The Express. — London, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

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Lltaruoui. 416. Sae. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. Neetote it charity, like a mat ion's honour, ought to be above suspicion. Immunity from just reproach is not enough ; the very essence of its virtue, the atiair of its vitality, consists in its being indisputable. All creeds and all conditions, all humours and all ways of life, are called on to contribute ; and all expect to share, if not equally at least without in vidious discrimination and disparity, in the blessings it bestows. Blessings are twofold—that of those who give, and that of those who receive. Who shall say whether it is more blameworthy to pass the poison of suspicion ,nto the cup of the giver or into that of the rev-s--leer We pause not to icquire ; it is our part to note for aioidance every ingredient that seems to savour of the element of bitterness, and to give warning lest it should he suffered, however slightly or momentarily, to mingle with the oil sod wine which this nation is ca r willing to provide for the victims of violence and wrong. It is no easy matter, however, for the managers of any public fund in these activism days to please all parties. We had imagined that the Patriotic Fund raised by the grateful sympathy of all classes la the Empire for the orphans and the widows of our Crimean soldiers had pretty well escaped the evil rye of Suspicion. A great ado was made, indeed, about the religious tear:thing of two unhappy children some months ago, and the ease being one of inherent ambiguity in its nature. conflicting decisions of osarta of high jurisdiction were elicited by the controversy. But as we heard no more of alleged attempts to crimp young Roman Catholic souls or to bribe Nonconformist widows with Anglican lacer, we had hoped to have beard no more of polemical imputations on the impartiality of the dispensers of the national bounty. These public almoners had been purposely chosen from amongst persons of various beliefs. The Established Church was of rune influentially represented at the bene volent board; but other sects had likewise their members there, and every hue of orthodoxy was " blended in that arch for peace." It now appears. however, that Cardinal Wni st ist and Archb shop lit t EV were all the time highly dissatisfied with the partial and proselytising application of the funds. What Mr. JOHN BALL, late Under•Secretiay for the Colonies, could have been about to allow his (*- believers to be robbed by wh desale of their fair share of imperial bounty, we cannot undertake to say ; and what the thirty-five Catholic gentlemen who represent southern Ireland could have been thinking of during the past session in not having the matter fully discussed in Parliament most, we suppose, for ever remain a mystery. But sow that a new call upon national benevolence L. mule on behalf of the son lines of the Indian cruelties, the head of the Boman Church in Ireland publicly interposes his apostolic veto until security shall be obtained for a more equal dispensation amongst the widows and children of Catholic and Protestant soldiers who have fallen in Ilindostan. Archbishop Cettex roundly taxes the Trustees of the Patriotic Fund with sectarian dishonesty and religious tnalversation. He says that while splendid grants have been made to Protestant schools and asylums, nothing has been conceded to institutions such as he could theologically approve ; and he more than insinuates that in the dispensation of individual relief a system was designedly adopted calculated to repel the members of his church, or to wound their sectarian susceptibilities in the very act of receiving the dole. We must say that if half of these charges are true, it is infinitely discreditable, not only to those who might have prevented such abuse., Mat to those who, knowing them to exat, have neglected until now to expose them. Lord Sr. LEON SIMS, as Chairman of the Board of Distribution, is naturally much incensed at impeachment of his equity in that particular; and he denies a broadly as his most reverend assailant asserts, that any unfairness was designed or practised at the cost of the Catholic families of theee who fell in the Crimes. The Duke of Noarote immediately comes to the Archbishop's rescue. lime being thus fairly joined, it is pretty clear that now at last we arc in for it ; and a painful and profitless altercation will no doubt ensue to due time. We shall not attempt to prejudge the Case, but quietly await the proof or disproof of the facts in eontroecniy. What is of more interest and importance in our judgment jot now, is the prompt providing, by suitable guaraetees, against the recurrence of similar abuses, if thi y have existed, and similar imputations if they have not. It cannot be denied that a very large proportion of the rank and file of the British Army con.ect, of Itomen Catholic.; and it is but justice to that t !intent of our military strength to own cordially and frankly that braver or more Total soldiers have et err been found in the service of the Commonwealth. Their religious feelings and pre judiees are not matters to be questioned or discussed—th , y are simply to be honourably and scruptdou-ly obserif il. On the plainest principles of and justice, the dying sergeant of the Conneletht Rangers ought to het as much confidence that his widow and hie orphans will be eared for and ri.peeted, as the wounded corporal of the Welsh Fu-i.ors or the 92nd Ilighlandeis ; and it were an iosult and a farce to clog the promise of respect or care with any fraudulent condition which fanaticism would suggest. I.et controversialists eonter.d who, else they please; their clamorous railings must n, t be permitted to distract the last moments of the men who have pained their lives for the honeuro'oer common country. We have never desired, nor —s now desire, to see the great argu mentative coon etion about religious truth abandoned. But there is a time for all things ; and a reason Wee the pry v nt of national humiliation, evoking as it has done a practical spirit of comprchen.ivo and un wctarian national