The Express. — London, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

MBE DAILY NEM I LONDON MORNING •11r.,74512r.Zirisa ale. %TM: missima a aa.. Is toe anent aril who el Ps pownil sm-lp Op roam el IP lownparle. Pr wiled pierlO• NW ommerag Pfte p main = mid to I. gm •Wr. alkay. asd memo Mkihria-tilas gaer I li lin. --AT—..rjaltrire VIM /Alt a l i t e l lIIII I. I= NA Is II by 'MT TES # II WPM MI6 IP PI Pim IT ILICI.3.e.OITMIIITI LDTIZTIMIIIITIL It b.p.ip, sagoimaik rms. lit nun Pr gal rtaile Zad IN a:::r 1 1 411 Meerut oi. el Lt damp at a••=ilk• kbokaa: la .I' ILIA la lie pupe t =tog pis at • PIO. MP ammo OWO imple mia/ le II arpr ia. gsmlN. pill Is Yaws bil 140•118* order. THE DAILY NEWS dalitarad to all parts of Os 11Imbiorl fig aid idirA wo la; a Mel ea paid la a• id wit bt =6 W. • Vie expreoo%. TO CORRISPONDINTS. sairebenime 'assorted 108 "Mt tepeem." Lambe Ibeskei wee. met be at Ow Mee. le. leaveulreleseb bf Te• Me* ea ,10 OF al pshlistear Tin Swum. TICIIIIS.-111ACII.ItilD OVIAN. Nam?. r ortro.. ins it. cum. tat .111tman—Avl THU Acrrursor ALL wean. Loma Midi QuloarOsesire at T. ,1111 Tor arastos. LIVING TOO VAIBT.-AM to SWIM I • PR C. Ilea -Dan • r 11711.11 T. trm Itvasno. MARANIMLLO. Mum A. BMA aml O. Dad; Min Lama MATMIMAM. Mt. Mammos; IM/ m.Ol , - And THIG QUAlLSlL—Cceamcsee m 7. NIGH WATIR AT LONDON BaIDOIL Two DAr -Manua& IL 41a. Mona" ft. Us. feaseasw-Ilintai, aft.—..—Alarara. Mr LONDON, Y, AUGUST 6. Ox the 24th of July was held the half-yearly meeting of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, and within one month from that date the proprietors of various railway undertakings, representing an aggregate capital of some three hundred millions sterling, will have gone through the periodical reception of the accounts and reports of their respective boards—who are nominally their stewards, but really their dictators. During many successive half years we have insisted upon the ne cessity of shareholder being vigilant and even exacting upon these, the only occasions when they have a voles in the management of their property. Of late years many abuses of the railway system have been remedied, many jobs zipped in the bud, much wasteful expenditure and rivalry prevented, and a higher standard of official morality established. All this implies progress and although we could wish to see it more rapid, railway proprietors have every cams to derive encouragement from the reforms already effected. Every one of our great companies needs close watch ing, but in comparatively few of them do the glaring SCUMS of the olden time still linger. The Brighton Railway Company occupies an en viable position amongst the other kindred under takings of the kingdom, inasmuch as its territory is well defined, and the line enjoys remarkable immu nity from competition. Whilst some other great companies are for ever jealously on the watch, and concocting every possible devke with a view to thwart each other, the Brighton is so happily placed that, with ordinary care and a moderate degree of forbearance on the part of its adminis trators, it need never be brought into actual hostility with any other line. The directors, one might expect, would consequently be enabled to concentrate their attention upon that most useful and legitimate Held of exertion, viz., the promotion of traffic and the enforcement of a jedo dons economy in every department. And it is mainly owing to its peculiarly fortunate sit that the public have ever regarded the Brightest Railway Company ea the one that ought to set the example of practically solving that long agitated and most vexed question—Can a railway close its capital account and continue to pay a remunerative rate of dividend? The whole subject of railway accounts, involving as it does so many venerable abuses, has long excited the grave consideration of far-seeing persons. Railway capital is incessantly growing, until at length the expenditure of many ocupleim has reached an aggregate frightfully in enema every original calculation; and still the cry ag directors is for more money. Were the object he which these additional funds are required the sem @traction of new lines and branches, the Me INA be bad enough, since these almost invariably tend reduce the profits of the parent undertakings; but is too many instance' the never-ceasing expenditure is for account of old lines, or old portieres of a line, every expense connected with which has been long capable of accords definition, and the capital account of which ought years ago to have been finally closed. Bat this would not suit the policy of directors, who keep the various accounts ingeniously mixed up together, with the express object of mystifying the shareholders and the public. Directors of railway osequaies dearly like the power of handling and waling money belonging to other people, and may time be considered, by mere virtue of their offiee, systammtla opponents of all proposals for closing the mpital account. We will not go so far as to say that in acting thus they have all some private object to promote ; bat there are many "wheels within wholes in that complicated piece of machinery, our reds way system. Certain active and mains matins of a beard may have a direct interest in pertisnier arrangements without feeling themselves ander tee necessity of " making a clean breast of it" to their colleagues. Then at every large board there ie a quiet section, that rarely speaks, but merely votes I and shows itself, except in rare instances, subser vient to the presiding master minds. It is too true that there are many ways of indirectly bribing a man who would boil over with virtuous indignation at the bare idea of such a thing. In the majority of cases why are directors so anxious to be elected, except