The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-25 00:00:00

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Mc Waller Montgomery.—After %bleb LIND MI YIVI SHILLINGS. RILITANNLL TM ITEM', THE ANOEL OP PEACE. Mudrated by THE Okla 0908 T EFFECT; Protalsor Pepper's adaptation of Mr. Directs Tneentioa.—Yr. Parker and Mr. atoman.—Aud TOE DETECTIVE; of. TICKET Olf LEAVE. MOB WATRA AT IMSDOA WDGL MIDI DAT AITITATIRD. 20b 7e.. . Allmesse 10N. 501. 20-1101111011 lla. Ala... .A/brefee. OIL Om LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23. Waits the Congress of Sovereigns and the Con gress of Deputies in the busy and stirring city of Frankfort are debating the conditions of German unity in liberty, a Congress of Roman Catholic priests and laymen has been gathered together from all parts of Europe in the muatyold town of Malines, for the purpose, it should seem, of debating the possible conditions of political liberty in ecclesias tical unity. Belgium, marked out by its happy poli tical neutrality and its ease of accesato be the classic home of free international assemblies—the coun cil chamber when it is not the cockpit of Europe —was naturally selected for the meeting of a Con gress whose object was to reconcile the Church with liberty. For in Belgium, where, according to the charter of the kingdom, public liberty of conscience is smeared to all, the Roman Church is wealthy and powerful, and predominant in num bers, if not in the government or legislature of the State. In Belgium, as in all countries where thought is free, the intellect of the young generation is setting strong in an opposite direction to that of faith in ecclesiastical systems ; the men, it is true, are baptized into the Church before they can speak, married by the Church to satisfy the scruples of their wives, and buried by the Church because they have no choice; and that is the sum and substance of their rela tions with the Church ; it has no hold upon their active lives. They regard it as a vast machine far preventing the world from moving too fast.. They leave it to its own devices, and go their own way, believing nothing. Meanwhile the Church works upon the feelings of weak women, besieges death beds, manipulates wills, and counts no artifice un worthy of the great end and aim of recovering its lost domination. In Belgium the Roman Church is the Church of the majority, but as that majority is composed of the indifferent as well as of the believing, and as the Roman Church is wonderfully tolerant to all who remain within its fold and auk no questions, it has much of the moral authority without the temptations to oppression of a State Church. Not but that the instincts of oppression are there : the Church would persecute if it could, but being obliged to live in company with liberty, it feels its way to power by stealthy steps. The Church in Belgium, however, has its party in the Chambers, whose principal object is to lay bends upon the charities and the education of the country. Needless to add that if this party were in power, it would suppress all liberty but its own, and be prepared to sell the country to any foreign power in exchange for its own supremacy. We have only to look to the Roman Church as it is at Rome and in Spain to understand the sincerity of its respect for liberty in countries which it cannot enslave. At the Congress last week, indeed, liberty was the theme of all the orators, lay or clerical. Oar ewn Cardinal bore grateful and even enthusiastic wit ness to the generous indulgence of the English Parliament, and professed his confidence in the power of opinion and the justice of his counbi. He drew a brilliant and imposing picture of the increasing prosperity and strength of the catholic hierarchy in England ; of their religious houses ; their charitable institutions, their monastic eats bliahmenta ; and actually gave half the credit of these achievements to the genius of English liberty. Perhaps the Cardinal presumed somewhat on the probability that his audience knew nothing of the facts when be spoke of those excellent women the Sisters of Charity as the only nurses the English Government could obtain for service in time of war. There are sisters of charity in all churches and in all homes, but it was not permitted to a Cardinal to do homage to the name of Niornixo.a.r.. The lion of the Congress was M. Di MONTALEMBEAT, who, happily nornird ful of some former passages in his own public life— when, for instance, be declared to the National Assembly that France hungered for silence ; when he called for a Roman expedition at home, and in no doubtful language demanded a Coup &dot-- unmindful of these put errors, M. DC Moxturat• weer read to the Congress a magnificent apology for liberty of conscience, insisting more especially on the advantage to the Church of giving to others the liberty she claimed for herself ; though we observe that the eloquent orator forbore to advo este the principle of mutual toleration on its merits as one of the preceptsof the Founderof Christianity. M. Di MONTALIMBILAT beyond all doubt gives this remarkable advice to his fellow-churchmen will all the sincerity of his present convictions, and with the experience of twelve years of the silence he " hungered for." Whether M. DE MONTALEMBUrr in full possession of the tribune, and face to face with a republican assembly, would be the ardent liberal of today or the turbulent reactionist of '4B-52 is a question he will probably never be called upon to solve. So we gladly take him without reference to the past and without ap prehension of the future, as the most revolutio nary of ultramontane Catholics, the most contradictory of all the champions of liberty, and the most in consistent of all the champions of the Temporal Power. We should be glad to find that prolonged silence had chastened M. ox MONTALEIIBEWE'S rhetoric. It argues a singular ignorance of the mere manners of liberty to defame the dead and insult the living antagonist. To speak of CAVOUR as that " great culprit," and to load M. RENAN with opprobrious epithets, is • sorry exhibition of impotent spite. The great Italian statesman could have taught the Catholic orator a politer logic, and the French philosopher a more Christian courtesy. M. Di MONTALEMBERT is doubtless irritated by the incomparable joke of being angry with Cavora for establishing in Italy the free Church in • free State which he extols in Belgium and demands in France. M. DC 3foersterstar insists on something more than the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, .186t .41 fiw - freedom of the Church, and something leas than the' LATIST INTELLIGENCE. freedom of the State, at Rome, Me very amine 1 — l .