, in which we were very nearly made accomplices in the nefarious JECKER Bonds claim, and in the subsequent destruction of Mexican independence, is a more recent instance of the risks we run in associating ourselves with an adventurer whose course is regulated by no known principles. Thus shut up to the alternative of a policy of neutrality and non-intervention, or of furnishing a contingent to the forces of the Second Empire, the choice cannot be doubtful. It is already made, and a cry of alarm would go up from one end of England to the other, if the country were not well assured that the wisdom and firmness of its Government will preserve it from becoming the tool of an ambition which is the chief danger of the world. Sir James P. Wilde, nne of the Barnes of the Exchequer, will succeed Sir Creaswell Crennwell as Chief Julge in Ordinary of the Court of Probate and Divorce.• The Duke of Somerset, the First Lord, and other leading officials of the Admiralty, will visit Portland to day on their way to pay an official visit to Devonport. Mr. Romaine left the Admiralty on Friday to join their lord ships. Rear-Admiral Eden and Rear-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget returned to town on Friday evening from Ports mouth. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey mass to tows on Saturday from Portsmouth. be Court. OSBORTZP, Avoca 7. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Alfred, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady 0. Barrington, Lieute nant-General the Bon. C. Grey, and Major Cowell, em barked in the royal yacht Fairy, to be present at the Cows , regatta. •'" " • " Count and Counters Gleicben dined with her Majesty in the evening. AUGUST S. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princes, Louise, yesterday inspected the new 'cheap Whippingham, now in cousin of erection by her Majesty's command. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Lieutenant-Colonel Do Flat were in attendance. AUGT:ST 9. The Queen, Princess Helena, Princess Lome., Prince Alfred, Prince Arthnr, and Prince Leopold attended Divine service this morning at Osborne. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. . . The Ladies and Gentleman in Waiting and the household were also present. The christening of the infant Princees, daughter of the Prince and Princess Leiningen, took place at Osborne this afternoon. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. L. Omlow, chaplain and naval instructor of H.M.S. Racoon. The sponsors were the Queen, the Princes" William of Baden, representing the Grand Ducker of Baden, Prince's Helena, repreaentingthe Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), and Prince William of Baden, representing the Duke of Saxe.Cobourg. The Queen named the child Alberta Victoria Sophie Marie Ernestine. There were also present Prince and Princess Leiningen. Princess Louise, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, sod Princess Beatrice. The following had the honour of being invited :--Count and Countess Gleichen, Lady C. Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Hon. Horatio Stopford, Lieut.• General the Hon. C. Grey and Mrs. Grey, Colonel Sir T. M. and Hon. Lady Biddulph, Lieut.• Colonel and Mrs. Du Plat, Sir James Clark, the Rev. G. Prothero, Major Cowell, Major Flphin stone, Mr. Buff, Dr. Hoffmeister, Miss Hildyard, Mademoi selle Bauer, Commander Simpson, Dr. Minter, and Mr. Truaoott (royal yachts). Despatches were seat on Saturday from the Colonial. office to the Governors of the North American Provinces, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, and to the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Wands. SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR THE QUEEN'S DEPARTURE FOR GERMANY. The Times of this morning says :—" Her Ma jesty's steam yacht Fairy, Master-Commarrier D. Welch, arrived off the dockyard, Woolwich, on Saturday, under special orders to the Commodore Superintendent, Sir Fre derick Nioolson, and commenced coaling from the Hebe hulk. The Fairy will go down to the Arsenal i this morning, and berth alongside the T pier, where the arrangements have been completed in anticipation of the arrival of her Majesty and the royal family for embarkation at low tide to-morrow evening, at 5 o'clock, as originally intended. The Queen has expressed her desire to take her departure under the strictest privacy and seclusion, consequently all applica tions for admission to the Arsenal to witness the embarka tion have been rejected. Orders have been issued by the heeds of departments, instructing the police to arrest any persons belonging to the establishment or otherwise who I may be found loitering in or about the thoroughfares during the time appointed for the Queen's arrival. The clerks and others occupying offices in the vicinity of the avenues lead ing to the pier are also warned not to approach the win dows. The orders are to be enforced under pain of mam mary dismissal, and as any breach of the instructions is ordered to be rigorously dealt with, it has been suggested by the departments that the gates of the establishment shall be closed for the day at 1 p.m. The proposition to that effect is now under the consideration of the Secretary of State for War, and will most probably be hued to-day. A half-holiday, moreover, is usually granted on such occasions, and is, therefore, not without precedent. The only persons who, it is stated, will be in attendance on the departure of the Sovereign will be