The Express. — London, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

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Rarest* Mr. WM', Mon Joliet, Mitt Clara \e•`,. —To be toliowol by IRE ROUGH MAJIIOIt D —Com Emma at 7. KRITAN . :_iIA. TWPI MAIM. TRIG ANDFL OF PRAM AND PARDON. D. Wanted by Professor Pr , pre. se•ptation of Yr. Direktf G RUT aeon cErzer.-Daacing lo Mr. Parker.—Aud ruR DITEC TITE or. ADYZNTURAS OF A PICKET OP LIAVL HIGH WATIRAT WIWI! BRIDGIL. 71'4 PAY —.Wrirefer, 1.... Allbasara. 4h. 2Z. I)liciaow—Verabia 41. 44r.. ../trairess. a 3 4. LON:inlY; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. IT might be a good deed, on behalf of the public of Atherton and the neighbourhood, to send the magistrates of that place on a trip to the hill parts of our istinds next Midsummer, and let them spend two or three Sundays among the vales. There they would see, if the weather was as un certain as it usually is in the mountains, the " statesmen"—tbe yeomen and their labourers, dismissed from the morning service in the churches with the blessing of their pastors, to save' their hay if the skies showed any signs of changeable weather. They would see the con gregation paining from the church to the hayfield, the squires and their ladies looking on, and every body wishing well, and all who could lending a hand to the haymaking. At night, if clouds were lowering, they would hear something of thankful ness, following the loaded waggons home, that the produce bad been permitted to be gathered and stored for the food of the horses and cattle in the coming winter; and they would perceive that all hearts were satisfied with the occupations and the feelings of this special Sunday. Our readers will understand what we mean if they have observed what has just been done at Atherton by the magistrates in the case of fourteen men who thus employed a Sunday in last month. Those fourteen men were seen on that day saving their hay. The magistrates heard of it—not with regret that an operative law compelled them to take judicial notice of the fact, but with notions in their heads which instigated them to search among our laws for one which would enable them to punish persons who did not agree in their views of Sunday (which they call " Sabbath") observance. After a month's study, they have brought up a virtually obsolete Act of the time of CIIAZLES IL, under which they have sentenced these labourers to fins or imprisonment. On the question of the rightfulness of this sentence being raised, they have announced their in tention of distraining for the amount ; in other words, of ruining industrious men for an industrial act which most intelligent Christians believe would be approved by the Author of tilt religion to which these magistrates have dared to add requirements of their own devising. • If they would consult the Record of that religion, what would they find f They would find, on the testimony of Curer himself, that even under the stringent Sabbath law of the Jaws, which He, the .Loss of the Sabbath day, expressly modified, 'dwellers in rinallistricts were wont to release ox or .ass which had fallen into a pit on the Sabbath day. They would Ind that He justified His disciples for an act at which the sticklers for the Jewish law were ecandaliaet. Yet, eighteen centuries later, we !find swan who call themselves after His name adopting and enforcing that old law of the Seventh day, and applying it to the Pint 414 of the week which is no Sabbath, but the LOAD'S day. This would be melancholy enough if we had a familiar and active law at 'work as an obligation on them in their °aloe ; but it is truly shocking to witness such a perversion of right and wrong sustained by nothing better than an obsolete Act of Parliament, framed at a time when the religion of the kingdom was a subject of partisan conflict of which we now read as a part of the history of bygone times. As usually happens on occasions of magisterial oppression, the offence to society and its morality arises from • confusion of ideas on the part of the oppressors. But the mischief is the same, what ever may be its origin. These magistrates are satisfied that it is wrong to work on the LORD'S day, taking upon themselves to deter gent. what exceptions to this general rule may and may not be admitted. They include the saving a haycrop among works for profit, and regard it as they would • merchant's sale of goods, or en artisan's execution of • job properly belonging to the next day. They do not nee that there is more or other than • money value in the fruits of the earth which are to be the food Of man and beast in the barren months of winter ; and they trait as cupidity the industry which sues front destruction these direct gifts of Paovi- Dices. They do not perceive that the saving of the bsycrop, or of the sheaves of corn in the field, is no precedent for work of other kinds which can as well be done on other digs. Every Sunday they cause their own servants