for the sake of the influence, patronage, exclusive informa tion, and other " pickings," which are regarded as appertaining of right to a seat at a board? Verily we have a fear that if the public could penetrate the aroma of the board-rooms of many (even the greatest) of oar public companies, and see the sestet springs of action of each individual dinette, they would be tempted to wash their heads of ell participation in joint-stock enterprise. It is indeed strange, but no lem true, that kw men ere to be trusted with the handling end metrelling of joint stock fonds. And thus it is that in the natural growth of abuses railway ex penditure les mounted up to a height whisk threatens in ammo, cases to personmettp arc tingeish all bops of a fair return. A railway Bier taking which woad have been highly profitable et • east of Ire maims, and even moderately se illl thaw if my seven and a half mdllions, will eakkit•lmg karma result when, by the extremism tear Illismagistest, and pugnacity of the board, with their friends the lawyers, engineers, and cot tracton, the total east is raised to ten or twelve mil- lions. In these remarks we design no particular, but rather a general applization, and are merely desirous of pointing ant one of the most flagrant abuses to which the IMMlNlanerative character of British rail way properV is mainly attributable. In instancing the sass d dm Brighton Railway Company we by 1111111111111 truncate that its present direction are easeabie =imputations of the nature indicated. But new that mot persons are agreed as to the light in =ltimit the practice of constant additions to 1 Whig capital is to be regarded, we can net hip thinking that the Brighton Board tie immiesitting a mistake in asking power to lasrseesthe capital by 200,000/. Comparatively a short time ago it was almost universally anticipated that the Brighton Company would set the laudable and diatin= ra iininaple of closing its capital eallarede and charging every expense wig rearm The powers of the Company, under VA exiling acts, refer to a total of 7,800,000/, sad at this entire has been expended, with the exception daas of about 1,0001. During the last half-yea die want thus argnegriated has been about 0,0001. CI a portion mews= have been spent on the pew 1 meeesi way, a chap which in the present ease angitl surely to ha s been defrayed out of revenue. di=elated, a fresh sum of 200,0001. is now sad, se a matter of course, sanctioned by the ledulgent proprietors. When the Board are ,shed what they mean to do with so large an amannt, they own naively that they do not at pre ant know, but that they think it better to go to Parliament for a good round sum, in order to save the expense of further applications in the same Iplider. They at the same time refer to =vied points at which increased station IR ether accommodation is required, "to meet the necessities of an expanding traits; es the favourite board-room phrase MI& remarked Mr. LEO &ITOvTCR, the chasms 0 ems was a wooden viaduct at Shoreham, which genii require renewal ; and he might say, from his sagisden" that such structures required constant =se, =4 were a constant name of expense to keep in proper repair." We would ask, is this • eseatant expense" of repair and renewal always to be charged against capital? If so, the idea If finally closing the Brighton Company's capital amennt may certainly be consigned to oblivion. ink we repeat, the shareholders do not act up to Sale real interest in thus tamely endorsing every ssememendaticas of the Board. Here is the ease of a magssy vrlieh in the last half-year has had a pew mimes of 3.10,000/., sad a net profit of 191,01111., yet lacks courage to invite tho con fident:* of investors by boldly putting a stop to the growth of "capital; and defraying oat of its immediate revenue a few comparatively alibi sums. We feel convinced that the closing If the espital account is synonymous with real aliammag in railway management, and would tend patty after a while to attract the attention of in tegers to the stock. Yet neither the Brighton nor coq other company seems inclined to make the salu -698141111•14almply because shareholders habi heft de es MaletCet bid them, anal directors like to have the control of shareholders' money. THE crisis in Turkish and Danubian politics, which we have long foreseen and foretold, has re curred. We have repeatedly said that the obstinacy of the British Amtlesado; in himself supporting, and making ResCIIID PACNA support, those func tionaries who were determined to put down the cause of the Union in the Principalities, not by fair means, but by the most gross violence and tyranny, would lead to the nullification of the Treaty of Par's, by giving France cause for backing out of it. Had the Union been fairly and honestly opposed, France could have recurred to no such extreme measure. It is the continual boast of the antago nists of the Union, that the Moldavian are averse to it. Why not, then, have left to the )loldavians the free expression of their opinions? Instead of this, Prince VOCIORIDas was made ruler of the country, for the sake of using every violence and trick in order to carry the anti-unionist vote. The proofs of his haring done so are too patent to be denied. By supporting Tooompiss in these prac tices, Lord RLDCLISTS has put it 4 .1 the power of the French Ambassador to charge the Porte with a breach of the conditions of the Treaty of Paris. And the French Ambassador is unfortunately right. H. THOUVENLL aecanlingly threatens to withdraw from Constantinople, which means neither more nor lets than a threat to withdraw altogether from the Treaty of Paris. The SULTAN could not of course abide by such an alternative, which would deprive him for the present and the future of