The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

Y " 3 k Y. 41 4 )Z4 l%_N 11. •,oa t. mtrowt4 •fro mote am* Tev.eti u 1 Yew .401. u.,4 ••tti ~.►.ti 47.1 " .1 Frorow..Low.ori Y.,..7oftig cope - , AA edt Two Alort t 4 th• Yy ).1011 MATYV.. T I/ON U Tws , Des—Thar Li. —.......Mterwerr. 71. -w we 6z.. Mk. 44u. LONDO.N. SATURDAY, Au arST 97. Timm is an old proverb to the effect that " no news is good news." It does not hold true with re gard to the moven' , me and negotiations now in pro gress', in the east of Europe. The want of news about them motes that there is a hitch eomew here— that the aistago:sist Powers cannot come to, or be brought to, an egreetnent, and that those who have undertaken to reconcile them are afraid to make matters worse by speaking about them. lu short, iu this cum "nu news is bad new," It is little better than playing with the patience of our readers to repeat day after Lay the meagre and unauthenticared rumours that reach us through letters, the electric telegraph, or foreign journals. To argue gravely upon such data would be an insult to their understandings. But all eyes are turned to the East—it is with the East that men's minds arc busied—it is about the East that they wish to he ar. Well, then, let us talk about the East: there are other incidents there than those arising out of the quarrel between Russia and Tur key the , have au intereet for us. Su long ago as the 12th of last month we pub lished a letter announcing the arrest of an English. man at )(Ewes', under the pretext of mistaking him for a Pole. We hare only now been able to learn the full details of this case: they certainly are such as oug , A not to be allowed to be suppressed. Two young gentlemen, Mr. SoLTAU SYMONS and Mr. CIIARLEA BERL, who had been pursuing their studies at Christ Church, Oxford, left England in Feb ruary last to make a tour on the Continent—as usual in such cases in search at once of pleasure and im provement. They were, as English subjects, pro vided with passports from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and they also had letters of in troduction for the principal cities they proposed to pass through from persons of distinction both foreigners and Englishmen. After visiting Bt. Petersburg and Moscow, they proceeded by way of Warsaw to Vienna and Constantinople. They iutendid to visit Nineveh, but were advised to reserve that portion of their journey for a later period of the season ; and, by way of filling up their time, to spend the summer months in the Crimea. lit accordance with this advice they left Constantinople for Odessa, which they reached to wards the end of May. It appears that about the time of their arrival Instructions had been sent to the Russian frontiers to keep a strict look-out for a Polish gentleman of the name of SOLTAN, who took • prominent part in the Polish revolu tion of 1832. The Odessa police pretended to take Mr. SOLTAT SYMuNs for this person. We advisedly sty 'intended, for it is impossible to believe that they were in good faith mistaken. In the first place, the names SoLThe and SoLTAN arc not the same ; in the second place, had a Pule intended to pass him self off as an Englishman and to that end assumed an English name, he would not have retained his own as part of his di aignation; in the third place, Mr. Soutar Stnoss was only born in 1831, and looks even younger than he really is; whereas M.—gni:TAN was a combatant in the year 1832. All these con siderations notwithstanding, the only concession the acting governor—botore whom Mr. StmoNs was taken—would make, was to allow him to proceed to his hotel till the Governor-General (then in the capital) could be consulted, under a promise not to leave the place till he heard further from him, and the additional security of two policemen to watch his motions. Mr. DERE, the travelling companion of Mr. ST. MOSS, immediately waited upon the English Consul, Mr. YE %MEN, who lost no time before repairing to the Governor, to whom he explained who Mr. BrosoNs was, and the objects with which he tra. yelled. Mr. YEAmE24 also wrote to Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR, our ambassador at St. Petersburg, on the subject. The Governor professed to be satisfied, but stated that having applied to St. Petersburg fur directions, he must wait an answer. He promised, however, that the guard should be removed. This promise was not kept. On the 3rd of June the guard was reduced to one ; on the sth, the Governor consented to dispense even with that one, upon receiving a written guarantee from the Consul teat Mr. SyMONs would nut leave until an answer was received from Bt. Petersburg; but on the 20th the surveillance of the polio* was renewed. In the meaetime, Mr. StmoNs's books and papers were taken from him. On the 2nd of July, the answer was received from St. Petersburg. It forbade Mr. SYMoNS to proceed on his tour to the Crimea, but allowed him to leave Odessa. Circumstances prevented his leaving till the 12th of July, when he proceeded with his friend Mr. SERE to Constantinople. Here, then, we have an Englishman, against whom not the shadow of an accusation is brought— for the pretence that he was mistaken for a Pole who might have been his father, will not stand investi gation—detained for upwards of a month in Odessa, at a ►eason of the year when that town is notoriously unhealthy; subjected to the annoyance of police sur veillance; deprived of his books and papers; and finally expelled the country as if he had been a criminal. And this treatment was sanctioned—in part origi nated -by the authorities at St. Petersburg, although they must have been aware that Mr. SYMONs had visited their own city, Moscow, and Warsaw, only • few months before; had come provided with unex ceptionable letters of introduction ; and had con ducted himself in a manner of which even the jealous Government of 'Weida could not complain. The consequence of this treatment was that Mr. SOLTAU SYMONs, when at Corfu, on his return to the more civilised regions of Europe, was seized with an illness so serious that the medical gentleman at tached to the staff urged his immediate departure for England. This indisposition was the necessary consequence of his detention under circumstances of wanton annoyance in Odessa at an unhealthy season. It is impossible to regard this incident in any other light than as an act of unprovoked annoyance to an Englishman because he was an Englishman. 