The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

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Tug Kvimnio, A SUDDii - AfiACIC. Velars. Shorn and Inkldicomb Kan Hanrade and Km Lea—And THE DUKES 110170. Mews. laebtm, Snore. Jordan, Bro ooms~ and Raymond ; Moms C. Lamm R. Term. and El' °' BETTAWIfIA. MS Vim., BLITZ iiiiii".7.7l , lMALE CURIOSITY.— THE GREAT 011011 T ICONS, with Professor Plo.pm'a adaotoz Hon of M. D.-ela's Spectral filmdom —Werra Woodman and Randall—TlM MUMS DAUGHTER.—THE HIV/ Off LIYIL HIGH WATII AT IDIOM WDSL MS Dal Nornim SST . ..AAsnosa. AL UAL To-roasor —MareiAL sb. 12m. . .Afferasia. AL Sim LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3. OPPOWITNILT, while the Metropolitan Board is deliberating with dosed doers, on the choice be tween rival but secret tenders for the underground wealth of all London, the father of modern agri cultural chemistry comes forward to tell us what is the worth of the article the Board has to sell. What he affirms is indeed startling enough, but it is not new. For years past the leading men in science and agriculture within Great Britain have been proclaiming the same facts. They have been confirmed by experiments repeated under a hun dred different conditions. Yet it is well that at this moment Professor Lizent should add the weight of his authority, and remind us—as he does in the letter which we published on Saturday—of the enormous interest' at stake. For, according to this most competent and unbiassed of witnesses, the money value of the ingredients contained in the sewage of the metropolis exceeds 1,100,0001. a year. This is the commercial wholesale price of the several constituents—the potash, the am monia, the phosphoric acid—which every year flows away in the net-work of drains and culverts beneath our feet, till it reaches the Thames and is carried down into the sea. True, they exist in a form which would render thei- extraction by any artificial process too costly to be remunerative. But farmers find a large profit in purchasing these articles in the manufactured state, at the market prices, and, after reducing them to powder and solution, in applying them to their crops. Now 4 1 the sewers they exist in the state to which farmers reduce them, and therefore for their purposes they are even more valuable in that liquid condition than if they were sent out in sacks and boxes from the manure manufactory. So it is no false estimate to put their worth to agriculture at the full price of their contents in the market. Indeed, in the sewers they exist in even a more favourable state for inch a purpose than my into which they can be artificially converted. The solid ingredients are in a finer state of division, and, consequently, more soluble than if they had been dried and powdered, plat as wet clay is plastic and diffusible, while pounded bricks are gritty and in tractable. Add to this, that the mere water in which these valuable ingredients are dissolved or suspended contains other elements of great but in appreciable value. It is full of nascent com pounds, in the most vigorous stage of their opera tion. It is charged with carbonic acid gas, the most benign, yet powerful, of solvents known in Nature's laboratory. In the act of fermentation it furnishes warmth as well as the elements of vege table growth. And the water itself, irrespective of its contents, is, as our water meadows everywhere prove, an invaluable stimulant and uourisher. So, in truth, the circumstances which combine to make the sewage useless to a manure manufacturer actually enhance its value when applied directly to the land. While so rapid and effectual is the dis infecting power of the soil, that it is established by the experience of numbers of our large towns that the application is unattended with practical incon venience, and after the lapse of a few minutes the fact cannot be detected by the most sensitive olfac tory nerves. So much as this, then, we have already known, and Professor LIMO merely confirms. But the German savant adds a warning which is in some re• specie novel, and is unquestionably of the highest importance. He shows that sewage, rich as it is, is richer in some materials than in others. Mea sured against guano it is comparatively rich in pot aah and ammonia, comparatively poor in phospho ric acid. The reason is obvious ;it is because everything pasael into the sewers except bones, and bones are the great storehouse of phosphoric acid. But phosphoric acid is so essential to vege tation, that without a due proportion of it the other ingredients will not produce their proper effect. Two consequences follow—the one belong ing to the domain of nature, the other affecting our social relations and the interests of certain branches of industry. Nature's consequence is, that sewage will often seem to be comparatively inert, or only active when applied in large quanti• ties, merely because this one essential ingredient is not present in such proportion as to allow the other and more costly ingredients to operate their full effect—as men at sea will become diseased and die in a few months on a diet of meat and bread unless a due allowance of vegetables be added. And the social result is, that instead of the use of sewage being destructive of the trade of the manure manufacturer, who is chiefly occupied in supplying phosphoric acid to the farmers, it will, on the contrary, make him more indispensable than ever, for it will be only when we add some dissolved bones, or coprolites, or mineral phosphates, to the sewage, that we shall reap from it its actual money value. This suggestion of the learned Professor may perhaps furnish an additional means of explaining certain anomalies which have kept back the pro gress of applying sewage to onr farms. We have said that in hundreds of instances it has yielded, when tested by practical farmers, proof that its value has not been over-estimated by scientific men. Drifting sands of the sea-shore have for a score of years yielded 201, per acre of rent when enriched by the sewage of Edinburgh, and better soil has returned a half more of annual profit. Five crops of grass in a season, each of unoreos dented bulk, have year after year rewarded its application in other parte of the country. Mr. Mime, in the neighbourhood of Bristol, doubled the produce of fourteen acres by the sewage o' a household of