The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-17 00:00:00

EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. Aural Webb 510 es REMOVRD FROM BOND.STREET to 73. PlRtWili-STRERT, liennverwiume, in 1859. The le , rroluir...eittinitteti by him, iu ull the New Patterns, BETTER THAN EVER." Cite erpreOli. TO COLILLiPON DENT& IbleerNsenteete Intended for The Farman' London Paper, mutt be at the •,:f e, 10. bouverientneb by Tiro sicitirk on the de, of !MITA Stil A. Tars MIMING. TUE CIY PRAer. AND PARDON. Mr: I EFVECE. Itofeiaor Pepper's Mr. Pirekm's 111‘vution. Mr. W. Randall and Mr. rukk.r. —And unl \I F: AND RENIMINE. NUM ' 1I TU AI IArSDo44 num& 21,3 DAT 314 . AftArnnon. aa . 52, IVlWASOW—llornittc. 4 .Afternoon, 4D. LONDON, MON DA I% A UGUST 17. ABOUT the time when Railway Companies are holding their second half-yearly meetings, the Railway Accident season seta in. It has been the singular good fortune —perhaps we might say the only good fortune known to the shareholders —of most companies to get their half-yearly meet ings over just iu time to prevent the uncomfortable necessity of paying the last (and only) respect to dead and wounded passengers by the insertion of a few words of " sincere regret" towards the end of a Report, the substance of which is of course a statement of gross traffic receipts, earnings for the half-year ended, interest on debenture debt, " your directors recommend a dividend " after the rate, etc., on the share capital, " which will leave a balance, etc.," and " excursion traffic." The rest of the Report is probably concerned with amalgamations and extensions ; and if the line is anywhere within the bounds of the habitable globe, a " new first class " hotel is pretty sure to be "in contemplation." The art of making things pleasant may be advan tageously studied in the reports of railway meet ings ; and it is an art which attains perfection only under difficulties. In this, as in every other art, facility is fatal to excellence. The Report pre sented to the half-yearly meeting of the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway Company on Saturday was, on the whole, complimentary as to the past and confident as to the future ; especially with reference to the excursion "traffic, which has been more than " e.lual to the directors' anticipation." So far this Report contains nothing beyond the common form of felicitations. It is in the last two sentences that the Lynn and Hunstanton Directors allow themselves to be betrayed into something like a sentiment, and to transgress the rules of composition ordinarily observed in such documents. " With sincere regret your directors " refer to • lamentable accident which happened " to an excursion train returning from Hunstanton " to Lynn on Monday night last, which resulted " in the death of six person and injury to several " others. It is hardly necessary to say that the " Great Eastern Company are affording every " facility in the inquiries which are taking place " before the coroners under whose respective " jurisdiction the accident falls." There is • fine effect of contrast and a telling climax in this final paragraph of • report which has just been congratulating the shareholders on the fact that " the excursion traffic has been more than " equal to your directors' anticipations." Rail way reports, like new books, &theta slut fate. There is scarcely • railway company in the land that might not in the course of half • year indulge in " sincere regret" at falling under the jurisdiction of coroners ; it has been the peculiar fate of the Lynn and Huustanton line to kill six persons and injure several others a few days be fore the half-yearly meeting instead of a few days or a few weeks after. If the half-yearly meeting had been held on Monday last, and the accident had occurred on the Saturday following, it is clear that no " sincere regret" need have marred the fair report of excursion traffic presented to the half yearly meeting next spring. The Lynn and Hunstanton Company were doubly unfortunate in perpetrating • " lamentable &eel " dent " on the eve of a half-yearly meeting, and at a season of the year when amidst the silence and stagnation of public affairs even the vulgarest murder makes an unusual noise and stir. Considering the severity of these circumstances we were almost disposed to refrain on this occasion from joining in the hailstone chorus of our contemporaries, and to be content with regis tering the extraordinarily righteous and sensible verdict of the coroner's jury. Bat this half yearly meeting, at which, we are informed, an unusually large number of shareholders were present, supplies a temptation which we are unable to resist. Let us confess that we can well excuse the directors of a railway company for regarding the phenomenon of an implacable jury returning a verdict of unprecedented severity upon an acci dent occasioned by a straggling bullock, as a strange and mysterious fatality. So many far more " lamentable accidents," arising from causes far more subject to control than the stupid curiosity of bullocks—from far more culpable negligence or recklessness on the part of station-masters, or signal-men, or pointamen (not to speak of higher authorities)—have been visited with verdicts acquitting everybody with honour, or at worst only censuring a deceased engine driver or • mutilated stoker. There may be a certain reasonableness in this complaint on the part of directors ; yet on the pert of the travelling public we believe the general remark upon the verdict has been "better late than never." The travelling public can hardly be expected to accept the occasional sacrifice of a bullock as • sufficient atonement for the occasional sacrifice of half-s -dozen human beings. There were some edifying deliverances at the half-yearly meeting of the Lynn and Hunatanton Company on Saturday. The Chairman,who spoke with true feeling, felt the accident much, because it had occurred to his neighbours and friends. Though the care of the line belonged to the Great Eastern Company, he would on his own responsibility have removed any danger, if he had heard of any. He regretted they had heard no complaint