Viscount Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of the county ; Colonel Sir David Wood, acting Commandant at Woolwich ; Sir F. Nicolson, Commodore of the port; and Captain Gordon, Superintendent of Stores." THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia arrived in Berlin on Wednesday evening from habits, in the Wand of Rugen, and were received at the railway station by .Prinoe Augustus of Wurtemberg, the city commandant, and by several general officers. On Thursday morning their royal highness visited the members of the Prussian royal family residing at Potsdam, and later in the day many distingukhed mili tary officers had the honour to pay their respects to the prince and princes. PROGRESS OF THE PRINCE ANDPRINCOF WALES. —On Saturday, at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock, their royal high neues left Perth, en route for Balmoral. An immense crowd accompanied them from the hotel to the station, where a guard of honour of the 3rd Hussars and the 74th High lander' wu drawn up. On the platform, where a large number of ladies sod gentlemen had assembled, the Prince and Princess were received by the provost and magistrates of Perth, the Earl of Dunmore, the sheriff, and others. As the train left the station their royal highnesses were loudly cheered. The royal party left Perth exactly at 12.40. A telegraphic despatch from Ahoy's'', on Batiuday evening, says :—" The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Aber geldie at half-past 5 o'clock, all well. It wu expected that their royal highnesses would arrive at Balmoral shortly be fore 8 o'clock." The Luke of Brabant has left Brussels for Scot laud, where he proposes to enjoy the sport of grouse shoot ing. The Duke of Leinster left his house on Carlton House-terrace on Saturday last for Carton House, near Ilaynooth, Ireland. The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset have snivel in London from Badminton. The Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Victoria Cecil, owing to the indisposition of the Marquis of Exeter, whose detention in town by illness has been already an nounced, have returned home from Switzerland. It will afford his loedahip'■ friends pleasure to learn that be is much better. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, who were on a visit to the Earl and Countess de Croy at Stud ley Park, near Ripon, during the visit of their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, have gone to Jar seam Abbey, accompanied by the Count and Countesses Danneskiold. The Earl and Countess of Essex have left Eng- land for • prolonged .tay on the Continent. The Earl of Wilton will come to town on Wed nesday from Cowes, Isle of Wight, for the purpose of being present at the marriage of his youngest daughter, Lady Alice Grey Egerton, with Mr. Dalrymple Des Vieux, which is appointed to take place the following Jay. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough purpose to leave Broekleeby Park, Lincolnshire, in the course of the present week, for Scotland. We believe that the Viscountess Lismore is seri ously indispoeed is Greevenorotreet, anil unable to leave town. The Ladies Mary and Frances Fitzwilliam are expected to arrive in town to-day from Wentworth House, Yorkshire, expreealy to officiate as bridesmaids at Miss Wood's marriage. The marriage of Lieut.-Colocel George Grant Gordon, Scots Puffier Guards, eldest son of the late Lord Francis Gordon, with Miss Constance A. Lennox Peel, only daughter of Mr. Lawrence and the late Ledy Jane Peel, was solemnised on Saturday, at St. Paul's church, Knights bridge, in the presence of a numerous circle of relatives sad friends of the two families. On Saturday the nuptials of Viscount Dangan, eldest son of the Earl and Counter Cowley, and Min G wen doline Williams, second daughter of Colonel Thomas Peen Williams, M.P. for Marlow, took place at St. George's church, Hanover.equare, in the pretence of • very numer ous and f.uhionable company. We (Times) are infonOed that, at the desire of hie medical edemas, the Bishop of Oxford has good' for a few weeks to Switzerlsod. Major-Genera/ George J. Bloomfield, inspector. general of Artillery, left town on Saturday on • tour of impeetion of the northers district and el Scotland. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. The Vienna Press, of the Bth, gives a detailed account of the state of things in the palatinate of Kalisch. Almost all persons belonging to the edu cated and comfortable classes are in prison. 7n the district of Piotrkow there are only three proprietors in the enjoyment of their li berty. In the battle of Sczemin the Russians placed in their front the Polish prisoners, having at their head the superior of the Bernardino Convent of St. Anne, in order that they might be the first shot. The Russian Colonel Ehrenberg addressed the peasants iu the convent, and invited them to divide amongst themselves the property of the landlords, especially the forests. CIRCASSIA. A despatch from Constantinople, dated August 8, says that a portion of the Arbazehs who bad submitted to Russia have made common cause with the Circassians. The Russians have abandoned three forte; they lost 150 men, and their general has been made prisoner. THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS. The German journals are almost exclusively occupied with the Frankfort Congress. The Press of Vienna says that Von Schmerling will accompany the Emperor of Austria. The assembly will be held in the Romer or