charity, is not the fitting occasion for disputes which are liable to degenerate into an infamous scramble• between rival creeds fur the pro ceeds of public benevolence. Anything more odious, disreputable, or nil/eh:crow it is impossible to con ceive; and we contideutly Croat that those who may be entrusted with the dispensation of the Indian Relief Fund will see the propriety of not losing au Lour in taking steps to preclude the possibility of such an evil. IN cur natural impatience at the slow progress of Recruiting—and that it is slow is unhappily too notorious, whatever the organs of Government in the pass may be instructed to say to the contrary— we must be careful not to do injustice to the lower ; lasses of this country. It is not from apathy or want of patriotism that the youth of these Islands are found slack to enter into the military service of the State; nor could any greater mistake be committed than that of supposing that the ill success of the 14 eruiting Sergeant is owing to the spread of a sordid or unwarlike spirit among the great mass of the British population. The fault is in the System, not in the People. We have already dwelt on one of the more obvious causes which un doubtedly renders the Army an unpopular service with the middle and lower-middle classes in an industrious, aspiring, and energetic community like our own. Except agricultural labour, =Witty ser vice is almost the only calling which for the pour man can never he a career. Accordingly, as long as our present military system remains unaltered, it is from the peasant class that the rank and file of our army must principally be recruited. Until the Pur chase System be swept away, until a fair prospect be opened to all of rising by merit, assiduity, and skill in this calling as in others, there is manifestly no chance of alluring into the ranks of the service those already engaged in civil pursuits, whose auc• maul proseetr ion may lead to advancement and to fortune. It is plain, however, that this class of motives will :. ,t alone account for the reluctance which the peasantry and the lower order of operatives undoubtedly manifest to enlisting in the ranks of the British Army. Make every reasonable allowance you please for the comparative inertness and apathy which may always be expected to prevail Among the uninformed inhabitants of remote diS- tricts ; take into account that clingivx to localities which is ever stronger in the hamlet than in the town ; concede its fall force to that ignorance which alike incapacitates for t full appreciation of the gravity of the nisi', and mag nifies into tenfold proportions the terrors of distant service and a tropical clime--and yet, after you have done all this, there will still remain a somethi tg be hind, which more than any other feeling is now de terring the youth of the peavant and operative classes from donning the (aril-N . l uniform and lighting their country's battles. That feeling is a suspicion (unluckily only too well founded) that when once enlisted they will find themselves to have been duped and tricked, that they won't get fair play, that their country won't keep faith with them. The recent reduction of the Line and disembodiment of the Militia at the close of the Russian war have filled every town axed vil lage throughout the country with those who know by personal experience how the State rewards the military service it no longer requires. The recruit ing sergeant can hardly enter an alehouse which has not already been thus prepared against his assaults. That munificent bounty of 21., which he is empowered to air in the name of Queen Vlrruni t to any British lad who will bind himself to 10 years' service in the wars, might per haps tempt many a rural stripling, if he had not beforehand been let into the secret that the so-called bounty war all a fi.un. Tow PlrEct iv, who, having gone through the Crimea without a wound, was disbanded at the peace, and now loafs about the village picking up any odd job he can find, has told him all about it. What they call 21. bounty means only about 10s. of cash down ; the rest is all taken up in " free kit," in supplying " necessaries" not provided at the ex pense of the country, which thus cheats her brave " recruit" at the very first outset of her dealings with him. Bad enough, certainly; but then at all events there is pay at 13d. a day, which, with lodg ing, &e., makes a geed exchange fur Os. a week at the tail of the plough. The village alehouse knows better than this ; the village alehouse has learnt that this 13d. a day is a worse sham than the 2.1. bounty. It is sweated down by deductions till, as the late ('ommander-in•Chief once told a Committee of the House of Commons, no private can get more than Id. out of it, and he mast be a very careful man who gets more than 21d. .Idmitting that things havo somewhat improved since this evidence was given, and that the British private by extreme economy may contrive to net a reel sixpence per diem out of a nominal 13d., yet the matter is not math mended. Nothing disgusts Englishmen so much as want of f•ir-play. The knowing clown and the self-opinionated artisan are especially annoyed at the notion of being "done." Captives &dg, dungaree coact., might have been a good motto for the recruiting sergeant in the wars of ANNE; but the world has grown somewhat wiser since the days of Captain PUMP., and honesty, even in recruiting, is the best policy in the age of VICTORIA. There is another thing not yet forgotten in the country, and that is the thankless manner in which, when their services were no longer required for the war., the disembodied Militia were turned loose upon their villages. The but Celtic blood, as we all rememle r, blazed up on one melancholy occa sion into sudden mutiny when the order wee given to the men to strip themselves even of the uniforms in which they had acted with so much military effi ciency, side by vide with their brethren of the Line. The quieter British temperament was not stirred to such excesses ■s this, but the feeling with which hundreds of these temporary soldiers rejoined the ranks of their fellow -countrymen was anything but one of gratitude for the mode