the support of that army which so mainly contributed to the capture of Sebastopol and to the destruction of Russian power in the Black Sea. Lord ItEneurre has been for the last month pushing the Porte to this extremity. He has been combating the Union of the Principalities per . . . . . fa et Was; and he has been doing this under the plea that he wanted to strengthen the I'orte. We long ago pointed out that no strength which Turkey could derive from preventing the Union of the Principalities—supposing that possible—was at all comparable to the danger of alienating France from the SULTAN. This latter result has, however, been recklessly braved and provoked by Lord lien- COM and by RESCHID PACHA, until at the ulti mata threat of France to withdraw, the ground fails heath both, the Sumo( perceives his danger, and Guam Matsu, who hos been acting under imglish advice, is overthrown, and is compelled to Lave the place to his rival. The whole of this business is as disgraceful u it is antowsrd to the British Government. Our Ministers, le their support of VOGORIDES were illiberal, imp°. We, and insincere. It is all very well to twit the &sperror of the Falwell with being mach a stickler fee freedom of election in Moldavia, and with setting the letter of it at nought at home. But surelyimfge Lad ought not to screen its own duplicity WAN! lb* it a despotic power, compelled by the ihimmomi ape which it has entered to dire and esteems =p ow& The words of Lord CLLIVIDON, and iho pe. ethillottbe Treaty, wen that the Priacipsilmoshould he Mei esimalted. If it was impreiall Meeeelt Hems ths premise should not have been mods But I ash, it ought to have been honestly hope, ape d* by such a country as England. HUH in the West we may understand and perhaps excuse the ihilifiendua al electioss, but people in the East arc lambs And when they see England promising • bonen ety, and then striving to cheat the Danu bian odd it the next, they cannot but settle down into the belief that England is that lase and Machiavelli@ country which continentals have so long taken the pains to depict us. We Ma this wrong, we commit all this illibo = ha ibe brink with all that is patio& mai awl oelightesei ba the Leveller...Ow mist =To &engem Ibe WWI el rPods field inhume Seems Ile 'MY Dives AeliwW la the my 11411 mall desalt* bat egalkigar cam fkkali b erior ear own ban- --•- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1857. esseln the Dino, and hind over all influence and aufkority in Turkey to our inveterate enemies. Polity wilisortidghted is scarcely to be conceived. The dominant idea with Lord REDCLIYIE and Lord Pm-Amu - yes luta been, notreally to strengthen the Turkish empire, but to concentrate all power at Constantinople--u if that were strength. The true strength of the Em • would be to attach the out lying p the Government—not sacrifice Ihem thereto, and thereby render them disaffected and weak. Gratify the fair demands of the Principa lities, and they will be bulwarks for the defence of Turkey. Disappoint, trick, despoil, and discontent them, and you have provinces which, like Lombardy in Austrian possession, require an army to keep them. And for what purpose do we labour to concentrate all power at Constantinople ? On what does power there depend? On a corrupt Minister, or a capri cious concubine. If England lords it one day in the Bosphorus, France is sure to do so the next, and Russia, we may be sure, will hare its turn. No one can be sure for twenty-four hours of the colour or policy of a Turkish Government. It was moat important at the present moment, in the face of an Indian mutiny, and with the probable resuscitation of the Persian war, to keep a Turkish Minister in power who was the friend of England. Instead of keeping this in view, we stir heaven and earth against the Union of Moldavia and Wallachia—as if that were a question of either vital or secondary importance. Yet to it have been sacrificed the vizierate of RFACHID and the influence of our Am . bassador. Never, surely, was there so complete an exemplification of the sacrifice of the grande poll tips to the petite. TEA MILITIA. This morning was issued the bill presented by Lord Putnam, iatiteled "An Act to Authorise the Em bodying of the Militia." The bill is as follows " Whereat, the sedan domed for the service in India of • large Jody of her Majesty's refoler forties may render it ex pedient to draw oat end embody the militis or some past of the militia of the United Kingdom; be it therefore enacted by the Qamm's most Excellent Majesty, by end with the advice sad Naiad el the lords spiritual and temporal, sad Commas, in this present parliament essembhd, and by the authority of the same, as follows " It shall be lawful for her blejesty, and for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland respectively, at soy limo after the pasting of this act, end before the 25th day of March, 18,18, to cause all or say part of the respective militias In England, Soutland, sod Ireland, to be drawn out end embodied in like manner as in the re overtire eases in which such militias are now by law autho rised to be drawn out and embodied. " All the provisions of the art relating to each respective militias, sad of all other acts now in force applicable for end in the case of the drawing out and embodying of such militias, In this cases is whkh tho men may now by law be drawn out and embodied, end to such respective militias when so embodied, shall be applicable for and in the eve ef the drawing out and embodying of such respective militias odor the authority of this act, cad to such militias when to mobadted. Provided, that so much of the acts relating to such militias as requires that a proclamation shall be issued for the meeting of parliament (if