Town Hall, in which the Emperors of Germany were formerly elected. The Emperor of Austria will open the assembly with a speech, and reporters from the public press will be admitted and allowed to take notes. The King of Prussia, it appears, has decidedly refused to take part in the congress. While admitting the necessity of a fe deral reform, he thinks that this reform should be previously considered and decided upon by special representatives or diplomatists. The Volks Zeifung of Berlin remarks that while willing to accept reform from any quarter, national representatives, chosen by universal suffrage, should be elected to co-operate with the sovereigns in the elaboration of a work which concerns the whole of Germany. (azurnea rittaccauxa) THE POLISH INSIIRRECTION. CRACOW, AUGUST 10. An engagement took place on the sth at Polichna, in the palatinate of Lublin, in which the insurgents under Krysiuski and Wagner were victorious. They pursued the Russians for a distance of two miles. The loss of the insurgents was inconsider able. Russian troops are moving from Janow and Kraamystaw. The Poles are likewise concen trating their forces and a battle is expected in consequence. FRANCE. PARTS, Acorn 10. The Emperor arrived at Pin on Saturday last. An immense concourse of people, more than 100,000, were present, who cheered his Majesty. The greatest enthusiasm was manifested. THE GERMAN REFORM QUESTION. VIENNA, Arceer 10. Twenty-one German Princes, including the Grand Duke of Baden, have accepted the Emperor of Austria's invitation to the proposed Congress at Frankfort. According to the programme of the Emperor, the proposed National German Assembly would to composed of an upper and a lower house. The former would be composed of the German Princes, and the latter of members of the diets of states belonging to the German Confederation. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, Acacsr 9. The Blessageries Imperialea steamer, with the above mails, passed off Messina on the Bth, and is expected to arrive at this port on the 10th inst., with 69 passengers, 1,054 packages of sundries, and 980 bales of silk. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raom oua OWN COELNISPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY ECENTNG. M. Drouyn do Lhuys has been confined to his bed for the last two days, but it is announced this evening that he is getting better. An article in the Pays, defending the Minister for Foreign Affairs against recent attacks of the l'resse, and arguing that according to the constitu tion no minister in particular, but the Emperor himself, is responsible for the policy of the French government, is susceptible of the construction that M. Drouyn de Lhuys is on the eve of dismissal. The France has a lyrical article about the glories of the new Mexican empire. France, with her " marvellous perspicacity," and admirable "fore sight," has restored the " equilibrium of the world," which was in danger of being broken by the inso lence and aggressiveness of the Anglo-Saxou race. As a matter of course, France has been noble and disinterested, and has been acting all the while ou behalf of Europe, who was blind to her own interests. It professes to believe that all the European powers will now speedily recognise the empire of Mexico, and perhaps guarantee its neutrality and inde pendence. It regrets, however, very much that the Emperor's proposal for the recognition of the Southern States of America, which was made with a "special view" to the change to be effected in Mexico, was not accepted by England. What the Emperor wanted was that the "Southern States, solidly allied with Europe, should form an immo sable barrier against the ambition of the Americans of the North." It is not yet too late, the France says, to adopt this policy. Meanwhile, it claims that " French trade and French influence shall derive peculiar advantages from au enterprise which France has conducted single-handed, and through many perils, to a successful issue." The Nation also looks to some considerable advantages for France, and thinks it desirable that this country of Mexico, which made the for tunes of former " conquerors, " should now make the fortunes of its " liberators." I have no doubt that some of the liberators will make their for tunes, but I du not think France, as a nation, will benefit by the conquest. The Phare de la Manche pretends to know that the Emperor will go to Cherbourg inc(xj. from the Pin races, and the Tempa repeats the news as reliable. I do not believe it, but you will know by telegraph to-morrow, if perchance it should be true. The semi-official journals say that the Em peror will be back at St. Cloud to-morrow, and I think this is the right version. The annual election of the council of the order of advocates terminated yesterday, after several adjournments. The only change is the eviction of M. Mathieu, whose colleagues of the bar will not pardon him for having consented to stand as a go vermnent candidate in the Corthe against M. de Jouvenel, the late member, who had the courage to present a report against the Palikao dotation job. M. Mathieu is replaced iu the council of the order by M. Herbert, • minister of justice under Louis Philippe. PARIS, SATIIRDAT EVI2II/03. I called attention a few days ago to a spirited protest of M. Gueroult against the occupation of Mexico. In a second article, to which the latest telegraphic news gives aditional importance, he ' adduces further arguments to show that the Emperor has done