't he authorities of St. Petersburg are as deeply impli cated in it as their subordinate officer at Odessa; but what still more concerns us is the question—what steps did Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR take to assert the c use of his injured countryman In the cor respondence lately presented to Parliament re- spec'itig the obstructions to navigation at the mouth of the Danube, we saw that egregious diplomatist apnl-gising for not ',Tiering the Ituseiun Govern. meet, because he war afraid of receiving an angry reply. Did the same unmanly timidity prevent him from cuing his duty in the cast of Mi. Soe - rat: Sirsti,NO N't e hare no means of knowing what course Mr. tiTNIWO4 or his friends intend to pursue in reference to thew tramistioas. That is their court:a. Our duty, however, as journalists, ha% ing übtaincd well aut!:enticatad intorinat ion respecting the facts, is to submit thin, as we have done, to the judgment of ti.r people of England- They show what kind of treament English men have now to look for at the hospitable hands of the Russian Government; and, more impor tent still, they show what countenance and aid F.ngli-hmcn have to expect at the hands of the I English Minister at St. Petersburg. In the course of little more than a year papers have passed through our hands, showing a similar neglect of duty on the part of the representatives of England at the courts of Berlin and Vienna. In fact, in the event of an Englishman (unless he be of very high rank indeed) experiencing maltreatment at the hands of Govern ment officials in any country on the continent of Eu rope, he may lay his account in a majority of cases with finding the Ministers of his nation and their secretaries making common cause with the foreign Government against him. The reason of this is ap parent enough. The despotic Governments of the Continent labour at present under a morbid fear of English liberalism; they fancy they see in every Englishman a mau liberal running about to bite their sheepish subjects. Again, the English diplomatists at these courts have almost all been bred up in the old Tory school, have as inveterate a dislike of liberalism as the veriest despot on the Continent, and would do almost anything rather than offend a crowned head—or anything belonging to it, from a Prime Minister to a flunkey. Since the era of GEORGE CANNING, and still mere since the passing of the Reform Act, the relations of England to the Continental despots have been entirely altered ; and yet men hostile to the new spirit which animates the Government of England arc relied upon to carry out the intentions and wishes of that Government. This is folly. England will never be faithfully and usefully represented abroad until the old leaven of Tory ism is entirely purged out of its diplomatic staff. Tim monotony in the aspect of the reports from our police courts and assizes is horrible. There is a sickening sameness in the daily repetition of the ex aminations of men charged with acts of brutal fero city. Crimes against property, which formed at ono time the great majority of offences, seem to be giving way to crimes against the person. In proportion as one section of the population seems to be getting more honest, or as the improvement in their circumstances seems to remove from them the tempta tions to dishonesty, they appear to have increased in brutality. Whether it is that the latent ferocity of the classes that form the outer fringe of society was kept down by the need of perpetual labour, which oppressed them until the late change in the condition of the labourer, and that the advent of prosperity has removed this check, it is impossible to say. It is generally supposed that with improv ed material cir cumstances the moral character of the man is im proved—that the greater the stake he has in the country, the greater respect he has for its laws. This principle perhaps may fail in its application to the very lowest class, who, having had up to a certain time to concentrate all their energies to the attainment of what is barely sufficient to keep body and soul together, have acquired none of the habits of self-control which are necessary to the proper enjoyment of prosperity. The only holiday for slaves is a Saturnalia. Whatever may be the reason, the fact is evident enough. The Legislature has lately been obliged to increase the severity of the laws against maltreatment of women. The judges are perpetually lamenting the occurrence of child-murder by mothers. If Mr. YARDLEY is to be believed, the only effect of the greater stringency of the law against the men has been to increase the violence of the women. All this shows that there is down below in the scale of society a population so brutified by ignorance that it is as unable to preserve its equili. brium iu prosperity as to overcome manfully the evils of adversity, and that if we do not apply the remedy of education to the offspring of this class, we may expect it to be perpetuated; and then, if the old phenomenon of a redundancy of labour should make its appearance, we shall have the same incapable class as betore, unable to do more than earn a portion of their existence, trusting to charity for the rest. They will be equally incapable of making a proper use of prosperity, should it ever arrive, and thus perpetuate the cycle of misery and crime. The deduction from this is, then, educate your labouring classes, and you may expect a popu lation able to re. tat all that is dangerous in the attacks either of prosperity or adversity. As an illustration of the brutal insensibility in the commission of violence to which we have alluded, we may point to the confession of FLACK, the murderer, published in our impression of Wednesday. The wretched man seems to have been utterly unmoved, during the commission of the crime, by any of the feelings which actuate human beings generally, or which are usually supposed to be roused during the perpetration of murder. He describes the whole scene as if he were giving an account of the felling a tree and cutting off the branches: It was me that did the murder. There was nobody else with me. • • • I knocked, mut Mrs. Steggles came to the door. I knocked her down when she reached the kitchen. I struck her with my fist. She fell. When down she cried out violently. I then took a small ease-knife belonging to my folks. My little brother called it his. I cut her throat with it, I think, in two pieces —at least I cut twice. I then knocked her on the head with my boots, or high-lows, the same as were pr.dueed at the mixes. I kicked her seven or eight times. I knew she was not dead when I left Aer, and went up stairs. After giving an account of his plundering the house, he continues: When I ran down-stairs, &fter being up about ten minutes, I went to the kitchen and looked at the deceased. She was lying on her back. I did not see her move, bat found she was breathing. I then kicked her two or three times more on the head. Immediately after I left the house. I went to the house with the full intention of NoNg to the knowledge ot the first e:e. meats of facial lih ? With all due respect for the motives which animate the hundred clergy. alien who have chivalrously undertaken to convert