of the state of the fences ; he thought the sympathy and attention of the officials of the Great Eastern Company, the surgeons, and the public, deserving of all praise. In justification of the Company he might say that in twelve years they had not paid five shillings for injury done to any person ; which was as much, and perhaps more, than could be said for other companies.' AU that human agency can do to ensure the public safety will be done, "if itis necessary." "But for " this deplorable accident" the excursion traffic was most promising; for a time, however, there would bee falling off in the receipts, not only on account of the farmers being engaged in harvest operation!, but because " some persons will natu " rally feel • decree of timidity in travelling." The line had been cheaply constructed, but this was not from inferior workmanship or material, but from their having reduced Parliamentary, Impel, and engineering expenses to the lowest iliIIIINNI•elom THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1863. point. The Engineer of the line compared its " unexceptionable gradients" with "some he oould " mention in the Midland districts," to the great disadvantage of the latter, and was corroborated by the contractor. One shareholder attributed the severity of the first jury to the bad feeling towards the line of the farmers and others of whom it was composed ; and another to the fact that travellers on that line were wholly unused to accidents, and therefore more alarmed than travellers in the Northern and Midland districts, " where they are accustomed to Reel " dents." Another shareholder thought that great blame was due to the farmer who had refused to remove the bullocks from the field adjoining the line, when requested to do so by one of the officials of the Company ; for pre vention, as this gentleman very properly remarked, is better than cure. And the shareholder who uttered this wise and true remark might have added that, on the principle of prevention, rail way companies would not leave fences along a line in a flat and marshy country in such a state that lambs can hop over them as they would hop over a daisy, and bullocks walk across them without disturbing the composure of a bullock's stride. The good-natured Chairman was astonished that persons should actually be found to come forward and voluntarily make such statements as they did before the Coroner. Yet it is only in consequence of these statements that the Lynn and Hun stanton Company may be induced to protect their line from the incursions of cattle, and perhaps even to put third class passengers into boxes that will only shake passengers into a linger ing paralysis, instead of mercifully converting them into " compensation " for their mourning THE CROWN PRINCR AND CROWN PRINCESS OP PRUSSIA. The Crown Princess of Prussia arrived in Berlin from Potsdam on Thursday, and paid a visit to the Grand Duchess Alexandrine.of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who had arrived in Berlin during the morning, on her way from Wildbed to Lodwigslust. The Crown Prince arrived at Munich on Thursday from Gastein, and left soon afterwards for Berlin. The Chief President of Stettin, M. von Senff-Pibach, has published the following letter from the Crown Prince : "As the Crown Princess and myself, with our children, have dwelt for more than four weeks in this province, and have had opportunities to visit several portions of it, we cannot close our visit without expressing to the inha bitants of Pomerania our sincere thanks for the numerous proofs of attachment and devotion with which we have been greeted wherever we have appeared. The memory of the weeks we spent in Pomerania will always be cherished by no ; and I commission you to make known our sentiments in this respect to the province. " FRILDIRIC WILLIAM, Crown Prince. _ _ _ " Governor of Pomerania. " On board his Dfsjerty's yacht Grille, August 5." THE WARWICKSHIRE MAGISTRACY AND THE QUEEN'S LATE LETTER. A meeting of the maOtrates of the county of Warwick, convened by the Lord-Lieutenant, Lord Leigh, of Stoceleigh Abbey, was held at the Shire Hall, Warwick, on Saturday lard, " to consider the reply of the Mayor of Bir mingham to a letter addressed to him by command of her Majesty, in reference to a fatal accident which lately oc curred during festivities in Aston.park." The meeting was presided over by Lord Leigh, and amongst those present were the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P.; Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart.; Sir Trevor Whirler, Bart.; Mr. R. Spoooer, M.P.; Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P.; Mr. Dickens, chairman of quarter sessions, he. Letters of apology were also read from the Earl of Warwick, the Hoe. C. L. Butler, Mr. E. P. Shirley. M.P., Mr. Philip W. Mar tin, IL P., he. On the motion of Mr. W. Dickens, seconded by Mr. R. Spooner, the following resolution was unani mously adopted :—" That the statement of the mayor of Birmingham, that Astor•park is not within the jurisdiction of the authorities of Birmingham, bag rendered it necessary that the lord.lieutenaat and magistrates of the county should express publicly their serious repot that a park, with the opening of which they must ever connect the most grateful recollections of gracious condescension of her Majesty and the deeplplemented Prime Consort, should have been the scene of an occurrence so greatly painful to her Majesty as to have called forth expressions from her Majesty which they have read with cordial respect; and to whatever extent their jurisdiction may give them any control, or their influence may have weight, they would gladly promote such steps being taken as might secure the restriction of the future nee of the park to its original and true iutention the rational recreation of the people." A resolution was passed authorising the lord-lieutenant to forward a copy of the above to Sir C. B. Phipps for submission to her Majesty ; and the thanks of the meeting were presented to the noble chairman for presiding over and convening it, when the proceedings terminated. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS or WALES AT ABER GELDIE.