a bad service to his country by initiating and persisting in this Mexican expedi tion. The whole affair is just a repetition of the occupation of Rome. France will again find her self stuck fast between the liberals, who ask in vain to go forward, and the retrogrades, whom France cannot possibly follow iu their backward march. The clericals applaud the French in Mexico at this moment, just as the black dragoons hallooed on the army of Rome in 1849. But although Marshal Forey may con tinue to talk about the liberty of wor ship, if he refuses to reconfiscate property taken from the convents, and if he ventures in anything to oppose the Archbishop of Mexico, the i party which the French army has been at so much pains to set on its legs will very soon treat France just as the Antonellis and Merodes do at Rome. When things come to that point it will be found that the 115,000 men who are to be left as an army of occupation under General Bazaine will be in sufficient, and he will write home for reinforce ments. It is, says M. Gueroult, s curious and un deniable fact that to this hour nobody in France knows precisely why the army went there. He inquires whether it was merely a freak which has become serious on account of the obstacles which were met with 1 Or whether it is the beginning of a vast project, deeply considered, for giving Franca an American India, on a par with the India which England rules in Asia. Nobody can say for certain, but M. Gueroult says there is evidence to show that the design of the expedition hart a certain connexion, not easy to be defined, with the war now going on in America. After congratulating England on refusing to recognise the South when the French Emperor pressed her to do so several months ago, and expressing his utter inability to understand the motives which could have induced the French government to declare itself on the side of slavery, M. Gueroult observes that in any event the occupation of Mexico must sooner or later in volve France in a war with the Anglo-Saxon race ou the American continent. If the South should effect their separation, they will look with especial disfavour upon an occupation which will stand in the way of the propagation and extension of their " peculiar domestic institution," which cannot last within its present narrow bounds. It, on the contrary, the Union should be restored, then the large disci plined army of the United States, inured to war and anxious for employment, will assuredly at tempt to enforce the Monroe doctrine by clearing Mexico of its later invaders. The great question will then arise whether it is worth the while of France to maintain s " transatlantic Algeria " against " enterprising and formidable neighbours." Above all things, he warns the French govern ment against the fallacious hope that the costa of the expedition can ever be recovered. Be is for saying good-bye to the 300,000 millions already spent, and not for sacrificing a milliard in running after them. " Recall our army "is M. Gueroult's last word. But when M. Gueroult wrote the above article, he did not know of the "screaming " farce which the telegraph from London brings to-day cid New York. It seems that Mexico is already an "empire." Marshal Furey's notables have elected Archduke Maximilian of Austria to be Emperor of Mexico. But in case he should refuse the charge (which it is perfectly well known ho will), then Marshal Furey's " representatives of the country" will elect for Emperor anybody that Napoleon 111. mad• be pleased to appoint. The cat is now out of the bag. Mexico is to be annexed to France, and I am firmly convinced that the worst enemy of Napoleon 111. could not wish him a more dimmer heteditas. However, it is all his own doing. No responsible minister was privy to the scheme. It was all planned by the Emperor himself, in con cert with Almonte, a few other Jecker bondholders, the Empress, and some excited Mexican priests. Having, generally speaking, an embarras de richesses in regard to instances of oppression which shock all English notions of liberty, I have long left off mentioning those which present no peculiar feature, and am particularly careful not to give currency to stories not intrinsically probable, or supported by reasonable evidence. I have hitherto refrained from mentioning, because I could not believe it, an assertion of several journals that a boat-builder, a native of the newly-annexed province of Nice, had been expelled from France because he had made a present of a boat to Gari baldi. The incredible fact is, however true. The Pays admits it, and makes a lame and ignoble apology for the monstrous deed. The man's name is Garsiglia. He was au inhabitant of Nice at the time when " universal suffrage" transferred his native town to France. Profiting by the option which could not well have been refused, and for the' grantingof which the French semi-official journals took due credit at the time, he elected not to be a French subject, and preserved his Italian na tionality. The Pays now sneeringly says that he precleasement" chose to remain a foreigner. Thereupon the Pays justifies the unhandsome, shabby resort of the Prefect to the almost obsolete law which enables the executive to expel any foreigner from France without cause assigned, and exclaims, "We are not going to allow foreigners to be masters in France." That is the excuse offered for the violent measure by which a working man, guiltless of any crime, is separated from his home, his family, and his means of livelihood. Even if the offence of makings pre sent to Garibaldi would have justified such a heavy administrative punishment in an ordinary case, it is to be observed, as M. Floquet well says, iu the Ti nips, that an inhabitant of Nice, newly become French soil by a diplomatic fiction, ought nut to be assimilated to au ordinary traveller passing tem porarily and by chance over French territory. SPOILS AT PORT 11 DSON. —The following official despatch gives an account of the supplies, Sr., captured at Port Hudson :—" Head-quarters, Department of the Gulf, Nineteenth Army Corps, Port Hudson, July 10, 1863.