only thirty persons. Lord Eseix obtained from wheat an increase equal to the raise ,~ THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1333. of b/d. per ton for the sewage applied ; which is above Professor LIZ9IO'B calculation. But, on the other hand, certain experimenters have found that very much greater quantities were necessary to yield any profit at all. Chief among these doubters is a Government Commission, which for some years has been experimenting at Rugby. It is mainly directed by Mr. Laws, who is • leading manufac turer of phosphates for the use of farmers, and who is a very distinguished practical chemist, and author of a series of most interesting and impor tent experiments upon animal and vegetable nutri tion. It is very possible that, had this gentleman added some of his own manufactured phosphates to the natural sewage of Rugby, his results might have been brought in accordance with those of other observers. The probability is enhanced by the circumstance that his experiments were con ducted on meadow land, which is well known often to require a special dose of bones to restore what grazing has carried off from it. At least we may suggest this experiment, over and above proper drainage and cultivation, the want of which has hitherto vitiated any results which the Govern ment trials at Rugby have yielded. Meantime, our practical and pressing concern is with Loudon sewage. Incredible as it may seem, where • property of such immense 'value is at stake, we are actually without any data for fixing its normal condition and contents. A few isolated experiments on small branch sewers are all the guide we have to the average richness of this lode of gold. Professor Limo is well warranted in reproaching us with not having made the easy experiment of collecting at the mouths of a considerable number of sewers such specimens, taken at different hours of day and night, as would have fairly indicated the mean daily contents in all weathers and seasons. Three years and a half ago we ourselves urged upon the Metropolitan Board the propriety of subjecting the material to the test of actual application to the land in an experimental farm near London. We believe that they must still resort to both sets of inquiries, if they would not squander, through gross ignorance, funds which would speedily reimburse the rate payers for the huge cost of our sewer system. Fortunately, a few months would soffit* to give thei.i the partial information suggested by Pro fessor Liteio ; and, so rapid are the effects of sewage on land, a single season might yield the fuller information which • practical expel:meat would afford. We commend the matter to the con sideration of the Board during the MOM of its sit tings. They could adopt no wiser course than to give Professor LIEBIG, as an impartial and most emi nent authority, a handsome fee to act as their ad viser in ascertaining the practical value of the article they have to sell. Such men as Lord Essex, Mr. MILIB, Mr. CAIRD, and others, who have applied sewage to land in prac tice, would probably not refuse to superintend the details of an agricultural experiment of such importance. There are rival theories in chemistly as in agriculture, and the only safe way would Ez to engage such a number of representatives of dif ferent systems as would secure that the fullest and fairest conditions were given to the experiment. But without some such effort the Metropolitan Board will assuredly put the climax on its repute tion by perpetrating the most gigantic job that ignorance or favouritism ever inaugurated. be Court. 011BORNI, AUGUST 1. The Prince and Prinoese of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mn. Coke, Captain Grey, and Mr. • Fisher, left Osborne to-day for L ondon. Lieut.-General the Hoe. C. Grey and Lieut.-Colonel Do Plat have goixeeded Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel the Hon. A. Harding, as Equerries to the Queen. AUGUST 2. The Queen, Princes. Rama, Princeee Louise, and Prince Leopold attended divine service this morning at Whipping ham church. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. Primo. Alfred landed this afternoon from her Majesty's hip Itaooon, and arrived at Osborne, Attended by Major CowelL The Duke of Newcastle arrived from London yesterday. The Prince and Princes. of Wales, attended by the Hoe. Wu Coke sad Captain Grey, arrived at Marlborough House on Saturday afternoon from Osboroe. The Priam and Primer of Wales attended divine am rice yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Hon. Mrs. Coke and Major Teesdale were in attendance. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Prince.. of Wales yesterday at Marlborough House. The Prince and Prince= of Wales took ► drive in an open carriage yesterday afternoon. Major Teesdale has succeeded Captain Grey as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Widen' Mr. Joseph Wyoo has had the honour of sittings from the Princess of Wales fora medal to be executed for the city of London. Viscount and Visciountess Palmerston /eft town for Brockett-hall on Saturday. Sir George (hey has left town for a few days. A deputation from the Woolwich Local Board of Health, consisting of Mr. John Cowan (chairman), Mr. T. Tuffield, Mr. W. P. Jackson, Mr. Joseph Cohen, and Mr. A. C. Reid (clerk), bad an interview with the Right Hoo. C. P. Villiers on Saturday, ►t the office of the Poor•law Board, Whitehall. Despatches were received on Saturday et the Colonial. office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian islands. Despatches were bent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, Bermuda, and the Bahamu. The Prince and Princess of Wales will arrive in Edisbumb by special train at 7.50 p.m. on Thursday, the Bth August. and are expected to leave for the north between 9 and 10 o'clock on Saturday, the Bth. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland enter taised the Saxon Minister, the Portuguese Minister. the Hanoverian charge d'afraires and Baroness Biome, the Duke and Duchess Se!Jambs and Donna Emily, and a select party at Sion House, lsleworth, on Saturday and yesterday. The circle 1011 separate to-day. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family have arrived at Inverery Guile, Argyllshire, for the autumn. The Duke of Newcastle left town on Saturday for Osborne, Isle of Wight, oa a visit to the glees. The noble duke will return to-day. - - The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have bees detained in tows (otherwise they were to have bees at Eaton Hall, near Chester) by the indisposition of the marquis, who has bees suffering frown OA attack of gout. His lordship in much better within the last few days, and ss soon as be is recovered will leave for his seat in Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Derby left St. James's square Os Saturday, accompanied by Lady Fauna Talbot, for Knowsley Park, Lancashire. _ The Earl and Countess of Zetland left their re sidence io Arliegtosatreet on Saturday for Asks Hall, mar Richmond, Yorkshire. The Earl anci - Co - notelet Spencer left Spencer House, St. Jeanie's, as Saturday, for Althorm Northarep toes!tirra_ The Countess; Cowper has been entertaining at Wrest Parka succession of visitors daring the past tai llight. - Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., and the Hon. Junes Frederick Stuart Wortley left tows en Saturday for Paris, and intend to proesed by way of Vienna and Coa -1 etantinople to Persia. It is doubtful if the travellers will return before the meeting of parliasaset in February. The Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Pakington have left their boos. in Eaton-wpm, fur a short tour cm the Continent. Mr. sod Mn. George Lex Jefferson and Mrs. and the Mime Jeffetvoe, al the liaited Bteiste, bays WI the Broaswiek Hotel. Jeraiya-siresi, for Park LATEt3T INTELLIGENCE. INTENDED DEPARTURE FROM BRAZIL OF THE ENGLISH MINISTER. (By ILICTRIC AND lIITZILBATIONAL TZLEGIAP/L) (rims ova owl cosszsrotrnsier.) SOUTHAMPTON, ABOUT 3. Arrived, the Magdalena, which took out the news to Rio de Janeiro of the rupture of diplo matic relations between England and Brazil. The Brazilians were much excited and the Emperor was very angry. One of the members of the British Embassy at Rio has come home in the Magdelena. Mr. Elliott, our minister there, will some home by the next packet. (ssortz's masium&) RUSSIA. FREEDOM OF THE CROWN PEASANTS. BERLIN, Amon & Intelligence received here from Bt. Petersburg to the let inst. states that the Emperor of Russia has issued a ukase declaring free landholders the two million peasants who are tenants of the crown domains and appanagee. PORTUGAL (Per the Maidalena.)_ LISBON, JOLT 30. • The royal family continues to reside at Mafra. The state of the Queen's health is very satisfactory. The King and the Duc de Penthievre are to-day on board the Portuguese war steamer Minden°, which is practising her artillery. The Duo de Penthievre, who has been staying on a visit to the King, leaves shortly for New York on board the American frigate Macedonia, which has arrived here. It is said that the King intends to open the Agricultural Exhibition at Braga, The reported resignation of the Bishop of Oporto is unfounded. There is every probability that the ministers will not renew the present tobacco contract, and that the commerce in this article will be thrown open. The government are prosecuting the company formed for supplying Lisbon with water for breach of contract. The government has purchased, on account of the crown. 500 contos of rein in the Portuguese funds, with the proceeds of the diamonds recently sold. The sale wee effected in Lisbon to the agent of a French house. The misunderstanding between the government and the representatives of Senor Salamanca con tinues. The bat section of the line of railway from Crato to the Spanish frontier continues closed to traffic, by order of the government surveyors. The Viscountess de Cartacho is dead. The subscription in Lisbon for the survivors of the wreck of the Catalonian has been closed, and amounts to 2001. The keels have been laid at the Royal Arsenal of two new corvettes, to be named Duke of Palmella, and Duke de Terceira. The vine disease continues to be developed. Barites, 481. Coupons, 481. Exchange on Lon don, 54 at 90 days. Paris, 528. Hamburg, 48. Bank of Portugal shares, 535 dole. Bank of Oporto shares, 252 dole. THE BRAZILIAN AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ammer 3. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magda lena, Captain Robert Wooaward, with dates from Buenos Ayres, June 27, Monte Video, June 30, Rio de Janeiro, July 9, Bahia, July 13, Pernambuco, July 15, St. Vincent, July 22, nod Lisbon, July 30, has arrived here. She brings 124 passengers (she landed 119 at Lisbon), 15,7884 in specie, jewellery value 80/., four packages of diamonds, and n general cargo, emulating of 300 roils tobacco, 100 barrels tapioca, 50 serous ipecacuanba, 23 oases plants, 87 bales cotton, 232 boxes apples, 46 boxes pears, and 147 packages sundries. The Magdalena experienced during the voyage fine wea ther and light winds up to St. Vincent, thence to Lisbon very strong N.E. winds. Fine and light winds up the Por• tuguese coact, and across the Bay fine weather and westerly winds. On July 9 she spoke English barque Orion, from Liver. pool 50 days, strived at Rio this day. July 11, in lat. 10.47 S., long. 36.19 W., exchanged colours with French mail steamer going south. July 17, in lat. 2.57 S., long. 31.10 W., exchanged colours with English barque Monte zuma, from Glasgow to Valparaiso, 40 days out. Oa July 21, its lat. 13.27 N., long. 26.17 W., passed Royal Mail steamer Oneida, going south, and on July 26, in lat. 27.58 N., long. 19.01 W., exchanged colours with Bremen ship Willey, steering south. Her Majesty's ship Leander was at Rio, and the Strom. boll sailed os July 9 for Pernambuco. Satellite was at Bahia. The admiral's ship Forte and remainder of squad. run at the River Plate. List of the stations of men of war in the River Plate : Buenos Ayres, June 28.—Her Majesty's ship Curlew, Captain Pakeaham. Monte Video, June 30. —Her Majesty's ship Forte, flag, Rear-Admiral Warren; Alecto, 0001. Blake; Triton, Com. Kerby; Sheldrake (gunboat), Spider (gunboat), Dotterel (gunboat). Spanish men.of-war.