—Os Sunday the Prince and Prancer, accompanied by the ladies and gentlemen of their suite, attended Divine worship in the parish church of Crathie. The Rey. A. An derson delivered an able discourse from James, S. chap.. and 22nd verse. Thechurch was pretty fall, butnot to such an extent as is generally the arse when royalty is in the quarter. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess took a drive to see Balmoral and back. On Monday they had a walk by Belnacroft, and the road to Clachinturn, to the Castle. The Court of Flanders and suite arrived at the Castle about 9 p.m., posting from Aboyne station to Abergeldie. On Toeaday the Prince, accompanied by the Count of Flanders, Major Teesdale, and Dr. Robert son, went out to the woods of Abergeldis in the afternoon, but saw no stags, and consequently remained only for an boor. The Princess arouses herself by Ashiog, walking about, and driving in her carriage--alie being a perfect adept at the reins. The dinner party on Tuesday consisted of the Count of Flanders, General Knollys, Major Teesdale, Dr. Robertson, and the ladies in attendance. On Wedoes day the royal party went grouse•ehootiog on the Gairnahiel moors, and bad excellent sport. The weather for the last few days has been rather rough.—dterdeen "WC Press. THE MINISTRY.—Lord Palmerston left town in the middle of the week for his official residence, Wahner Castle. Sir George Grey has also taken him departure for the north. The Duke of Newcastle has returned to Lon don. The other members of the cabinet continue absent from the metropolis.-01werrer. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are enter taining &select party at Gordon CAWS. N. 8., for the grouse shooting. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived at Gordon Castle early in the past week, and on Townley Lest several other guests arrived at the castle. . _ The Duke and Ducheas of Northumberland come to town today from Sion Houma laleworth, to remain a few days at Northumberlsod House, and thee donors for Alowisk Castle The Duke of Rutland left Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Thursday lut in his yacht foe the western ports. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is staying at Chiswick for the present, the noble duchess having postpuoed her departure for the Continent owing to slight indisposition. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliavn will receive a select party at Wentworth House during the race meet * this week at York. Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Secretary for War, wicked on Friday the fortification that are being erected around Plymouth. Lord Crewe left town on Friday for Crewe llall, Cheshire, for the sews. The marriage of Lady Violet Graham, eeoond daughter of the Doke sad Dunham of Nontrose, with Mr. Chorale, ma of Camel and L►dy Ile.• Cireville, will, we orubtretead, sot take pleas maid November. The wedding is to be solemnified in Loudon. STRIOI7I3ACCIDMIT TO LADY G ICZNNIDY. Oil Monday kat. am Lord and Lady Gilbert Kennedy were riding in the viebaity of the village of liverhieY, bet lady ship's borne took fright at a east laden high with peas. Alter reariog violently, tba salmi backed into a ditch, throwing her ladyship, sad sawing borne severe injuries to this head, which rendered ler iamensible, is whisk state Abe was conveyed bona We bear that bar ladyaltip, who is snob World i• the asighbeadrood, is programing tavounbly. VERA CRUZ, JoLr la. The following is the official proclamation of the Council of Notables in Mexico : 1. The nation adopts a limited monarchy, to be hereditary, with a catholic prince at its head. 2. This prince shall be called emperor. 3. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria shall be requested to accept the crown. 4. That in case for any reason he should not come to occupy the throne, the nation implores the Emperor Napoleon to designate or select some other catholic prince to whom the crown is hereby offered. The following telegram hail been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, AUGUR? 17. The Valetta, with the above mail, arrived here at a.m. this day. The mail leaves for London by the 11.30 a.m. train. B. IL 1 1).i W. F. I. Q. L I R. IL Nairn 24.42 56 3 1 W. 2 720 o 0.17 2 Aberdeen 109.41 i-1 3 B.W. 31 7 18 0 0.12 8 lAth 29 46:.8 3: W. N.W. 2' 6 16 0 0.11 2 Shields Bcarborongh 29.01.1 58; 4 W.S.W. 3 5 20 b &11l 3 Greencastle 29.00 55 2 N.W. 3 5 24 c 0.401 2 Galway 39.7957' 3 N.W. 4' 9 20 C . 0.60 , 3 Valentin '01..8 50; 6 : 12. N W. 4' 6 38 0 10.38. 4 Queenetown '29.79 59.2 , N.W. 3' 6 73 0 10.13 . 2 Liverpool Rt.& 58. 5 1 B.&W. 2 7 18 o 10.051 2 Holyhead '23.82 55 3 : W. 5 7 18 c , 0.151 3 Pembroke 20.76 811 6 I N.W. 4, 4 30 e 10.25 , 5 Penzance 29.04 59, 1 , W.N.W. 6; 7 82 e 0.15' 1 5 Brest L'Orlent ;N.BB 60 41 W. 4 1 6 20 c 0.16' 4 Rochefort 30.0106 1 , W. 6: 2 28 0 0.12 3 Plymouth 129.81 61 1 4 j W.O.W. 5 1 6 18 c 3 Weymouth 129.0060 6 I W. 3' 3 24 c 2 Portsmouth — 1 49.74 61' 3 1 W.N.W. 4 1 7 90 c 0.43 4 Landon - Borer 29.74 —, - ' S.W. 2429 C 1 3 Yarmouth ... klellgoland 02.75 02 2 &W. 6 61 12 b 4 PROBABLE TODAY. Oil MR WZDNWDAT. W.S.W. to N.N.W., Noirrli•Ease. N. to W. and S.W., fresh, squally. fresh to moderate. W.Y.W. to N N.E. and Wier COASTS. N.N.W. to W.S.W., hack, fresh, some fresh to moderate. showers. W.A. W. to N. N. W. and BOVIII COAST. S.N.E. to W.N.W., N.N.E., fresh, show- moderate. ery In places. • W.S. W. to N.N.W., 800111-1111 T. N. to W., !rests to am trash. Berate. North-Hut=.Calthness to Norfolk. West= Donegal to Corn. wait South=Channel and Bay Coasts. South-East=Strait of Dover to Norfolk. MAIL STEAMERS DUE ?ROM AMERICA THIS WEEK. There are three mail steamers due at Liverpool this week from America and Canada, viz., the City of New York, Damascus, and Scotia. The City of New York was to have left New York on the Bth instant, and may therefore be looked for at Queenstown to-morrow (Tuesday). The Da. mucus, from Quebec on the Bth, is expected at Green castle on Thursday next; and the Canard steamer Scotia, with dates from New York to the 12th, may be looked for at Queenstown is the course of Friday Dalt. THE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL—The Royal Mail steamship Persia arrived at Queenstown yesterday, embarked mails, passengers, and West telegrams, and pro eroded for New York at 4 p.m. All well. THE ifseveur.