the militia be drown out end embodied when parliament shall be separated by an adjourn ment or prorogation which wiz not expire within fourteen days) shall not be applicable in the case of the militia or any pest thereof Ming &sea est and embodied under the authority of this act." This morning was booed also a supplementary army estimate for 1851-68, by which it appears that the probable amount required to defray charges for the embodied militia, ' to the 3lst March, 1868, is 200,0001. REPRESENTATION OF BIRNINONAN. BIRMINGHAM, Tt MAY. • A meeting of the liberal electors and noa-eketon waa bald in the Town-hill to-Eight ; W. Lucy, Esq., a ma gistrate of Ms borocigh, fa the chair. Several Arnaud pumas were present. Mr. Georg* Edmonds, clot of the prow, proposed a rase- Intka to the effect that John Bright is a fit and proper per son to represent the borough In parliament. Mr. AldermanMenton seconded the motion, observing that in his opinion they might search tho whole of England and not find a fitter man to mpreatet them in parliament than John Bright. Mr. P. A. Attwood moved a resolotion that Mr. Baron Dickinson Webster, of Pennamills, i. a fit person to sutured Mr. Manta in the representation. lie said that Mr. Web ster was in favour of the ballot, extension of the suffrage, sad triennial parliaments, sad well acquainted with the lw al requirements of the town. Mr. J. D. Goodman, chairman of the small-arum trade, seconded the ni*otion. Mr. Councillor Holland, Mr. J. B. Wright, Mr. George Demme, and one or two other geollecoon spoke io favour of Mr. Bright. Mr. Alderman Lowden supported Mr. Webster. On a show of hands being taken, nearly tho entire assembly declared to favour of Mr. John Bright; not more than two hundred binds woe held up fur Mr. Webster. The feeling of the mossibly was most enthusiastic in Mr. John Bright's Amor, and a committee was at oars formed to promote has deaden. IMPIESANTATION OP EARMOUTH. --...- On Saturday afternoon a conaervatirc candidate appeared in the field in the person of Sir Edmund H. K. Limon, R local brewer and banker, who sat for the borough from 1852 to 18j2. It is expected that a second conservative candidate will shortly appear. Mr. Adolphus William Young and Mr. John Make, Q.C., of the Midland Circuit, have published au addicts, in which they observe:—"Our political opinions are in sub stantial accordance with those of your late members, and if returned to parliament, we shall be prepared to give au indm support to the administration of Lord Palmerston. V ri shtll give our hearty assistance to any well-considered and ancient measure of parliaments reform ; and shall also in hope to aid carrying out to theirlegitimat e conclusion the great principles °ldyll and religious li ." Lest evening a second greet open-air meeting was held in front of the Star Hotel. Both the hen. candidata, were adopted by the meeting, which was afterwards addressed by Mr. M'Cullagh and other gentlemen. 81r James Weir Hogg has left the borough, and withdrawn altogether Irma tho contra. FOREIGN-OMM Arm. 3.—The Queen has been plowed to approve of Dos Bareaveh Gwen de Avelino& seaman' et Melte:fur the Ditcher Regent of Parma.—Gawere. SECRET SERVICIL—The amount required tide year for secret service 1e32,0 Oi. Tree. AUDIT•OPPICE.—Tbs sum required for the Audit-aim for the current year Is 38,6231, DITIITAL PALACL —olls titiILLINO DAT. Tyrone% Afo sr 4.—Adrakekets oa worst, 14,026; owe. by 1011,011 tube. , 461: 4ABLI wiWt5r5 . 14.477. LORD CAMPBELL'S vEs."—Wa nun the rederemen to Load sa =d, hunt with dr eseapadat e = be Erie, both et nil by Lend Cipher in de et as visa lin tim the "Una" billy by the Chit halm hen let in to lest at Unireela entaba: ad we bin le apse yid' Lard =OM die ranarits ere allbriek Inas% in all bay yanni ken eirebeere trier them design. Thera b astiinti . the genni nmetemea at the work which et nepihmen eneyesitien Orenieley the impart ment, dee aeiminta baatal, and lite stens el time =that., it la davit bewattoOkr ammo ea low bon enayond. 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OSBORNE, AVOINIT 4. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by mayoral of tba royal children ' embarked on board the Fairy yrotarday, and steamed up the Southampton Warm. The royal party returned to °abase at a quarter before 8 o'clock. Thodinnerparty included the Prineo of Leiningen and Countess Blusher, •ho has arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Me. Meaning, from Australia, had in interview yesterday with Mr. fiecretery labottchem at the Colonia-oft*. Despatches were reoeivel yesterday at the Coloaielsates from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Malta. VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH. The visit of the Emperor and Empress of French to her Majesty and the Prince Consort at OaWas will not, it la said, extend over this woek. It is understood that dozing the imperial visit there will be a grand review at Aldershott, to which her Majesty will accompany her Wom ble= visitors. It is not the intention of the Emperor to visit London during his stay in this country. The Counteax Wolowsks is to accompany the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Oeboi re, on the occasion of their Mtjestie► visit, the mink.' having received the honor? of a special levitation. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. At a meeting of the Town Council this day a reso lution was unanimously missed to the effect that the Council, having beard that the Emperor and the Empty of Frame, during thoir approaching visit to the Queen of England, were tikoly to visit the Exhibition of Art TIIGNOTIS at Manchester, their Maladies should be respectfully requeetod, if they pared through Southampton, on their way from Osborne to Manchester, to receive a congratulatory eddrem from the Mayor and Corporation of Southampton on the happy and auspicious alliance that binds Great Britain and France in the bonds of peace and friendship, to the great ed vantago of both countries, and of 0003IIIIIM and civilisation throughout the world. THS QUEEN OP HOLLAND IN LIVAEPOOL. LIVERPOOL, TUIRDAT. Her Majesty the Queen of Holland, accompanied by her son, the Prince Alexander, returned from Manchester, lent evening, after visiting the Art Treasures Exhibition, drove to Woodland', the residence of W. R. Sendbeth, Beg., whose guest her *jetty is at present. The dinner party included, in addition to the royal visitors and suite, his Wor• ship the Mayer, Fronds Shand, E,9., Mr. J. A. Tinne, Ste. To-day her Majesty was expected to root the principal places el interest in Liverpool, including St. Georges-halt, the Town-hall, Derby Museum, line ~f docks, te. She travels incognito, ender the title of Countess of Buren, with her youthful son Count Alexander. She returns to London on Thursday. The sojourn of the court in Scotland will not exceed six weeks. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the royal family will leave Buckioghato Palace, for Balmoral, on the 24th instant, and return to Windsor Castle on tho 16th October. _ . The Duke of Cambridge, as General-Coinmanding ia-Cbief, attended by the usual staff, left Ursa this morning for Aldershott, to i overt the troops in camp. The whole of the troops were orderol to be drawn up la the Long Valley at 10 a.m. The Duke of Dcroushire entertained a select circle at dinner last evening, at Devonshire Donee, Piccadilly. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough arrived in town yesterday, from Blenheim Howe, Oxfordshire, for a few days. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and Sunny left town yesterday for Scotland. The Earl and Countess Granville entertained a select circle at cPunor last crowing, at their madam in Drnton••trest. The Earl and Countess of Effingham return to town to-morrow from Brighton, when they hare been staying foe a short tima. The Earl and Countess of Erroll have left town few Scotland. Viscount and Viscountess Falkland will leave London in a fow days fur the Continent . Lord and Lady Calthorpe will leave town on Monday next for Perry Hall, B;rininghens. Lady Loftus Otway and Mrs. Captain Hughes bare arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. A matrimonial union it arranged to take place between Colonel Hogg, let Life Onarde, and Ml. Troughs Pennant, eldest daughter of Colonel and lay Louie& Douglas Painant. The following aro among the latest arrivals at Brighton :—Lady Illaden Capol, Sir W. and Lady Dal" Sr W. Booth, Sir Coorge and Lady Chetwynd, Sir W. C. Anstrothar, Sir J. sad Lady Maitland, Sir George and Lady Weetphall, the Dowager Lady Boynton, the Boa. Mrs. Talbot, the Prowl= Minister and the Countess von Bern stover, Lord and Lady George (lien, Admiral end the lion. Mrs. Mous, and Mr. A Beetle, M.P. It is stated that all the members of the East India Company's civil service at present on leave of absence, have, with the exception of the sick, Leen ordered to return • knthwith. James Cok, Ewi., has been appointed to the ppoc treasurership of the Kent County Courts, vacant by the death of late W. F. A Delane, Req. THE NEW READING ROOM AT TILE TIRITISE Mcseux.—Owing to the serious interruption of the studies of the readers, oceraion= by the numerous applications being made daily by strangers to view the new rradoug-room, tbs trustees have found it neeemisary to alter the time of admission, and have ordered that the public shall be admitted between the Lours of de and eight to clock in the evening, from the Ist to the 14th August inclusive, and no longer. FLORENCE NIGICTINGALE AND TILL FREEMASONS. —Lord Panmare, accompanied Ly Lord Detrham, Lord Leigh, Lord Goderich, Lord Lincoln, Lord Cornarvon, and a numerous party, visited Woolwich arsenal yesterday morn . fag, after which they repined to the Town Roll to attend a meeting of the Woo lwich Masonic Brethren, for the purpose of inaugurating a new masonic lodge, to be named the " Nightingale !Adv." The ceremony_ was performed by the new 1). Grand Muter. the Right Hen. Tool l'anmure, misted by Br. White, P.G. See., Br. J. B. Wilson, 0.D., Br. Fanifield, Asstd. 0. Sec., Br. Marren r.0.D., and a number of others, about 150 of the brethren being {recent. At the conclusion of the ceremony, which was impromively performed, Captain Forbes, of the Royal Artillery, was in stalled into the chair as the First Master, and the D.0.M., addressing him, mid that though the order did not admit la dies to its ceremonies, there min nothing to prevent their hailing from a lodge Leering the name of a lady who had left her home to perform a moat Christian, a moat flisinterestod, ',moat useful work, and thus carry into effect that truly ma. sonic virtue—Charity. lie felt that she had made a name that was confined not to a kingdom, but which wan as widely spread through the world as was the ancient craft of free meaourv. In the evening, a number of the brethren dined at the Crown and Anchor Tavern • hie lordship, however, was unable to attend, owing to hie ' duties in the HOW of Lords. Kosstrit,—A meeting was held at Glasgow on Monday evening, under the presidency al 11r. W. M'Adsea, in Lennox s Hotel, for the af making sr nuigersemb with the distinguished esils ie the delivery of a Were es the foreign relations of Greet Belli. A letter wee era Item /d. Kossuth, fa which he stated hi reluctance WNW* on the subjeet geepseed to him by the adage, end miggeeted the stety of ebeesteg another The subject be pepsietweesped le by he meet leg, and a emuntitine mild le he the