Ireland to the Protestant faith, it is yet diffieu t not to thick that they might hare discovered a far more promising field of action nearer home. Who had the teaching of WILLIAM FLACK ? Is his soul of less consequence than that of the Irishman, who at any rate has never been neglected by his spiritual director? Why do not some of the eitzgy who seem to be animated with such a superfluity ot missionary enterprise, exercise it in courts and alleys of towns, and in the straggling streets of villages? Now is the time, if an impression is to be made upon the lowest class of society. Its members are not, as they occasionally have been, rendered by misery deaf to everything but the call; of providing the necessa ries of life. There is employment for all, and wages are high. At such times men are ready to receive advice which at other times they would reject. If philanthropists of all classes would join together in taking advantage of our present prosperity to im prove the education of the classes below them, they would do much more for their country than by en gaging in schemes the failure of which is certain, and the prosecution of which is attended with danger to themselves and anxiety to their friends. ACCEPTANCE oF TIIE NOTE OF TIIE FOUR POWERS BY TLIE PORTE (IT St TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, SATI:RDAT MORNING. The .11imileur states that news from Constanti nople announces that the Sultan has adopted the project of the note of the Conference of Vienna, with some unimportant changes in the drawing up. THE UNITED STATES. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Washington has arrived here, on her way to Bremen. She left New York on the 13th August. She brings about half a million of dollars in specie. The extremely warm weather has caused many deaths. Large subscriptions have been made for the suf ferer• from yellow fever in New Orleans. The American government has approved of the conduct of Captain Ingraham, with regard to the seizure of Costa in Smyrna. The fishery question still continues to absorb a con siderable share of attention throughout all parts of the country. Lord Stirling is now at Washington, making arrangements with a company of influential American gentlemen for the prosecution of his claims. Her Majesty's steamer Devastation recently seized an American schooner, and took her into Prince Edward's Island, where, after a short deten tion, she was released. At Tennessee a democratic governor has been chosen. A rumour prevails that England and Spain have agreed to abolish slavery in Cuba, and that the American government will take strong ground in opposition to it. _ The Africa arrived on the 11th June. Two weeks' later news has arrived from California. A letter states that slavery is to be abolished in Surliam. Much damage has been done by fires in Prince Edward's Island. Two hundred and four persons have been swept off by yellow-fever in New Orleans. Brcadstuffs—Flour was in better demand at unchanged figures. Cotton—There were 1,200 bales sold at previous figures. Freights to Liverpool— Engagements were moderate. Sugars varied little. Tobacco leas active. The money market was slight. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1853. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, SATI , RDAY MORNING. The Lady Jocelyn, Capt. Stewart, arrived to-day at noon, with mails from the Cape and India. She left Sandheads, Junel6 ; Madras, 21; Point-de-Valle, 26; Mauritius, July 7 ; Cape of Good Hope, 21; St. Helena, 13; Ascension, August 3; and St. Vincent, 13. She brought a mail in charge of E. K. Barnard, R.N.; a general cargo ; and more than 160 passengers, among whom are Lieut. the Hon. F. A. Morton, eon of the late Earl Ducie, and Captain F. Shadwell, R.N. There has been some sickness amongst the passengers. Two children belonging to Mrs. Simp son, and a Mrs. Govan, passengers from India, died on the way home. The intelligence from the Mauritius is of a favour able character. The prospect of the sugar crop is very encouraging. -- The Postmaster-General has been removed from his office, by orders from England, on charges brought against him by one of the clerks. The ship Charlotte, of Liverpool, with rice from Moulmein, had been wrecked on 13th and 14th June. The wreck and cargo were sold for 3,551 dole. On the Cape frontier everything remained quiet, and the price of land is increasing. The revenue continues to increase. July 25, in lat. 26.40 S., lon. 9 E., the ship City of Liverpool, from Calcutta, was signalled. Aug. 16, spoke the American barque Francis .Palmer, from Sierra Leone for Marseilles ; all the hands, except three men, laid up of African fever. The weather was so boisterous on the arrival of the Lady Jocelyn in Plymouth Sound to-day, that it was only with difficulty and much risk that she could be communicated with from the shore. THE DEMOLITION Of one of the house th s taken R down murdering Mrs. Stegglee , and to get whet money I could Ind. I hail been to the house lichre, on a Sunday , either for the formation of an open space ne ar e io C r eau, Paris, has recalled to mind eof the most e ezt u r • fortnight or three weeks before, intending to do' it, but crimes recorded in the annals of criminal justice. Minalt could not. Ido not know that 1 had any spite against i n a room on the second fl uor of the house in que stion that u Mrs. Steggles an old priest was murdered. He was f There were, evidently, so few of the ordinary ing dead, with his head horribly fracturel, " ap in a the try or t r i l y - A er l ; and h his closet, drawers, p ic?bioken human feelings or perceptions about this man, that open and f n7l m rot be a d " c w on as ld t r at le a arned by the police it is something surprising that ho never corn. with "e respect to this murde r liat wear ing a brown coat, had been seen in th ' e " e n ve t ni la ng an 11{1rI in mitted murder before. It is strange that he committed,aeaAc th ee r u e :Lee r s .. similar short time circumstances, should ever have refrained from possessing himself of any object of desire, if the only obstacle in his way a jeweller in the Rue Saint lyatnte o . n Two 0 1 7ir no t n hre 0 e 5 i l l i ag i sr t f l o i re . t o h u e n iew n ellsr had been seen in familiar converse- Ifla the life of its posieseur. He kicked the poor woman on the head as he would a rut , after this, cries 4relewaXlinngt:el'ii)uwen;itifi.tBaild months female, i bleeding, was seen at the window Of o ' n's a of d th a e w tte it stLea . went to her assistance, to make her incapable of resistance. lie was not anxious to kill her in a hurry. Ile knew she wan not and re S l ' a m te e d p them in dead when he left her on the floor. Ile was just as this femsle.whose name was Marye,forMe T tl w a o n y ac e ruai b n e t f aTee with a yo ung man , thewho called himself