to work, in the kitchen, the chambers, and the stables, and in per. soma attendance behind their own chairs, on the ground of necessity; but they condemn sad penish yeomen and labourers for having, on one Sunday in the year, used • part of the Loan's diy for gathering and saving the gine of His hand. Men who offer such unequal judgments as this are wholly unfit to be trusted with the administration of justice. Even such misty minds a these must surely be able to perceive, when it is pointed out, the mischief to morality of mixing up real and futi lities transgressions under the name and doom of punishable offences. There is guilt enough in every neighbourhood, there are crimes enough wherever society exists, to occupy the rigilanot and exercise the authority of the magistracy; and the just sad wholesome awfulness of the law is fatally impaired when special acts, on a special occasion, which the general conscience regards as innocent or praiseworthy, are treated as guilt. In their ogw neighbourhood the character of these fourteen men does not suffer by their having saved the hayemp by Sunday work ; and when they are punished as they would have bun if they had been drunk on the highway, or had knocked down their neighbours in the churchyard, the public, conscience is shocked, and the deference dee to TUE EX.PIiESS, TUEOWS the law receives irreparable .injury. Thiel, seen in a moment when the case ih irieited fruits suffi cient distance. We have all heard a good deal of the services rendered to education by DE Fzu.rivezen, the benevolent, religions, and devoted Swiss tutor, in whose schools in Switzerland so many of our countrymen, and not a few of the distinguished among them, have received their early education. The agricultural school and farm of Ds FELON sato was visited in its day by almost every Eng lish traveller who went that way ; and there must be many now among us who have happened to be there on a Sunday in harvest. There they have seen the whole establishment busy on such a day, binding the sheaves, and heaping them on the waggons, and driving them home, singing psalms over their work. They have seen the gathering of the great household under the harvest moon when all was done, to bless GOD for His good gifts, and sing hymns of thanksgiving. How would it strike such observers if Dr FELLENBERG and his house hold had been brought to justice for this, and punished, in company with drunkards, and thieves, and licentious persons! And what hops could there be for social morals, and for the majesty and influence of the law, if its penalties could be dis pensed by justice and by sectarian prejudice in differently f This is the light in which the intelli gence and conscience of our country regards such acts as that of the Atherton magistrates; and they will be long remembered as having done what they could to expose their function to contempt, and to confuse the moral sense of the community in which they lire. DRAMA. aTE.ST INTILLIGENCC" 1 tt AUSTRIA:" . We read in the Austrian G a:x: a, The visit which the Emperor of A is about to pay to the Queen of England, at the chateau of toenail. has no polities' character ; it is an act of courtesy po the pare el the Emperor. It is natural, however, to suppose that the r moths:An-kw of the Priam Royal of Prussia will seek to avail herself of this occasion to diminish the r differences which exist between the courts of Vienna and Berlin. The Prince Royal of Prawns • examine bot very little influence upon his father's policy ; bat the Prince= is a worthy representative of the race of Coboarg, it is she who rules the Prince. No minis ; hew, saber Austrian or English, will be present at the inter ! view, from which it may be concluded that no questions of general politics in which England is interested will be die cussed. The Austrian journals continue to be generally unfavourable to the acceptation of • the throne of Mexico by the Archduke Maximilian. The P rw of Vienna remarks : Admitting that the Emperor Napoleon at octant re' names all idea of compensation, and that the Mexican affair will cost Austria absolutely nothing, the ques tion still remains whether it is desirable that a prince so eminent and so near the throne should leave his country, with the conviction that he can hope for no assistance from her on the approach of dangers which unfortunately ars but too probable. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE Once more we are called upon to record the opening of that little theatre in Deanotrest, Soho, which is I better known to the 'stalk as " Mins or the "Soho Theatre," than by its meetly acquired title of the "New Rvalty." With all the luxurious trappings kindly lbr stowed upon it by Madame Albino di Rhona, the ballet. dancer, who opened it about eighteen months beck for • very shirt esamo, it has aow fallen into UNI heads of MIL Selby —owe of the oldest, most respected, sad farestie ac tresses au our stage. The retirement forced imam this lady by the death of her husband (the late Mr. Charles Selby) is now given up for a venture which we shall be I very glad to welcome amongst theatrical anocemes. The theatre Is small, but not smaller than the Strand. and the stage is large enough for all senessary bessieem. The company gathered together for the opening last night comprised many names that were nefundiar to the land& public, though popular enough in the "provinces." The pieces, though cot all announced with the author's name, we believe were all masted adaptations by the late Mr. Charles Selby, and they were sufficiently varied is ohmmeter M math • very presentable programme. OLYMPIC. A young lady with • name pleasantly suggeotivo of the tradition• of the drama—a Miss Lydia Foote-made her first appearsztre at this theatre lut night in the part of May Edwards, in Mr. Tom Taylor's Ticket of Leese Afar, a cbaraeler hitherto sistained by Miss Kate IWO& The new actress km • *min floe and figure, natural wan ner, and • voice remarkably free horn the &AMA iniosatioe of the stage heroine. Miss Foote, who is, we believe, a niece of Mrs. Keeley. is at present little known to London audiences. She performed, If we remember comeetly, an unimportnet part in the drama of The Octoroon, produced during Mr. Bosicicault's management at the Adelphi, end hu lately, we believe, been appear* at the Victoria Theatre. Her performance as the itinerant sines' girl in the pubis; gardens in the tint ad Named her • cell from the audience ; and her mr• effected acting in the second act, in which she receives Bristly on his return from prism, fully confirmed the favourable impression she had created. Mice note i app•. randy WI very young ; but we shall probably not be mis, taken in regardirm her ea henceforth permaaestly eds. bibbed en its side of she river. ALHAMBRA. A great musical attraction is promised at this Louse next If amity, wiles Signor Nicosia, the @missal Italian violialst, will make his first appemzmws la lgaglaud. This patlarasa is well known thraagho t Europe, mid the chief musical critics is Paris class him with players like Si•ori sod Visartorops. He plays as well upon cum string as apso four, sad he wIG doubtless prom a formidable rival to M. Lotto. Sir James Hudson left Turin on the Bth ult. for the hills. On the subject of Sir James's retire. ment from the embassy there has been much unde-' sizable misapprehension and erroneous statement, which will iliortly be cleared up. Hee Royal Highnees the Princess George of Saxony, aseempanied by Baron Gerodoeff, left Scarborough yottorday far Ydiaborytb. Viecount and Viscountems Palmerston went yes terday to a private view of Sir Edwin Lando 's studio to Onelowaquars. The Duke of Wellington, Lord de Table", Lord and Lady Edward /Ivan., Mrs. Lane Fox, Sm., Wee also premat in the afternoon, to view the lions spew whisk Sir Edwin is at week. Viscount Palmerston afterwards left London fee Wales. The Hon. Adelaide Cavendish, the second daughter of the late Lord Waterpark, is engaged to be mar ried to Mr. Clowns, a wealthy widower, who redden near Manchester. Mies Oarondialt wee mostly appointed Maid of Hollow to her Majesty. The Right HOD. Sir George Grey, Bart., has returned to hie oat in Northumberlamd, tram visiting the Hon. Gearp We'deplore Leslie and the Cession of Boers IS their seat in Boatload. By the last African mail a letter was received front Captain Barton, in which he says, " I have just re. turned (to Firmed° Po) from a visit to the Hire of Daho mey. He received me very cordially, shook bawds like en Bagliehman, and made ate captain commandant of the Pauli Carps of Ammons. He also pro me a black boy, a cloth, and a premiss invitation to spend the three winter mouths with him," ices Under the title of "Military Recollections from 1804 to 1814." the Dm de Femme has lately published some curious details of a military He. In the course of his work, M. le Dec treats or to au way on the morale of the Preeeh army of those days, and mays that the German ladies wale to love the French, "began* we emancipated them, by exacting from their brothers sod uncles a politeness and attention to which they were totally unaccustomed.* A curious case of breach of contract, which, however, hasbuted a libel, has just been decided at Paris. Millie. 