—We have had a week of uninter rupted fiefs weather at Hertford, and much wheat end also barley have beer, carted : ell very dry. and in lirst-rate order. The early-sown barleys will yield much better than sou anticipated ; the late sown ripen irregularly. The rain which fell on Sunday was very much wanted for the for nip.—Berta Guardian. The steamship Tartar, with Peninsular mails, arrived at Southampton last eight. She brings 23 passen gers, including Admiral Sir George Sartoritm The Tartar also brinp k ia in specie, and a large arm coexisting of 1600 par She spoke th e Peelleular and Oriental Oxispenfe p Eller& en the 14th bah EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORIRSPONDINTA PARIS, SUNDAY EVINING. Among the cantatas sung at the gratis perform ances yesterday was one by M. E. Fournier, sung at the Opera, and entitled " Mexico." A line originally written Soil an Sad anjonnrhui, Mais sours au Nord domain, was changed by the censure into Hier to Ns id, to sersa ld demaia. M. Fournier, dutabt.ess, meant to make an allusion to a war in Poland ; but the censure are said to have feared that by the expression " North "in juxta-position with the " South " of the western continent, the public might have inferred an in tention to make war on North America. The vague expression permitted to remain, that the army of the empire of peace, which is " here " to day, will be somewhere else (" la ") to-morrow, is as convenient as truly descriptive of the situation. A monster concert on an unprecedented scale is now going on in the pretty, but of late years ne glected, garden called the PraS Catalan. By permis sion of Marshal Maginot, the bands of the entire army of Paris take part in this performance. The programme says there will be altogether 1,400 per formers, and speaks of the result expected in the following eloquent terms, whic'a show that the French practice high-flown puffery just as much now as they did when the Paris barber's description of his wigs attracted the notice of Sterne :—"To obtain this result nothing less was necessary than the combina tion of the prodigies of intelligence, the riches of nature, anal the largess of power—in short, nothing could have done it but Paris, Baron Taylor, Musard, and the Pr 4 Catalan." The France, nothing abashed at the contradiction from Vienna of its impudent assertion that the acceptance of the Mexican throne by the Archduke Maximilian was a settled thing, now says coolly that the " regency" composed of Almoute, the Archbishop of Mexico, and General Salsa is likely to last for a year (!), but that " in all probability" the archduke's consent, and the "conditions of it," will reach Mexico somewhere about November next. The Mexican bishops and clergy who were ex pelled by Juarez, and took refuge in France, are all going to embark:for Mexico in the Vera Cruz, at St. Nazaire, the day after to-morrow. At the bead of them is Mgr. Labastida, archbishop of Mexico, one of Marshal Forey's triumvirs. He is accom panied by Mgr. Munguia, archbishop of Micbaocan, and Mgr. Cobarrubias, bishop of °silica. They have admirers in France, who vouch for them all as being learned, pious, virtuous, distinguished, &c., Ac. Certain canons, named Peres, Reyes, and Comacho, are among their following. These priests hope to hold a high jubilee of ecclesiastical domination in Mexico, such as has not been seen anywhere in the world for a long time. PARIS, S►row►r NIGHT. The twelfth Fete Napoleon (established as the one great national fete after the coup d'etat) is now over, and naturally resembled its predecessors so closely that there is little to be said about it. At 10 this morning a few drops of rain fell, and a heavy shower Deemed impending. Half au hour's rain to lay the dust and cool the air would have been a great blessing ; but unfortunately the tail of a thundercloud which passed over Paris only dropped moisture for three or four minutes. The rest of the day was cloudy and oppressively hot, thunder being evidently in the air, but no storm coining on. This sort of heat was more distressing than the still higher temperature with a clear blue sky, which had prevailed all the mouth. There were certainly not such great crowds in the streets in the daytime as I have semi on former occasions. There was not quite the same variety of day amusements which we have sometimes had. In consequence of the almost unprecedented low state of the water of the Seine, there were no boat races ; and while the river was thus not so gay as usual, the sky above failed to show the legions of tire balloons which were for many years a traditional part of the fetes. In fact, the only things to be seen were the fairs on the esplanade of the Invalides and the Barriere du Trone. I am speaking now of outdoor amusements. The gratis performances at all the theatres at 1 o'clock iu the day were just as popular as ever, and the queues were'forinea many hours before the opening of the doors. I strolled through the fair at the Invalides, but observed no novelty except a Brazilian " lady," who ate raw meat, tobacco, and pebbles, every ten minutes all day long fur the amusement of the public. The military panto mimes were going on iu the accustomed temporary theatres, and were as unintelligible as usual ; but 1 suppose they represented the taking of Puebla and Mexico. The illuminations and fireworks were highly euccesaful, and, I think, better than last year. WRECK OF A PASSEN4ER STEAMER OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. One of those unfortunate, but happily rare, in stance. of the wreck and sinking of • passenger steamer occurred on Saturday afternoon, but most providentially no lives were lost. The steamer Her Majesty, well known at Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. belonging to the bile of Wight sod Port of Portsmouth Steam Packet Company, was in the habit on Tuesdays and Saturdays of being withdrawn from her regular passages