astewery emememente tor the liedeen IlhatctiaNT VEINIZLe AT S&L The Admiralty bee Mead a chemise direadeg the eammanders of her Was tes eldpe es melte perisillsel Nemo of all emerelmed vessels they way meet et ses, elgelbleg doh mom by mere of the sew imemmerelal cede it *ads widerimed by the Beard ad Tula As very Breda leghlesed weed raw las, wed every heels' vend may have en egglltelleei a dletimedire slipal edam digs, whereby Mr mem pert, masa, tomer% end ether lars are indicated, It is le he entd that the di ll prove conducive to 01•111111•111111 inswing mem hispeat mid sweet reports y in shig Th her p ri althieguldsed b let the = B ll6 gyin fellinestie e n maybe semesmdeseed by arid mem adds is bid we may sedietontelnlawyd's Meths slip*. bidllipess tram Amelia so pordastly as hem he path has Utah Kleggem °MINIM IN POITIJOAL—LeVoin h um Lisbon giga7l; ;co rdart of eoleesa it With sere ner= sad Ober genies pieces et Ws" sin= =Mr utter bus Opens. lb wens of *OE:4 ens WPM, sad swag beet Ins nee= Amber lAD nip= to bare bats the Irby, bee esespiL Web( ems twin ea la ties Mese el erne et One pen= sad wet hen bees serbsesei su: s ie see= es En ern, es= esers by bur an, nen to men Os biplesessts ad nu orasay on sin= Lei innsdps, Irliel ere tem= is Palmed at ass nes seek in= bun Ws the chief measteetere, het Spud= mans nl baff-escoes of Chants ILL erns is hem& LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EVENTS IN INDIA AND THE EURO- PEAN POWERS. We read in the Paris Pays:—" Several English journals, speaking of the recent events in India, ac cuse one of the great powers of Europe of having by its intrigues excited the natives to revolt. These accusations appear to be devoid of foundation, and wo are soured that they are contradicted by an official document recently issued by the Governor- General of India himself. This document declares that the revolt was spontaneous, that it was pro duced by numerous internal causes, and that up to the present time no trace of any foreign excitation has been discovered." On the other hand, the Prase stateq, on the an thority of a traveller just arrived from Ems, that at a grand dinner given the other day, at which Rus sian Boyards only were present, the host proposed the health of the " Great Mogul," and that the tout was received with frantic applause. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (710)1 OCR OWN PARIS, Tremor EVIXTMO. A Council of Ministers was held at St. Cloud to- , day, previous to the Emperor's departure for Osborne House to-morrow. It is announced that his Majesty will return to Paris on Monday next. Baron Von der Pfordten, the Bavarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has just arrived in Paris. Marshal Bandon has been ordered by the Em peror to come to Paris for the fetes of August 15; and, accordirg to the Petrie, he will on that occa sion be created Duke of Kabylia. The programme of the faro, which appeared in the Moniker two days ago, was settled by the Emperor, who struck out the projected military entertainment of the taking of the Malakoff Tower, out of a desire not to of fend Russia. There will be a sham fight all the same, but the building on the heights of Chaillot, which was to have represented Malakoff, will be called a fortress in Kabylia. It is observed that the Kabyles live too far off to feel their self-love wounded by anything that may pass in the Champs I de Mars. The true reason, however, se ems to me that the Kabyles having no force to back up diplo macy me not likely to send an ambassador to com plain, for, as to the matter of distance, Kabylia is not farther off than St. Petersburg. General MacMahon will, beyond all doubt, be made a Marshal of France. The independonce states that Lord Cowley has complained of the absence of Vice-Admiral Trfi bonnet from Toulon at the time when he and Lord Lyons were there, and that, in consequence of the British Ambassador feeling himself slighted, the Minister of Marino has written a letter to the ad miral on the subject in the name of the Emperor. What may be the tenor of the letter in question does not appear, but it is suggested that Admiral TrOhouart may defend himself against the imputa tion of discourtesy by the fact that the Frer.cli squadron under his command was ordered away from Toulon before that of Lord Lyons arrived there. The reason assigned for this measure is that the French crews had been quarrelling with the garrison. The Bourse again opened with a favourable dispo sition, which was checked by the weakness of Con sols. The ltente closed, with very little business doing, at yesterday's price (07fr.) for cash, and at flifr. 20c. for account, being a fall of 10c. Mobilier fell 13fr. The railways were tolerably firm, but there was no material change in prices. The re port that the Council of State had refused to sanc tion the purchase of the Languedoc Canal by the Southern company was positively contradicted. This has been the hottest day of this very hot stammer. At two o'clock the thermometer marked Sti degrees and upwards of 1, equal to 951 of Fa renheit. From the appearance of the sky this evening a thunderstorm seems imminent. There Law been within the last few days several very Leavy storms in the south of France; and the ab sence of thunder in l'aris, after such a long con tinuance of heat, has been noticed as a remarkable phenomenon. The body of the late Prince de Canino arrived at Marseilles by an express train the day before yes terday, on its way for interment in the family vault in Corsica. It was accompanied by Prince Napoleon, son of the deceased; the Marquis del Gallo, and Count Primolli, his sons-in-law; M. Pektri," jun., and M. Bourcier, an old friend of the family. The Canon Casanova occupied a place in the funeral