Auguste ; but she careless übmt the extinction of her pain, as he hadnded r. yo w uy :a w l's, who followed been in the infliction of it. Ile had silenced her • the profession t of a h p a r ir e i t l e She ' named Manette. They became very intiol u te a , n bu d t i 7a u ft ju er d a' that was su ffi cient for his present purpose. time, the intimacy erased, and they saes each other rarely ! might wait until he had done, before he would p u t Marye having suspected Manette of taking some article s' her out of her pain. When he had got the plunder belon g in g to her. On the da y of the. crime, at about eight W 4 clock in the evening, Manette coiled whilst Msrye, who 1 a few more kicks completed the business, and he de- was indisposed, was in bed. M anette took a hut after a few minuto a sa e from her chair: l onis e" ' her, ' parted. The murderer seems scarcely human. We , h am m er i fro o m n il i c i lcr her coat, and struck *stye a wi a tl r i g i . ; could almost doubt whether he frit the responsibill!) he A ah lt i l t io . ug en h t t d o re t e i t l d e fuliy wounded incurred. The father appears to have been, as far as I Ma' ye rushed ant e of bed, iu the meantime Nanette made window esc.pe tn call () p e o s l t i e c:i . by b i larye, who died iii mere intelligence went, little superior to the $Oll. ' t r help ; Being at work in the town of Bury St. Edmund's t f ! , , w ` t r u m r 4 s t'i bl t i l e v iT e r as the ...he had committed the murders of the prie:t l' n j o c ti n tLjeW l e t i l i:: shortly alter the execution, he purchased of a hawker 1 later she expiated her crimes on the scaffoed.— in the streets what purported to be the last dyi. jg "4::,7„ t , h ,„ . speech and confession of his son, observing " that he MONEY NtADE AT THE MlNT.—Yesterday turn showed that in the quarter ended the Wit o f a re- I trot there were coined at the Mint, 1,471,242 . nre'reign: T a u n n ,i should keep it as 11 remembrance for the rest 4 leis turn half-sovereigns. The silver mi co , i 344 na , ge' si ' l cons ce ist e ed to o; life." 1,141,563 florins, 717,763 shillings, 16,8 , 10 threepence'. There were no coprwr coins in Where are the hundred clergymen 'to ro!u ,i n :. tee: v.) c,:avert the FLACKS and the GA. YOUNG IMMIGRANTS. (Frosis the d•fdnid' Chrinicle.) Nothing is more common than to hear newly-ar rived immigrants con plaining of disappointment and vexa tion oa their arrival in a young colony. It has beennieacrav ing ncoessity for colonies to call for an incessant increase of population, and to employ every available method of in ducing the home people to abandon their fatherland, and to commit themselves to new enterprise in some distant dependency. In aid of such persuasions the British newspapers are enlist A, correspondence from the colo- ! nies is inserted_ in their columns, and leaders are prompted. Colonisation societies are also formed, and the parties active in promoting them are eager in agitation, availing themselves of every opportu city of impressing the necessity and communicating the desire of emigration. Pamphlets aro written, and larger works published, di.playing the prominent points of the general subject, and discussing the particular merits of each settlement. The present season of golden expectations renders the work of persuasion peculiarly easy. Of the books and pamphlets written to promote or direct the scheme the variety, in point of quality and value, is great ; but all contribute something to the general stock of infor mation. Many are in the main truthful—many sketch somewhat enchanting pictures of colonial life—many are mere compilations, but these made up of veritable docti 'imam of vie various experience and impressions of settlers. But, notwithstanding all the knowledge which may be gathered from these means of instruction, it is rare that emigrants come away with the self-same kind of ha oression with which th'y spend the first week in Australis. There has been an excess of the sanguine, and - now there is a deficiency. The blame may not be attributable to the authors and in formants. Perhaps nothing was further from their thoughts than the design to mislead. Nevertheless they have done so, for exact and available truth has somehow or other been overlooked—at least it has not been seized. Yet the thing is easily ace nutted for. The persons intending to emigrate are for the most part unhabituated to draw precise and just conclusions from books. However right an author or informant may be, therefore, they will be wrong in the expectation they form from his statements. The same re mark holds with regard to olwervation and reflection. No thing can train to the proper exercise of these but experi ence, mil that, when people emigrate, has yet to be ac quired. Hence it is that so many persons feel a chill of dis appointment on their arrival on the strange shores of a colony, and find it bard to refrain from accusing all writers, lecturers, and advisers, in their fatherland, of having con.pireil to deceive them. For all this there is no cure but time and patience. The fretfulness of new-corners wears off with profitable occupation. The necessity for exertion makes them forget the advice they received, the impressions with which they came away from home, and the ill augury of their landing. But if very correct information cannot he imparted on the English side, in regard to the numberless details which make up the substance of the life of a stranger in the colo nies, and if, consequently, it is not possible to prevent mis conceptions and disappointments, it is quite possible to im part useful ideas to direct and fortify the immigrant in his first moments of perplexity end despondency. Young men, especially, who have left their native country with very brilliant expectations, and do not find their course so easy here, need a few words of caution and encouragement. Their case is not hopeless till they make it so ; and it is necessary they should look soberly at the circumstances of the novel position in which they find themselves. Most young men emigrate without any clearly defined purpose. Whatever their previous situation may have been, they have a vague hope of bettering it here. Per haps just now the prevailing idea is, th .t they will go to the diggings, with the further thought that, when they have filled their pockets with gold, they will at leisure con sider what shall bo the course of their future life. Even mechanics arc scarcely more definite in their purposes. Gold digging apart, the younger men come only to take the chance of occupations in which they hope for high gains and a life not very toilsome. Situations of all sorts they think may he had for asking, and kept at pleasure. But these ideas are falsified soon atter arrival, and none but the truly enterprising, the sell-sustained, and the unroman tic, find