—T0 General 11. W. lialleck.—Sir,--I have the honour to in form you that with this port there fell into our hands over 5,500 prisoners, includiog one major-general and one brigadier-general ; 20 pieces of heavy artillery, 5 complete batteries, numbering 31 pieces of field artillery ; • good supply of projectiles for light and heavy gnus, 44,8(0 pounds of cannon powder, 5,000 stand of arms, and 150,000 rounds of small arm ammunition, besides a small amount of stores of various kinds. We captured also two steamers, one of which was very valuable. They will be of great service at this time.---1 am, General, very respectfWly, your obedient servant, N. P. BANKS, Major-General Commanding." FRENCH 1 Poßrs. —The Mufti fe It r publishes a report addressed to the Minister of Agriculture and Com merce by the Permanent Commission for the annual revi sion of the official values of imports. From this document it appears that the results of the late reforms in the cue tone, and of the treaty of commerce with England, have been generally beneficial, and have in no case bad the due natrotis effects predicted by the partisans of the prohibitive system. The section of the committee charged with ex emitting the price of corn and provisions in general states that the fluctuations have been for the most part of small amount, that consumption hu increased, and that the new legislation has had most favourable effects. The ►ection on mining products and tim ber comes to the cams conclusion, and asserts that foreign competition has had the result of stimulating progress among French producers, who have shown that they have no reason to fear foreign rivals. The section on textile fabrics reports a considerable rise in the value of raw silk, wool, cotton, fiat, and hemp, and that the quantity of goods manufactured has, consequently, somewhat dimi nished es compared with the preceding year; that exports to America, owing to the war there, have greatly fallen off, but that this deficiency has been compensated for to a large extent by increased exports to England and other countries. In conclusion, the report declares that the custoen.house values of merchandise require but very slight modifications this year, and expresses the conviction that the new legisla• tine will have a still more beneficial effect on the public prosperity when the causes which at present interfere with the natural course of production and commerce shall have mood to exist. AMERICA. (nom on IiFICUL NEW YORK, JULY 29. The situation as it stands at present is nearly as follows : The whole south-west, as far west as Alabama, is in the hands of the Federals, and Grant is free to march with a force of 50,000 or 60,000 men in any direction he pleases, and his next point of attack will probably be Mobile, which from the land is utterly defence less. Rosecrans is about to invade or blockade Chattanooga, and push on towards Virginia through the mountains. The Mississippi is open, and steamers are already passing down from St. Louis. The guerilla force in Kentucky which has always hitherto operated with most effect against Rosecraus' communications, has been broken up by the capture of Morgan and the entire band of 4,000 with which he ventured on a raid into Ohio. The small force which has recently begun to operate in Western Louisiana owed all its success to Banks being occupied at Port Hudson, and will now break up, and, in fact, the hostilities which we may expect to witness in that region during the remainder of the war will consist mainly of con flicts of Indians and irregulars in Western Arkansas, along the edge of the wilderness. The whole force of the Confederacy is cooped up in Eastern Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The operations against Charleston are proceeding slowly. The Federal assaults on Fort Wagner have been repulsed, and I do not look for success unless General Gilmore is strongly reinforced ; but suc cessful or unsuccessful the demonstration made there keeps 40,000 or 50,000 Confederate troops in Charleston that might otherwise be detached to reinforce Lee. The contest being thus narrowed down, and his recent enormous losses baying forced Jefferson Davis to call out the remainder of his fighting population by a levy en inane, I do not think there is any reason to doubt the destruction of the re maining Southern army in a series of battles in which Grant and Rosecrans will probably partici , pate in the course of the ensuing campaign. There is but one thing which could hinder or retard this issue, and that is a failure of the supply of men at the North, and on this I think the Secessionists have been led to rely a good deal by the riots at New York. But I can assure you, for the second or third time, that any hopes they may bane on this are utterly fallacious. The riot in New York was the last card of Northern sympathisers with the Confederacy. They lashed the ignorant