8— proceeded against the director of one of the Paris tbenewe for certain monies doe to her for au engage. most or mead deeseues. The defendant pleaded " never indebted ;" and, as a rider to the plea, stated that " the Galva of Mademoinfle's lege were too big for a damson." The following document was pat in by the counsel for th e prommtioe, and formed the ground of the action :—" My dear Mademoiselle—Yon surely are not serious in proposing to appear as 'cooed dui/reuse ? Your physical formation, otherwise chsrwlog, Is totally opposed to such a career. You may eossider your sugagemset cancelled, and yourself fem. We have now but to regret a rehearsal which has produced such negative remits. --Agree, Mademoiselle, to believe the respect with which," he., tee. On the part or the *WWI it was argued that she had made no secret of her leis, wide* were such as • liberal Nature had gives to her ; that they were, in fact, the 'Wade-trade of a dancer ; that objsslios bad Mos token by other directors to &anuses " mos mallet ;* sad finally, that the state of the CNN! wee known to ddeedaet when he mad, the contract. The defendant offered to refer the matter to au " expert," and raved the ballet-muter of the Imperial Academy as his Mares ; bat the overt held that strong legs were no breach of montreet, and gave a verdict with wets for the plaintiff. A letter from Constantinople, of the 20th, says : —" As witnessed yesterday one of those beautiful sights I which am only to be wee on the Bosphorus. A regatta, which had been misread under the special patronage of the Sultan. came off at Buyultd4i, • beautiful village near the Blade Sea. The Sultan attended in his yacht, and late ta the evening it was announced be would spend the sight apposite the Tills's. As impromptu illumination we. se ranged; and till midnight the Quay of Boyukdere presented • most ebinaleg spectacle,• ITALIAN BRIGANDS. A letter from Ben Venuto states that the landed proprietor Guiseppe Lombardi,%ho has been kept prisoner by the brigands since the 17th of July, has just been released on the payment of 20,000 francs. As a receipt for this sum the brigands cut off his left ear. bi Lombardi states that be recognised among these scoundrels the well-known brigands Masi, Mauro, and Martino. ROME. ROME, Avourr 26. . _ A solemn penitential procession is appointed for Sept. 6, on which day the image of Christ, now in the sancta sanctortim of the church of St. John Lateran, will be translated to St. Mary Major. Ever since 1566 this venerated image has only been carried in procession on the occasion of great public calamities. The last exhibition of it au in 1798, when a French army occupied Rome. It is now naturally asked, why this procession in Sep tember, 1863 ? Does the church foresee a coming catastrophe ? (wns's niaciars.) THE SPANISH ELECTIONS: MADRID; Avavet 31, Emma. A letter from Marshal E;partero has been pub lished recommending the electors to abstain from voting. General Prim had a long conference with the Queen yesterday at La Granja, after which he returned to Madrid and had an interview with Senor Olozaga. The leading members of the pro gressista party will meet this weck in Madrid. Should they decide upon abstaining from voting, they will publish their motives for this course. The ministry persist in excluding nna-electors from the preparatory electoral meetings. FRANCE. PARIS. Sim. L An imperial decree published to-day Lies the octroi duty in Paris on bread and corn at lc. per kilogramme; on flour, le. 3 diiimes per kilo gramme ; the proceeds to go to the Caisse de Bou lingerie. The decree further orders that whenever the price of bread may exceed 50 centimes, the Caine de Boulangerie is to bear the surplus. WARNING TO THE "FRANCE CENTRALE." PARIS, Sam 1. The Prance Centrale, published at Blois, has been suspended for two .months. The motive for the suspension is stated as the paper having announced that the Ambassador of France at St. Petersburg had demanded an au dience of Prince GortchakofC , but had not obtained a word of answer. This statement is declared to be false, calculated to disquiet the public, and excite hatred against the government. RUSSIA. BERLIN, Sire. 1. Letters from St. Petersburg to the 30th ult. an nounce that an imperial ukase had been issued, ordering the incorporation of 48 regiments of the reserve with the active army. The Grand Duke Constantine has attended a council of ministers held at Tzarakoe-Selo, under the presidency of the Emperor, at which the ques tion of replying to the notes of 'the Three Powers was diseased. The Grand Dake bee been remised in the most friendly manner by the Emperor since hie return from Warsaw. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. THORN, Barr. L It is reported that the Grand Duke Constantine will not return to Warsaw. The Grand Duchess is said to be already preparing for departure. General Minoslawski is stated to have been persuaded to enter the service of the National Go vernment as orgealser of volunteer bands without the Polish frontier. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. VIENNA, Allover 3L Rumours are current that a number of Hungarian notables will shortly assemble at Pesti', under the presidency of the Emperor, to discuss measures tending to bring about a solution of the Hungarian question. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Bar. I. The Messageries Impirialee steamer Mose, with the India and China mails, left here to-day. She takes 59 passengers, and 842 bales of silk. CALCUTTA ANDCHIAA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Barr . 