car, which bore the imperial aims. M. Beason, prefect of the Boucher-du-Rhone, was at the railway station to receive the body and the personages who accom panied it. Four horses were immediately attached to the ear, and proceeded to the extremity of the old port, where the coffin was embarked on board the Regain steamer, to be taken to Corsica. On Sunday the roof of the new part of the Louvre was ornamented with flowers, as an indica tion that the whole of the work has been fermi _ the , tutted. PIEDMONT. Generals llabormida and Pastore have set out from Turin for Alessandria, in order to direct the armament of that fortress. A hundred guns are to be sent from La Spezia forthwith. Marquis Ernesto l'areto, who had been arrested during the late d6turbances at Genoa, has been set at liberty. DEATH OF EUGENE SUE. A despatch from Turin, dated Monday, has just been received in Paris, which says that Eugene Sue died at Annecy, in Savoy, on that morning. UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OP WASHINGTON. (Jr MAGNETIC AND BUITIOH TELEGRAPH.) (riot OCR OWN LIVERPOOL, WZDNEBDAY. The City of Washington iron screw steam-ship, Captain P. E. Petrie, belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company, arrived in the Mersey at 10 am. She left New York on the 23rd ult., with 247 passengers, and 83,000 dollars in specie. The Cirevsia, hence, arrived at Newfoundland on the 22nd July. A despatch received at Washington from Kansas, states that a collision between the United States and free troops was regarded as inevitable. The commercial affairs at New York arc nearly the same as the last advices. Cottons firm. Bread staffs dull. Provisions steady. Freights unaltered. Engagements moderate. The Journal of the Two .Sicilia 'Wes that the eruption or Mount. Yen% ILLS continues, and that the lava is Sowing very slowly, following the direction which it took in 1855. It is generally thought tliat the eruption will te but a sheet ema. AUSTRALIA. DARTMOUTH, TurmAy. The passengers and mails have been landed here from the Swiftsure, Captain Price, which has made a passage of ninety-six days from Melbourne, and brings 60,000 ounces of gold. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. (IT KLONZT/C TIMM:MOIL) (Pll.Oll ova OWN CORRESPONDENT) VALENTIA, TruuAT EVINING. The laying of the cable was poatponed to day. If the weather continues favourable, operations will probably commence to-morrow (Wednesday.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS DAY. The brkokEntook the dint at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Tho Lords Amendments to the Oldham, A chtoo under Lye% sad Guido Bridge Junction Railways Bill wen coosidered and agreed to. The Duke of Bridgewater's Estate end Giustiniaore Naturalisation Bills were read a second how awl ordered to tecommitted. Mr. W. MARTIN presented sixteen petitions from hop. proprietors in Kent, praying that no alteration may be ma& to the Customs duties in hops. SALE OF OBSCENE BOOKS PREVENTION BILL. Sir E. PERRY in moving the second reading of this bill, explained that be proposed to go into committee, pro Anna, to-morrow, for the purpose se of i ntroducing certain emend ['lents which had been suggested by the government, and to which Lord Campbell, the author of the bill , bed AO objection. Sir G. GREY thought the course proposed by the hon. and learned member was a very proper one. The govern. meant certainly could not support the bill in this present form, bat the amendments to be instrtol tomorrow would remove the objections of the government, and render the more effective in its operations. The bill wan then read a second that and ordered to be committed tomorrow. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONS, &e., BILL. The committee on this bill was resumed, and the remain• Mg clauses hating t.een agreed to, the bill was ordered to be reported with amendments. SUPPLY. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Colonel NORTH sitked the tinder-Secretary tor War the FC46011 of sending only 140 men to Ito East Indict; as the complement of a troop of horse artillery, when the war cam. plement of such a troop is 2.13 men. Sir J. RAMSDEN said the artillery force under order. for India had been selected in the same way as all the other troops going oat. The troops were sent out in mi•pliaac• with • requisition from the East India Company to the home government. The requisition specified the number of the forces to be seat, and the num ber of each artillery company had ben FO arranged so to tiring it within the number mentioned in the requisition. Mr. SPOONER objected to go into committee until tome of the other orders were disposed of. hitherto it had low the understubding that the bills of private lumbers should take precedence on Weilneadny it, and, as there were Feversd important bills on the paper boday, he should more that the committee of supply be postponed until after order 12—the Elections l'etitiona Bill. Mr. W. WILLIAMS seconded the motion and ObPOTTOA that the Government appeared to think that the Louse had nu other 'business t o dispatch but disposing of %brie measures. Sir G. GREY reminded the house of the late period of the session, end said that wee why it was {imposed to depart from the ordinary rules. However, be hod nu objection to postpone the committee of supply witil after the other orders. The motion for going into supply was accordingly port. The petition of Cherie. Woolfni the witness committed to Newgate Ly the Great Yaroamtlielection committee, wee taken into consideration, and the prisoner orilead to be released from c *study. The Burial Acts Amendment Bill was read a third time and psesU. Tfie Summary Proceedings before Justices of the Prue Bill, the Metropolitan Police