Irish into a frenzy—they ignored the draft and the ' negroes ; but the horrible excesses which attended the outbreak not only deprived the movement of all chance 'of success, but has caused a decided reaction in favour of the draft all over the conntiy. No decent person, and above all no American, likes to have anything to do with resistance to it since the resistance has passed into the hands of the "low Irish" of New York, and been accompanied with murder and pillage. I have spoken with many who were bitter opponents of it a fortnight ago, and who are now ready to turn out, musket in band, to enforce it. Even those, too, of the New York politicians who protest against it on ac count of its alleged unconstitutionality, offer, if the government will only suspend it, to raise the required number of men by voluntary enlistment ; and, in fact, in every part of the country those who oppose it do so mainly on the ground that the men can be raised more readily by volunteering; and New York is the only place in the Western States where there has been any attempt to resist it. In all the New England States it has gone off with the honours of a fke. The drafted even parade the town with music and banners, and with red ribbons in the buttonholes, cheering for the government, the army, and the navy. In Penn sylvania and New Jersey the result has been equally satisfactory ; and, what is more remark able, those who do not choose to serve seem to have no difficulty in finding substitutes. Crowds of men come even from Canada to Boston for the purpose of offering themselves to conscripts in this capacity. And the desire to avoid the draft and get the high bounties which are now offered both to discharged soldiers and to fresh volunteers, has given such a stimulus to recruiting that it is calculated that in the western district alone regiments are being raised at the rate of one a-day. Conscripts are already passing into the seat of war in Virginia, and are being at once sent to join the attenuated brigades of Meade's army, while a large camp has been established in Maryland for the instruction of those who stand specially in need of training. Under all these cir cumstances I do not see the least probability of the drafting not being successfully enforced every where, although I think it not impossible that the local authorities may iu several cases procure its suspension, on their undertaking to furnish the men by volunteering before a fixed date. This is what Governor Seymour is endeavouring to arrange for New York, but I doubt his success, ILA there is a stning disposition, both at Washington and all over the country, especially amongst the former, to have this Sodom and nest of foreign rascality and domestic treason, as they consider it, made au example of. In fact, I believe a strong effort is being, made in some quarters to get Mr. Lincoln to put it under martial law, and make Butler military commandant ; and Governor Sey mour and his satellites have been dreadfully afraid that this might be done, and the strong probability that it sill be done iu case of another outbreak will lead them, I think, to make every effort to prevent any further disturbance. The rumour of an exchange of autograph letters between the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor Alm/oder 11. is declared by the Nord to be altogether unfounded. A dispute about maritime law has just arisen at CasteUlmer. (Naples) under the following circumstances : Two sailors on board a Greek vessel lying in that port had • quarrel, which ended in their tuning their stilettoes, in consequence of which ore of them received a desperate wound. The Judge of Castellamere, on being informed of the matter, caused the culprit to be minted ; whereupon the Greek consul claimed the prisoner, in order to *end him to Greece to ne judged by the national tribunals. The judge has refused to recognise the claim, and the matter is now being argued between the two governments. DEATH FROM DROWNINO.—A melancholy acci dent has put occurred at St. N'►lery-sur-Somme. M. De leon, a gentlemen of 1,0010 property residing in that town, hail gone to bathe. The tide had not rea:hed high water, and he entered the sea with one of his relatives and some other persona. The muter bather, seeing him near the rope, told him that he was safe in that place, but cautioned him sot to go further out. Being a good swimmer M. Deleon neglected the advice, but had not gone far when he sud denly threw up his arms, uttered a cry, and diaappeared. An alarm was given, and one of the bathing men dived seve ral times, but without effect. The body was not found until the next morning. It is supposed that the deceased had been seized with cramp. THE QUICKEST I AsSAGE AcROM THE ATLANTIC'. —The Scotia, belonging to the British and North Amencan Royal Mail Ship Company, on her last voyage to New York, made the most extrsordinarily fast run on record. She left Liverpool on the 18th of July, ►nd made the passage to New York in nine days, two hours, and fifteen minutes, beating the fastest passage previously made by nine hours and forty.five minute'. The two quickest passages previ ously made were by the Persia, in uine days, twelve hours, and ten minutes, from Liverpool to New York; and the Baltic, in nine days twelve hours. GREAT NORTHERN AND METROPOLITAN RAIL. WAYS.—Yesterday and on Satunlay experimental train■ passed through from the Metropolitan Railway at linsg'.• cross over the junction lines to sod from Barnet. MIYISTEMAL NOrzmws. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will lest° Cumbria's Homo to-morrow for Wuhan. Castle, Kern; for the autumn. The Earl G 1.132,1110, the Lord ?males' of the Council, came to town on Friday night from visiting the Earl and Countess de Grey at Studley Park, near Ripon. The noble earl will leave to-morrow for Woolwich, is order to accom- pany her Majesty to Germany, and will remain in attend ance on the Queen until her return home. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, with Lady Mary Wood and family, has returned to town from Yorkshire, for the wedding of Hiss Wood, intended to be aolemniaed to-morrow. The Earl de Grey returned to town on Saturday morning from Studley Park, his seat in Yorkshire, where he has Neu honoured by the company of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke of Newcaatle bee been waling the week at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and the Right Hon. Thomas 31.11ner Gibson has been yachting off the island. MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS. An interesting ceremony took place at Wood. green, near Horusey, on Saturday. For some few years a Masonic Institution for boys has been established there, with accommodation for sixty or sevooty inmates. The masons it would seem, however, are a growing body, and the building in question so tar falls short of their require ments that it has become necessary to enlarge it. The foundation stone of a new edifice in connection with that already existing was accordingly laid on Saturday. When completed the enlarged institution will have room for one hundred and twenty boys, all of whom will be boarded and educated at the expense of the craft. This institution at Wood-green, we may remark, was only founded in 1857, when 25 lade were admitted ; and it speaks well for the charitable feeling and the energy of the Masonic order, that in only six years such ample funds have been col lected that four times the number of inmates originally pro- vided for will soon be furnished with a comfortable healthy home, and with the education which will enable them to make a good start in life. Not being one of the initiated we cannot pretend to appreciate the full significance of all the ceremonies that took place at Wood•green on Satur day. Before the stone was laid a "court, " we believe, was held, and business transacted within it appropriate to the occasion. There was, of course, a great display of masonic insignia : gold chains, gold medals, silk sashes, and Vas aprons, meeting the eye in every direction. When the hour arrived at which the ceremony of the day was to take place a procession was formed, headed by the band of the 40th Middlesex Rifle Rangers, and the leading members of the order, to whom posts of honour and of duty had been assigned, s:owly advanced to the appointed spot. The stone Beall was surrounded by a temporary amphitheatre of re served seat', all of which were filled with frienda and sup porters of the institution, many ladies being preeent. Anthems having been sung by some of the member' of the Sacred Harmonic Society, and prayers having been offered up by the chaplain, the stone was drily laid by Brother Algernon Perkins as Grand Master. Wine and oil were then poured upon it, the Hallelujah chorus and the National Anthem were sung. and the company broke up. For the rest of the day all mere formality, except toast proposing and speech making, was at an end. The company did not, however, disperse. The garden in which the ceremony bad taken piece presented too many attrac tions for inch a movement to be thought of. Fore mostamong them was theacientificentertainment so recently presented by Messrs. Toole and Paul Bedford at the Dra. matic College Fete. Of course the Paul-y-Tooley.Teclusic caused the utmost amusement, no one appearing to enjoy the humorous absurdities of the entertainment more than Miss Burdett Coutts, who was among the audience. Among the other amusements of the day was the cele brated Peep-show from the Crystal Palace, which fully sustained its ancient reputation. Military bands played at intervals too, and at night some fireworks were displayed. More delightful weather could not have been desired, and the fete altogether passed off very pleasantly from first to last. Omelet. APPOINTMENTS.—CoIoneI Henderson, ILE., chairman of the Board of Directors of Convict Priam% has been appointed Member of the Council of Management of Broadmoor Prison ; Captain E. F. Ducane, R.E. who hag bad considerable experience in the convict de partment, Western Australia, has bees appointed inspector of military prisons, and a member of the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons • Dr. John Struthers, M.D., Edinburgh, has been appointed professor of anatomy in the University of Aber deen, vice Dr. Liners, who has resigned in COD sequence of advanced years ; Mr. Henry Michael Jones has been appointed her Majesty's Consul at the Feejee Islands ; Mr. Edward Hall, now consul at Comayaqua, has been ap pointed consul at Sousouate, Labrador; Mr. Edward Kirk patrick (now acting consul) has been appointed consul at Comayaqua ; Mr. Randall Cdlander, now consul at Erzeroum, to be consul at the Dardanelles ' • Mr. James Finn, now consul at the Dardanelles, to be consul at Erzeroum ; Richard Weston Mara, k:1.1., to be member of the Exeuctive Council of St. Antigua; James Clement Choppin and John Reilly, Ears., to lo members of the Legislative Council et St. Vincent ; James Clement Chop pin and Charles Douglas Stewart. Esqa, to be members of the Executive Council of St. Vincent; Robert Saunders, Ep., to be member of the Executive Council of Montserrat; and A. B. Al'lnty re, J. G. Grant, awl N. Irvine, Eerie., to be Members of the Legislative Council of Gold Coast,— Observer. FIRES AND Loss OF LirE.