The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

vie ervreoo. TO CORIIE4PONDENTS. _ --....—... —..—...—. A RCeMla Elitiern 44 • Tie Es,,n c n.tefnipt the A.Ane evening's C.Asette," u pubLaital ivory lue*..y laid Friday a.ghs. us U.. I .r A 4.4 eti-entei•• 411.111160 "The Viper.." tondo. Fen.. g loper. 44 ust isMat 11.44 Iglu% 10, ISourizis—tree!, by Tr. 4.4 on the 01 pidaIsALIOIL ulna WATER AT LONDON DRIDGF. IPM VAT At. Os Minn .h. = st. losOleuzi —Maass, S. Aso Afters►.. 41,. 53 z LONDOS, SA TUR D.i 1; sEPTE.VDEP No one can hare stood on a Cornish headland at the tittle of the pilchard fishery, or by Tynemonth lighthouse, or above Dingle bay, when the herrings etoele, or anywla re on the coast in the great mackerel etc.*, without feeling that a grand national resource re.nains almost witouched in our supply of fish ; nor ithont an emotion of wonder that so much hunger shradd have been so long submitted to, in past sea s.t a of adversity, while our seas. lakes, and rivers, to, re swarming with wholesome and agreeable food. IV: do not forget all the impotent and pernicious kg;iilation ou the subject,—the expensive commis • s, the perverse bounties which always would Lore directly t e contrary effect to what was in• tc:ttled, nor the complaints of the ignorance of the b teh eutestmen, and of the indolence mid spite of the Irish, and of the smuggling of the English. We do not forget how we used to bear complaints in the same bre ele of the diminution of the (puma'' , of fi-h in the ,ea, and ot the cheapness of tisli in the minket— e t.tplaists which might both bo true where toots t:•: re restricted, by their own quality and by law, fie 11 going out far enough to meet the shoals ; and whoa the cheapnes, of fish, in the few markets that th.n existed, was owing, not to its quantity, but to the difficulty of selling it while it was good, before onr present means of transp-•rt existed. We do not forget the complaints of cap talists that their fisher men sold their produce to the French boats they met at :•ea, and then came home with a report of scarcity, nor yet that the sale of our cured fish to certain countries really has fallen off in proportion to the re laxation in the keeping of Lent in those countries. ll'et do not forget the difficulties and vexations that a:..a to have always attended the simple business of taking food out of the sea ; but we think that all difficulties of any consequence might and will be got rid of; and the great fact remains tlt it for hundreds of t ears, during every one et which more or fewer persons have died of hunger, di:re has be : o a rich and perpetual supply of food in our waters, to be had for the taking. We do not make an objection to gettiug bread because we have to turn over the soil laboriously, and sow and I harrow, and watch and wait, and reap and thresh, eon: grind, before we can get the food. Perhaps, if we could gather bread as we gather blackberries, or pic'.ed it up like manna, we should neglect it, as we base neglected fish. Perhaps, if we had to MlMl isaure fish, slowly, laboriously, nod with tisk of fai'are, like sheet, we should take to fish u we do to bread. May it not be so:' Well, if it be so, now is the time to try the experiment. Our French neighbours have begun the regular practice of /Wi re ':tres ; and, perhepa, we cannot do better than oat aeatly folloir their example. A report on this subject in another column will be read with interest. In a country like France, of such an extent and form that its rivers are of more consequence and its coasts of lees than with its, the provision of fresh-water fish for it. vat po.nilation is important to a degree which can hardly be. overrated: but that is no reason why we, with out preponderance of sea, should not take a lesson from them. Their administration of Forests is an attlinististion of Waters too; and the department set ms to be looking well to its business. It has pub haled the report of a commission issued to inquire into the means and methods of improving the supply of river fish, by which it appears that actual expe ramont has proved that the rivers, even the navi gable rivers, might produce from ten to twenty times as much fish as at present, and of a better quality, by means of the practice of Alts-ot:!ure, the principles of which are now well understood. A veil - 11111111 amount of attention given to the &elec.. tixt• protection, and management of spawn would javanos the supply indefinitely ; and there arc a good ra any residents on river banks in France who al • Cady tell of the profitableness of the enter issue. While this is going on in France, we are hearing constant complaints and warnings of the decline of our salmon, iu quantity and quality ; of the effect of our manufsctures and our steamers ou the fish in our larger rivers, and of neglect in the smaller. In our lake districts—English, Scotch, and Isiah —the proprietors complain of the fishers, and the fishers of the proprietors. There is all round : a cry of monopoly here, and of poaching there, and everywhere of the decline of the produce, both in quantity and quality. On the coasts, matters do not teens to go much better. At Tynemooth, the quarrels between the French and English fishermen are serious this year. The Culleroosts men complain that the French come too near, intercept their pro duce, and tear their nets; while, at the same time, a French stoop-of-war is actually on the spot to see that its own countrymen are not defrauding their employers by buying of the English, as the Cornish men used to be eh 'rged with doing by appointments with the French in the Channel. The Claddagh men, famous above all the world for standing in the old way:, and letting nobody else pass by, are not catching more fish as the fortunes of Galway are rising, nor yet allowing others than Claddagh men to fish—but some of them are going away. Some Claddagh men have actually emigrated ; and a fact so singular seems to mark the time when an effort may be made to get snore fish on the went coast of Ireland, if nutchtro else. No one who has seen the townspeople of Galway crowding,to catch eels when some are to be found beyond the reach of Claddagh or other despotism, can doubt that an unlimited supply of tish would be welcomed as a great boon in that hungry region. Perhaps Lord CAssriteet. and other liberal and kindiy landlords will look to it. A remarkable concurrence of eircusustanms induces the expectation that some great development it , the culture and uses of fish will soon tsko place. M.A.:: discussion is going on now about the manufacture of guano, fully equal to the Peruvian, from fah. wh a t the fishery for mere manure was, off our Kentish and Essex