to make excursions round the island. On Saturday. about half-past slave° o'clock, she left Portsmouth, call. log at Hyde, having • tolerably numerous com pany on board, but the wind was blowing strong from the northwest at the time. All went on well until the arrival neurly off Bainbridge Poict at the back of the inland, when it is supposed, in consequence of hugging the shore too closely, she struck upon • sunken rock, which are very centime upon this coast, knocking a hole in her bottom, through which the water soon began to nicks its way. The greatest alarm was manifested amongst the pas sengers, but as soon as the captain could get the vessel off the rock he drove her nearer to the shore, and, by means of boats. the whole of the passengers were landed. Several pilot boats were fortunately near at the time, and rendered very great assistance to the y.asaeogers. They were after wards put on board, we were informed, other vessels, sod safely conveyed to their respective destinations at Hyde and Portsmouth. The vessel afterwards filled and sank. The captain, Mr. Tate, had been mate of the vessel for many years, and has always been remarkable for his steadiness and strict attention to his duties. Little more than • month ago he was appointed as the successor of Captain Crash, having received his Admiralty certificate Is muter, and he has also certificates to enable him to ester several foreign ports, and has always been considered as a very trustworthy servant of the company. Of course • strict inquiry will take place into the whole affair, as this was one of the favourite and fastest vessels belonging to the company, and was selected for the conveyance of a number of persons to Cherbourg during the visit of her Majesty to the Emperor Napoleon about three years ago. ILFRACOMBE.—The following is an extract from • private letter, dated Friday hat :—"llfracombe was lever before so fulls. it is now. Larayear was • very bed season for lodging-house keepers, but this year it is neat to impossible to find a place in which to lay one's head. It is not that lodgings are simply dear, but the number of visitors is so greatly in excess of the accommodation that no money avails the traveller. The people are very civil, and bear their prosperity se well se can be expected, but, as they say , 'lt is for • very short time, Ma'am.' Nothing like the present pressure upon the accommodation has been seen since 1848, when the lodging capacity of Ilfracombe was not • third of what it is now." SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The other day • labouring man from Worplesdon called upon • chemist in Guildford, sod gravely informed him that his wife had been bewitched two years ago, and that she had remained is that state ever niece, much to the Os( of her husband and family, and annoyance of her neighbours. He said that he bad been informed that if he got a jib. of mercury and mixed it up with the yolk of two eggs, and gave • doer to his wife sight and morning, in water " over which the living and the dead had been canted," she would goon recover. Of course, the chemist tried to ridicule him out of his silly notion, bat the foolish man west away as fully persuaded as before that his wife was bewitched, and avowing his iatention of rattier( the mercury and the water ►efore be quitted Goiklfeed.— West Harrry Thate. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) The August session of the Central Criminal Court nom. meoced this morning before Alderman Sir R. W. (...„d ee, as locum trines. for the Lord Mayor, Rumen Gurney, Ee l Q.C., the Recorder, Alderman I. oirreoce, Alderman Ail s; Alderman Dakin. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, }NO; Jones, E.g., Sheriff, the Under Sheriffs, dr.c. The nn caber of prisoners contented in the first edition of the Weeder a 11b. The Recorder. in his charge to the grand jury, said ra . , t • longer period than usual had elapsed since the last seis e , in consequence of the judges having been engaged ot the.; respective circuits, sod consequently the number of pr sonars was rather large ; but he was glad to find that th e , were no charges involving the life of the parties &ceas e d There were, however, two charges of attempting h commit murder. In the first case the prisoner was ch ar , with having cut his brother's throat, and trade a h e of unsound mind the circumstances . were somewh at inexplicable. It appeared that the prisoner bad , by advice of his brother, come to London to seek for er e ployment, but had not, been Buenas -fol. The two brothe r , occupied the same bed, and there did not appear to ha re been any words between them. The prosecutor Rota* that the prisoner undid the Leek of his night-shirt. He took no notice and went to sleet., but shortly afterward, awoke and found hi. throat bleeding. He raised an tiar a and found that his brother had h-ft the room; but the pi . goner's !WWl' was afterwards found in the bed. Two oche, persons slept in the same room, but they were not arouse until the prosecutor raised the alarm. In the other rise • female was charged with administering Dnisac to her two children. She went into a sa l , and purchased a tart, over which she was s e - e to put • white powder. She gave some to o r , children and ate some herself. It was, however I takes away, and the powder was found to be poi•no. Tte excuse was that she could not maintain them, ant she had c. bern: s re of fu rnan sedld ug mi h tta te n r. ce i i n n to ts t e he fiTh un t io . n..T t h h e e re pri. wc , r b ei er sev .rem I charged with causing the death of • woman with whom a s was living, and, as usual in such cases, the parties appear e d to have been drinking. The prisoner amused the woman of being drunk and beet her severely, after which she died. The other charges were of an onliaary character There was one charge against a man for forging an Austrian note. It appeared that he had engaged • photographic artist to take a facsimile of an Austrian tote, and he had done so under the direction of the police. If the facts were suffi cienbilLtly established it would be their duty to return a true SURREY SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The August adjourned sessions for the county of Soucy commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Newington. causeway, before Major Penrhynn, wbo officiated as chair. man ; A. Boyson, G. C. Doimer, It. W. Peek, R. Phillip,, R. R. Roberta, J. R. Faison Bennett, Lieut. Easy, H. Story, R. A. Grey, and H. Ommany, Emirs. The calendar contained the names of twenty prisonen for trial—four for misdemeanour and sixtben for of The state of education was as follows :—Four are devoid of ode. cation, two can only read, ten can read and write impe l . fectly, and four can read and write well. Among th e charges are one for housebreaking, one stealing in the dwelling-house, one maliciously wounding, one (au old mu) for attempting to violate a child, and the remainder are the usual MOM tried at these session,. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS. A letter from Frankfort, dated 15th funk, says Frankfort has put on its holyday costume. Flags are floating from every window of every colour and State ; there are Hessian, Bavarian, Austrian, Hanoverian flags —no Prussian flag--but conspicuous above all, the famous ataodard of Uermitoy —black, red, and gold, which, though prohibited in some States, floats here majestically in the wind. The whole of the Esebeimer-gme in tapestried with it; even opposite the dwelling of Prince Thurn-und.Taxis, where the Emperor is to be housed, there is one which roaches from the roof to the street. This is, I trust, Ger man loyalty. and if unity could be fabricated out of yards of bunting. it would be already established in this good free city of Frankfort But the demonstration in not confined to flags--the whole official world is on foot. The soldiers of the various States which form the garrison of Frankfort—Austrians, Prussians, Bavarians, and Frankforters (for Frankfort boasts an army)—have donned their uniforms. The sentries are doubled and the streets are crowded with officers and carriages. The Emperor of Austria is expected this evening, at six o'clock, by the Neckar Railway. M. de Eubeck, his representative at the Diet, goes ea far as Bruchsal. to meet him. His Majesty, it is said, will be accompanied only by M. de Rechberg and the members of his Chancery, and by his Aide-deCanip General de Crenneville. It appears that M. de Schmerliug will remain at Vienna. The Senate have resolved to pro ceed ix a body to the railway station to meet the Emperor, and to lead him in solemn state through the city to the palace of Thurn-und-Taxis. All the streets through which the tort( ye had to pass are gaily decorated, and the windows which command a view of the procession are letting at fabulous prices. This morning I was courteously permitted to visit the palace the Emperor will occupy during his sojourn in Frankfort. I found it all topayturvy, full of workmen arranging the state chambers and gardens. The state cham bers are generally unoccupied, as the Palace is a vast build. ing, and the Diet, Austrian Legation, and the official offices only occupy a portion of it. The Palace itself is not any thing remarkable. It was built, I believe, in 1730, in the Italian style. Italian artists of that period have decorated the principal chambers. Many crnweied heads have already arrived, and, with the exception of the Kings of Plll/11ia and of Denmark, it is expected that all those who have been invited will attend. There are to be all sorts of festivities—banquets, balls, and concerts. ITALY AND HUNGARY. On the 11th inst. medals commemorative of the war of independence in Hungary, during the years 1848-49, were distributed amongst the veterans of the Hungarian Legion, at present stationed at Ancona, by Kossuth. The national guard, a large portion of the garrison, having at their head Count Casanova, general of di vision, was invited to the ceremony, which was presided over by the prefect of Ancona. The civil and military authorities of the town, the syndic and municipal council, the president and judges of the Court of Appeal, and the Procureur du Roi, were present. After the reading of the ministerial decree which authorised the distribution of the medals, speeches were made. A proclamation of Kossuth's to the Honveds was also real, and received with enthusiastic shouts of " Long live Hungary." The Hungarian Legion is now a portion of the regular army of Italy, having at its head General Turr. TILBOBAMS.) CONGRESS OF THE GERMAN PRINCES. FRANKFORT-ON•THE-MAINE AUGUST 17. The following are eta.ed in diplomatic circles to be the bases of the Austrian programme for federal reform. A directory of five, consisting of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and two other German Powers, to be chosen. A Federal Council of permanent repre.scntatices of German States, an Upper House to be composed of the Princes, and an As sembly of Delegates from the German diet, 300 in number, half of whom will be sent by the Austrian and Prussian diets, the remainder by the other German diets. Two-thirds of the delegates are to be chosen by the lower houses of the diets of the German states, and one-third by the upper houses. The powers of the Federal Assembly to be in creased. The sessions to be triennial. Some principles for general national legislation to be adopted, viz., a law regulating the right of domicile ; a general preqs law ; a general law re specting associations; and a law for the establish ment of Federal tribunals. Aunts? 