their course readily open before them. The dig gings do not reward everybody, and, indeed, they repay very few beside the laborious and self-denying. It requires no ordinary steadiness of purpose and power of endurance to lead such a life. Fur its pecu liar necessities youth nurtured in comfort are not well fitted. It is inevitable that the majority of them will re treat to seek employment more adapted to their habits, or else will succumb to their vexation, and become disabled and dispirited. To persons in such a perilous crisis our sympathy and most earnest and friendly counsel is due. The prevailing reliance on letters of introduction for a first footing in colonial life has often proved the occasion of bitter regret. It is an act of sincere friendship in Eng land to furnish such documents, but were we there we would entirely discourage all confidence in their utility. It rarely happens that they prove of practical advantage, and they often become the instruments of annoyenne and despondency. Persons engaged in business here en gage their employe4 n on the strength ot in introductory letters, nor even on certificates of character, but on an intuitive perception of the qualities of industry, energy, sobriety, and fidelity. Or, at least, it is such qualities which alone will secure and perpetuate honour. able employment. Whatever a letter or certificate was worth when it was written, a three or four months' trial of principles on board ship has superseded its value. The young emigrant who has stood well that test will require no letters of introduction to make his good qualities dis coverable ; and to him who has become dissipated they will be practically useless; and nothing remains for the latter but to recover his stability as soon as he can, making this his prime object. But even if such documents have in no respect been falsified, the circumstaaces of merchants and other employers seldom permit attention to such things ; while persons in official positions have all their patronage bespoken long before. Unless a young man come with tapital to begin busi nese for himself, which is not one of the cases we are con templating, the quantity of ready cash he may possess is of little corsequence, indeed it were better to say, that in many cues he that has little cash is the better off. Success for a labourer of any cost, depends not upon his money, but upon his enterprise, and steady conduct. The right thing to do is, not to trust to cash at all, but to set seriously to work on the first job, of whatever creditable description, which offers itself. Men intending to be seriously busy will find some occupation without delay. But then they will not scruple because it may seem beneath them. If they have been to Eton or to Oxford, and yet intend to be suc cessful here, they must be busy with the very first thing they can get to do If they have superior abilities and educa tion, they will be discovered in due time, and will have lost nothing by manual exertion. Ile who intends to get on must work, and must not needlessly lose a moment Shoe-cleaning or street-cleaning is better than waiting, for a young man who is without other resources than personal exertion. There is no shame upon in.lustry, but there is shame upon inactivity. A young colonist should be pre pared to do whatever honest thing comes to his hand. " The habit of strenuous, continued labour," says Isaac Taylor, in reference to another matter, "must be impelled by motives that are seen and felt to be irresistible. 'the very same task which cut the mind the most grievous struggles between its inclination to desist and its wish to proceed—if the motive be a little loose or questionable— this task, not a whit abated, is performed with alacrity and ease, when once it is looked at as in no way possible to be evaded. The tense of absolute necessity is that which makes all things easy—converting the impossible into the practicable." Two things are especially desirable in the case of young immigrants. The first is a steady and unvarying attention to personal elevation and moral respectability. Every tempting haunt of pleasure, every debasing association, should be carefully avoided. Dissipation is more ruinous to the well-formed purpose than even to the reputation and pocket. He who is frequently found at such places neither is, nor can be thought to be, fit for a confidential place in society. The very first act o f intemperance opens the pos sibility to a dissipated habit, and betrays some liking for the thing. Too much care cannot be exercised after a voyage in which the necessities of the ship have produced a disposition to relax the rigours of ab stinence. Crimps and seducers of all sorts must like wise be unflinchingly eschewed. The second thing is, not to regard high remuneration as • condition of prime importance in the early obtaining or the subsequent keeping of emtiloyment. A greater folly can hardly exist than the sacrihcing of industrious habits to temporary high prices. To shift from place to place in prosperous times merely in pursuit of incessant augmentatione, is the right way to make employers indifferent about the interests of the employed, and to lose all the advantage of character which previous exertion may have procured. All bonds of union and friendship are thus severed. Ile who selfishly abaci ' dons his employment for a transient pecuniary gain can never complain it he be sacrificed when employments are -earce. A man's capital is contained in the usefulness and orderliness of his habits, much more than in the direct pro- Ws of ar.y year or atria of years of his life. The dexxling fortunes made by a few in a short time are no proper ex ample of the experience of the multitude, nor do they set aside the law of persevering labour and honesty as the way to competency. • • ' "• • • - - . To young men, and all others with the disposition we have recommended, Australia is full of encouragement and hope. Never was a finer field. There can be no :ear of employment fur those who will depend on their own ex ertions, and not indolently rely on adventitious circum stances. Those who are determined to gain a looting will assuredly do so, the contingencies of life apart. Bat a prime requisite in the charter of SUMP% is self-denial, his of the first consequence that itumcdiste money-making , should not be made too much of. TIIE LATE Ma. BILANSIIT COOPEIL—From the post »surfeits examination of the body of this gentleman, it appears that the immediate cause of death was a malignant disease of the throat, involving a large brunch of the carotid artery, which, becoming ulcerated, gave way, and produced instantaneous death, by tilling the lungs with blood. The funeral took place a.. early as halt•past eight o'clock yester day morning, when the remains of the lamented deceased r were conceded, in pursuance