in which their ser vices had been requited. These are not things to be overlooked and for gotten. There is no mistake so common among the wealthy and powerful as to ignore the sensitiveness and under-estimate the acuteness of the poor. The Smooths make no due allowance for the feelings of the Roughs. It ie a dangerous error—if persevered in too long it is mores: than dangerous. Surely it is high time that the authorities of this great country should at all events deal in a spirit of perfect honesty with those of whose services they &clue themselves to have such urgent nerd. We want no profligate ex penditure—we desire nothing more than fair remu neration, but we do desire fairness and truth. Let the transaction between the State and the Recruit be a bargain —aye, a hard bargain, if you will ; but, at all events, let its terms be faithfully and rigo rously observed. if you only mean to give 10s. bounty, July so ; but if yon promise to give 2!., pay it down to the uttermost Lathing. Let there be no delusion, no subterfuge, no ►ham. The British Army, dominated by the twin incubi of Money and Con nexion, is sufficiently unpopular already with one large class of the community ; it is surely unwise to hare made it sow itb another, by adding the suspicion of unfair dealing to the certaintyduttenual competi tion. If determined to cling to the Purchase system, at all events do away with the Deduction system. Let a bounty of 21. mean a real gift of a couple of sove reigns ; let thirteenpence a day mean a shilling and a penny, free from hocus-pocus and clear of sham. It is well to have lowered the standard of height and age, but there is another standard which it will be still better to raise, and that is—the standard of llotse•Guards honesty. THE E)SPRRSS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1857. Cu Court. BAL3dORAL, Ocr. 7. The Queen, with the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, rude yesterday to the Fa-cheoit, to join the Prince Consort. A &pittances from the Committee of Spanish American Sandholden had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign-Aloe. Thodeputation consisted of Messrs John D. Fowls", Joseph Tanker, Elias Mucatta, Robt. Fred. Gower, Edward Haalawood, and Lod. Cohn. Earl Granville left town yesterday for Manchester. Deepatchee wore received at the Colonial-tattoo, yastarday, from the Goventurs of !long Kong and Ceylon. It ia now arranged that the Queen will leave Balmoral for the season on Wednesday next. On that day her Majesty will honour the Earl of Aberdeen with her pre sence at Hada° House. The royal party will lean Balmoral in the forenoon, and, posting to Tatiana, lionymnak, and Oldoerldrum, will reach Had& about Eve o'clock. Her literary wtll stay a night, leering about 11 o'clock un Thursday, and posting to Aberdeen, %hence the royal party trill travel by the Scottish torlh•Eastern Railway to Perth and Edinburgh. The Lord Mayor has received a telegraphic com munication from Prinoe Vol/midis, the Cabosun, or tempo ivy Hospodar, of Moldavia, of which the following to a translation .—" I send you 600 ducats (als.ut 2361. sterling) in favour of the victims of the mutiny in ludic Thu snm will be remitted to you by Messrs. lkina Einem, and Co., of London. It is but a feeble testimony of my deep sympathy with the English people, end my interest la everything which affects your great nation." . _ The Counter of Orkney and tie Ladies Fitt roaurir ban born paring row the. ha North War, and aro now gone on a tor of visits. The kart Granville left town yesterday for Man chaster. Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining a succeesion of company during the past fortnight at Nor minion Perk, Rutlandshire. The nimbi have included his Excellency the Remise Minister, the nether. 0 Somereet and Lady Ulric& St. Meur. the Marquis mid Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil and Lord Edward Cecil, the Emil •IW atusartsad, Lord Kenirington and the Hon. Min Edwards', General Fiedler, Mr. Denby Seymour, Mr. Sykes, Mr. G. Finch, &e. 1 Lord Crewe im entertaining a distinguished circle at Crews Hall, Cheshire. The following are among hie lord ship's guests —The Remain of Lame Jayne and Lady Mary Intermark°, Viemunt and Viscountem C anberiame, and the Hon. Mre. Hunts., Mr. wig Crewe, Admiral Linville, and the Mimes OnvjUs, &c. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle is still in Beet. Bad, baying been on a tail to the Duke of Butherland at Omnibus Castle, and also a guest of her Idejesty at Bal moral. On the Dukes return to Chamber, in the mane ole few days, hie gram will have the honour of entertaining ea a short visit her Royal Highness the Duchies of Cambridge, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Comnander•in chief, and has sister the Princess Mary, daring which period Clamber is expected to be exceedingly full of company. The Count Chreptowitch, the Russian Ambassador. left Apethorpe Hall, Wirmford, on the fin inst., aft er e mojoitrn of several days, the guest of the Earl of Westmore• land. His Excellency enjoyed good sport on the noble earl's estate, being a good abut, said birds plentiful. News has has reached England that the lion. Ifiley Robert Addington, of the 74th Bengal Native infentry, died on the 11th of May last. Ito was the fourth sea of the Rey. Lord Sidsnouth, by Mary, daughter of the Ito,. John Young, rector of Thorpe Miriam, Northamptonshire. For many weeks the family had bran in considerable ertspease es to his fate, and it was hoped he bed escaped. It is now ascertained that be wee drownrd in the river Jamas in his endeavour to escape the horrors of that fearful day, et the commencement of the outbreak, what ha was attacked by the mutineers. He was in hie 28th year. Signor SOB has arrived at Oxford for the enaniog an. A correspondent of the ChellenAant Examiner write..