—, and centre of the Papal system • but for Paris or THE POLISH QllSitithi. • Alalines, he fi nds CAVOUR'S fo rmula' perfection. I The Nom says that the replies or the Three Such is the judicial darkness which the Roman Powers to the notes of the R nasian l evernment question throws over one of the boldest and mos t . were delivered to Prince Gortchakoff on Wednesday, vigorous minds He would leave Rome a mono - the Vice-Chaucellor Laving gone to St. Petersburg anent of corruption and of misrule, and Italy to receive the ambassadors. Although nothing has divided and enslaved for ever, rather than the transpired as to the contents of these diplomatic Head of the Church should cease to be a creature communications, it is certain, according to the in and dependent of France or of Austria. formation of the Nord, that they do not imply an But it was not to discuss the Roman question, ultimatum, and still less a diplomatic rupture. 'the confusion of the temporal and spiritual powers, or the freedom of Church and State, that the Congress of Moline& assembled. It was to consider the possibility of establishing a grand international newspaper as an organ of Catholic or rather Papal interests. It seemsthe present Catho lic newspapers are in the hands of readers who have no need of a physician ; somehow or other the sick and blind—that is, the great majority of the reading population—prefer the best newspaper, without reference to its opinions or its indifference in religions matters ; and, what is worse, there are many devout old maids who eschew newspaper altogether, and read nothing but their breviary. Is it not deplorable that in days when every shallow heretic has a reason for the want of faith that is in him, profane journals should be in absolute possession of the public mind I The difficulty is to make a purely Catholic journal lively enough, or if lively, safe enough to pass the French frontier. Besides, what is to become of the existing Catholic journals with a new and overwhelming competitor in their own field ; and what of the pious little sheets in rural districts which are so edifying to simple souls? Is not the establishment of a Catholic international newspaper, like the question of the Temporal Power, when resolved into its simplest elements, a ques tion of " the shop" I (Ravrn's TraaGaLma.) THE POLISH INSIJRRECTION. CRAOOw, Amon A 11.45.... x. Railway and telegraphic communications between this city and Warsaw have teen interrupted. A rising of the peasantry has taken place in the palatinate of Sandomir. The first engagement be tween them and the Russian forces is said to have already taken place at Jedlna, in the vicinity of Radom. Insurgent detacbmetta under Eminowicz and Cwick are hastening with reinforcements from the government of Lublin. THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID, Angel 24, Evismo. The progressiataa and demperata have refused to submit to the conditions imposed by the govern- ment, and have decided not to meet upon the 30th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ous owx col PARIS Hoer Evizenta. It is now said that the notes of the three powers were, after all, physically and visibly placed in Prince Oortchakoff's hands several days ago—the France says on Monday last, and the Patric on ' Wednesday or Thursday ; but that, in consequence of the absence of the Czar, it was agreed that the delivery should be considered inchoate tal his return. Alexander IL is to be in St. Petersburg this day (August 24), and, therefore, the "escrows" (as lawyers call deeds delivered on condition that they are only to be operative on the happening of a future event) must be by this time effective in struments. It has been said repeatedly that the Moniteur was only waiting for the news of the three documents being formally in the hands of the Russian government to publish M. Drouyn de Lhuya' despatch. We may, therefore, look for it in a day or two. _ _ . The Patrie says that Prince Napoleon (who is now at Havre) will probably go to Cherbourg on Sunday or Monday next to see the experiments of comparative speed, &c., about to be made with the iron-clad vessels now assembled in that port. M. Drouyn de Lhuys was at Leon, in the depart ment of the Aisne, yesterday, to witness the inau guration of a statue to Marshal Skurier, who was a native of that town. At a banquet in the evening M. Drouyn de Lhuys proposed " the Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial Prince," which toast, he said, meant, in other words, "the strength, the grace, and the permanence of the empire." The Marquis de Montholon, French consul- , general at New York, arrived in Paris yesterday. It has been already stated that he is to supersede iL Dubois de Saligny as political agent in Mexico. I suppose he will be accredited as minister pleni potentiary to Marshal Forey's triumvirate. Two Mexican officers, prisoners of war at Bourges, have been sentenced by a military tri bunal to fifteen days' imprisonment for an assault upon Captain Zamora, one of their companions in captivity. I was myself, the other day, at Evreux, that pretty town in Normandy now but two hours' ride from Paris, from which the English noble family of Devereux (D'Evreux) took its name. There, at the table-d'hote of the Grand Cerf, I dined in com pany with several Mexican officers. They were most civilised and gentlemanly-looking men, not in any way answering to the description which the French journals give continually of Juarez's par tisans. These officers have become extremely popular among the burgesses of Evreux, on account of the money they spend. I was told that they were census d'or (lined with gold). The above expression must be taken literally, for it seems that the officers now at Evreux, who, I presume, must be richer than the majority of the prisoners stationed at other residences, con trived to bring away with them from Puebla large quantities of specie. Not only the landlord of the Grand Cerf, but shopkeepers in the town showed me heaps of Mexican 100 dollar pieces, and when I asked how they knew their value, they said they took them by weight, and the Mexican officers, who did not seem to care about money, were always willing to allow a large discount. When they first ' came to Evreux they walked about in uniform, but in consequence of the curiosity they excited they have all now provided themselves with plain I , clothes. At first they were shy, and feared that the French would treat them rudely ; but now they have found out that not the least ill-feeling exists towards them, and those who can speak French converse very readily with anyone who speaks to them. A new comeitibla chirA, race ; or, a Sept of Affection, was produced at thii theatre last night, Mrs. Stirling making her first appearance,' after a long absence from the stage, in the principal character. The inconveniences of an indiscreet mother-in. law—that fruitful souree of domestic difficulty—form the leading idea of the piece, though iu this instance the conven- Weal dramatic mother-in-law is rendered more amiable by being represented without those artful and designing features which are generally attributed to her : her fault, in fact, is simply that of being some what too unfortunate hi her attention to her son indaw end his bride. Mr. flashy (Mr. Billington) bas been married