of his %viola>, in a most un ostentatious manner, from his re , i.lence in Spring-gardens to the church of St. Hartin-in-tlie-Fields, Lord Palmerston having kindly permitted the family vault to be opened, in ' obedience to the wi-he. of the deceased, as expressed in his I will, this church being one of those in which interments are no longer allowed. The coffin was preceded by the medical and surgical staff of Guy's hospital (of which in stitution Mr. Cooper was the senior surgeon) ; following it came the immediate relations and friends of the deceased, including all the sta...ta of the hospital now in town, Cdr. Court. OSBORNE, Aro. 26. This morning, being the birth-cldr of Prince Albert, the band of the 23rd R.letl Welch l'usiletrs per formed a selection of music on the Terrace. The Queen and Prince drove round the grounds yester day afternoon. The Roy al Children also took their usual exercise. Messrs. Nicol, of Regent street, had th., honour of sub mitting for her Majesty's and his Royal Highness's inspec tion yesterday the newly invented sewing machine, and a coat sewn by this process. Viscount Harding° returned to London this morning. The Duchess of Wellington has succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as Lady in Waiting, and the Hon. Mary Bulteel the Hun. Beatrice 14 ng as Maid of Honour. Raul Granville returned to town, yesterday, from York shire. Despatches were sent yesterday from tte Colonial office to the Governor-General of Canada. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FUR IRELAND. (Hy ELECTRIC TELEORATIL) PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY Mourro, 10 A R. Her Majesty left Osborne House at 8.43 this morn ing en route for Dahlia, embarking at Cowes on board the Elfin steamer under salute from the Royal Yacht Squadron Club-house at 9.2. Her Majesty reached Southampton at 9.60. tier Majesty is expected to reach the station at Holyhead at seven o'oclock this evening, and will imme diately proceed on to the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert. The inhabitants of Holyhead have made ample preparations to receive, the Queen in a manner whioh will not fail to convince her of the proverbial loyalty of her subjects in the principality. Several triumphal arches, upwards of 1,000 flags, bonfires, fireworks, &c , will form a part of the demonstration. The fireworks will be con ducted by Mr. J. F. Johnston, of Glasgow, who has been specially engaged (or that purpose. Immediately on her arrival she will be met by the committee, and her Majesty has graciously signified her intention of receiving the ad_ dream of the loyal inhabitants through the principal Secre tary of State, by whom she will be accompanied, and it is stated that she has also given her sanction to change the name of the harbour, which is in future to be known as the Royal Victoria Harbour. The children of the schools will be in attendance under their different officers, and will sing the National Antht m. 2.50 special constables and about 400 members of the friendly societies are already enrolled to preserve order. The harbour presented yesterday a very gay scene, and the following war steamers have already arrived, viz. : The Terrible, 40 guns; Tribune, 40; Barracouta, 2G; En counter, 26; Black Eagle and Banshee, with the two royal yachts, Victoria and Albert and the Fairy. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence for the first time hoisted his rt ig as Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and was saluted by the royal squadron. It being l'rince Albert's birthday all the ships and craft in the harbour were gaily decorated with flags. FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS. (11t0S1 OUR CORRESPONDENT.) GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY. We arc now in a position to indicate the principal features of the forthcoming " Festival of the three Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester," the programme having been set'led by the committee of the festival ; and from the interest which is already excited in the event there can be but little doubt that the meeting will be one of unusual celebrity. The principal vocal performers are Madame Clara Novell°, Mdlle. Bellini, Mrs. Weiss, Madame Castellan, Miss Dolby, Mrs. Luckey, Signor Gardoni, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Weiss, Signor TagHale°, and Herr Formes. The instrumental band is selected from the 'Loyal Italian Opera and London concerts, with Mr. 11. Blagrove as leader; and the choral baud will cousXt of 60 trebles, 41 altos, 48 tenors, and 60 basses. The entire orchestra numbering 300 per former.. Mr. Arnott, organist of Gloucester Cathedral, is the conductor. The festival opens on Tuesday, the 13th September, and will consist of sacred music, perforated at the cathedral in the mornings, and of secular concerts in the evenings, at the Shire-hall, where there is a splendid concert-room, ca- pable of accommodating 2,000 persons. On the Tuesday morning there will be full choral service at thescathedral, and the sermon, which is always preached on the first rooming in aid of the charity, for the relief of the widow,. and orphans of clergymen of the dioceses of Gloucester and Hereford, will be delivered by the 11.:v. Dr. Claxton, one of the stewards of the festival. In the course of Tuesday morning's service will be performed Handel', " Esther " overture, Attwood's Coronation Althem, " I was glad," end a festival anthem, by Dr. G. J. Elvey, the first time of its performance in public. The Te Drum will be that composed by Handel for the vic tory of Dettingen, said Talris's well-known pieces and responses will be used. Ooe new feature will be ens. Wished at this festival—via., that pntormance of cathedral service on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings by the united choir, at the early hour of eight o'clock. These services will be open to the public free. On Wed nesday morning Mendelsaohn's grand oratorio " Elijah " will be given entire at the cathedral, and, for the first time at these festivals, Herr Formes will take all the music per taining to the part of the prophet, Signor Gardoni taking the principal tenor songs. Madame Castellan, Miss Dolby, and Mrs. Lockey (late Miss Williams) also take a share in the oratorio. Madame Clara Novello will sing the opening air to part 2, " Hear ye, Israel," and the lovely and fa vourite trio, " Lift their eyes," will be sung by Clara Novelle, Mrs. Lockey, and Miss Dolby. On Thursday morning will be performed parts I and 2 of Haydn's oratorio " The Creation," Mendelssohn's unfinished posthumous oratorio of "ChristuP," the first time at these festivals, and part 2 of Handel's Oratorio, " Israel in Egypt." In these sacred performances all the princi pal singers will take part. Friday morning —the closing performance of