coasts, before guano ever was heard of in England, there are Parliamentary Reports which show. The Stow-boat Fishery fur sprats for manure employed 500 boats some good many years ago, when there were only the requirement' of some east coast farmers to be met. If the agricultural demand of our modern England has to be provided for, a asst extension of fishing must take place, and fish for the table will be brought in, together with the • only for the gu coo makers. Again, we are obtaining more fish, an:: brczding it into new places, in proportion as our railways reach or approach the coast ; and the dea-nces and short supply of meat will keep up this expansion. Again, there is a strengtraciing conviction abroad in the land thas we have, and shall soon hart., soma effectual system of arterial drainage through the removal of the impediments which destroy the utility, fIS arte rial drains, of our otherwise sufEc.ient watercourses. Whenever this is done the opportunity will be moat favourable to the institution of fish-culture. The preliminary survey, under the guidance of the Ord nance maps (which we must have by that time), will show us where to have our preserves ; and the ricer guardianship, whatever it may be, which will main tain our outfalls, will of the same time preserve our fish. Then may the culture of fish be to the river side labourer the blessing (at a much cheaper rate) that the rearing of poultry is fast becoming to the cottager in the lane and on the common ; and th , n map our whole public be in the way of being served with a food which will enable it to wait the more easi4 for the full supply of meat which will follow, sooner or later. At the present moment, with corn rising, mid meat getting dearer every day, let us repeat again and again that there is a vast stock of fund in the waters, to be had for the taking—a stock capable of rapid and indefinite increase by the rew mode of which our French neighbours ILive shown us how to pursue. Tuft Irishman and the Sootchman have come to be considered moral antipodes—the one the type of in considerate impulse, the other of talculatian and . forethought. Keeping Ulster or " the black north" —whit's is more than three-fourths Scotch—out of view, there may be some truth in this estimate. But leastcrless passion sways us to the mood of what it I lilt. aof loathes." Love is proverbially said to level all distinctions, and theological zeal seems to have pretty muck the same effect. At lcaat Irishmen in 'aired by the odium theolvicum, and Scotchmen I puff, d up by the same die ine gilinete, are as like as two peas. The great bugbear of your staunch Irish nom mist is a Protestant missionary ; of your sound orthodox Scotch Presbyterian a lax observer of the Sabbath. The difference between them, however, is confined to the external form; the animating spirit is the same. The Irish Romanist, hoar, hustle, and tear the clo-hcs of proselytising Protestant field or street preachers; the Scotch, " unco guid," or strict Sabbatarians, hoot and hustle those who go a pleasure sailing on Sunday, and bore holes in the steam-boat that carries them in the hope to sink the guilty craft. Take the same Irishmen and Scotchmen and make them drunk with whisky, the nations! differences will remain uneffaced by their exaltation; but make them drunk with spiel. teal pride and rancour and it is impossible to tell the one from the other. The conduct of the Scotchmen in these matters excites most surprise, for with or without reason they have contrived to get the character of being a reflecting, reasoning, delibe rating people. It they are so, and if they have yet recovered from their theological hallucination, they must by this time be heartily ashamed of themselves. Let them think of what they have been doing. A steam-boat has been bturtcd on the Clyde, to ply between Glasgow and such points frequented by tourists on the estuary of that river as are accessible by a day's trip, on Sunday, just as steamboats ply, on that day, between London and Margate, or other watering-places. This, let us pause to observe, im plies no increase of what the ultra-Sabhatarians of Scotland call Sabbath breach. For years it has been customary with vast multitude's of the inhabitants of Glasgow to leave the city late on Saturday evening, and return to it early on Monday mooting, spending the Sunday " Boon the water,' in visiting and admiring the beautiful scenery of the Lower Clyde. Mane who could not afford this have been in the habit of spending the Sunday in rambles to the pleasantest spots in the immediate vicinity of Glieegew. The numbers of Glasgowegians who thus indulge periodically in Sunday gulps of pure air will I not be ;augment dby the steam-boat, the eyes of the uncoguel" will not be so often madcsore by looking at them. Yet a steam-boat saiiing on the waters of the Clyde on Sunday (unless it be freighted with goods, as well as passengers, from Liverpool) is new, and the nos elty has stirred up to a vigor ous display the pose.. mate us of the repre sentatives of BURNS' " Holy Willie" among the present generation. They have been " keeping the Sabbath holy " by assembling at the Brownie law to hiss and hoot the passengers landing from the steam-boat on their return ; by erecting barri cades, and manning them with ptasants under the leadership of gamekeepers accustomed to exercise summary justice on poachers, to prevent the landing of the passengers at the heads of Highland lochs ; and, as already hinted, by boring holes in the sinful boat with a view to sink her, and wash out her iniquity at the bottom of the Clyde. Granting for a moment that the persons who seek on Sundays a few mouthfuls of air unpolluted with smoke, and an opportunity of gazing upon some of the most beau tiful scenery in Scotland in exchange for their daily vision of common-place houses dimly looming through the thick atmosphere of a manufacturing town, do not observe that day in the way they ought to do ; what is to be said of the conduct of those who quit houses and churches to seek quarrels with—to boot and buffet these more viet and decorous Sab bath breakers ? There are people whose religious professions are apt to become more loud and ardent under the inspiration of drink. Parliamentary re turns show how enormously the consumption of whisky in Scotland is in excess of that either of England or Ireland—an excess, some Scotchmen allege, owing to the inquisitorial prac tices of Scotch Presbytery, which, preventing all open or avowed recreation on Sunday, have driven numbers to fall back on secret tippling as a refuge. Charity would fain asinine that the saintly Sabbath breakers of Scotland were inspired by whisky, but