17, Nomato. The Congress will positively be opened at 11 am. to-day, in the presence of the German princes only. A report, though not unlikely to be well-founded, is in circulation that the assembled princes will forward to Prussia a friendly invitation to be pre sent at the congress. THE POLISH QUESTION. REPLIES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE. BERLIN, AVOIAT 17. Letters received here from St. Petersburg, respect ing the contents of the notes of the Western powers, 'data that the purport of the French note is of a thoroughly pacific nature, and that the English note, although couched in terms of the moat perfect courtesy, is rather more reserved, although main taining the earns sense. Both notes persevere in the proposals for merly made by the powers to Rival*. They regret that Russia has not consented to accept the six points,the project of a conference, and an armistice, but hope that, after mature consideration, the government of the Emperor will arrive at a dif ferent conclusion. While both powers make Russia responsible for future consequences, they declare that, after having fulfilled the duties imposed upon them by humanity and the right interpretation of treaties, they must for the present 0011600 themselves to repeating their former obser vations with increased emphasis. IL. Drouyu de Lhuya and Earl Russell further declare themselves willing to await the measures which the Russian government may adopt, iu the hope that they will lead to peace. Nothing authentic has transpired with respect to the contents of the Austrian note. It is believed that Prince Gortchakoff will take some time before forwarding his replies to the notes, as the Emperor left yesterday for Novgorod, and will certainly not return for at least ten days. MEXICO. PARIS, Amon 17. The following official announcement has been published today: "The government has sent instructions to Mexico, revoking the measures relative to the sequestration of the property of those who had taken up arms to oppose us, and cancelling the prohibition of the export of specie. " Although the state of affairs in Mexico has greatly improved, there are still some armed bands in existence who find sources of support from cer tain custom-houses. In order to hasten their dispersion, the French admiral, after August 25, will establish a blockade extending from the La guiles ton leagues south of Matamoros to Cam peachy." AMERICA. (Per the Africa.) NEW YORK, Accusr 4. The steamship America arrived at New York August 2, and the City of Manchester August 4. The steamship Arabia arrived at Halifax August 3. The following is the "situation" from the New Yuri: Herald of August 4 : According to rebel accounts a heavy bombardment from Fort Wagner was commenced at daybreak on Friday, and continued until 2 o'clock p.m., when it ceased. The army of the Potomac is not making any forward movement, nor is it likely to do so for a while. Fteconuoisaances _ _ and skirmishes, however, continue daily. On Friday, for instance, the Fourth Pennsylvania regiment encountered a company of 100 rebel cavalry near Little Washington, 12 miles from Sperryville, and drove them through the town. It was ascertained that a full brigade of rebel cavalry are posted between Sperryville and Little Washington. There is nothing very new to report from the Mississippi Valley or Tennessee. The following are the latest despatches received from Charleston : A private letter received in this city, dated .July 29, says : I went yesterday to Block Wand and made a recounoia mance from the tallest tree there. Block Island is between James Island and Morris Island, and distant from the former about 1,000 yards. I sew from my elevated position that the rebels were erecting a line of batteries and build ing rule pits, almost the entire distance from Fort John son to Seoessionville, along the river. I could look over into Charleston and see wh►t was going on there quite plainly. It is the nearest view I have yet bad of Charles ton ; but our brave boys will take a nearer one, and astonish the rebels. Fortress Monroe, AuTun 3. The Richmond Whig of August 1 has been re ceived here, and contains the following : Charleston, July 31. Cumming's Point was severely bombarded yesterday morning, commencing at about 10 o'clock. The Iroasidee sad two Monitors were engaged. The bombardment lasted until 3 p.m., when the vessels withdrew. The batteries, Gregg, Simkins, Wagner, and Sumter, responded to the enemy's fire. Two men were killed and one wounded at Battery Gregg. The battery was not materially injured. There was no firing on James Island to-day, and very little from Fort Wagner. Beauregard visited the James Island works to-day. SSCOND DESPATCH. Charleston, July 31. A heavy bombardment commenced at daybreak on the enemy's works on Morris Island, Wagner continuing until 2 o'clock, when it ceased. President Lincoln has issued the following order : CIIIKRAL OREM& No. 252. War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, July M. The following order of the President is published for the information and government of all concerned: •' Executive Mansion, Washington, July 30. "It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens, of whatever class, colour, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organised as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations and the usages and cus toms of war, as carried on by civilised powers, permit no distinction as to colour in the treatment of prisoners of war se public enemies. To sell or enslave any captured person on account of his colour, and for DO offence against the laws of war, is • relapse into barbarism and • crime against the civilisation of the age. The government of the United States will give the earns protection . .4) all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his colour, the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession. It is therefore ordered that for every soldier of the United States killed in violation of the laws of war a rebel soldier shall be executed, and for everyone en slaved by the enemy or sold into slavery, • rebel soldier shall be placed at hard labour on the public works, arid continued at such labour until the other shall be released and receive the treatment of a prisoner of war. " ABRAHAM LINCOLIII. " By order of the Secretary of War, " E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, ADMIT M. 8 L.Y. CHARGE TO THE GRAND JUST. On the grand jury being sworn, The Chairman said they would perceive with plasm, that the calendar was very light, which was caused chietly by the occurrence of the last maims, about ten days ago. rod of the seises fur the county. Their duties would therefore be rather light, end he should be happy soon to dismiss then for some time to come. The grand jury then retired. CACTION TO PROSECUTORS AND The Clerk of the Peace said that at the last sessions se. vend of the prosecutors and witnesses were not in attend. scans when the calm were called on. The court and cowed were thereby put to considerable ioconvenience. and be . iostructed to say that unless the prosecutor and mammies were in attendance when called on theirrecoguisances would be estreated, and their ripeness would not be allowed. He hoped these remarks would stimulate the constables to do their duty, sod keep their witnesses in the precincts of the court. _ . . The petty jury were then called and sworn, when the ab sent parties were fined. The Clerk of the Pesos advised all these claiming clamp ion, from age or otherwise, to e.:. amine the jars , li•ta UJW on the church doors, and hare their names erased. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ISTAKIT ecrruMMer. walks. .r.c.t..0;,;1 e,.;;:sii;et, Russell.equare, marine•store dealer, and JoAn Hamtlton. 0f.15, then-street, Spitalfselds, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and disorderly, and Hamilton was further charged with assaulting Sergeant Thom.* Dodswortb, 293 A, and Mr. James Parkhurst, foreign china dealer, of Cambridge. street, Golden-square, who went to the assistance of the . sergeant. The sergeant my the prisoner' shortly before 1 this morning, drunk, Betties together, and making a great dis turbance outside one of the iceshopa in Oxford street, and oe his requesting them to go away, they made use of the most disgusting language, and refused to leave. The sergeant then attempted to take them into custody, when Hamilton threw himself on the ground, and kicked him about the shins. Mr. Parkhurst, who was on his way home with his wife, seeing the sergeant Hissed, went to he assistance, and some constablea arriving the prisoner' were takes to the station. On the way Hamilton deliberately kicked Mr. Parkhurst in a violent manner, Mr. Parkhurst at the time being engaged in canting the co nstable'si hat. Jackson mid that on minim out of the ice-shop his wife said she bad lost her watch, and the sergeant said it was more likely that be (Jackson) had taken one, and then there was • disturbance. Hamilton said it was no use saying anything. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined Jackson 2Ds. or fourteen days; and Hamilton *la or two months for the assault on Mr. Put. burst, and 10s. or fourteen days for assaulting the sergeant. THE PCiTH OP THE PARKS. A well-dressed German named Wilhelm Hunarbunk, who described himself as • auger baker at Wbiteckuipel, was charged with grossly improper conduct in Hyde-lark, near Grosvenor-gate. The case having been proved by Lloyd, a countable of the A division, The prisoner, through Mr. Albert, the interpreter, said that he was a foreigner, and that he bad only been in LO. does short time. . Mr. Tyrwhitt said that foreigners must behave themselves as well as other people, awl his being a foreigner was no excuse, for he must be well aware that in hie own oountr7 he would be punished for such conduct. The prisoner was then committed for three months with hard labour. SOUTHWARK. • PRISONER NEARLY CkIOICRD BY SWALLOWING sovrazioxs. . Elizabeth II a decent-looking young woman, who appeared to be suffering from a choking sensation, owing to a sovereign sticking in her throat, was placed at the bar before Mt. Burchum, charged with stealing twelve move. reigns, the property of William Hocking. The prosecutor said he was an excavator residing in Wd. ham-street, Old Kent-road. Ou Thunder afternoon last he received sit 5/. Dotes, and 15 sovereigns, his portion of a coo. tract, and deposited it in his purse. In the course of the evening he fell in with the prisouer, and kept out drinking with her all night and part of the next day. He spent about a sovereign and at the close of that day be aocompanieil her to a lodgieg.huuse in Kent-street, when they bad more refreshments. He had at that time twelve sovereigns and the six 51. notes safe. A little while after that he fell asleep, and woke up suddenly, when he saw his parse in the pnsoner's hand. He snatched it from her, and on opening it he found only three sovereigns and a half in it. He spoke to her about it, and asked where the other money was, and when she saw he was determined she west to the bed, put her hands under the cloths*, and handed him the six 51. notes. As soon as he got pos session of them he did not like to all a constable to, but he remained with her until the next day, and while they were out be spoke to a coe.tabla, and then she ran off. she was, however. funned and taken into custody by 57 li, when she denied having taken a fiat-Ling from him. Sarah Ann Fensum, the female searcher, said that no soon as she commenced searching the prisoner she put her band to her mouth and swallowed something which rattle.' like gold. A constable was sent for. but no gold could be got out of her mouth. At last some gold stuck fast in her throat. and a doctor was Corn palled to lc sent for. but one of the pieces could Dot be abstracted. It was still sticking hard and fast ie her throat. . _ The pnooner, who could hardly articulate, made a ram• bliog eteternent, wiring th►t the money found on her Lev longed so her, and the sovereign slipped down her mouth by accident. Mr. Burnham remanded her until Saturday, and directed her to be conveyed instantly to Homemonger.laoe gaol, ao that she might have the attention o the medical officer. THE SUPPORED MURDER OP A FEMALE AT MAR GATE. —On Saturday lad Mr. W. H. Peen, coroner, held an inquest at the Town Hall, Margate, on the body of woman named Jane Cock. a prostitute, who was drowned ender circumstances that had led to the apprebeasion of s man named George Staid, • waiter, on 11411106 0 0 of being her murderer. A good many "'Unease. having hems eas.med the jury returned • verdict " That the deceased was found drowned, but there is no evidence to show how ate come an the water." At the close of the inquest the prisoner Sled was brought up en remand before the inagi.trates, w the charge of having caused the death of the deceased. never. diet of the mopeds jury having been oommunicated to t h e bench, the prisoner woe at ova discharged " without a stew upon LI obazactor." 1 e