the festival—will be devoted, as WWII, o the " Messiah," which is never omitted at these festivals. There will be collections at the doors of the cathedral on behalf of the Clergy, Widows, and Orphans' Charity every morning. The evening concerts take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and are made up for the most part of selec tions from well-known operas, including the works of Mozart, Bellini, &Milli, Weber, Donizetti, Spohr, Men delsohn, Balfe, Hutton, Gluck, Nicolai, Beethoven, &c. On Wednesday evening there will be given a selection from F. Mori's " Fridolin," and on Thursday a selection from Mendelsohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream." A ball will follow Tuesday's concert. The Great Western and Midland hallways will run special trains, and already a great mazy lodgings have been taken. OPERATION 01' THE NEW 8UR1.41. ACT. The churchwardens of the undermentioned me tropolitan parishes have received peremptory notice from Lord Palmerston, as Secretary of St-de for the Home De partment, under the provisions of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, and the new act fur regu lating the burin' of the dead in the metropolis, to close the graveyards of their respective parishes on Weilusaday, the 21st of September, against all fature interments . St. Luke's, Chelsea, wholly, both in the vaults and church yard, and in the old burying-ground in the King's-road, the existing rights to be reserved twelve month'; St. Giles Without, Cripplegate ; St. George the Martyr, South wark, and the Lock Burial-ground; St. null's, Shadwell ; St. James's, Clerkenwell ; - burial-grounds in Ray-street, Bowling-green-lane, and Pentonville, existing rights re- ' served twelve months; Spa-fields burial-ground; St. Swithin, London ; St. Mary, Bothaw ; St. Botolph, Ald gate ; St. Matthew, Friday -street ; St. Peter, Eastcheap ; St. Augustine and St. Faith, Ludgate-hill, and in the vaults under St. Paul's Cathedral ; St. Nicholas Cole Abbey and St. Dunstan's, Stepney, except private graves, right re served for twelve months, and in the unconsecrated part two years additional. On ?blonder, the 15th inst. the following burial grounds were shut, namely, St. Michael, Paternoster Royal ; St. Martin Vintry ; St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish-street ; St. Gregory, by St. Paul's ; St. Andrew, Holborn ; St. Mary, Whitechapel ; St. Mary le Strand, and the Grave-yard, in Russell-court ; St. Gabriel, Fenchurch•street ; St. Margaret Patting; the Holy Trinity, Minoriem ; St. Mary, Newing ton ; St. Peters, at Walworth ; St. Sepulchre, both in Lon don and Middlesex ; and St. John the Baptist, at Roston, existing right in this parish to he continued for IS months longer, and then the burials are wholly to determine. THE NEw BeRIAL Arr.—Yesterday the act con cerning the burials of the dead beyond the metropolis was publish, d. On the reprmntatiou of the Secretory of State her Majesty in council may restrain the opening of new burial grounds, and order the discontinuance of burials in specified places. The act is not to exteuil to cemeteries or \new burial ground: made. Certain provisions in the Me. tropulitan Burial Act arc extended to this act. Any burial board building a chapel far burials according to the rites of the Church of England, is also to build a chapel foe persons not being members of the Cbgtott of Zogland. IRELAND. Dustin, Aus. 28. royal visit is the only subject which appears to oceupy any one's attention here at present ; and the question which all now ask is, when wilt the Queen arrive at Kingstown ? It is just hardy pos. eicle that this event may take place at a late h o u r to-morrow (Saturday) evening. Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence having, it is known, intimated that if t h e i vv m . e 3 a l t e h d e i r at b t Vit a ie ft h er er h N er ajestv will sail from 11o1 ) h ea d needful there from thib orne. • As, however, the royal party will not reach Holy head earlier than six or seven o'clock in the after noon, should they even embark and sail at (MeV for Kingtown, the royal squadron could not m a k e t h e latter harbour sooner than about 11 o'clock, much too late an hour to give the eitize , ,s of Dublin an oppor tunity of enjoying the much desired sight. A letter from Holyhead, of lost evening's date, says: The Victoria and Albert wilt come from the refuge her. hour and be at the jetty on Saturday, where the Queen w ill embark, and if the royal party stay here on Su n d a y they will not come on shore, but Divine service will be performed on board. My own impression is that they will not sail hom this until Sunday evening, and if toe weather be see, re, perhaps nut until Mmday morning, which womd he the latest period. They would leave men a little after day. break, and will certainly be in Kingstown between 9 and 10 o'clock the same morning. 1), not, if ti e existing ar. rangemenie hold, be surprised if on Sunday, at 1 or 2 a.m., the fleet should be in view off Kingeown; but I consider that Sunday evening or early on Monday morning will he the mos: probable time. The !ingest ewes of the royal ships here is the Tribune, 3G gu..r, but another is ex pected this evening. You in ty depend on the quern: fauna whence this intelligence comes, and there is no absolute certainty as to the period the Queen sad. from tl,e harbour. But in no event of stopping here will her Majesty lend on Sunday, and being on board, of course any lavoundde opportunity will be taken fur cro.,ing over to your e de of the channel Her Majesty's horses and carriages will cross the Channel iu the railway company's steamer Hiaernia this day. This being.thc anniversary of the hirthday of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, a royal salute will bo tired this morning from the great guns of her Majesty's ship La Hogue, now 13 mg in Kingstown Harbour. The people of Kingstown have been eau• tiont.l by the police to keep all their windows open on the occasion, to avoid having them broken by the sound. In the evening the snip will be brilliantly illuminated, and fireworks will be sent up. A grand field day also takes place in honour of the occasion in the l'hcenix P irk. Notice has been given th a none bat the holders of season tickets will be admitted to the Great Exhibi tion on Tuesday next, the duy when her Majesty will visit the Exhibition in public. Tue sale of seats along the route of the royal procession of Monday next is going on briskly, and at good prices. The election for Dutigarvan terminated yester day in the return of Mr. J. F. Maguire, who wig re turned by a large majority, the numbers having been as near as I have been able to learn, 171 for Ma guire, and 77 for Gregory. Mr. J. Hume, M.P., paid a visit to the South Dublin Union Workhouse yesterday, and after being shown over the various departments, entered the board room at the invitation of the guardians. Mr. Hume expressed himself very much pleased with what he had seen. Ho said that the establishment was in very good order, and, as tar as he could judge, bud an advantage over other si milar institutions which he had visited, for it was really a workhouse; the people were all em ployed. lie observed, however, many healthy-look ing women in the house, whom he thought it a pity to keep there, if employment could be found for them outside.