more than a year to his wife Angelina (Miss Simms). Before his marriage he had rashly promised Mr. Soft Sawderley (Mr. Stephenson), thefather of his Angelina. end her mother, Mn. Soft Sawderley (Mrs. Stirling), not to separate them from their dear child—in fact, to permit them always to reside in the house with the new married pair. Mr. Soft Sawderley overwhelms his eon-in-law with favours ; Mrs. Soft Sawderley is equally kind, and instructs her daughter at every turn to be attentive to her husband's wishes. But Mrs. Soft Sawderley's at tentions are so unremitting that Mr. Casby finds it impossible ever to have an uninterrupted the-d-tee with his wife. In his despair he determines to break his compact with the father and mother, and carry off his wife to a new house, which he is having fur nished and prepared for the purpose in St. john's-wood. A letter from the upholsterer on this subject falls into the hands of the wife and her mother, who rashly infer from it that Mr. Cathy is about to desert his wife for the com pany of some other lady, who is to be the mistress of the new home. Mr. Cathy, oa learning their suspicions, is willing to remain under their displeasure for a while, in the hope that it may finally rid him of his annoyer. A visit from his wife at his new abode, however, turns her jealousy into delight, by the disclosure of the fact, that the newly furnished home was intended all along for her only. The terrible mother-in-law, however, has not left them yet. A baby which she discover, on the premises confirms her worst suspicions ; but after a series of misunderstandings all doubts are removed by conclusive evidence that the mysterious baby is Mrs. Soft Sewderley's grandchild—in fact, the child of her own son Tom (Mr. Eburne), • young naval officer, who his married and become • widower since he left horns a few months before. Finally, the unfortunate but well-meaning mother-in-law is induced to transfer her affections from her son-io-law and his wife to the infant grand-daughter, and the curtain descends upon Mrs. Soft Sawderley with the interesting but noisy offspring of her son Tom. The piece is enlivened by the introduction of • stately footman, performed by Mr. K Phillips, who aspirates incorrectly, and utters perpetual malapropisms after the recognised fashion of the stage Jeames. Mra. Stirling's reception from • house crowded in every part was enthusiastic in the highest degree ; and the eomedietta, which is from the pen of Mr. Benjamin Webster, jun., was completely auccessfuL VOLUNTEER PETE A! HAMPSTEAD-HEATH. The 29th North Middlesex Rifle Volunteers yes terday made • great demonstratioe, from • purelypecific and financial point of view : that is, • grand day and mein' flte was got up in aid of the funds of the corps, sad was carried out with much spirit in the grounds attached to the Hampstead-beath Hotel, in the Vale of Health, Hamp stead. The spacious gardens of the hotel and a large park like plot of ground adjoioing were placed at the disposal of the regiment ; sod, under the superintendetros of • com mittee, • variety of entertainments were prepared for the visitors that were expected to patronise the occasion. In number these far exceeded any expectations that could well have been formed, and • very sensible addition most have been made to the regimental treasury by the receipts taken at the doors alone. But UM attraction spread much wider than the area specially set apart for the sports and amusements of the day ; for Saint Monday was kept by • vast crowd at Hampstead, which surrounded the locality of the fete, and occupied every height and vantage ground from which • glimpse of the inner proceedings could be obtained ; a very pleasurable excitement, evidently spriogiog from the pleasure, of imagination, being observable amongst the per sins of which the outside assemblage was composed. Within, besides many minor entertarnmente, there was • Ricbsrdsonian Theatre, in front of and within which several amateurs, belonging to the 29th, performed with much accuracy of manner, voice, gesture, and costume, and the spirit of the thing was so complete that it could hardly be called burlesque. It is a question whether • large majority of the spectators did not think that there had been an importa tion from the nearest fair for the occasion. A grand bur. league pedestrian and equestrian extravaganza, in the shape of a tournament, in which the knights capered on hobby hones, where the king was regal after the manner of Harry the Eighth, and the Queen of Beauty was a "lob berly boy," was really very well done, the actors again being members of the corps, and caused uproarious merri ment. Three volunteer bands discoursed excellent music throughout the day, and every and ample accommodation was provided for dancing ; and all this coming to pass, first under • bright, but not oppressive sunshine, and after. wards beneath the light of • brilli►nt moon, while every ens had space and liberty to rove about without incoove slenee, amidst a merry crowd—it may be supposed that the flite was is its way silownsfuL A " Pious ÜBE" FlossuagEn. —The civil hi- Weal of the Seine has just gives' judgment in an action brought by the Countess de liosithnici Guidaudi and Baron de Maistre, as representatives of the late MOONS de Bethune, against the temporal administration of the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, to recover • sum of 120,000 fr. advanced to the administration by their relative loader the following cirounistaime :—Some time since the city of Paris offered to purchase • house worth 250,000 fr., for the residence of the cures, on condition that one half of the amount should be paid by the temporal admiaistration of the church in the course of ten years. The offer was accepted, awl the Princess de Bethune, to enable the admioietratioo to fulfil I the oonditious, made a donation to the church of 120,000 fr., of which she was to the iutemt as long as she lived. On the decease of the princess, her heirs demanded the return of the donation, on the ground that the administra tion could not legally accept it without first obtaining the authorisatioo of the government, which had never been demanded. After hearing counsel for both parties, the tribunal declared the donation null and void, owing to the absence of the authorisation required by law, aud con demned the administration of the church to refund the amount with intent from the time that notice of action was given. FUMING IN Tua NORTH SEA —The herring fish ing in the North Sea. off the Durham and Yorkshire met. which at one time threatened to be an utter failure this season, within the past ten days has proved extremely boun tiful, and will repay the fishermen (or all their reverses in the early part of the season. One day last week upwards of a million herrings, it was conjectured, were landed at Hartle pool, and the sale of herrings in that town on Thunder would realise to the fishermen about 2,000/. The " takes" were equally good on Friday and Saturday. The priers were as low as 15e. per thousand. The Shields fishermen did not realise so well in the early part of last week, but on Sunday their boats came into the Tyne loaded to the water's edge, and prices ranged from 17s. to ltle. per thousand. The fish are extremely prime. The extraordinary shoals that Lave been fallen in with are described by the fishermen to be so solid that it was • difficult matter to sink their net,. A number of Penzance and Folkestone boats are fish ing off the N orkshire coast, and within the past few days a considerable fleet of large French lugger" have made their appearance, and are busily employed gathering the harvest of the sea. REMARKABLY PRIZE.