—Brigantine °ravine, 16 guns ; steamer Venoedara. French store-drip Fortune ; frigate L'Aatres (flag), steamer Falminanto. Italian corvette Iride, 16 visa - PERNAMBIJOO, JOLT 15. The Coofederate steamer Georgia, Maury commander, captured the American ship City of Bath, 736 tons, W. J. Cooper, master, on the 28th June, in lat. 20.30 south, long. 29.30 west, off the desert Wend of Trinidad, belong ing to Brazil. This vessel was from Callao, with a cargo o 1 guano on French account, bound for Antwerp; the master being compelled to give a ransom bond for 20,000 dollars, the vessel was allowed to proceed on her voyage. The Georgia had taken the American ship Constitution on June 25, with 1,300 tons coal, from Philadelphia bound for &angles, and was discharging the coal for the purpose of fitting out the ship as a cruiser ; also the ship Good Hope, released on giving ransom, and the Dictator, burned. The Vanderbilt has proceeded to Trinidad. The American ship Pemuel Robertaon, 421 tons, Monter master, which vessel put in here Juoe 15, on her voyage from New Bedford to Honololu, having been condemned, was sold by auction. THE FRENCH PAMPHLET ON POLAND.—The new pamphlet on Poland is regarded with great contempt by some of the Paris journals. The following is from the Prase :—" Pacific on one page and warlike on the next, this pamphlet is a mere tissue of coatradictious. What would make us think that it was written by M. Grimier de Canavan is the fact th►t it is equally injudicious and superficial. Had lie object been to alienate us from England by threatening Prussia, it could not hare set about the task in any other manner, or hare come to a different conclusion. As was truly remarked yesterday is Paris, it ia not a pamphlet, but a paving -stone slipped from the hands of a man who has Men in the at tempt to throw it." The Duke d'Aumale is at present in Switzerland with his young son, who is studying engineering at the school for oon•commissioned officers at Solemn, and has recently passed a brilliant examination there. The Duke de Nemours and the Princess Clementine, his sister, are also on a tour in Switzerland, and are now staying at Inter laken. The Count de Paris, es has been stated, is in Germany. The Vienna journals express in the most ener getic manner their approbation of the conduct of Count de Reehberg with regard to the despatch of Prince Gortch►- koR, which tended to separate Austria from the two other powers. The reply of the Austrian minister to the prance is considered as a proof of a moral separation be tween Austria and Rails. DBPABTURB 01 .. Pyi is PBIII9II OP !ALBS POB HADZIAX.-(Y118 DAY.) _ INDISPOSITION OF OF THE PRINOES.S OF WALES. This morning, shortly after 9 o'clock, the Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel Grey and • small suite, left Marlborough House for Halifax. We regret to announce that, in consequence of the some what sudden indisposition of the Princess of Wale*, her royal highness wu unable to accompany the Prince. It appears from inquires instituted this morning that the Prince and Princess returned from Osborne on Satovday, and that the Princess soon afterwards complained of great languor and fatigue. Nothing was thought of it, however, and the Princess retired to rest early. Yesterday monde her royal highness attended Divine service in the Chapel Royal, in company with the Prince, and in the afternoon they drove together is the park. It was on their return that her royal highness intimated her belief that on account of returning indisposition she should be unable to accompany the Prince to Halifax. His royal highness instantly expressed his intention to intimate his wish to the authorities of Halifax that the ceremony of opening the town ball, fixed for to-morrow, should be Duel , paned for • few days, believing that the presence of the Prin cess would he the great attraction of the royal visit. The Prin cess at once expressed a hope that the Prince would proceed to Halifax alone, and to that coarse his royal highness, after much persuasion, assented. As soon as that decision was arrived at, • telegraphic message was despatched to Mr. John Crossley, the Mayor of Halifax, stating the inability of the Princess to attend, and adding that the Prince would be present according to the previous arrangement. His royal highness arrived at the King's-cross Station shortly before 10 o'clock. A large and fashionable company had assembled, and much diuppointment was manifested at the absence of the Princess of Wales, owing to the cause explained above. Hie royal highness was attended by Major-Cenerel Kiloßye and Major Teesdale, sad was received by Mr. B. Denison, the chairman ; Mr. Packs, and other directors; Mr. Soy moor Clerks, the general manager; Mr. Oakley, Mr. W. Lee, and other officials. The Prince bowed to the company col lected on the platform, and then took his seat in the royal saloon carriage, which the Queen mw on the v:eits to Scothod, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood joining his royal highness. The engine of the train, which was a special one, and not the ordinary express, es has been stated, was Meta ally decorated with &mere and everg-mens. Oa the sides over the driving wheels were representations of the Prince of Wales's plume, and the bead and front of the engine bore a painting of the crown and sceptre, with the words " Special train." His royal highness having made some brief inquiries of the chairman as to the journey, and being handed s time bill of the pm , train, the special took its departure precisely at 10 o'clock, the Northern express being kept back tea minutes or SO. The Prime will retina to town to-morrow afternoon. A large oonceurse of spectators wax usembled in the New•rosd and at King's•cross to see his royal highness as he passed. It is expected that Halifax will be reached by the royal train about half • put fire o'clock this afternoon. The Manchester Ouordian of this morning or :—" Mr. Crossley, the mayor of Halifax, yesterday received a com munication from Cenral RooSys, stating that the Princess of Wales was 'not quite well enough to travel,' sad would not, therefore, accompany the Prince to Halifax. So far as Halifax is concerned, the arrival and departure of WI royal highness will be the same 11•11 previously arranged ; but in steed of the Prince of Wales going to Ripon and Studley, he will return direct to London." Our readers (says the Leeds Mercury of to-day), especially those who have been anticipating the visit of the Prince and Primers of Wales to their localities during the remit week, will learn with great regret that the Princess of Wales is not well enough to travel, and will consequently not visit Halifax. The Prince of Wales will, how ever, arrive in that town as previously arranged, and will to-morrow open the New Towa Hall, but indeed of proceeding after that event to Ripon by way of Leeds, his royal highness will return to London in the evening. How far the further arrangements of the royal pair may be carried out as regards Yorkshire we do not pewees informa tion which enables ua to speak with any certainty, bat orr , Ripon correspondent dates that Earl de Grey and Ripon has reosived a OOMMUdiegioll that their royal highness= will sot visit Ripon until Wednesday, instead of Tuesday ; and that they will remain at Studley Royal only one night, and will then proofed to Scotland. LORD CLYDE.