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 64 passengers, pearls and precious stones, value 76,000 rupees, and a general cargo, including 2,675 bales of raw silk, value 26,0001. sterling. In the Mediterranean the Poonah experienced fine weather, but in the Bay of Biscay strong westerly winds and a heavy swell. On the 26th ult. she spoke the Para with the outward mails of the 20th. Gibraltar, August 27 : Exchange on London, 90 days, 49i to 50 ; Paris, 628 ; Madrid, par. Freighta unaltered. The Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Dnke and Mohair de Chartres, and other persona of dietiootica, the ember of fifteen, attached to their suite, arrived be Broods Ares *vanillp ago from CtiMod• Tim following day they visited the Exhibition of the Beaux-At* and in the *vagina were present at the Matte des Werke Wet- Ruben. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo sialealce from theLoed High Ceemitialever of the leehke Clads end from the Genoa= at °spark, Prince Edward's Ifewfossdlaad, lismsda, and Mess ascii& "utia d . VEN TG, SEPT. FROM P. EXt .fr . ...at/04ov ous OWN CORIZSPONI4 ‘ ;) PARIS, MONDAY EVIOWN‘ . Whether or not, as a matter of a fact, an alliance between France and Russia is at hand, it is evident that the French journals have orders to treat sash an event as possible and desirable. The Frame follows up tie hints which I noticed yesterday, by an article headed "A Political Evolution," which is most complimentary to Russia, and favours the idea that she is about by her own "initiative" to do all and more than France could desire to pacify Poland. The Francs considers it nothing but "logical" that Russia should enter upon a "sin cerely liberal" course. Prussia also it hopes well ot, believing that the Congress of Frankfort must have " opened its eyes," and served as a " warning" to its statesmen. These things being premised, the France enlarges upon the especial disinterestedness of France, in regard to all the great European questions which are pending, and comes to the conclusion that she has a "providential mission' , to resolve them. Continuing to reason in this " order of ideas," it lays down the proposition that it is more indifferent to France than to the ' other two powers, "by whom and in what form " justice to Poland shall be done. England and Austria, it says, are hampered by "secondary considerations." France alone hovering serene in the pore regions of " European order° can with dignity accept a plan for the re-organisation of Poland, emanating from the " initiative " at Russia, set in motion by the " influence" of Prussia. In aid of this line of argument, it is suggested that England is regarded by Russia as an adversary, whose policy stands in her way in India, Asia, and China ; and that Austria is an ambitious neighbour, who opposes Russian influence in Germany, and has views upon the Danubian Principalities and the Ottoman empire which alarm St. Petersburg. France, on the con trary, does not desire to weaken the empire of the i czars ; has no conflict of ambition, no secular rivalry, no present interest to separate her from Russia. Let France's disinterested sympathy for Poland be satisfied, and then nothing will stand in the way of a lasting friendship. The above article looks very like • bid for a Russian alliance ; and no doubt if Russia could be brought to an entente cordiale with France, the semi-oflicial journals of Paris would very soon be instructed to think that " justice to Poland" was fully satisfied by whatever it might please the Czar to decree. It may be, however, that Russia is not quite so ripe as France for the "political evolution" heralded by the France, and that a de sire to cover a diplomatic defeat and furnish a plausible excuse for not going to war is at the bot tom of all these pleadings. The Petrie speaks very much to the same effect as the France as to something contemplated at St. Petersburg on the suggestion of the King of Prus sia, which will "go beyond the demands made by the three notes." "It is not without reserve," says the Petrie, "that we publish this news ; but we are disposed to see a confirmation of it in the journey of Prince de Hohenzollern to Paris, in the recent audiences given to M. de Budberg, and the postponement of the insertion in the Moniteur of M. Drouyn de Lhuya' last despatch, and the me morial which accompanied it." The scheme which it is said the Czar proposes for a constitutional government in Russia com prises two chambers—a Senate of 300 members ap pointed for life, and a representative chamber of 450 members. Independently of the central repre sentation each province is to have • special consti tution ; the kingdom of Poland, for instance, would have a diet sitting at Warsaw, an internal autonomy of a very complete kind, and would at the same time send deputies to the Chamber at St. Petersburg. Finland and the other great provinces of the empire would be organised on a similar principle. The project is opposed by the court party, which fears a loss of influence, and