— On Friday morning the fishermes of Cadgwitb. near the Lizard, secured and brought to Falmouth a large whale, commonly known as a " boner," which they captured near the first-mentioned place, floating dead. It measured 74 feet in length and feet i ltrth, and was landed on the gridiron of the Falmouth on the day of the opening of the Cornwall Railway, to the great amusement of the folks from the interior et the costatry. ATTEMPT To BURN A CHURCH. Yesterday, in the Town Hell, Godalmiog, before Mr. H. Hershel!, mayor. and other magistrates, Arthur Hackman, aged 26, a labourer, in the employ of Mr. Hadley, chamois leather manufacturer, ; was finally examined on a charge of attempting to burn the ; parish church. It appeared from the (midair* that the sexton on Monday momina last discovered, on entering the building, some large pieces of burnt paper lying in the south aisle under the window facing Churchotreet. The paper seemed to have been torn from • wall. The window bad been broken from the outside, and between the wall and a tomb which stood near it four lucifer matches were picked up which had been ignited. Suspicion having fallen ou the rtisoner, who lives in Clinech.street. his house was examined. was then discovered that the paper was of the seine pat tern as that of the paperhangisgs on the wall of Lis room, and that the latter had Leen torn. The fragments found in the church aisle were applied to the surface from which the paper bad been torn. The edges were found exactly to fit, and the little bite of plaster which had stock to the paper corresponded to small holes left in the wall. After an examination, which lasted from 10 o'clock in the morn ing till 4 in the afternoon, the primer was committed it, trial at the next Surrey wises, bail being refused. DRAMA. THE DISTRESS ER LAHCABEIRE. —...-- — l --- ADELP HL acts, entitled.Ssa and CLIITRAL van MID. in two The, weekly meeting ot the Central Executive ••.' yestarda , , --- - . re° was MU 3p. _ __iy, in the Manchester Town The Earl of Dian was in the disk and there were rz t l i ord E. Howard nrnall . B. P., Lord y Mr. G. L. D i \ ' ll . l r w a o tt r c tl o i, 1 Mr. B. M ' Clnre , Mr. James Worrell, Mr . Hugh Mason, Mr. J. S. Steen, Mr. A. H. Heywood, Mr. Josh. Fentoe, Mr. J. W. M'Clure, Mr. Rawlinson, Mr. J. Goodair, Mr. T. Aare, the Meyer of Masehester, and Ur. IL Aabwort.h. Mr. ILicLuar, the hoe. secretary, reported that the balance ia the bank was 310,588/. Oa. 10d., end that 1901. ifte. 10d. had been received during the week. The hon. secretary also reported that during the week three parcels of clothing had been received. Nothing hod bean seat off. Mr. FARNALL read the following report :-" I beg to in form you that, on the 15th inst., there was 5/s increase in the number of persons receiving parochial relief in 27 anions ! in the cotton manufacturing districts, r compered with ; the numbers° relieved in the previous week, of 3e2. This increase of 362 is explained as follows :-There is an increase • at Blackburn of 91, at Burnley of 73, at Bury of 46, at Cher . ley of 29, at Chorlton of 6, at Clitheroe of 13, at Glossop of 476, at Hillingdon of 60, at Lancaster of 3, at Leigh of 16, at Macclesfield of 8, at Oldham of 170, at Preston of 76, 1 at Prestwich of 28, at Saddlewoeth of 60, at Tcdmorden of 111, and at Wigan of 15 ; making a total WM/1W of 1,281. But there is • decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 195, at Berton.upon-Irwell of 30, at Bolton of 2, at Gar ✓ang of 6, at Manchester of 236, at Rochdale of 168, at Salford of 232, at Stockport of 21, and at War rington of 5; making • total decrease of 899, so that there is • net increase of 382, end, since the 6th December last, i total decrease of 125,752. There were on the 15th instant 146,231 persons receiving parochial relief in the 27 unions adverted to ; in the corresponding week of 1861, 46,807 parser were so relieved; there is, therefore, an increase of 99,424 persons in the receipt of parochial relief, or 2121 per cent. In the corresponding week of 1862, 126,580 persons received parochtdlrelied. 'The total weekly cost of oat-door relief on the 15th inst. was 9,023/. 14s. 83.; in the corresponding week of 1861 it was 2,2641. 17s. 9d.; there is, therefore, an increase of 6,758/. 18.. Id., or 2981 per rot. In the corresponding week of 1862 it was 7,1271. Is. 6d. The average per crisp of pauperism on the population of these unions on the 15th instant wee 71 ; in the corresponding week in 1861 it was 2'4 ; and in the corresponding week in 1862 it was 61. The amount of money in the hands of the treasurers of the stove unions on the 15th inst. was 79,183/. Bs. 2d. Your committee will have observed the increase of pauperism in the union of Glossop, viz., 476 ; but the clerk ot that union wrote to me an the 21st inst. as follows : 'This increases caused prin cipally by the Glossop relief committee throwing the single men, and men with wives and no children, on to the guar dians; and also by the stoppage of a colliery in the town ship of Chisworth.' Had there been no alteration of arrangements in the noir of Glorop, I should have been enabled to have reported • decrease of pauperism in the cotton manufacturing districts." A discussion followed on the general prospects of the district. Mr. J. It. KAT said that the 000dition of things in the district which be represented (Bury) appeared to him to be more gloom now than it was • few weeks ago ; and mentioned as a fact in point that one of the largest manu facturing arms in his neighbourhood, that of Marra. Great Brothers, was about to close their mill and retire from barer. Mr. T. Asoros thought there were no new grounds to warrant say important variation from the estimate of the prospects of the cotton trade put forth by this committee at Christmas last. The imports of cotton in the interval bad been, if anything, rather less than was calculated upon ; but the difference was inconsiderable. There was no doubt that every bale of cotton imported would be used. In reply to the chairman, he observed that Halt year a larger supply of cotton might be looked for, inasmuch as they ought not to anticipate another failure in the Indian crop. Mr. MOOR MASON mentioned that a manufacturer with whom he was well acquainted, employing 700 hands, end whose works had been stopped for