—" We understand that among a great many appli cations one of the masters now at Eb.n har tendered his ser vices no principal of the Proprietary tkhool about to be tuts bbahed in January next at Cheltenham. The salary will bo 2:1/11. per annum, with hose rent free, end an addition of 11. for each boy who enters the school." It seems that the: national jealousy of Wales has been aroused by the omineion, accidental or °therein, of all mention of the priaripaloy in the proclaim/ kit recently published commanding a public feat throughout England and Ireland. The meetintra of the Congregational Union of England and Wales will be held in Cheltenham during Mon day, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday In next week. . _ _ _ On tho evening of the 3rd tho Queen of Spain and minutes sere et the Madrid Theatre, nod, in the course of the performance, the Wier welted on the Queen, In her box, and held, undi r her Illejosty's premideney, in the saloon sclioinlne the box, a sort of council which legal half an hour. This naturally excited a good deal of cariosity amongst the public, but no one knew the resolution coma to. A letter from the camp of Chalons, dated the 6th, says Yesterday afternoon their Majesties paid a visit to the ramp, accompanien Ly filarahal de Coatellene. The camp of the Zonaves, standing opposite the Imprri tl quarters, is gener•lly the first to be sidled ca them OrellSioDP, and woo the first honoured un this occasion. Their Stnestiesentered several of the tents and converse,' with several of the men, who, notwithstanding their well-earned character for daunt lent bravery, (wind themselves rather shamefaced on the occasion. Soon after their fidejeaties had returned to their residence, the rein again fell heavily, and continued to do so until night." A letter from Venice, in the tilione of Turin, nays'—" The sisters of Mania having revolved to have • funeral service performed to his memory in the church of San Luca, the p bee forbade it. Nevertheless, it having beenine generally known that the cereninny was to take place at a certain hour, the church was filled with a noLerona enterre gation at the appointed Urea; and. although no service was performed, the people remained there POMO tins saying their prayer.. To the snryrise of all present, aMe of soldiers was ma inwhile wen =robing to the church, end sentinels wars pl.evd at the doors. Evorytl. ing, however, went off quietly, sad no disturbance ensued. It is stated that the police have requested the eater. of Mena not to go into mourning for tloir brother." The following is an account of the escape of Lieut. Henry De La Forme. of the 63r1 Regiment Native Infantry : The writer is a gentleman at Caarnpor• It appear' that the boat in which Lieut. De La boom wee grounded, and WIN iteruedietely attacked by the rebels, who commered sit but acorn men, •ho took refuge in • temple. They were smoked out by flee Bing placed sgainst the doom they then loiight their way amain to the river. ronr of them escaped by sr inswing mime ilietance, until they fell into the hands of a friendly rajah. The other three were killed. We hear that they h ave j o in e d Colonel Neff * force at CAwripore." !stns.—The territory in India which owna British sway is about the Niro of Austria, Prnraia, Francs, and Bel gium pot toc,thm. The Bengal presidency is shoot the adze of Turkey iu Europe, but four time. u populous. The Ma dras presidency is not much larger than ti~ate, bat contains • population equal to Spain and Portngid combined. Th e pipuletion British India, in comparison with other parte of that rountry, is the boat primitile proof that the natives Britieh rale the power of their own potentatee. prefer e to um, the met thickly populated cannery in contains 3:37 persmatito the, square mile; brit in some of Bengal there sre 6tM toe oilers mile. The population to every rryare mile in Enzbind ie b3l; in Ireland '242; is &Mead 110 ; and in Franca 10:4; but that of British India, notwithstanding the twit forests and the thotmands of acres Will mealtime& reaches 124 persona to the square mile. Ths aware, are orstinually pouring into 'taws pans of India white they an under the protection of British law and go vernment. In England the taxation par bead to ISM was If. Ito. 4d.: in France, 11. 12e.; in Pritimia 151, 3d.; wbu a s ` British Indian was only ret. 6.1. per heed. The wages of a satire labourer are ,beat Di. a month ; to Eagtrd they are 40a.; bet wham the pre of labour My is se sic to one, the tetetion a n alto to one.— Dye roe's Lecture oh India. EXPILESS k'ItUM rAltlb. BANK OF FRANCE. (IT SUIXAUNI AND 111.170111 TRLEGIATII.) PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moaitcur publishes the monthly returns of the Bank of France to yesterday, Oct. 8. We give the most important items, with the corresponding figures of last month, sit regard Oct. &Pt ec - dit and bullion, Paris 107,029,078 .... 119,769,834 Ditto ditto branch banks Bills discounted, Paris 310,471,622 .... 203,060,074 Ditto branch banks Notes in circulation, Paris Ditto bran. Li banks Treasury deposits Private deposits, Paris 137,813,890 118,507,377 Ditto branch banks Advanced on public securities 23,30,5,836 22,560,136 Ditto by branch bunko Advanced on railway securities 19,130,800 17,658,600 Ditto by branch banks The most important feature in this return is the decrease of nearly 900,0001. in the coin and bullion. The total amount now held is only 9,022,0001. This is accompanied by an increase of nearly half-a-million sterling in the notes in eireula ticm. The position of the Bank is evidently weaker. The Empress has arrived in Paris. The Emperor quits the camp to-morrow. (mow ova owx COI PARIS, THUM:OAT EVENING. I mentioned two days since that Count Walewski had addressed • circular to the French representa tives at the different courts of Europe, relative to the interview of Stuttgardt. The existence of thin circular has been contested. The Patric now admits that it has been sent, and gives u a reason the necessity felt by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, to explain the true character and import of an interview between sovereigns, which, while it has excited universal curiosity, has given rise to the most conflicting interpretations in the foreign press. Therefore it is, that correct information has been now furnished to French envoys. But this measure, it is very evident, will not put a atop to the random conjectures of the European press, unless the cir cular be made public. All experience shows that it cannot long be kept secret. Would it not be much better if the Moniteur were to depart from prece dent, and print it at once, instead of waiting till an " indiscretion," which is sure to happen sooner or later, gives the document to the world in some pri vate newspaper ? There is a talk of an Austrian Circular to explain the meeting of Weimar, but this document, suppos ing it to exist, has not yet been received in Paris. Telegraphic news from Marseilles states that the Emperor's visit to that city is postponed till the spring. This will be • disappointment not "only for Marseilles and other towns in the south of France, but also for A'giers, where hopes of the Emperor's presence this year had been entertained. It is said that M. Fould will shortly go to Algiers in the Emperor's stead to examine various projects for the improvement of the colony. Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers' fall from his horse at the tamp appears to have been more serious then was at first thought. lie was brought to Paris yesterday, and is said to be very much hurt. . . . The Putrie is instructed to contradict a statement of a Toulon journal that a second squadron of evolu tion, composed of ten steamers, will be organised next year under the command of Admiral Ro nal's Barone's. This news was reproduced by the Patrie itself, but it is probably considered not to be in keeping with the "pacific policy " ' which according to its own leading article at yes terday, was inaugurated, or at least confirmed, at Stuttgardt. However this may be, the government journal, speaking now advisedly, says that the only certain foundation for the report in question is that Admiral Remain Hcsfosais will succeed Admiral Trehouart in the command of the squadron of evo lution. "As to the maintenance or augmentation of the existing number of vemels, we have reason to believe that the question has not been agitated for the present." There is still no official news of the resignation of the Spanish ministry, but almost all the private letters concur in stating that ministers only hold office until successors can be found. The possibility that Narvacx may remain while the majority of his colleagues go out is, however, admitted by these letters. There has been a further decline at the Boum, attributed to the stato of the money market in Europe. The Rente fell 2.k. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 67fr. 45c. and 67fr. 70e. Mobi- Her &ll 30fr. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. lower. The circulation on the Grand Central Railway is interrupted, the rails haying been swept away by the heavy rains in the neighbourhood of St. Etienne, Roanne, Clermont, and other places. The lef Emorial de Lille says : Poe some time past dlosatiefection has been militated at the private arrangements merle by some of the railway own pedal with firms which bind themselves to rend ell their goods by the line, granting therm more fsvonrahle Mune Wo are able to announce that the Minister of Commerce and Public Works he , just decided that, ex a general measure, ell private euiventione spseifying a reduction to the tans fiord to tho public will crass to bs in Soros from the Ist Jan uary mot. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Dale du Danube publishes, in its last num ber, a list of the deputies nominated to the Divans ad hue in the late el( ctions in the Principalities. Each of these lists is divided into five series, repre senting the clergy, the large landed proprietors, the small ditto, the towns, and the rural communes. The programme published by the Wallachians states in substance:—" We wish to piescrve in all their integrity the rights of our ancestors, which form the bases of our governmental existence, and to respect at the same titre the rights of suzerainty of the Sublime Porte." The Moldavians express their wishes in the following terms :—" Union of the Principalities into one state, with proper respect for the rights of the Sublime Porte, according to the letter and spirit of our ancient treaties." ITALY. According to letters received in Paris, a good deal of agitation prevails in some parts of Italy. In Bologna the Austrian police have lately made seve ral arrests. At Forli Rimini, and other places on the roast, unusual precautions have been tabus. On September 2.5 there was a political disturbance in the theatre at Carrara, and it is reported that a rising, which was put down by the military, has occurred at Fumes. NAPLES. A letter from Naples contains the following cir cular from the Neapolitan Minister of Foreign Afrairs relative to the affair of the Cagliari : • Naples, Sept. 21. M.—, I hasten to maks known to you that I have notified to the Sardintaa rhargi traffeirte at Naples, that ea reptile the nwrchaodiar found on board the Cagliari, and belonging to third ;Arlie.. the latter, to order to obtain the immediate delivery of there, had only to address as application to the commission re maritime prises, through any person acting is the nuns of the remain of the steamer, or having irons the party a legally authorised power to watch over his intermits before the said commission. CaralA. THE PAPAL STATES. DMION OUS OWN CONAIWPONDINV) ROM . E, s ocr. The Pope in his harangue to the cardinals on the 23th September gave an account of his journey, and expressed the great joy he had experienced at the warmth of his reception everywhere. " And truly," said his Holiness, "we could not but vehemently re joice and offer our humble thanks to God, the mast element giver of all good things, because the people through whom we passed manifested to us such signs of piety, and showed themselves so devoted to this Apostolic See, that our journey appeared like a continual and solemn triumph of our most holy religion." If ho was delighted by the reception he met with from his own subjects, the Pope proceeded to state that he was no less so on crossing the frontiers of Modena and Tuscany, and gave a brief account of the atten tions which the people and sovereigns of those duchies rendered to his person, winding up with thanks to the clergy and people of Rome for their dutiful demonstrations on his