—Letters received in town thin morning state that Lord Clyde, who seemed to have rallied during the last few days, and of whose recovery some hopes were raised, has relapsed into his former condition, and that his medical attendants do not feel justified in holding out any expectations of a favourable result. He is extremely weak. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has presented the officers of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards with a very beautiful Badminton jug of silver gilt and crystal, from a design selectrd by Mr. A. S. Lumley and manufactured by Messrs. London and Ryder. On the lid is a large Coldstream star and the drum of the regi meet, and on the base the following inscription :—" Pre sented by H. R. H. William Psince of Orange to the officers of the god Battalion Coldstream Gouda, in remembrance of a happy week spent with them at Windsor, June, 188'3." Her Highness the Maharanee Jendan Kower, the widow of the late Maharajah Runjeet Singh, of the Sikhs, and the mother of the Maharajah Duleep Singh, died oo Saturday morning at a quarter-part bat Abingdon House. Kensington. THE REPRESENTATION OF MONTOOMERTSHIRE. An address toe just been issued to the electors of the Montgomeryshire boroughs, soliciting their votes for , representing the boroughs in parliament, in the room of their late representative, Captain Jobosou, by the Hon. Charles Banbury Tracy, brother to the to lieutenant of the county. and son of the late Lord Sudsier. The present Lord Sadsley, it will be recollected, con. tested the representation of the county with Mr. Wynn last year, on liberal principles ; so that the present can didate his the advantage of being known through Lis family to the eoessituency whose confidence be asks. It is under stood that them will be opposition offered, and a member of the Herbert family is spoken of as likely to be put forward by the Tory party. TONBRIDGE SCHOOL. The visitation of the &inure' Company, who are the governors of the school. sod the distribution of the prism, took place in the old building, for the last time, on Wednesday. By April next the new buildings will be occupied, and the visitation will take place is them. Tonbridge School has existed now for 310 years, baring been founded by Sir Andrew Jodde, Lord Mayor of London in the reign of Edward VI., and parte of the original structure have stood through all that period, im mediately facing the London-mad. As might be expected, neither the schoolrooms nor the dormitories are at this time commensurate with models requirements. The foundation storm of the new building was laid in May last. The school has takes its position among the rising schools of the present day, and has this year signalised itself by gaining four first classes, red two sebolusbiu of importance, besides minor diatioctione, at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. A PORTAGE STAMP CHURCH. —A church has re cently been erected at Kilburn, In a peat measure by means of postage stamps collected on appeal from all England. but there is some difference between those who were the pro moters of this postage stamp movement and the mamas tical authorities upon the subject of the charge for pew rents and the appropriation of fro meats. A few days since Mr. Donald Nicoll, on the PA of the mestere!' society of St. Mary. Kilburn, in which district the church is situate, attended before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Whitehall-place, and protested, in the drat plus, against the pew recta being charged at 365. per seat, when it was un derstood they were only to be 25e. at the st ar ti ng o f eubecrip tines. He also insisted that there should be 300 sittings, with the word Free" thereon, and not all at the back of the Unroll, three appropriated under twenty in number neer the pulpit being wholly inadequate for the deaf and infirm poor of the district. The commissionen bare taken time to deliberate upon the question, and there is reams to believe the requests will be granted —Observer. AN ANCIENT ROMAN RING.—Some time since • small finger ring. of very pure gold and antique workman ship and ornamentation, was picked up in a garde. in the Upper Brooks, and came into the possession of Mr. Edward Brown, jeweller, of Winchester. by whom it wu submitted to Mr. Edward Hawkins, Mr. Waterton, and other eminent antiquarians, with • view of esoertaining its date, and the meaning of marks, lee., upon its outer circle. The result of the inquiries proves it to belong to tbe Roman period. pro. bably of the time of Constantine the Great. The device upon it is the Christian monogram rudely scratched. The I four dote , which make a part the design, intimate four of the wounds of oar Lord the fifth dot was in the middle, bat as it is somewhat obliterated by the cross, at first sight it is almost imperceptible. Mr. Waterton, of London, who possesses a very lane collection el action, rings, has be come the owner of this retie of Roman personal °moment, which. from its size. *Dee was undoubtedly worn by • lady. It is too small ever to have fitted any door belonging to one of the ender sex. —Hosts Adeerkser. CRYSTAL PALACE. -4IA LF-A•CROWN DAY. ••••- SATOIDAY, ROGUST I.