several months, bought eotton about eight weeks ago, and again opened hie works, thinking that at the then price of the raw material there would be less loss in working than in keeping the machinery idle. Since be went into the market, however, the price of cotton had advanced 24d. per lb. and it became a question with him whether be should sot close again. Mr. ASHTON said that similar changes in the market had been occurring during the last eighteen months. Mr. E. ASHWORTH expressed the opinion, as a member of the Cotton Supply Association, that there would not be more than 22,13C0 bales per week for consumption till the close of the year, leaving the stock in Liverpool at that time the mere as in the present month-viz., in round numbers, 150,000 bales less than at the commencement of the year-that was to say, the trade would lessen the stock is Liverpool, beyond the importa, to 1170,000 bales. This 22,000 bales per week would be equlvaleat to three days' working. He could show from correspondence received by We Cotton Supply Association, a moonset, based upon crops of cotton now growing, of • supply equal to 41J days per week employment for 1864. The CHAIRMAN inquired from what countries theiecressed supply was expected! Mr. E. ASHWORTH replied that 330.000 bales, equal to 250 000 balm of American, were expected from the Turkish domioions ; there would be a email increase from Italy and the Mediterranean islands, an increase of 50,000 bales from Egypt, and of 100,000 more from Brazil and Peru. Sir Charles Wood had stated that, owing to the unfavourable season in India in 1862, we had • much smaller excels of quantity than might have been anticipated from the io creased breadth of land placed under cotton. They might now take into their calculation, however, last year's in creased breadth of land and the increased breadth thisyear and be thought they might safely estimate an enlarged import from Jodie for 1864, to the extant of 250,000 bales. The CHAIRMAN said if these calculations were accurate, they ware most important. Heretofore these districts had been dependent, he believed, upon America for at least five.sixtlis of their cotton ; and according to the estimate now made, there would next year be a Empty equal to nearly five day s working per week, wholly independent of America. Mr. ASHTON said be bad no doubt that the whole of Lan cashire might be at full work in 1865 or 1866 without a bale of cotton being received from America, and supposing the war were still progressing in that country. In reply to Mr. Worrell, be added that he believed there would be a suffi cient supply for four and • half days' working immediately after Charter. Mr. E Atutwoirria (Bolton) observed that the time at which the four-and-a-half days' employment should corn- MODCie would be regulated to some extant by the extant of stocks in hand. If Choy were sufficiently reduced at Christ mu to keep prices at the point which would permit of immediate recourse to fuller working, exteoded operations would then commence. The Indiau cotton crop. did no: arrive till towards midsummer, but prices would bring the Mediterranean and some other crops by January. During the past year the exports of manufactured goods from England had exceeded the imports of the raw material and therefore the old stocks in the warehouses must have been consider ably lessened. The CHAIRMAN (Lord Derby) asked if there wan any pros. pct of en increased supply of cotton from South Alum— Natal for instance—or Australia. Mr. E. ASHWORTH — Vary little indeed. We "hail not have 10,000 bales from all Africa, excluding Egypt. Lord EGERTON inquired what was the prospect with re gard to the export of manufactured gods. Ile understood that the exports depended upon the price of cotton here. Mr. E. ASHWORTH said that in 1860 or Infil we exported cotton goods to the value of 60,000,000(. sterling. When the price of cotton rose the exports began to fall off ; hut the Timor twitted them by saying that they still sent out 60,000.000 f. worth of goods. That was half the export" at double the price. The question wan whether, when the bulk of raw cotton imported was 50 per cent. more than at present, the 60,000,0001. of mossy would be raised to 00,000,0004 Mr. T. ASHTON believed that with the low price of cotton formerly prevailing, the trade would again extend in promortioo. They could not enlarge their operations at the present prices of cotton. The cotton-growing districts of India had, owing to the high price paid for their produce, enjoyed a degree of prosperity never before witnessed. The effect was beginniog to be seen in Calcutta. An estimate had been arrived et at to the quantity of goods they could use in the six menthe from January to the end of July, and this was no. of the GROWS of the large business duce in Manchester last week. The usual con. surnptioo in Calcutta wan, in spite of present high prices, ouly 25 per cent. per mouth more than that of the first six months of this year. lo addition to this, they knew that the stooks of goods up country had been reduced ma- terially during the 'unopened. Mr. E. ASHWORTH said the moos) paid to India daring this lust year had been about 20,000,6001. more than had been customary, sod the increased amount to Egypt, to a population of 3) million, was about 7,000,000 f. Some por tion of that money would be sure to come back to this country for manufactured goods. Mr. STrite did not tbiok there would be any difficulty in selling all the goods they could produce, provided there was no very sudden fall in the price of cotton. Lord E. liowailo, 3LP.. said they could not be too thankful for the hope of brighter prospects which • had been held out to them, but he gathered from the coovenatioa that • period of something like two years must elapse before they could be realised, and thought, therefore, that they must bear in mind what they had to encounter in that long interval. He was sure they would have as winter approached plenty to do, both in applying the money ender the Public Works Act and in boding employment by other means for the dis tressed population. Those people, if he mistook not, would soon be badly off for clothing, and that might iuterfere with their going to a distance in search of work. He should be glad to learn what had bees the result of effort" made by certain benevolent individuals to employ the cotton operatives in outdoor work. it would be well, especially u a long period bad to be tided over before brighter times arrived, if such persons would publish the milt of their experience in the employment of factory opsrativesat • dis tance. It might prolobly eccourau others to follow their example. by boding occupation for the same unfortunate close. Lord E.ERTON said the expense of removing deterred mar ried men with families from going in search of work to long distances ; they had also a natural repugnance to breaking up their homes. ' Mr. blacixes (hoe. secretary) said that wherever opera. arse had gorse to avail themselves of