return to the capital, and expressing his satisfaction in thus being enabled " to behold you all present, venerable brethren, to speak to you, and lovingly to embrace you, who are the sharers and companions of our councils and labours." The inauguration of the column in honour of the Immaculate Conception was alluded to by Pio Nono, with a due tribute to the splendid hospitality and piety of " Our very dear daughter in Christ, the catholic Queen of Spain ;" after which his Holiness undertook to contradict the malevolent assertions of some " enemies of God and men, who as ministers of Satan, walking in their own impieties, would fain uproot our divine religion and faith, and do not blush to assert impiously and foolishly that the time for the catholic religion has gone by." This assertion the Pope warmly confuted with a counter assertion, that the catholic religion " de scended from heaven upon earth for the salvation of men," could never fail, but, triumphing over all it. enemies, would remain until the consummation of ages, " aud the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." With a view to the more immediate achieve ment of catholic unity, and the gathering together of all wanderers from the true faith into the pale of the Roman church, his Holiness concluded by re questing the payers of his veneral-le brethren the cardinals, informing them that he hIA in like man ner exhorted the patriarchs, archbis- ipa, and bishops of the whole catholic world, to L.stitute similar prayers in their dioceses, to obtain from the Al. mighty unity of faith ; and in order to stir up their flocks to admit prayer for the same object, his Holi ness stated that he had deemed it opportune to reward them with plenary indulgence, to be con ferred until the end of 1845, in the same form of jubilee ss that granted to the catholic world by the cncyclica dated. Nov. 21, 1801. British rulers in India are reaping a rich harvest of abuse just now frcm the ultra catholic press in Italy, of which the principal organ in Rome is the Ciriltd Calk:ice, according to which the Sepoy assassins of defenceleta women and innocent children , are" more sinnedagainst than sinning." Laymen and soldiers in the Italian peninsula are of a different opinion, and would gladly lend their personal ser vices to aid in subduing the Indian revolt, were it the intention of the British government to adopt once more the much-decried system of foreign legions. The British Consulate here is literally besieged by Swiss and Roman soldiers of all arms, who, deceived by accounts in the French papers, hope for the re enrolment of the Anglo-Italian legion, aud being near the conclusion of their engagements, would fain exchange the monotonous duty which falls to their lot here, for a chance of real service and promotion in India. Exchange on London, 473 ; Roman Consols, 911. THE AFRICAN MAILS. The Candace, Captain Hawkesley, with mails, dm., from the West Coast of Africa, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday afternoon (as announced in our telegram yesterday), but in oonsequence of the weather was not able to communicate with the shore until Thursday morning. She left Bonny August 27; Calabar, 31 ; Came roon., Sept. 1 ; Fernando Po, 4 ; Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 9; Cape Coast, 11 ; Monrocia, 13; Sierra Leone, 19 ; Bathurst, 23 ; Gores, 23; Tenerilfe, 28, and Madeira, 30. She la:ings the mails, 3,000 ounces of gold dust, a general cargo, and 23 passengers, including the President of Liberia, Mr. Roberts; Mr. M'Gowan, the Governor of the Cameroon'; M. Van der Bossche, Governor of the Dutch fort of Elmina ; and Lieutenant Tomkins, of her 'Majesty's ship Sappho, invalided. It was all quiet on the coast, and generally healthy. Palm oil was scarce, and businebs dull at the different stations. At Bt. Paul's, Losnda, were her Majesty's ships Merlin, Myrmidon, and Alecto. No lees than eight courts-martial were about to be held there, including one on the first lieutenant of the Trident for drunkenness. The Trident was ex pected there daily. Commodore Charles Wise. in the Vesuvius, was at Fernando Po. as were also the Bloodhound and the Trident. The Vesuvius and Trident were bound south. At Lagos were the Firefly and Hecate, and at Sierra Leone the Childers, Pluto, and the Brune gunboat. Whilst the Candace was at Sierra Leone a slaver, a prize to the Alecto, was brought in there. She was an American built brigantine, called the Sarah Jane, and was taken without papers or colours, evidently designed for the slave trade. Her captors had found no less then 12,000 dollars on board, and it was supposed that 8.000 move were secreted in sonic part of the vessel. The slave trade was very brisk, and several prizes had been taken by the squadron. The Candace had the gale with her two days be fore arriving at Plymouth. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By the Peninsular and Oriental mail steamer Indus, which arrived at Southampton on Wednes day, we have received South Australian papers to July 11 th. The Legislative bodies, the Council and Assembly, were likely to be occupied, on resuming their session, with several important questions, one of them being that of the steam postal communica tion between the Australian colonies and England, and the conditional contract made by the govern ment of New South Wales with Mr. Wetton, the agent of the Panama Company, by which Sydney has secured for herself the terminus of that most im portant line of communication, trusting to her parlia ment to ratify the contract thus entered into by the Executive, and to puss an act to authorise the subsidy ministers had engaged for. This engagement on the part of New South Wales is presumed to be inde pendent of the joint subsidy with Melbourne, in which the latter colony has invited also the co-operation of South Australia. The postal matter in the Adelaide House of Assembly stands deferred till the resumed sittings on the 21st instant, in the expectation of a communica tion from the home government on the subject. It is then seriously to be debated and settled whether an independent line is or not desirable, and whether the union of postal and immigration is feasible. There is also a Waste I.ands Bill, which, having passed the House of Assembly, will come before the Council, and by which, in order to encourage the development of pastoral resources, the discoverer of such lands is to be permitted to occupy them for fuarte•en years, on favourable terms,and that without previous pur chase by auction. All moneys are to be paid to the general account of the revenue, instead, as hereto fore, to an immigration fund. A question of pri ilege, relating to the Surveyor-General, has also to be dealt with. A bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister has passed both houses of the kgis'aturc, and has only to he transmitted for the royal assent. The government has promised to in• traduce an education bill, and other measures are contemplated. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic reoeipto for the week =din' g Oct. 3, 1463414 1& W. LONDON dND NORTH ASTERN RAILWAY. ITBIS DAY). . . A special meeting of the proprietors was held Chit morning in We 'ward-r oo m f ur th e following purpees 1. To authorise agreements w ith the Shrepsb in Union Railways and Caul Company, with respect to the convention of the abides, or stock of these companies into ordinary crock of the London and North-Western Railway Compeny. 2. To authorise the London and North- Western Itoilwas Company tosubseribe toward. the Buxton Extension capital of the Steck port, Disley,andWhaley-bridge Railway Company to an extent not exceeding 10.5,0001. 3. To submit to the proprietors the heads of A contract approved by the government, for lb. COM veythoe of the mails between London and Kingstown. 4. To submit to the proprietors en agreement for the puretwee of the Ettaton and Vittoria Hotels. The chairman (the MAR lit IS OF CHANDOh), presided. In an explanatory dixtueent circulated among the proprie tors, it wu observed that "parliamentary sanction was ob tained In the lest emotion for the conversion of the shares or stock of the Shropshire Union Company into chores or tooth of the London and North-Western Company." The follow ing were Mated to be the elation@ of the art 20 and 21 Vic., chap. 108, enabling the proprietors in the respective com panies to act on that behalf See. 34 regoiree " The consent of three-fifths at least of the votes of the shareholders, in person or by proxy, at any ex traordinary meeting of the respective companies epecially convened for the purpose, or the compani-e may from time to time enter into such agreements an they neportively think fit with respect to the conversion ot all or any of the shares or Mork of the Shropshire Union Company into ordinary stork of the London and North-Western Company." ^ •••• • • -• • Sec. 36 provides that the shares or stock of the Shrop shire Union Company so from time to time converted shall came to exist, and the London and North-Western Company shall isms to the holders of the shares or stock so converted ordinary stock the London and North-Western Company. Sec. 37.—" Provided always, That the total nominal *mount of the ordinary stock of the London and North- Western Company so Issued shall not exceed one-half the total nominal amount of the stock or shares Mae Shropshire Union Companv so converted." " Sec. 39.-3 he ordinary stock of the London and North- Western Company created by this act, and so issued. shall confer tike rights of villa, qualitleation, and mbar privileges as tho other ordinary stock of that company:: It was aided that the conversion of shams or ottoct author ised by these clauses would (not involve any additional payment or liaoility on the part of the London and North- WW ,stern Cowpony. The explanatory statement then pro ceeds as follow, : The extension authorised last Tession of the Stockport, Dian, and %%hefty Bridge Railway will bring the town of Buxton into immediate connexion with the lines of this company. The directors, fur the sauce Timmons which induced them to take an interest in the original line, and which led the cnsultation committee to the condasion (stated in their repert) ' that the board, under the circum stances then existing, acted prudently in making arrange manta to work Vie line, and for taking the portion of capital subsequently authorised by parliament, recommend that the capital for the exteurrion line be taken to the extent autho rised by parliament, 106,00 W., and that when completed, the line be worked en the wee terms as the Stockport and Dieley tine. As intimated by the directors in the last half-yearly report, they are now enabled to state then; the long pending negotiation with the government for the improvement of the Irish passenger and postal communication Ma resulted in an agreement as to the conditions of a eoutract between the Femme/tier-general and the united companies (London and North-Western Chester and Holyhead, and City of Dublin.) under the act of 1855, for a new Postal and Passenger Service between London and Kingstown. The contract is forfourteen yean, subject to a power of thegovernment, it any time after the first five years, to put an end to the en-tract, if they have reason to be dimatisfied with the manvor in which it is generally performed ; in which event the government will purchase the packets at a price to reimburse the net cost, to be determined by arbitra tion. The existing contract with the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ls to terminate when the new contract taken effect. There are to be provided four pseketa, each being not less than 300 feet long, 1,700 tons measurement, and of such construction as shall be approved by the government as being suitable for thin improved eervioe, and for the accommoda tion of the public. There are to bo four communications—two each way daily—between London and Kingstown in eleven hours, euljt et to penalties for delay, except in certain cases, when arising from causes beyond the control of the compa nies. Nothing contained in the contract to to be inter preted to intertme with the rights of the Postmaster- General, or of the compsniee, under the exist ing tmemento or contracts with the Chester olybeed Railway Company, and with the London and North-Weetern Railway Company, 'excepting