unfortunately the most popular preachers of Glas gow have been employing their Sabbaths ever since the Sunday steam-boat started in denouncing her customers from the pulpit as " the scum of the earth." Those denunciations, identical in character with those which Irish mass-priests are in the habit of hurling from the altar at the heads of electors who vote against their favourite candidates, or heads of families who send their children to schools where the Bible is read, have had a similar effect. Really our Irish and Scotch countremen ought to bo ashamed of themselves ; the former for seeking to stone Bible missionaries, the Pater for seeking to drown missionaries of a non-Pharisaical Sabbath observance. There is no excuse for either. The Scotch delinquents aver that the Sunday pleasure sailers the national ; the Irish delin (pleats say the same of the street preachers; and wi it, rs in the periodical press who krow, or ought to know, better, find, or affect to find, the excuse sufficient. It is tot. Populir onslaughts on preachers of unpopular doctrines are indications of lingering barbarism and an unelit istian spirit. The good that was done by the Rest followers of WESLEY mu bringing the truths of Christianity to the notice of mains whom Churchmen and Diasenters had been urmble to :Lath ere now acknowledged by all. Open air preaching was the great instrument by which the surlier Wi...leyaus sit call their reforms. The Irish mobs who pelt street-preaching missionaries, and the elegant writers is newspapers who palliate ! the conduct of these wubs, ought to bethink them that their principles and practice arc a retrograde Imovement towards those cf the savages of the gin ; shop and bull-ring who maltreated the Wesleyan, in Nloorfields and Tottenham-court-road more than a century ago. The demure and sanctified Sabbeh breakers of Friedland ought to bethink themselves :hat the men whom they arc p:rserutirg only net • as Lt. LitE;t taught, and as a greater than Lumen taught in the corn field where his disciples were I plucking the ears of corn. Until Irishmen and Scotchmeo learn to listen to new and unpalatable doctrines, without laying violent hands on those who utter them, instead of calmly arguing the matter, , they must be contented to have their respective countries regarded as those out.lying parts of the British islands, in which barbarism holds her seat longest. To the present objects of`their persecution they may listen without few. The Scotchmau may take our word fur it that all the Englishmen who make Sunday excursions into the country aro not pickpockets or reprobates ; and the Irishman that there is nothing blasphemous or immoral in the pages of the Bible. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1853. The Bourse somewhat recovered to•day. Tho news that the Bank of England had raised its dis count was anticipated, and produced little or no effect. The syndicate of the Lyons butchers has just pre sented a petition to M. Vaisse, the councillor of state charted with the administration of the department of the Rhone, priying fur a considerable reduction of the import duty upon fat cattle, and the entire aboli tion of the duty upon lean cattle destined to be fattecedin France. The following letter from Napoleon, dated St. Cloud, Jure 13th, 1310, written to Count de Monta livet, his Minister of the Interior, at a time of uppre hended scarcity, is giren b y the IniPpendance Ilel e, which says it has not bee n hitherto published : Monsieur le C.imte,—l send you a very importaw note front the Councillor of State, Marst, on the corn question. Come to the eouncil of Monday, provided with all the in. formation you may possess relative to this important affair. I have given orders to M. Marti also to bring all the d. cu meats in his hands. You will see that this Councillor of State is of opinion that at the end of the year them will remain no more corn of 1808 and POD. On account of what he has told me of the dearness of rye, I have prohibited the exportation. I bate doubled the duty on the exportation of wheat. Them two decrees will be sent out to-night. Bring with you on Monday everything that the good of my cirvice may suggest to you as useful and convenient, with a view to modify this state of things. Bring also the table of the exportations fur tho month of August. This ques tion is the most important of all, and I cannot delay beyond Monday making up my mind di finitively upon it. I beg Yu to ace that my reserve in P a ris is maintained intact. ou hove inspectors w 1.., are charged to me that the proper quantity is kept up. The existence of this sure is confided I to Your zeal for my service. Fur the last eight yeses I have sac - deiced a million a year for this ohj- et. It would be truly unfortunate if these eight millions and these eight years of care were to be lost at the moment when the fruit should be gathered. I shall not sleep quietly until I cm c.:m pletely reassured on this point. Make it your particular ' business to assure yourself that full complement of the stores of Paris exist,. There is no government measure more susceptible of influencing the lia:,pinesa of the people and the tranquillity of the administration than the certainty of this provision. It is not beyond your attributions to call for returns of tho provisions at the disposition of the war department. Take care that the lnvalides and the hospitals have their full quota, and are secure from Swing taken unaworis. If it be true, as it is wished to persuade me, that 40 millions of groin have been , sported to England since August last, it is frightful. I have put a double duty on the exportation of wheat. Tell me whets' e it is possible to raise the duty still higher. I should wish also with the million and a half which I shall draw from the Customs to augment my store c.f corn still further. On this I pray God to hove you in his holy keerin4. NAPOLEON. . _ The Mayor of Lille has recei•ed an official intima tion that the Emperor will not arrive there till the lath. It is now thought at Dieppe that the Emperor will leave for Boulo:nc and the camp Helfaut without the Empress, but nothing ceriain is known on the subject. The ].rite Ilurlen e, after taking the Princes Jerome and Napoleon to Havre, returned to Dieppe, to he at the Empercr's orders. The Cuhome of Boulogne expresses an expectation that the camp of Helfaut will shortly be removed to lloulogne. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The German journalists appear to kayo made up their minds that the questions at issue between Russia sad Turkey, as to the position of the Greek Church in the Ottoman States, and the occupation of the Danubian Provinces by the troops of the Czar, arc as good as settled ; and that new disputes are about to break out bt.tween these Powers. 