—The Chairman remarked that unfor tuntrely they had many classes who could not obtain employment.—Mr. Hume said that that would not be the ease before long; the people were everywhere going away rapidly. Mr. Hume, in cunclusion, observed that the bedding in the house was excellent, and that the winds were better than some of the barracks which he had been in ; they were quite free from smell, which was a certain test of cleanli ness.—The Chairman was happy to say that the number of inmates was daily decreasing.—Mr. Hume then asked for the annual report of the Union, which the Chairman directed to be sent to his hotel.—Tbe Chairman said the board were much indebted to Mr. Hume, and was very glad that he was pleased with what he had seen. THE CEOPS.—BANDRIMIE, AVGl'st 23.—Our correspondent writes.—•"f he season is still propitious, as ter as potatoes, wheat, and the are c•eaceroed. The latter crop will soon be extensively brought to market, us some three or four steam mills are now beginning to ply their machinery. l'otatues are still lavourable looking, and no bad tubers are to be fume'. The wheat crop is excellent, but the crop is unimportaut, owing to the small quantity sown here. I have been the 'ugh most of the County Down during the past week, and the crops everywhere look pros. Krone There are no alterations in the price of marketable articles here."—Northern Whig. THE WEATHER.—We deeply regret to state that a change of the moat ur.favourable kind took place in the weather last evening about four o'clock. Heavy showers have fallen, at inter.als during the last few days, but the earlier part of yesterday was extremely tine and warm. At the hour named, however, a violent fall of rain came on, which continued during great part of the eight. Towards daylight it was again tine, but about ten this norninz the raid again set in heavily, with the wind from the south ward, and new descends in torrents, threatening disastrous consequences to the grain crops in the neighbourhood. We hope it may be only local.—Cork !importer. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY. AUG. 26. APPOINT/LE:in.—Mid shipman H. J. Apreece, to Spartatt ; Navel Cadet K. L. Cox, to l'resident. I i ORTSMOUTII, At GVST To-day being the anniversary of the birthday of I'rince Albert, a royal salute was fired a: 12 o'clock by the garrison from the platform battery, and in a few minutes after by the Victory and Neptune, 120, in harbour, and the London, ; Blenheim, 60; Magicienne, 16; and Vesuvius, 6, at Spithead. The Prussian corvette Amazon, at Spithead, also saluted. The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, Captain F. Scott, sailed from Spithead, yesterday afternoon, for Lisbon. The weather to-day and the latter part of yesterday has been of a very boisterous ch , carter ; the wind blowing a gale, and accompanied by very heavy showers of rain. All communication between the shore and Spit bead is suspended, the sea being too rough to allow of boats putting off. This morning a small boat belonging to the Pru ssian man-of-war corvetteAmazonwascapsized in the herbs ur, but the men in her were saved. At the present hour (6 p.m.) the gale appears increasing rather than :ctherwise. Several vessels have run into St. Helen's Roads and the Motherbank for shelter, among them a large screw steamer believed to be an Australian outward-bound emigrant ship. CABS AND MEASURED MAPS OF LONDON. TO THE !MIME UP THE Ell.llllBB. SIR,-1t will be a great advantage to the public should the plan of making the distances of streets (proposed last year) he carried out. Take Oxford-street from the Park down to the end where it joins Holborn, and continue the line to the end through Snow-hill, Neu - gate-street, Cheapside, &c., as far as a straight line runs ; mark from the Park on the left-hand site 1,1, I,:lraile, If mile, If, 11, 2 miles, &c. ; mark on the left-hand side, beginning beyond the East India House, 1,1, t, &e. Thus, near the Park, or right-hand side of Oxford-street, you will see the extreme distance from the East India House, and at or beyond the East India House on the right-hand side you Kill sec the extreme distance from the Park to the East India House, &e. All the streets—Fleet•street, Strand, Regent-street, Tottenham.court-road, &c.—to be so marked?, mile , &c., to be marked at the height of about 12 to 15 ft. irons the ground. Then there should be a snap of London on a large scale of 2 inches to the mile in 4 parts, with a scale f 176 yards, or 1-10th of an inch. Let the distance he marked on the long streets in the maps, in fact, in all of 176 yards long. If any one wishes to move about in a cah, he can look at the part or parts of the map for the particular streets he will move by and through. One single sheet would not answer; it would be too large. Mark the distance 1,1, &c. mile in the centre of the sheet. The police courts are to have one of these maps, it is said, and Lord Palmerston measured a disputed distance the other day by compasses. The map must be large enough to havo distances inserted. I take 176 yards for the scale, as being 1-10th of an inch. We shall be is decimals in all accounts soon. W. H. Oriental Club. LIBERAL BEQUEST TO THE MANCHESTER ROYAL LUNATIC HOSVITAI. —Thc late Mr. Saha Schwabe, mer chant, has left a bequest of 3,000/. to this institution. Tee announcement was lirst made at a meeting of the board of the infirmary held on Thursday morning. STONEMASON) WITH MOUSTACHES.--It bee been long known that the dust which Hies off in tho working of stone is very injurious to the lungs ; but it is only recently that the retention of the moustache has been suggested re. a remedy for this annoyance and danger. Numbers of masons in Liverpool and neighhouthood now allow the hair to cover the upper lip, and a knot of stout handsome fellows— masons are generally well-looking men, though perhaps, owing to the cause alluded to, not long livers—at work in Birkenhead have, by this addition to their attractions, created quite a furore amongst the softer sea. It would be well if not only stonemasons, but all who are engaged in 1 dusty occupations, or in trades where disagreeable and un• wholesome odours are evolved, were to adopt the mous tache, for surely would they find in it one of the best pro ' teCtOrS Of the lunge that cettl4 be called into play.