Stations, Bill, and the Bolusdarks of Burghs Extensiu (Scalded) Bill were con sidered end ordered to be read a third titer. The Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Bill was reed a third time and passed. ELECTION PETITIONS BILL. Mr. SPOONER tooved the third reading of this bill. Sir O. GREY could not allow the bill to pass in its pee emit form; arid ho had, therefore. DO alternative but to more es an amendment that it be read a third time this day three months. Mr. MALINS recommended the lion. member for Note Warwickshire to rest contented with having affirmet the principle of the Lill; it was quite hopeless to think of perfecting its details this session, and it would Le belts to defer it till neat year. After • few words from Mr. IlrieLev, who condemned the machinery of the Lill, and Mr. Ntweguare, the amendment was agreed to without a &Melon. LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. MALINS moved the myna reading of this Lill. Lord It. GROSVENOR explained thet the Lill would have the effect of repealing en act paased lost session, when by Sir T. M. Wilson, the lord of the manor, was precluded from isolating and building on llanipstesil-heath. Re moved as an amendment that the Lill be read a second time this day three months. Mr. Sl'OONElt declared that the idea of Sir T. M. Wilson intending to enclose liumpetcel.hesth anise out of an entire misapprehension and great injustice had thereby been done to that gentleman. The heath could not Le en eland without the express authority of an act of parliament neither the Court of Chancery, nor any other tribunal but the imperial legislature could confer such a power upon Sit Thomas Wilson or any . .me else. The simple effort of this bill was to afford relict in a case of injusUce where jostles could not be obtained without it, mid none of its peevish:ea had the remotest reference to Ilameetead-heath. Mr. I. BUTT on the other hand, contended that eh was a public bill for the private relief of Sir Thomas WO. son; it disturbed a settlement deliberately made last remits. after tho most mature consideration, and ought on that as count alone to he thrown out. The care of injustice, If there was any, should be disposed of by a private bill. Mr. HENLEY uppend the bill upon its merits, Steeped. five of the MOO of Sir Thomas Wilson. Mr. NAI'IEIt considered the rights of property should be made sa free as possible. It was necessary that it should he so, for the interest of society at large ; and u such would be the effect of this bill, he felt bound to support it. Sir D. NORREYS said, had it na been for the Hamp stead-heath delusion, Sir Thome, Wilson never could have been debarred from his lust rights. Mr. W. WILLIAMS observed that the Metropaiten Board of Works were anxiou to conic to some arrangement with Sir Thomas Wilson, in reference to IlanipsteeL.Ustk: but this bill passed there would be an end of the wail* lions. (liter, beer.) Mr. MaLtea and Mr. WHITS>IDE supported the bill at some length, and insisted that the loud is reference to which it would afford Sir Thos. Wilson relief was far away from liampstead-heath, on the Fincbley- road. It was Sir 1 home. Wilson's interest and. wish that Ramp. steed-heath should be kept open. [Left sitting.] The Society of Antiquaries of Vienna hoe decided that henceforth ladies may be admitted aa members. We reed in the Brussels Lidepurlance:—. On Sunday his Excellency Fernith Khan and his suite, axe* ponied by Baron Fauna, were present et the concert at the Zoological Garden. The Ambassador of the Shah had brought his wargsili with him and smoked all the time tad he was seated. His presence, as usual, exalted much curiosity. His pipe war, by his order, enema to saved persons who sat near, and who took a few whiffs with car siderable energy." It is stated (says the Petrie) that M. Misstate tbe Director of the • Ilippodrome, has been c harged by the Emperor to construct a vast hippodrome at the camp d Chalons, large enough to contain 15,000 epectatore. Extras ordinary finis are to be given there, comprising chariot nark W0=110(121., and grand c pestritn excreiaes. M. Cutout has just published, in the lest numbs , of the Berne Ike Iker Moeilie, an article on " Belgium sal King Leopold to 1857," in which be expresses h is a pp rekr Sou of the reaolution come to by the ministers, and ma. timed by the King, relative to the bill on ehariLible ashes* lions; and, whilst recommending prudeure to the V trogi parties, the writer declares that, in spite of what him taken place, he does nut in thc heat anticipate any evil to Sokol because, though parties are divided, they sea all blow* the constitution and of Belgium nationality. THE WILL or N. CZEHNV.—It has been stated that the late celebrated Gannon composer, eserayi who d ied recently at Vienna, left the bulk of his fortune, which was considerable, to charitable end religious instituta 1,0 knowing whether or not he bad any relatives living. toe Lra directed that 20,000 florins should be referral 04 01.. e who in the course of six years may he able to prove Matter ship to hits. A life income of 600 dories is to be {Mel an old female servant who lived with him forty yawl= his other servants are to receive recompenses in ptufac..,_"' the length of their ordeal. He did not even fagot iw ahopman of his music publisher, having bequeathed ham IN Senna Ilia articles of jewellery, moat of which ware Pe" rented to him by royal and imperial personage*, be divided amongst his friends. SCOPENSION.—The suspension was savoing4 yesterday of Moors. Forster, Fly, Hall, and Co., S OO. and lientheater warehoureuten. heir lialailitiee am air ir posed to be rather considerable—probably over &) • an impteseloa mamas to prevail that the liquidations** .• very saferrareble.