'I he ques tion of the reception of political rt. fogeys in Turkey is indicated among others, or rather ht4 , s:l.. all o:l:t•es. In the t'osat•l tiftzette we find the folluu iuo emimuni cation from Berlin of date the 29th ult. : The question of the refuges., form• at tlCii moment a part of the diplomatic negotiations at Isich are goiug on at Constantinopl-. M. ite Bruck having pr.••• that all the political refugees should be sent into the ints•riot, the French and Proosian ambassadors des hired that their go creams nts wuula support that proposition. M. de Walden bruek, who has very recently transmitted a r ry ',recite re port on the Eastern question, hos received front 'he govern ment the most positive instructions on the que3tien of the refugees. In this Of sir Austria and Pripsi.s act in concert with the Russian eatunct, which has on seacral occasions expressed its desire that advantage should be taken of the solution of the Eastern question to reolate the political relations of the Powers as regords the revolutionary e!e ments which are at work in Europe. Lord S ratferd de Reilcliffe has observel great reserve in this affair, from which an idea may be formed of the position that the British cabinet will lissome in i'. It is remarkable that at the very time the foreign organs of the despotic Powers arc beginning to hint that the Porte must be taken to task h. r the refuge it affords to liberal exiles, tho Tunes begins to growl on the same theme. Yesterday that journal declared that the termination of the present (or r cent) Ilmiso- Turkish difficulty, ought not to satisfy the diplomacy of western Europe. An attempt om;ht to he made to define and settle permanently the position of Turkey in the European system, otherwise, it is alleged, we may be troubled with great Eastern questions year after year. There is truth iu this; but there is also something rather suspicious in the terms in which the Times goes on to speak of the Europeans now in Turkey. Our contemporary denounces them in the mass as renegades and incendiaries whoie only aim is to set the whole of Europe at war. This is apparently a preparation or prelude to a more specific declaration that the first point to be settled respetiiig the posi tion of turkey in the European system, is whether an asylum shall be tolerated in its territory for poli tical refugees. And to ensure fair argument and an equitable decision on the question, the Tunes begins by scurrilously libelling all the political refugees at present in Turkey. The Paine says: News fonu Malta, of the 29:14 has been received. The mail, with the pondence from the ,gundron had been received the evening before. It continued to be stated that the vessels composing it would return to this part in the cour,e of Seloontier. T..e le:ters written by Enalish officers to their friends and ft, lies were all to this effect. Several transports, laden with cual and other *torts re quired by Admiral Dundee, had just left for Beaika The Auatriaa C m:nl at Malta had arrival two days sinee, comirg from Smyrna. FRANCE. VISIT OF THE EMPEROR TO BOULOGNE. BOUWGNE, FRIO kV EVENING. The Sous-Prefet has this moment got a despatch stating that the Emperor will arrive here on Monday about noon, if the weather be fine. PAR'S, FRIDAY EVRNINO, The decision to maintain the Price of bread at 80c. was not come to without long hesitation. A council of ministers was held to consider the question. M. Dubois, Chef de Division at the Prefecture of Police, and M. Durand, Inspector General of the Halles and markets, were summoned to give evidence before the council. It is from M. Dubois' department of the prefecture that all the regulations relative to the ali mentation of the capital emanate. The ministers, after hefting these two gentlemen, did nut feel suffi ciently enlightened, and sent for M. l'ietri, the Pre fect of Police. Ile arrived accompanied by M. Boube, Lis chef de bureau, who was private secretary to Caussidire in 1818. Their state ments were thought by the council so al firming, that, while expressing their opinion that the price of bread ought to be fixed at 90c., they thought it necessary to refer the question to the Emperor for his personal decision. It is from Dieppe, then, that the decree that there should be no rise named. An unusual degree of solemnity was given to its promulgation. The news was brought to the Halles by an aide-de-camp in full uniform. The circular of the bakers' syndicate, which I sent yesterday, mentions that the decision was taken in pursuance of "superior orders." The bakers continue to be extremely dissatisfied. The compensation promised them for being now forced to make bread and sell it at a lots, supposing it can be in any way equitably apportioned, will not be in money, but will consist in the maintenance of the present price of breed at some future time, when corn may be cheaper. But nine tenths of the trade are not in a position to make the requisite ad-' winces at the present moment. A baker at Mont martre closed his shop yesterday, but the police forced him to open it, threatening if he refused to break open his window shutters. There is no disguising the fact that this is governing upon Jack Cads principles. However, there is this ex cuse, that the same thing has been done in Patio within the present century. Several bakers say that the true price of bread, if calculated according to ordi nary principles, would now be not 90c., but 95e. or 97c., and I have seen a calculation which makes this out, at least plausibly. I understand it to be pri vately admitted in official circles, that the deficiency in the harvest amounts to from 37 (that is the figure adopted at the Prefecture of Police) to 45 days' con sumption far the entire population of France. Great hopes are entertained of supplies from Odessa, and America, and, with a view to prevent alarm, the government journals strenuously affirm that these resources are inexhaustible. With respect to corn from America, however, the difficulty is to find ships to bring it in, and freight from Odessa is rising immensely at Mareilles. It is reported to-day that freights have risen from 3fr. to 10fr. Under these circumstances there seems to be but little chance that government will be able, without enormous sacrifices, to keep doe n the price of bread in Paris for any length of time. The prudence of the attempt is very generally questioned. People who fancied themselves protectioui sis are now unconsciously giving utterance to free-trade doctrines. They talk of the blighting effects of all interference between producers and consumers, and