specific offers of work through this committee he had taken care to inquire how they had conducted themselves as regarded their general behaviour and suitability for their new em ment In every instance the reports bird been most , and on more than one occasion he bad laid those reports fore this committee. There was a great advantage is offers of work of a temporary nature, as they enabled single young men to employ themselves for a time, and yet be within reach when a better state of the cotton trade came. The great difficulty was, as Lord Egerton remarted,the expense of transit He stated that he bad received an offer from Mr. Haig, of Newtown, North Wale., for the employment of ID man for five mouths, which he hoped to be able to make available. Such offers showed great consideration, and would always be gladly received by the committee. Mr. E. ASHWORTH inquired whether if the whole of the money provided under the new act were borowed, employ. meet would not be found thereby for the whole of the opera tive population not occupied in the cotton trade. It would be better in every sense not to send them away till it was ascertained that there was no work for then, at home. In reply to the chairman he said he estimated four and a half day's work in the mills from January next. The CHAIRMAN thought it highly important that the facts detailed in the converastioa should be made public, particularly as they might tend to reconcile an apparent inconsistency with which the manufacturers had been charged, namely—that of endeavouring to prevent the people to disperse to other districts, at the same time that they made the most dismal statements regarding the pre sent state of things. After a little further conversation the subject dropped. The Mayor of MANcazsrea said that in all probability Manchester would make application for 100,000/. under the Public Works Act. The corporation were most anxious to follow out the intentions of parliament and assist in boding employmirot fur the distressed population. Mr. RAWLLSSON reported applications from Ashton, Denton, Holliogton. sod Bolton, to the aggregate sum of nearly 00,0001., in addition to amounts previously reported in connexion with other places. Grants were then made to the amount of 4,83 W. to about twenty different local committees. BLACKBURN.—There is nothing special to report in reference to the condition of the distressed, except that • slow bat gradual reduction of operatives employed in cot ton manufacture is taking place, mid it is anticipated that it will continue for the next few mouths. Daring the past week • farther increue to the number of Operatives employed on public works has taken place, the number now being nearly 700. Though the returns of the relieving officers show • decrease of 113 recipients as compared with the pre. lions week, there has been an lammed expenditure for the same period of 4/. 138.6,593 persons having been relieved last week with 3711. 16a. 10d. against 6,706 with 367/. 3s. 10d. in the previous week, and to 10,100 with 5541. 148.9 d. in the corresponding week of 1862. Of thine re lieved last week 4.967 belonged to the Blackburn district, and were relieved with 2751. 14s. 14.1. A slight increase has , occurred in the Oswaldtwistle district of the unite, while a gradual decrease has taken place in the district of Duman. MACCLESFIELD AND TEE PCBLIC WORKS The Macclesfield Local Board of Health have agreed to make application, under the movisioas of the Public Works Act, for a loan of 42,0001. for the completion of the main sewerage of the town, the paving sod aewering of streets, the construction of the cemetery, an addition to the Town Hall of a postoffice, telegraph office, County Court-room, tre., and other local improvements. The guardians have applied foe a considerable sum from the mine source for out and widening roads, erecting new bridges, dc, The Load Board of Kerridge inteed applying for about 1,6001. for the carrying out of public improvsmenta in that township. TER POPULATION OP IRELAND. The population of Ireland decreased 20 per cent. between the census of 1811 and that of 1851, and 11 per cent. more between the census of 1851 and that of 186 L In the presence of such a disturbing cause the census retorts showing the ages of the people are of more than ordinary interest. In 1851 there was found • marked decree.. in the proportion who were below five years of age ; in 1841 they were 12,594 in every 100,000 of popu lation, but only 9,835 in 1851. This was attributed to the influence of the famine years in restraining marriage, and so diminishing the number of births. But the returns for 1861, which have now been issued, show • great change; the proportion under live years of age io every 100,000 per sons has risen to 11,962, from which it may be inferred that marringes in Ireland have to a great extent resumed their ordinary course. The moat remarkable decrease is population found at the census of 1861 was in the ages 5-15, the proportion in 100,C30 being 25,624 in 1841, 25,998 to 1851, but only 20,866 in 1136 L This is partly accounted for by the loss of population under five years shown at the census of 1851, sines it was from that diminished population that • large portion of the people between 10 and 15 in 1861 must have been drawn. The constant prospect of emigration may also have acted in restraint of marriage in the earlier part of the last 10 years. Of penman between 15 and 30, the proportion was greater in 1861 than in 184 L Between 30 and 35 there is • consider able decresse, the proportion in 1C3.630 being 7,000 in 1841, 6,388 io 1851, and 5,961 in 1861. In the earlier part of the last decade, the 'Herta of the disastrous period of famine and pestilence which commenced with the potato blight of 1846-47, bad by DO means ceased, and the vast emigration of 1845-51 was drawing after it a continuing (Aux of the population—an influence peculiarly powerful among • people of proverbially strong family ties. In estimating the strength of the population, it is assumed that persons under 10 yews of sgs, and those above 70, are chiefly sustained by the industry of the people who are between vio and 60, and tried by this test the population of Ireland between 20 and 60 bed to sustain in 1841 ineffectires equal to 63 per cent. of their own number, but in 1861 only 56 per oent. Dividing the century oelife over which a rgrirLa s tion may extend veto five equal periods, the following will show the change wrought rn the (*opposed.' of the population of Ireland between 1941 and 1861, with (for comparison)) the return for Great Britain in 1861—the Latest as yet available. In every 1,000 persons there were : In Ireland In Ireland In Great Britain In 1811. In 1801. in 1851. toiler 10 years of age 490 444 30 and under 40 .... 298 280 40 and under m .... 181 80 and upwards .... 6 9 Age not specified.... 