—Admissions on isaymut, 2,874 ; mite by soon *Ws, 2,366 ; kola, 6,229, EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova own PARIS, SUNDAY Evainso. It is worthy of remark that while in certain quarters hopes are entertained that Prussia, yield ing tardily to good advice), may play a useful part as a mediator between the three powers and Russia, the Moniteur (of this day, Aug. 2) gives insertion to a correspondence pointedly contradicting this view, and speaking of Prussia in most severe terms. This correspondence, dated Weimar, July 24, quotes for reproduction in the Moniteur an article of the Deutschland, which, after speaking with high praise of Austria, goes on as follows : When we turn our eyes toward. Prussia, the anti-German and anti-national policy followed by an egotistical govern ment fills us with the most melancholy forebodings. How much good might not Prussia have done if she had striven in concert with her German neighbours to exercise a salu tary pressure upon Russia, instead of giving her a moral rapport by equivocal inaction! The influence of Prowls as one of the partitioning powers could not have failed to have produced desirable modifications in the conduct of Burin towards the Poles. But now, on the contrary, we find Prussia diverging farther and farther from the path traced out for her by nature and MOOD, and seeking her safety In the sterile and dangerous friendship of Russia, while we are unwillingly involved in the dangers of this Line policy. But what could we expect from the foreign policy of a government which has so cruelly deceived those hopes and desires which the entire German nation so reasonably enter tained The France, notwithstanding its pacific tenden cies, notices the insertion of the above article in the Moniteur sea fact " the importance of which does not require to be pointed out." We read in the Opinion Nationale, the leading war journal : Ws reproduce, in the hope that it will be contradicted, the following news put in circulation by the independence Beige:—" It is reported that the Duke de Moray has non. gratulated 11. de Clirardio of the Presee on the talent with which be has maintained his thesis (that there ought to be no war) on the Polish question." The France continues to deny—this time by im plication—the persistent assertions that the Em peror was going to a naval review at Cherbourg. The statement was that the Emperor was to go to Cherbourg after the Pin races, which take place before the 15th of August, and that with a view to his Majesty's presenoe, Admiral Penaud had been appointed to command the iron-clad fleet. The Prunes now says that the true state of things is this : The temporary command of the ships now at Cher bourg for the purpose of being tried devolves upon the maritime prefect After certain trials now in pro gress shall have been terminated, the vessels ap proved of will be formed into a squadron of evolu tions under the command of a rear-admiral. It is then that Vice-Admiral Penaud will go down as an inspecting officer to make his report to the Minister of Marine ; but his inspection will not commence till the end of August or the beginning of Septem ber. The inference intended to be drawn from these statements is that there is no foundation in anything going on at Cherbourg to countenance rumours of war. The Emperor is expected at St. Cloud from Vichy on Wednesday, August 5. THB "FEMALE BLONDIN" DISASTER. The following correspondence is published in the Daily Poe : Whitehall, July 29, 186.3. Gentlemeo,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to inform you that a memoria l , very numerously sign; bee been addreseed to him on the subject of the dcath of the unfortunate woman who was killed in contequeoce of the breaking of the rope on which she was performing at • ffte rcosntly given iu Aston Park ; and I am to express Sir George Grey's hope that, after this melancholy ocerv. tense, you will not allow a repetition of such dangerous performances to the perk. ain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 11. WI ixxGrox. The Directors of Aston Park, Birmingham. Birmingham, August 1, 1863. Sir ' —1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo, informing the directors of the Aston Hall and Park Company that Sir George Grey has received a memorial very numerously signed, addressed to him on the subject of the death of the unfortunate woman who wu killed in coaiequence of the breaking of the rope on which she was performing at a fete racially given in Anton Park, and you express Sir George Grey's hope that, after this melancholy occurrence, the manage-, will not allow a repetition of such dangerous performances in the park. I am requested by the managers to say that they concur in the sentiments contained io the memorial referred to. . —.-- --- The manager, have endeavoured, sa far u possible, to provide healthful recreation and instruction for the people. On the melancholy oeusion referred to, the managers bud let the park for a charitable purpose, and omitted to reserve to themselves any right to control the performauces. (Signed) WILLIAM Lucy, Chairman to the Company. H. Waddington, Esq., Whitehall, London. " We learn from Coburg," says the Pru.ssian Moniteur, " that the Prince and Prineess Royal of Prussia are to arrive on August 15th at Tallemourg, to peas some time with the Queen of England." "The Duke of Malakoff,"says tbeConstitutionne/, " who recently arrived io Paris from Algeria, has Ramo up his residence at the palace of St. Cloud, with the Duchess, and will remain there during his two months' leave of absence." The Courrier dit Dintanche hears from Athens that the siogle Russian ship of war which was in the Pirwua has received orders to loin the squadron in the Baltic, and that, in oonsequeeoe, the Russian detachment of Marines which guarded the bank of Athens, conjointly with French and English forces, bas been withdrawn. A violent fire has just devastated a part of the chateau of Hornowitz (Austrian 13ohemia), belonging to the Elector of Hesse. The prince had bees for some weeks residing on the property, and directed in person the opera tions of those engaged io getting the fire under. Bunforaic or TASMANIA. —The Right Rev. Dr. Francis Russell Nixon, who is now in England on leave of ' absence from his diocese, will formally ramp the Bishopric of Tasmania ea the 19th inst. The gross income of the see is 1,4001. a year-1,0001. derived from oolooial funds aid 4001. from the Colonial Bishoprics Fund io London. The diocese includes Van Diemen 's land and Norfolk Island, with an extent of 27,000 square miles arid a population of about 80,000. It contains about 70 clergy. Damao EXPLOIT BY • SRA NAN. —On Friday a party of gallon, ohms from one of the vessels of the Channel fleet, visited the Scott monument in Edinburgh. On felleb mg the upper balcony, which is about 20 feet below the pinnacle, one of their number volunteered to