aver that the probable consequence of the decree will be to hamper the calculations of commerce, and consequently to check the importation of corn. There are already symptoms of excitement in the central and south western departments, where there were such serious troubles during the scarcity of 1e46-17, and the in habitants of these provinces are likely to be furious at the favour shown of Paris. Lettere from Nantes received this evening speak of a slight effery scene among the population there. The latest accounts from several provincial markets speak of lower prices. A decline of about lfr. :etc. per hectolitre took place in the price of corn in the market of Lille on Wed nesday. The Havre jouruals announce that, at the last market at Lilleboune, corn fell 3fr. 12e. per hee- 1 tolitre; at Ceeleville the sack of 2011 kilogrutumes fell Mfr. 71e.; and at Montivilliers from Sfr. to 9fr. It was reported at the Bourse that similar advice. had been received from several other markets. It would not, however, be safe to form any estimate of the gewral averages from these partial returns. These lavourabie instances are carefully selected by journals under the influence of the prefects, and great efforts are made to suppress all intel hem nee of another ' kind. lam assured that the Conetitutionnel a day or two since quoted flour as having fallen 10fr. at the Marche du Temple, when in fact it had risen ISe. BELGIUM. B H U SSE LS, FRIDAY. A large crowd assembled this day in the corn mar ket of this ca;)ital, but their demeanour was peaceful, the police behaving with great courtesy. and the im pression prevailing that many secret "agents," natives of France, are at present in this country, anxious to provoke disturbances. In fact, the Tribune of Liege positively asserts that several nithose agents —it openly calls tnem agents provocateurs of the French government—made their appearance in that city, not only during the marriage festival, but also during tho recent disturbances, vociferating " Vive Napoleon," It adds that, during the tete, not less than nine Parisians were arrested for having shouted " Vivo l'Empercur." On the Brussels corn-market, this day, the sup plies of corn wcre abundant. At first prices rose considerably, but towards the close they fell again. The sales, however, were not large, sellers pi eferring 'to wait till next market day. At Antwerp prices show a tendency to fall, and at Saint-Trond there was a fall yesterday of not less than sf. per sack on wheat, and 2f. on rye. SWITZERLAND. A telegraphic despatch from emir° (Orison), of the 29th ult., in a Berne journal, says :—" Clemente, Cowie, and Grillenzoni, who were Accused of having taken part in the Milan p:ot, have been acquitted by the jury." SPAIN, We have received the Madrid journals of the 27th ult., but their contents are without po:itical interest. A letter of the above date mentions a repart that the Gazette of the following day would contain a royal decree. interdicting the entry of the Times into Spain on account of the hostile tono of some of its articles or. Spanish affairs. A grand banquet was given on the previous day at the French Embassy in honour of the Countess de Montijo, mother of the Empress of the French.—A telegraphic despatch of the 29th from Madrid announces the publication in the official journal of that day of a royal decree, interdicting the entry and circulation of the Times throughout the whole extent of the Spanish territory. ITALY. NAPLES. The Eco Esperienza of Naples of the 22nd ult. states that the King of Naples is establishing a commercial port in the island of Ischia. A com munication has been cat from a lake to the shore, so that the former has been transformed into a secure basin for shipping. PIEDMONT. The Correspondence of Turin says A new and ingenious application of electricity has been much spoken of here lately. The Chevalier Bonelli of this place, director of the Sardinian telegraphs, has invented electric weaving machines, destined to re place with advantage the frames a la Jacquard, for weaving figured stuffs. Details are as yet wanting respecting this invention, which appears destined to produce a great change iu industrial matters." TUSCANY. The Empress of Austria arrived at Mali*, a villa of the Grand Duke of Tu.eany, on the 22nd ult. from Maass. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess left the baths of Lucca expressly to meet her Majesty there. On the 23rd her Majesty left for Modena. GERMANY. VIENNA, Arousr 30. The official journal of this morning contains a list of prisoners, condemned by the militany tribunals to imprisonment for short periods for minor political offencei. The offences in question are of this nature : ' " For verbal insults to an officer," "for selling caps with revolutionary emblems," "tor verbal insults to the gene-ffarmerte," "for the use of exciting lan guage," &c., Ace. While the military tribunals of Austria are thus elevating pot• house scolding matches to the dignity of political crimes, the !Ministry of Education is squabbling with a Hessian author of a school book of geography and his publisher, fur one or two expressions which aro "uhjectionabl • and irreconcileablc with the relations of the Austrian state." Verily, verily, the tyranny of Austria is like the trunk of an ele phant, which (as the showmen say) " can pick up a pin or uproot an oak." THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHANIPtON. FRIDAY Natityr. The Tagus, with the l'eniusular mails, has arrived, ha% ing left Lisbon on the 29th August. An English blrque was lying at Gibraltar, on board of which when at sea the Malay portion of the crew mutinied and attempted to commit murder. Several were shot and the rest were imprisoned at Gibraltar. The railroad company has published its advertise ments, upon the approval by the Cartes, of the contract. Senhor Avila goes to Brussels on a government commission. Public prayers have been offered fur the health of the Queen. Exchange, 31 1 ,. Discount of notes 2} per cent. OW ELECTRI(' TELEGRAPH.) PORTSMOUTH, Sari ROAN' Monxixo. The Cmtest, 12, Captain Simileer, has arrived from the East Indies and the i've ,4 Good llope, having made a long passage from the latter. gpe Court. DUBLIN, Barr. 1. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the Exhi bition yesterday morning, and in the afternom were pre sent at • review of the troops of the garrison under the command of S r Edward Blukeney. Prince Albert also visited the Model Lodging Houses, attended by Sir Edward Borough, and inspected the Publie Baths and Washhouses recently erected. The following had the honour of dining with her Maj,ty yesterday : The Lord Lioutemint and Counte s s of S.. Ger mans, Elrl ONnville. the Ditchess of Wellington, Ihe Mar quis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl and I Countess of Mayo, the Earl and Countess of Clonmel, the Earl of Listowel, V.scount and Viscoantess Massareene, Viscount and Viscountess Munch, Viscountess Forhea, Lord and Lady Chitin., Lord and Lady Talbot de Mala hide, the lion. Miss Butted, the Chi:" Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and bin. Monahan and the Attor ney-General. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governor-Gomm! of Canada, and the Governors of the other North American Provinces. TIM QUEEN IN IRELAND. SECOND VISIT TO THE kNIIIBITION. (mom ova owx REPOUTEIL TIIIitSDAY, SEPT. 1. Our atmospheric condition in Dublin during the whole of thiv day has hem a realisAtian of Washington Irving's Wet Sund..y in everything hut the quietude. It began to rain early in the morning, it rained with cum mendable perseverance during the day, and the clouds of night brought no ceesatio, iu the labours ut the pluvial deities. The state of weather above Inc ntionNl considerably inter• fered with the royal arrangements for the dry. A vibit to Powerscourt, the locale of the great waterfall, had been in contemplation ; but to have left town to see a waterfall on such a day would have been completely a work of superero gation. The royal carriages were ordered to be ready at hall-past one, a relay of twenty horses having bean sent on to Puwerseourt early in the morning. IMt the rani, which despises everything but an alpaca umbrella, wit+ inexorable, and, after waiting an hour, the hones were ordered back to their stables. The only resource under these circumstances was a vbit to the Exhibition, which her Majesty mud suite accordingly paid, the arrangements being precisely the same as these of yesterday. The elal Farty arrived at the Dublin Society hunk' at a quarter to ten, anti haying been duly received by the authorities, prmeeded at once to a careful inspection of the Exhibition. A. eleven her M:je,ey signified her to retire. A short time previously the public had been ad mitted, and the centre hall soon became uensely crowded. On her Majesty ent• ring the ball Irons the picture gallery the visitors ranged themselves on either side, allowing a space fur the royal party to pass along to the dais. As her .Majesty walked down the hell she was loudly cheered by the spectators, and on arriving at the dais a burst ~f enthu siastic a,. plame, which was continued with great fervour, proceeded from those assembled about it and on the gal. knee at either side. The number of persons mho visited the Exhibition to-day was 11.314. ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY-VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT. Immediately r.fter iearing the Great Industrial Exhibi tion, ills Royal flightless Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Phipps, proceeded to the Anhui' Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture cf the Royal Hibernian Academy, Lower Atibey-street. The visit being unexpected by the academy ut this early hour, the only members present to receive his Royallimits were the keeper, Mr. Kendrick, and the treasurer, Mr. Papworth. his Royal Highness seemed to take much interest in the Exhibition, and made purchases of two cabinet pictures. lie returned to the Viceregal Lodge at shortly before one o'clock. Her Mijesty and Prince Albert will, it is underAond, pay another visit to .no Exhibition this moraine, at nine o'clock, the public not being admitted until twelve. Her Majesty has purchased ten season tickets for herr.elf, Prince Albert, the royal children, and the members of her suite. It is expected that her Majesty and her royal consort will in the course of this day honour the Earl and Countess of "loath with a visit at llovrth Castle, if the weather should he favourable. In order to give every possible eclat to the visit of her Majesty, on the part of the flt et, Admiral Lord Adolphus Fitse!stream has ordered a grand naval illumination and broadside salute to•nioht. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Iti DAY EVENING. The Queen pa;tl her fourth private visit to the Exhibition this morning. Her Majesty made an immense number of purchases of the weeks of art and manufactures which at tracted her attention. In the course of the visit her Majesty and Prince Albert passed tut to the exteria balcony, which over!ooks Mer rion-square, where they wire received wits enthusiastic chi era by the thousands of ladies and gentlemen who were waiting the opening of the doors for the adiniuiou of the public. The royal party left at a few minutes before 12. At half past twelve there was a Cavalry field-day in the Park, at which Prince Albert and the Priace of Wales were present. On the return of his Royal Highness from the review, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Itiyal children drove to HoWth Castle, to visit the Earl and Countess. In the course of the afternoon the Prince of Wales pre sented a pair of colours to the boys of the Royal Hibernian Military School. Her Majesty leaves the Viceregal-lodge to morrow even ing at half-past 5 o'clock, and proceeds to Westland-row, where the Royal carriage will be in readiness to receive her Majesty. The Royal party will embark at Kingstown about 6 o'clock. The Queen intends to proceed to sea in the course of the evening, should the weather prove favourable. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA MAILS. The Lords of the Admiralty have just published permanent tables of routes tor the contract packets belong ing to the Peninsular and Oriental Compeny. The packets are to leave Southampton en the 4th and 20th of the month, Marseilles, the 11th and 27th ; Bombay, the 4th and 20th; Calcutta, for England, the 6th and 20th ; Hong Kong, the 11th and 27th ; and Sydney, the 20th ; Port Phi.lip, the 24th ; and Adelaide, the 27th of every alternate month. The packets are to arrive at Southampton on the sth and 21st of the month; at Marseilles, from abroad, on the 14th and 30th; at 80mb..., from Pont de Galle, on the 2nd and 18th ; at Calcutta, from England, on the 2nd and 16. h ; at Hong Kong, on the 10th and' 4th ; and nt Adelaide, or. the Bth ; Port Philip, on the 11th ; and at Sydney, on the 14th of every alternate month. The coaling atatinns of the Packets are to be Southampton, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Point de G tie, Madras, Calcutta, Si gapure, Hong Kong, Penang, Batavia, an t at all the Australian ports, except Port Philip. The following are the number of days on which the mails arc to be conveyed by the packets to their several destinations from Southampton, viz., Gib