we far s• the establietuuent of these new trains will render the service under such contracts or agreements unneennary. The new service h to commence within two years from the execution of the centred. By agreement between the companies, the news:eery capital estimated et 300,0001., is to be provided equally by the Lon don and North-Western and City of Dublin Steam Packet Companies. This company had the option of being half owners and maragere of the steam packets to be provided under this contract; the directors, however, deemed it more expedient to arrange with the City of Dublin Company for the performance of theses portion of the eervice—thie com pany being relieved from all liability in raped thereof—the vessels being available and at the dis posal of this company for the development of pawn gee traffic, as fully as if they were its own property. Under this arrangement, the proportion of the capital: to be ppreooTided for the construction of the steam boats by the London and North-Western Company will be advanced as a lean, bearing interest et 6 per cent., on the security of the four packets (costing double the amount of the advanoe), and of the receipts for Ralik earned by the steam rustle. The cartel so advanced will be repaid by annual instalments. For the land service, there Is to be paid eke:wally the sum of 20,00 W., indepen dent of and in addition to the amount now paid to the London and North-Western Company under their present general restrict ; and the rum of 30,000'. now paid annually to the Chester and Holyhead Company under the exieleng arrangeweet between that company and the government, win continue to be Po paid ; which duo of 3e,0001. shall, during the existence of this contract, include, in addition to the ser vice now performed in respect to it, the service herein provided for. By a recent act of Parliament, the Company were em powered to provide hotel accommodation in the vicinity of their London Terminus. The Beaton and Vittoria Hotels, built in 1839, by in Hotel Company, compoeed principally of atterebelders in the then London and BinningUm railway, are now let on lease, which tapir. in 1861. In view of this even; end in order to insure the hotels being managed under regulations and arrange ments generally, so sato afford the greatest possible mean mocladon to travellers using the linen of this company, the directors have deemed it expedient to purchase the buildings (the company already poseessing the freehold) for 56,000 f. The rent payable under the existing Iceec maces to pay a fall interest upon the amount of the purchtute- money." The eItAIUMAN, in moving the approval of the arrange meat with the Shropshire Union Company, observed that it was agilely in accordance with the original agreement be tween the two companies, end that it would lead to an im mediate simpli6.tlon of accounts. In reply to a question, The CHAIIMAX Stated that the capital of the Shropshire Union Company was about 1,500,000 t The Emden was cart led with only one diesel:vim!. Resolutions were then passed, ennetioning the arrangement with the Stockport, Dieley, and IVheleybriege Company, and the contract with respect to the Irish passeugers and postal communication, in accordance with the foregoing statement of the directors. The CUAIRNIAN then moved s resolution for the porthole of the Huston and Victoria Hotels for the sum #315.5,000/, aerie mg that Ilia company were already the freeholders, that the hotels were lot for four years at the sum of 3,600/. per annum, and that the otjort of purchasing themwaa to obtain control over the luture managerueut. . . A 6tta 11.V.110L DEII Wished to knew whether a was neces sary that the building, should be purchased at that moment, remaking that there were strange stories in the City, with regard to the position of their company in regard to money m►tters. The CHAIRMAN hoped that the hun. proprietor did not believe those stories; and another shareholder thought that the report should hare a distinct contradiction. Mr. C. GLYN M P —What report r The thisasticileit who hod r introduced the mat ter, upon being called upon fur vaplanation, laid a clerk in a batik, occupying • very influential posi tion, lied told him that it was necessary for that company to borrow • largo elm of money, and that the amount of interest to bo paid oouid reduce the dividetuir. lie himself attributed the fall in the company's dimes to jobbing. The CIIATKNAN said the hon. proprietor need not alarm himself, as there was no foundation fur the report which be bed mentioned. (Hear, heir.) The company was in fact in a very easy position as roam - del money. The resolution wee then wird W and this terminated the proceedings. SERVICES FOR VIE DAT OF HIIMILIATION.—Of the printed service* appointed to be rend on the day of humi liation 1,000 copies were printed and prepared for the bilksp and other digndled clerg of the (hunt of England ; 49,000f0r the use of the parochial clergy. Of the copies taken at in a cheap form for public site. 1,1110,000 cola., were sold at the rate of 28. 6d. per DO to the trade. and 2s. 6d. per 100 to the clergy for distribution. Ono adventumus speculator at tho Crystel Pa re° purobasol 4,000 copied , ' expecting to make a profit among Mr. Spurgeon's audience, but was disappointed - in the mint., and upwards of 3,000 have been returned by him to the Queen's printer.. Of the other copies sp.ally prepared for the occasir•ri, two were Mond in blii;ai velvet for the use of the Queen and the Prince Consort, and me in black nionieco for each member of the Royal Family. For the l'nuce of Wales was re in road the peculiar distinction of baring one nips elegantly bound in black, with a translation into Wvlsh on the opposite page —llered. SINGULAR ORDER.—A tradesmen of Brigs lately received ea order for 100 game cocks and 40 srreybound dogy. Formerly he vim somewhat celebrated for the excel lency el his breed. Not knowiar the parties. he considered the &der a hoax, and was rather iie•o.iieLied about • Yak after to remise a visit from one of the parties, who assured o b t im th t e be beet ord" bre w ed " VtAlla barn f i de e r n x d porta llu tiol u' to l7 h o e f (7:ha -1 Uncut. i