1 1 The census of 1861, found in Ireland. among less than six millions of population, 785 persons above • hundred years old. Two Ulster women are returned NA having attained the patriarchal age of 120. They were grown up women when George 111. came to the throne. Here they are but items in a column of figures; we know nothing of what sort of persons they were in mind, body, or estate. It is worth notice that of the 249 men of • hundred and upwind*, only 15 were never married ; of the 516 women, only 52. Slay cimens of • past age, it is not surprising that two-thirds of these men and four-fifths of these women can neither read nor write. The census of 1861 shows that the population of Ireland divides itself into equal numbers at the age of 21 among males and 22 among females. la the province of Leinster the dividing ape were as high u 22 and 23 renpec tively :in Connaught as low as 19 and 20. The dividing age is higher in towns than in rand districts ; among females it in es high as 24 in Galway, 23 in Waterford nod Dublin, and 26 in Kilkenny. The Ost-Deutsche Posta Vienna announces that Queen Maria of Naples hu become co since bar return to Rome that her medical attendants have recommended another visit to Germany. _ . . DEATH FROM DESTITUTION. —Last night Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, bald an inquest at the Green Gate Tavern, City-road, res pecting the death of Elizabeth Mary Belchara, aged 75 years, lately residing at No. 4, Collis-plate, Playhouse-yard, St. Luke's. The de ceased was the wire of a shoemaker, who was very infirm from advanced age, Rod could earls very little. They had suffered great privations. They would not apply to the parish, but occasionally they had some &mistimes from their son. On Saturday bight List deceased went out to maks • trifling purchase, and on her return she retired to rest. On the following morning the husband found the deceased dead by his side. The deceased had no doubt died front exhaustion through the want of nourishing diet. The body was much emaciated, and the room poverty stricken. Verdict, " Natural death, accelerated by destitution." ' RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT HAYWARD'S HEATH STATlOL—Yesterday (Moody) morning an accident tic ' curred which was fortunately unattended with loss of life. Oa the arrival of the 7.50 down train from London to Heatless, it was shunted, as is usual. on to • aiding, in order to let the goods train parse The man appointed to the duty omitted to shit t the points so as to allow the Hest legs train to go forward upon the main line after the de parture of the goods train. The consequence was that the eagles ran off the rails on to the edge of the embankment, which is here from 30 to 40 feet in height. The engineer immediately shut off the steam, end thus providentially saved the passengers, about 30 in number, from being pre cipitated into the turnpike road beneath. The escape was a marvellously narrow our, the engine bring stopped at uut man than two feet from the edge of the prempice.—So erre Standard. SUDDEN AND FATAL ILLNPAS IN THE PULPIT.- - Oa Sunday last the Rev. S. D. Wilde, vicar of the parish of Fletching, after performing the venal morning service, went up into the pulpit to deliver the usual sermon, selecting for his text the word., "The rich and poor met to. gather :the Lord is the maker of them all." He Lad only pro. needed for • few minutes, however, when it harems evident WO. emsgregetiou that he faltered, and was searcely able to in his discourse. At grit it was thought that be was ra r l= e ri l og uialer emotion from the serious likes* of his only brother Mr. George Wilde,who realm. we believe, in Churn. 1 in Surrey, at whose residence he bad been sto iii; far a few weeks recently. At length, it being apparent that the rev, gentlemen was unable to proceed further. Mr. Cutler. of the Church Farm. took • chair up into the pulpit, Red Mr. Wilde, sitting down, was compelled to give np all attempt to proceed. The congregation broke op. and the rev. gentlemen, accompanied by his wife, who was present at the service, was assisted to the vicarage, near the church, and speedily Weeded by the assistant to Mr. Jones, our. gems, and shortly sifter by Mr. Juries himself. All efforts. however, proved unavailing, and yesterday morning, shoat 4 o'clock, he expired. Mr. Wilde was about 60 years of I age, and the cause of his death was, we understand. leo platy. He bad held the vicarage shout thirty years. and was generally beloved by his purishioriers.—Serrili Standard. THE LATE LORD CLYDE. The following General order has been issued : " Horse Guards, S.W., August 22, 1883. " His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief has received her Majesty's com mands to express to the army her grief at the lamented death of Field Marshal Lord Clyde. " The great military services performed by Losd Clyde in different parts of the world, the success with which, in most trying circumstances, he re stored peace to her Majesty's Indian empire, and the personal regard which her Majesty and her be loved Consort entertained for his high and honour able character, make her Majesty deeply deplore the loss which the Queen, in common with her Majesty's subjects, has sustained. " By command of his Royal Highness The Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, " A. H. Housman, Deputy Adjutant-General." The Duke de Nemours arrived at Ostend on Friday last, no his way to England. The Count of Flanders has left Scotland fur Ostend, where hie royal highness will join the Belgian royal family, at present staying there. The Duke and Duchess of Graf ton are prolonging their stay at Baden Baden. The duchess is still in dehosts health. The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailesbury left town yesterday. es a tear of visite in the earth. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have taken no their residence at Bratty Park, Derbyshire, where they will entertain a large party diaries the Darby rams. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and the Ladies Villiers purpose to return home towards the close of the seining month, from a tour in Gerniaoy. The Earl of Portarlington has arrived at Baden Blithe, from Ems. VisoDunt and Viscountess Palmerston have a select party staying with them at Walnut Oman Aracmg the visitors are Viscountess Jocelyn and Hoe. Mimes Jooelvii, the Right Hon. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper, Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley, he. Visoount and Viscountess Dillon are among the latest arrivals at Baden Baden from a tour of the German spas. Captain the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8., let/ hie oftleitl residence at the Admiralty on Sunday for Dunked, on a visit to the Duke of Athall, who, we lament to say, is in a very precarious condition. Duni or Loan Da FREYNT. —The Dublin =rannounce the death of the Right Hon. and Rev. ile Freya*, which took plase, after • sheet illness, on the 22nd indent, at the Albert Hotel, is that city. The awe of death is said to have both fatty degeneracy of the heart. His lordship is succeeded in his title and (Mates by his brother, Captain Chilies Freaoh. iriamotrax TO Loan CLYDE —The following letter, &Tied " H. Eyre, United S irvies Club," appears in the Timer of this morning:—" Seeing that geese very well 'Mistimed persons, unaware of what is in progress, ere seadieg cat atmaiar letters on the subject of a memorial to the late Lord Clyde, may I ask you to be so hied as to la form the public through your paper that this questioo has been alreedy titan up by a number of the most influential noblemen sod gentlemen is the country, and there can be no doubt that, seder ouch favourable auspices, it will meet with the hearty support o 1 all ranks. It is considered de. sizable to defer calling any genet's; meeting in the present deserted state of the metropolis." RRPRESIRTATION or LUDLOW.—LUDLOW, MOA DAT. —The writ for the election of a member for the borough, in the mom of the late Bernal Botfield, Esq. was only received here yesterday by the returning officer, .7:Southern, Fug., who has proclaimed it to-day, and Bred the nominee ties for Friday next, at the Town-hall. Elm M. Fraser is the oily candidate in the field, sod it is expected that his return will be unopposed. IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTIRSTA PARlL—Persons who have not bees through the new park at Battersea niece its opening , /boot fail now to be struck with its beauty and the great improvements which, under the sole direc tion of Mr. Cowper, Chief Commissioner of Woods sod Forests, have for thine time past and are still being car ried out. The whole extent of the ground, large portions of which till recently have been lying waste, has been moat t atefully laid out and arranged, and divided into long lines of flower 13- de similar to those in the Regeot's-park. The walks along these beds have been constructed with the greatest view to effect, and several of them, which are quite w long as the width of the park, have a most charming sower, the flowers down the entire lengths being of the most varied hoes, sod the beds neatly railed with galvanised wire. The latest improvement which has been effected within the lest few weeks is war the south entrance, in the Battersea-road. There • long oval bed bee been laid oat, intersected with eircalar patches, which have a very pretty effect. The beds are stocked with the choicest flewers and English and foreign exotica, and are planted with great taste. The carriage -road round the park has also been com pleted, and is daily thrown open for carrier - and horsemen. A better time for • visit then the present could not be selected; for, independent of the numerous other attractions which it poesessra, the roses and dahlias are in full bloom. Great judgment has been displayed in placing chairs in the different parts of the park for the accommodation of the publit. The lake is also now well stocked with different species of wild fowl. Battersea-park and the elegant bridge which connects it with Chelsea were, as may he remembered, formally opened to the public in the spring of ltggi. The first act of parliament for originating the park passed the p.d legislat w ure en i la n n lB;i t tl. he bri po t w i .n t was of th e: e t:ll m l i f s u s rt io h n e e r n at of te vi w ood ere . and Forests is 1848, 1851, and 18.53 that steps were taken 1 , to turn the waste ground, then known as Bathroom-fields, to what it is now acknowledged to be, " the garden of the Tat GERMAN PRINCES IN PRANRPORT.—The mouth of the metropolis." Frankfort Journal says :--"The Elector of Hew was HI THE HARTLEY burrrrunot.—A report just pre- . esived, like the other German nby a sena tor deputed anted to the Southampton Corporation by the Council of princes, - the Hartley Institution in that town, s u i t.. t h at p ro f..., to offer • short address of welcome. Intend of replying, Parkes had most liberally offered, on the part of the Di. the Elector asked the astonished senator, 'ls it not very rector-General of the Army and the Senate of the Army hot to-dal ? The Greed Duke of Oldenburg, who wished to Medical School at Tetley, to transfer to the institution the arrive i ncogn ito, tp d to escape the formality o f th e eeeeen . large collection of specimens in natural history, several! Hanel Do sooner entered his carriage th an the address, thousand in number, which bad been accum u l a t e d d ur i ng the last thirty years by the medical officen of the army, o n senator laid hold of him. Full of resignation the Grand the following terms That soy medical officer or soldier in Duke left his carriage and said with • sigh, • Pardon me, uniform, belonging to her Xsysty's services, and properly sir, I thought I ooald was through laeoguito, but _— authorised, shall be allowed to inspect it, and to use the and then, making • low bow, he submitted to the fatal seessum for the perorate of study, se if the museum bed „ ~ o Wen retained by the Royal Victoria Hospital. That, in con- 1 "" °c° " °° • sideration of this gift, the medical Alters of the army shall , The sovereign Duke of Anbalt-Bernburg, whose he admitted to the privileges enjoyed by the members of the absence at the Congress of German Priories at Frankfort has Hartley Institutioo : and that the expense of removal from ben mentioned, died three days back. By hill death the the Royal Viotoria Hospital to SouthaMpton shall be &- flayed by the Hartley Institution. The Hartley Council dynasty becomes extinct, and the duchy reverts to the elder had so hesitation is recommeodwg the acceptance of the branch of Anhalt-Deesau, thus reducing the number of offer, and they trusted that the erentuunity of interests imfedisrato German sovereigns to 34. thug establiabW helm/ems the Hartley Institution and so im. I The Ki ng of the Belgians is enjoying excellent portaut • scientific elms as the medical officers of the army, would tend materially to promote those scientific objects forhealth at Ostend, and makes frequent excursions on horse which the institution was founded, back la the neighbourhood of the town. The Mfmorial de la Loire of Saturday says : The Paris journal■ have mentioned with something like surprise the ch►nge in the temperature, which suddenly, and without any apparent trawitioo, had fallen about ten degrees. That is nothing to what has taken place in this neighbourhood. Hardly four days ago we might have thought ourselves in Senegal ; now, on the banks of the Loire, we are, as it were, in Kamchatka. Yesterday in the ' Haute•Loire snow fell as in December;. the market of Saint Bonnet-le•Froid was white with it, and travellers who had passed the night in the Pay diligence coining from Yeeengeaux or Montlancon were surprised at this pheno menon, for which they were not prepared, and arrived at St. Etienne trembling with cold. Southern journals also speak of remarkably sudden changes in the weather. It froze last week in the department of the Aveyron. But now in Paris it is quite hot again, and very fine. The Bourse was quite stagnant, and there is `scarcely a shade of change in quotations. .