raltar, 6 days; Malta, 131; Aden, 22i; Ceylon, 34; Madras, 38; Calcutta and Singapore, 42; Bombay, 41 ;" Hong Kong, 50 ; King Georg:'s S iund, 58; Adelaide, 64; Port Phillip, 621; and Sydney, 70. The stoppage of the packets, at Alexandria, to wait for mails by other packete, is to vary from 3 to 8 days ; at Suez, from 5 to 6 days, •t Point de Gallo the stoppage is to ex tend to 5 days. Between October and Marsh the packets may touch at Cosner, in the Red Sea. Front Miy to August the packets from Hong Kong and Caleitt:a are to leave 5 days earlier, and between November and February they are allowed to reach Hong Kong 5 d tys later than the above specified time, and 4 days extra is allowed the homeward Sydney packet to reach its destination during the prevalence of the ads erse trade wind. The Admiralty and Oriental Company have power to order the Bombay and Hong Kong packets to call at other placiv than Point de Galle, Penang, and Singapore; and the Admiralty have power to require eke homeward Australian packet to pro ceed direct from Kiln °core e's Sound to Point de Galle. According to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's monthly list of their fleet and oftierre, just published, they have 47 shire. 40 rernmandere, 139 chief, second, third, fourth, and fifth officers, 29 surgeons, 31 pursers, super cargo', and tlorks, and 123 engineering officers. • A mnil communication between England and Bombay direct is nut ine:uded in tine Peninsular and Oriental Corn pany's contract. The communication can only be made, therefore, rid Ceylon. APOTHECARIES' llALL.—Nameacif gentlemen who passed their I' ttlfilination in the se4:oce and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs day, Sept. 1, 1833 :—Win. Younge Jeeves, Sharron Grange, Yorkshire ; Samuel Thorne, Manchrst. r ; Charles \Vert Hobert., Bristol ; Fergus Ferguson, : George Kirk, Middlesborough-on Tree ; Jobs Wihigin Dadley, Patrington, Yorkshire ; William Johnson Dlll6Oll Ilutchiu 1190, Yorkshire. QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SPAIN and the Duke de Riaimarce, serompanied by the etiuotems de Cgstillij ‘, the Countess de Yirta Alegre, his Excellency Don X .vier do Isturitz, and a numcreu+ male, visited, yeater 'ay, the Diorama of the Ocean Mail, at the Gallery of Illuatrati9n in Regent-street. THE SHEFFIELD CUTLERS' FEAS2: The annual grand banquet on the inauguration of the Master Cutler, (W. A. Matthews, Esq.) took phase on Thursday, and fur the first time in the annals of the borough, this office and that of the hlaynralty are centrci in one irdividual. In the morning, th. , Master, Ward m ,. Searchers, and Assistan•s. for the ensu rue y..ar, intent:ea before the magistrates, and took their oaths of office. They then returned to 'he Cutlers' Hall to luncheon, and after. wards, in company with the othi r mcmhers of thi ancient corporation, attended divine eartitT at the parish church, the sermon being ' , retched by the Rev. E. S. Murphy, th e chaplain to the c urpmy. The guests begao to arrive about f our o ' c l oc k . They were me! at the entmnee ef the reception mom by limey Atkin, E'q , one of the post M,sts re, and resented to the Master CP. t r. Mm.lt apprt hension was felt in consequent, of information that seecsal di , ti , guisheci guests had Stens, ei• ously injury d by the ellkion which happened on Wedmid a y evening to the Great N th. en ex,ore;s train, shortly after leaving London. Atr.iegst those who were then on their way to par . ake the Inr.pitality of the Mager Cutler, were the Lord M.iyor of London, Sir James Duke, M.P., J. A. Roebuck, lisq., M.P., Edmund 13. Denison, Esq., 31 The Lord 111.,y0r, Sir J. Duke, anti Mr. De ion retorted to town; but Mr. R. 1.1 hnek came leeward, and arrived to Shtfli.lo. about two o'clock on Thursday morning. M r. D,nison came down en the following day. The satiety manit sted in the town no Mr Roebuck's account was very great, and exaggi rated reports were eirculat,l sr to the injuries het had sustained. The I.on. miser at.. rived at the hall in coo:1.411y with Aidertaan Dunn. Me. Roelmik looked ieehle , and bore on his face the woks of the injury he hod received. Ilis entrance into the reception-room was greeted eith loud cheers, and tr.my were the congraulations addressed to him on hi et. appearance amongst hie constituents, and his provideati4 escape on the previous dry. In consequence of the pain et. perieneed in standing, arising from injury by the accident a chair was provided for him, and be sat amongst the mum: 1 1 in the reception-room, until dinner was atm lanced. When the company had maemlied the fuldtemelnonof the hall were thrown op, it. and the gentlemen tin& tit, it set.., The number of guests was upward, of M. The Cutler waa support, d hr L.td Wharneliffe, the Lord Mayne of York, Lord E. llow-trd, the Ilan. Frtne . 4 Wortley, j. A. Roebuck. E'q., M.P., M P., o. Ha:- field, Esq., M.P., S. M. Pete, Erq., M.l'., Walter Stan hope' Esq., &c. The usual loyal toasts, f.dlowed by the "Army and Nary," having been dolt h-nourol, _ _ The"MAirEtt, o:Tl.ra then gave "The Duke of Norfolk, Lord of Ilallam•hire, tho la.uor of Norfolk," to 'Ma i Lord E. II OWAUI) mtponded in hi fitting fcrnv.. The hellthi of the Duke of I.4vonoddre and Earl Far., haling h•en drunk, J. Jorroat E4q., prow-wet the health of Lord Wheroelitfe sod the House of Wortley. Lord IC ttnttvct.tritn returned thanks, sod in the course of his speech fluid : Looking to the e••otintat and at the face of the world, I c moot hut notiriootr a continuant:trot commercial prosecrity I cannot n frain also from an ea. pre'oioe of sotiOa whet I ~, a t w h a t is passim, fore our eyes in sh'e con ,• ry. R 4• now live in remarkab:e times, and of all the events of the day, verb's!. none is more remarkable t an what has ben •ho exodus of the people from one quarter of t , u , Hobe to another. Looking at ais stam of offdre. I find another elegeat—l may almost say another guarantee for the continuum of commercial prosperity. I hope it arises from cruses cot temporary, and that we shall pee, from time to time, a meg conciliatnry apt' it of communic a tio n b e tw een a ll w t, o aze emplcycd in the vari•lv, tonne' et of indostry. If vat be so, I look wi la c olidence to the time who I shall meet you egoist ; a. d when, ver that may be, it will give me Mond, d urattfication to find you in unabated activity and with unclouded prosneeto. (Loud cheers.) The hwilths of the I. .rd Mayor or London, the Lord Mayor of York, the Mann r Cutler, Yoe Vicar and Clem, of Sheffield, having been given and responded to, the num bers for the Wed Riding followed, and Mr. Denison re. turned thanks. Mr. Aid. rman BMW, proposed the health of the " Borough Mi mhsrs." (Cheers.) He expressed especial gratification in the presence of their esteemed member, Mr. Roebuck—(lowl cheers)—and was sure Mr. Roebuck would he much gratified by the expressions of their good feeling. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Rogisecx—(great applause). He said—l am weak, gentlemen, and therefore if you will be silent it will oblige me, while I return thanks to my friend who has prole s,d my health, and to you for the manor r in which you hare received it. Permit me also, as this is the first oppor tunity I have had since the late long illness I have suffered, to return my thanks to my constituents tor the kiudness and ginerosity with which they have horns my affliction. Not one reminetrance have I had on account of my absence trim my &vies. But great kici ness and sympathy have been shown by my friends from a conviction that I was absent not willingly, but in spite of myself. Having thus thanked you, I will depart at once from that topic, for it is never nwreeable to speak of one's self. While I have been ill, I have not h- en an inattentive spectator of whnt has Ken pansies around me. Permit following in the steps of other gentemen present. to congratulate you on the state of pripperity which you en joy.. But I hew Tntl not to consider me like a death's head at a feast, if I warn y st —though my friends have said that there is every lir-sped that this st.oe of prosperity will continue—'hat still it may cease. It may crane teem !se causes—from your own conduct, or from the conduct o patties abroad. In a time of prmperity, capital increases fast, and with its increase there is felt the difficulty of em ploying it. Thereupon ensues an iocreas d degree of hardi ho and recklessness on the pert of those who ps-aeas it. We have always seen a time of great prosperity followed by adversity, because the recklefouses I have spoken of heeled to unfounded speculation, and that t', ruin. These are omi nous warnings, and not agreeable, but they are honestly and sincerely givers by me, and I hope will not fall on ;rst tentive ears. (Cheers.) But whi:e a state of adversity may come from yourselves. it may oleo came from abroad. I cannot look around me without partieinating in the feeling of Lord Fittwilliam, expressed in his letter. To be pre pared for war is the best preservatioe of peace. (Cheers) 1 was present at the great peace inectisg the other day— the eneetimz of the fleet of England. Depend upon it that meeting bad more to do with the maintenance of peace than all the meetings you can collect of persona who profess to be the promoters of peace. (Cheers ) Mr. Roebuck soon afterwards retired. M. PETO, M.P. propose d—" Prosperity to the Town act Trade of Sheffield." sl (Cheers.) H. ATKIN, Esg., of the firm of Joseph Rogers and SKIN as a manufacturer of Sheffield, and a past master of this honouruble and ancient corporation, acknowledged the toast, and remarking tha: if the Sheffield manufacture's would be true to themselves, they might defy the whole world, proceeded to propose the Mayor end Corporation of Sheffield." The Mavon returned thanks. Lord E. Ilowatty proposed the health of Mrs. Mat• thews, and the ladies of Sheffield. The MASTER CUTLLA &allow:Aged the toast, and the assembly broke up. VAUXHALL. Last evening the brilliant series of masquerades which bas distinguished the present season at these garden wee brought to a close. The inauspicious state of the wea ther was the came of a much thinner attendance thou hu graced previous entertainments of the same kind ; but if the company was not numerous, it was as lively, 4% gay, and as noisy—the costumes were as varied—the ii were as pointl.ss (diversified here a..d there by a little c.,areeness)— and the dances as continuous and ever-changing, u the mist habitual masquerader could desire. The rain, which fell at intvrvale, though it succeeded in putting out the lamps, by no means dumped the ardour of the inasquer, who found in the large ba.l.roeno, which the mana,zerneat has, we believe, opened this Sc moo for the first time—fur we do not remember it in years gone by—and which is capable, as the bills tell us, of accomm:dabm! sit thousand persona—space enough to carry on their gam. bols spite of wind and wcatn, r until many hours midnight. Besides the masquing and the dancing, who last was carried on by the aid of four additional bands, there was the usual display of fireworlss ; and there were so m e novel equestrian feats executed with considerable ability by Mr. and Madame Newsome, Mies Ella, Master Leoo, Herr Zamesou and Sig or Russelli (who, in their every.du English, we presume, are simply Mr. Sampson and hi!. Russell), and the great Arab vaulter, who sufficiently dis guises his Atiglo-Saxon or HibPritian patronymic is the high-sounding name of Mahomet lien Said. A MUNIFICENT INDIVIDUAL AN!) .t 1 1 0011- SPIRITF.I) PUBLIC.--Our respected fellow•citiseu, Basil Lawson, of Lan.downe.ertent, who has devote , a long life to philmophicel pursuits, has munificently offered to present his valuable coLection of astronomical and meter rological ime.rum nu for the establishment of a Midland Counties Observatory at N ttingham, on the condition that 10,000/. be subscribed for the necesmry expenses. The per sons interested, however, have only been able to rata 3,500/., alter more than u oak's eativassiug, in addition to 1,0001. given by Mr. Ltw.ou him•elf, and, in sense in quence, the oer i likely to toe wit I drawn. Mr. Lawson, a letter to e t ho s managing committee, says, " I con no longer, from my age and state nt health, leave my offer or plan an open question ; hut must withdraw it iiltogcther on the first ot °ember neat, it rhe requisite turn of la.ooo/. is not ready to fulfil or carry into t deut my engsgerneak with the publie.'"f he committee t. lk of making an 1 1 )- plication to the Treasury,but it is not likely that the govern ment will do for the inhabitants of the Midland Counties what they might easily do for themselves, if they had the taste and spirit. Not long since the inhabitants of Glom rester lost a valtrHe mu cum, worth 1,000!., lirealllt the/ would not provide a room for its reception. — Nark Chrohick. THE FATAL STORM AND FLOODS.—lnquiries have been instituted into the I ss of life and property by the recent flood, in Wales. It is Paid that thirty human being, perished. Large quantities of cattle, sheep, furniture, and farm produce were swept away. Houses aril works were destroyed or damaged. In the county of Breton sixteen bridges were completely d molished, and fourteen materialV damaged. Other counties will also have large sumo to POT for replacing or repairing bri Iges.—Cron Chronicle.