climb to the top. By the aid of the carved niches which decorate the Emil stage of this gothic pyramid, the daring fellow climbed up to the very apex, on which he stood erect, threw out his legs, pirouetted rou nd, and waved his cap, giving three cheers. The unparalleled feat was beheld by hundreds of spectators in Princes-street with the utmost astonishment and most painful alarm. The great altitude (about 15111.) and the slight and precarious footing the seaman had, me dared the exploit actually frightful to witness, for every moment he seemed likely to fall headloag on the buttresses of the structure. As he came down. • shipmate, challenged by the scones of his fellow, also began to climb ; but a repetition of the perilous feat was prevented by the keeper of the monument, who had hastened up. GALLANT Riscus FROM DROWNING DT • LADY. —We do not remember an instance of the medal of the Royal Humane Society being presented to a woman for rescuing from drowning one of heir own sex. But women are, no doubt, as courageous as men—in some circum stances, such as in sickness, far more so ; but it is no: often they have the opportunity of distinguishing them selves so as to command public recognition. A case of that kind, bag, however been brought under our notice by a St, lye's correspon dent. On Monday morning last amongst the ladies who bathed in the sea at Porsminster beach — one of the fine sand y bombes of the West Cornwall ooast— was a young lady who then made the attempt for the first time, and who, being of a venturesome disposition, and un aware of the run of the water, presently found herself in daoger, lost her footing, and was being carried out to sea. She commenced calling out, "Save me, save me !" The lipped was not made is vain, for another young lady. Nide Venning, hastened to the rescue. At much personal risk, and after a desperate 'trouts, she gallantly succeeded is bringing to the shore the senseless lady. Happily, the young lady soon revived, and is now doing well. This is a case worthy the attention of the Humane Society.—Waterti Morning Proms, PONTEFRACT ELECTION.-(THIS DAY.) (BY =ACT= AND nninwariomm. rnisoura.) LEEDS, MONDAY MORSIN, Major Waterhouse has been returned without opposition. Sir E. W. Head issued an addreas ibis mon k ios announcing his retirement because the liberal limas% was divided. ATLANTIC ROYAL MAIL STEAM NATIOATIOS COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) This afternoon, at one o'clock, the adj ourned annual meeting of shareholders was held at the London Ts. Tern ; Mr. CHAPMAN in the chair. The following report wee read : "The directors have the satisfaction of announeinoa the shareholder' the remotest of the contract iiel a ," her Majesty's government and the complain, 03 , firmed by a special resolution of the House a' Commons, for the performance of the postal service Mt.. % Galway and North America, for the annul subsidy d 78,0001.. the 18th of August instant being fixed as the ds, for the first ship to leave Galway. This result has h e y effected after long and ardor= struggles ; and although tt, directors regret the delay which has occurred, the cori a . spoodence and papers which havebeen laid before parlanamt will show that they have done their utmost to obtain so eu lier restoration of the contract, and the rexenmencemeet the service. The directors have also the satisfectlen tc state that the four slWps intended for the performance 4 this service have been entirely refitted, and are now io tj. most efficient state for ensuring a full and faiti ful performance of the mail service. The directorr cannot but think the announcement of these lac. will be hailed with satisfaction, not only by th e s h ari 6 oldei : , who have so long and so patiently submitted to the dalsy and 1031 occasioned by the suspension of the contract of 1859, but that Ireland geoerally will be gratified at the IF establishment of this important line of coma stamen, directly from her shores to the Nortb Amer:can Continent. Them. poetesses and edvantages of this line, both in a political sad commercial sense, cannot be too highly estimated • A tley be limited to Ireland alone, but Engl a nd sod lend vii equally participate in th em ; as it is obvious that a n y crease in the facility and rapidity of communication Estee, the British Islands and America cannot fail to promote thi extension of personal intercourse between the two cousin s; and most necessarily tend to the general benefit of com mercial interest:." The CHAIR/SAN. in moving the adoption of the remit, said he regretted the delay which had taken plac e since Ma negotiations with the government for the renewal of g o contract coalmen. ed. The directors were not, homey'', responsible for that delay. He would rather speak of their future prospects than of the past. They had so. a fleet of as fine vessels as ever traversed the ocean The Adriatic, which 'inked Kingstown Harbour. was the admiration of all wto raw her. Thr Hibernia would mil from Galway on the 10th ion with every prospect of emcee& With regard to the harbour of Galway, there was room for improvement whin 6 hoped would be effected. The directon would do all their power to make the undertaking a profitable one, at, he hoped that after paying a good dividend to the pry ference, there would be something for the original thaw. holden. He could not sit down without noticing it. generous support which the undertaking had maned is Irelatid. (Heat, hear.) The motion having been seconded was put and mired unanimously. The retiring directors and auditors were reelected. A vote of thanks was passed to Alderman Reynolds, and n ia proceedings terminated with the usual compliment to tie chairman. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting wasbold this mornin g at the celiac Dake-street, Weetruinater ; Mr. W. Ur, is the their. The report baying been read, The Chairman, iu moving the adoption of the report, said he thought the shareholders would consider it very ntisfactory. The dividend was raised from 21 to 3 per cent., which, if maintained in 1863, would be six per out. for the year. He then entered into some explain. thane respecting the working arrangements with the Loudon, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and the Etrightee Railway, and concluded by expressing the satisfaction the directors at the position of the company. Mr. BUGS seconded the adoption of the report, which having been agreed to, a dividend in accordance with the directom* recommendations was declarrd. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro needing'. ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY The following report of the directors for the half year ended oa the 30th Junehat, has just bete eased : "The d irecton areagain enabled to report that the condition of the undertaking is t itiafactory. A considerable extes don of the company's system, amounting to 784 milted lies, and 2,666 miles of wire, ha. takes place sine the first six months of 1862, and necessarily disturbs a comparison with the traffic and expenditure of that period. This expounds has not yet produced its full result, and the depressed state of Ireland his prevented as large as addition to the revenue as would, under ordinary eircomstease, have accrued from the opening of thediret route between Cork sod London. The reduction of ds tariffs dos June, 1882, has also, as anticipated, retarded the progressive advance of the company's income ; but at 6 great many of the stations unaffected thereby there in slight improvement., and from the extensive area ore which the company's operations are carried on, there is at aggregate of Morels. From the condoned traffic a stead! enlargement of business satins*, and in consequence of or ten modifications which the Austro-Germanic Telegraplii Union have adopted, there is reason to hope for a furthe considerable development of this important feature of tb comp_ny's traffic. Under su.k a vat ying neediest of cir cumetsoces, it is gratifying to state that the of Ub company, from all source, amounts to 117,210/. 4s. Bd. exceeding that of the cos respooding six months of 1862 by 14,8431. 4 lid. The working expenses have increased cos siderably, and the proprietors were 'noticed, at the lad meeting, that ao extended area, with lower rate, would necessarily pmduce this result. Where iticresesi business is trisected at a reduced remuneration, the per sang, of working charge to receipt must proportional's , advance. The expenses under the heads of salaries, wage, rents, and stationery, exceed those of the corresponding sa months to the extent of 3,7801. The chief increase, hot. ever, is in the maintenance of your lines. This amounts st 6,3731., and however large it may appear, year directed believe that it would be an unwise economy to allow ea portion of your system to deteriorate. The attention c the board is earnestly directed to the subject, and tb outlay will be carefully watched. In pursuance a the policy approved by the proprietors at the last meeting, the directors have charged the balance of iiv peoditure on the additional wires to Liverpool and Mee cheater against revenue. After making every provision fir the working expenses and interest, the net surplus of proB on the six mouths amounts to :r.voilt. 17.. ad., and row directors recommend • diedend of 31. 10a. per ,sat. for the half-year. As the newly crested shares (31 paid) tan dividend pen roam with the stock, this will at. sorb 33,0681. 2s. id., and leave a balance of 6,00. 14e. I Id., to be carried to the credit of the test had. This food, as the proprietors Sr. aware, has bees marl' , ex hausted in the new cable to Holland, and your directors cannot too strongly advocate its early restoration, as nese. eery for the comm ', a' future practice. The Atlantic Tekgraph Company having determined to lay another cable from Ireland to America, invited the co-operation of your board. Looking to the important bearing which such s communication must exercise 00 the future prosperity of the Electric Telegraph Compare), your directors deter• mined oa taking an interest in the undertaking on yrs behalf to the extent of 1,001., and one of vent directors has in consequence accepted • seat at the board of that company. The large and convenient accommodutios which you now pewees in the offices is Telegraphetrect for the sgeneral purposes of the company, having rendered unnecessary the occupation of such extensive premises se Founders'-court, your directors have availed themselves d the present demand for central offices to dispose of the lease of the larger portion of those buildings, including the great ball. The sale of the lease will realise 16,0001., and the company will at the 11•030 time be relieved of a heavy ground-rent. Sufficient accommodation is reserved for the public as at present, and for a section of the swine staff." LA NCASHIRI AND YOB KRHIR Z RAILWAY. —lt has been decided to recommend. to the proprietors. at their next westing. to declare a dividend for the half-year out it the nett revenue at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum, lea Mon ne tax. THI WINCHBUROH RAILWAY AMIDE:47.-51r. James Shaw, roe of the sufferers by the Witchbarg acc!• dent, expired from the effect of his injuries, at his fethas residence here, oo Thursday afternoon—the day after the decision of his action against the Edinburgh and Glue/ }Wilsey Company. Mr. Shaw had been gradually *Mira( since bat examination by commission the previous week, ASZ Nu so exh►usted on Wolpealsy evening that the verdict is his case could not be communicated to him. In fact, he ma quite unconscious before the news reached Falkirk.—ldis . Oomph Courant. THE LEEDS )(ORDERER. —An official intimation was received ►t York Castle on Saturday warping. intium i t' isg that the sentence of death passed upon John Gair st the recent maims for the murder of Alice Gair, alias English. a$ Leeds, had been respited during her lilvjesty's pleasure. It will be remembered that the jury who fulled (lair guilty recommended him to merry, on the ground of the provocir Lion he had received, and that after be had cut the woman' throat he inflicted so deep a wound on his own that his life was despaired of, but that by careful cargical and medical treatment in the Leeds General infirmary he so for re• covered as to be able to take his trial et the SIMMS is July. In all probability the capital sentence will be mitigated into penal servitude for the remainder of the convict's life. THI SUNDAY BANDS IN Till PARKS. --- The eighth season was brought to a clam yesterday evening. An extra performance is anpouscod for Sunday next, who' the hands will give their service in aid of the band fund for the commencement of the next season.