—Yesterday morning a few minutes before three o'clock, a tire took place, which it is feared will terminate with the loss of a mother (recently confined), her newly born child, and the nurse attending the female iu her accouchement. The premises in which the fire began were in the occupation of Mr. Solomon Reuben, and were situated at No. Is, Herbert-street, New North road. It appears that Mrs. Reuben had recently given birth to a child, and during her confinement she had a wo man named Mary Ann Stubbing% to attend upon her. Yesterday morning, at the time before stated, Mrs. Reuben required something to he done, when the nurse unfortunately took the candle too near the bed on the second floor, when from some cause the bedding became immediately encircled in flames. Mrs. Reuben and her child were with difficulty extricated, but both were terribly burned. The nurse in her endeavours to get the fire estiug cshedwas also severely burned—all threaten)); immediately conveyed to the hospital. The engines of the pariah and London brigade, with the Royal Society's escapes, promptly attended, but considerable damage was done to the furniture and building. Mr. Reuben was insured ih the Globe Fire-oflice. 1. - Iron making inquiries last night it was ascertained that the nurse iexpired a tow hours after reaching the hospital; the other sufferers remained in a very precarious state.—Auout half-past two o'clock yesterday morning a very a:arming fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Wm. Fairweather, tobacco. skit, No. 2, Clarence-place, East India-road, Poplar. The Royal Society's escapes and the engines 14 the parish and London brigade, under the iiireetioe of Eogineer Perdue, quickly attended, but in spite of the exert isms of the firemen the flames could not be subdued until tile stock iu trade was destroyed. sod the building severely damaged by fire, water, be. The loss will fall upon the Midland Counties Fire-office. —A tire broke out in saturday night in the premises of Mr. C. Yickermam an oil and colourman, No. 51, Cornwall-road, Lambeth. The engiues of the brigade, and one of Shawl and Mason's steamers promptly at tended, but the flames could not be extinguished until the stock in trade was nearly destroyed. Instued in the Liverpool and London lire-office. 1102 ah I:E.-Tem.—A respite during her Majesty's pleasure has been granted to Agnes Pattinson, who was convicted at the late Westmoreland Assizes of the murder of her infant. Tne capital sentence passed upon the con vict will be commuted to penal servitude for life, upon the recommendation of Mr. Justice Mellor, before whom she was tried. CAUTION TO RI ELENI EN.—On M itlayforenoon an accident, which might have terminated much more seriously than it did, occurred at East Lints railway station. While a number of horses were sanding at the station getting unloaded, the whizz of a rifle bullet was beard, and the next moment ono of the animals, a valuable beast, belonging to Mr. Balfour, of Whittiogliam. dropped to the ground, the shot has-Mg p., reel its breast. The wound was a fatal one, and the home lied in a few hours. On inquiry it was ascertained that the shot had been fired from a distance of fully 600 yards, by a young man who had come out front Edinburgh or. a visit to his brothers--one of whom is a rule volunteer in the local curie. The shot was fired with the intention of striking a high wall a shot t distance away but ; piece having got too much elevation, th e bullet b 7• n• " i sa t'e a s n r the"t.—si providential that instead of a bone a ground again, plunged into the a ittaddidgfon.hin Gorier. FATAL WENT,. N EAR C I , ...:TF.RFIEED.—. Aboot bail pant 4 o'clock on Kittirtlity morning a serious accident too:: place at hunger-hill Yrt , beton : wog to the Wiogarworth C00111:10y, Ly which two men, named John Stocks and John lic.ter, were injured—Hester mortally. It appears that at the time atiovementioned the men got into the rage to descend the pit, and they proceeded all right until within twenty yards of the bottom, when the rope gave way, sod the cage containing the men fell with • fear : ful crash to the bottom. As soon as possible assist:to.: was obtained, and the men were brought to the top. Their in juries were cony serious, and they were a'. once removed to the Chesterfield Hospital and Dispensary. On an examina tion being made Hester was found to be very• seriously in jured, having sustained a large fracture of the skull. Stocks is very much injured about the chest anti on the Lip. At 9 o'clock on Saturday morning the surgeons held a consults. ties, sod it was then considered that there were no hopes of Heater's recovery. On Saturday efternouo Hester was trepanned to relieve the pressure on the brain, but despite all that could be done he sank, and died in a few hoots without recovering his sensibility. ttu Friday evening as accident occurred at • pit at Barlow, near Chesterfield, which has resulted in the death of a unto named Crook... Deceased was working in a pit, and a Isrge quantity of bind tell upon him. lie was liberated Ai won as possible, and some men procured to convey hint to the Chesterfield Hospital and Dispensary, but be died oa the way. labom