is jeal ous of Moscow as a rival of St. Petersburg, for it is proposed thr.t the new parliament should sit in Moscow, although St. Petersburg would still be the seat of the court. It is hoped that the Emperor of Russia will be able to overrule all objections. The Empress left St. Cloud this morning for Biarritz. Prince Napoleon's yacht is at Havre, awaiting to convey him and the Princess Clothilde to Lisbon, where they wish to be at the time of the Queen's sceonehement. It is not stated whether the yacht will stay at Cherbourg en route. The Bourse was in great spirits, owing to the prospect of a friendly settlement of the Polish dif ficulty. The interview which Count de• Goltx bad with the Emperor to-day was believed to be connected with the news above extracted fr•m the evening papers. Rente rose 40c., and Mobilier 371 r. 150 c. A RHINE STIAXIOAT ON PHlL—Three days back • fearfnl scene was presented on board a steamboat on the Rhine, Darned the Agrippina. The vessel was= the memo upward. front Rotterdam, when one of • beeketful of bottles cootaining bensoine was broken, nod the in flammable stuff ran down the owl-spout on the deck into the engine-room ; a volume of flame • instantly shot up as high as the top of the funnel, and one of the paddle-boxer, the smoking-room on deck, and the oonductor's room with all his papers were soon de stroyed. There were fifty passengers on board, and it may be easily =Desired that terror and disorder preo veiled all over the vesseL The enguner bad the pre emies of mind at the outbreak of the fire to redoes the speed, but the west wind drove the llamas emcee the deck, and the other peddle-box POO caught fire, and thee all comma. elastics between the fore and after part of the reseal wee cut off. On the after part, besides SOON pensagers, there were only the steersman and the ship's cook ; bat the latter cut down the awning over the deck to prevent it taking fire, and the boat was launched to save the passengers Fortunately a tag-boat wu near. Her crew rowed to the burning vessel as woo as possible, when the passengers were put os shore, and the fire was eztioguisbed is the course of ball an hour. The that thing done when order was restored was to un ceremoniously throw overboard the hamper of benzoine, which had been the came of all the mischief. Tbe pas sengers were takes on the same evening by another vessel, and the Agrippina was sent to Rotterdam to be repaired. Tag " TIMES " AND THE CONFEDERATE STEAMERS. —After making all abatements due to the exceptional cha racter of the war between Federals and Confidantes, we must seeds admit that the case of warships is Dot like the case of munition, of war. There is not so much direct intervention or provocation in one as there is is the other. Rifles and gunpowder are soon lost sight of, hut • ship of war is an active engine, endowed, as it were, with life and personality, and traceable in her achievements from day to day. Indeed if we suppose I that not only the hull, but the guns, the stores, and the men are furnished more or lees circuitously from the neutral state, it is hard to MI bow the supply differs from that of a regiment of soldiers, We have only to ask ourselves what our feelings would have been if, while we were block ading the Russian porta during the Crimean war, some neutral state had furnished the RUSika govammeet with cruisers enough to close the sea against our commerce. Of ! course we should have allowed them such • range as the Alabama bas enjoyed, bat some day or other even we, , with our enormous navy, may God our hands too full. It is sot oar interest to allow such a precedent to be estab lished for the first time, if it does not exist already, nor to connive at its extension, if it has any existence. Of all the doubts which the question contains we ought to give our. Delves the benefit, and our interests, as it happens, coincide oe this suasion with the desires of the Federal States.— ltiesrs MARCHANT SRAHIN's ORPHAN ASYLUM—The Ulf-yearly oloctioa took place yeiteeday at the Lead°. Tavern. The hoard of management, Is their report. .rpd upon the friends and patrons of the society the neosority al obtaioieg increased support for the institution. They stated that the explicate %mired during the post year in a cotd I pletiog and rendering the new asylere fit for cectipatioe precluded the possibility of iocroatang the number of c hild ren to be admitted at the present election. At twelve o'clock the subscribers proceeded to elect four girls out et tee candidates, and eight boys out of twenty tune can didates. • .k.,R 1, 1463. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (FRO: OUR SPECIAL 001 CRACOW. AUGUST 27. There was a report current in Cracow yester. day, to the effect that the insurgents had torn up the rails for the space of fifteen English miles on the Warsaw line. On proteeding to the railway station to learn the truth, I found the report con firmed, so that my contemplated journey to War saw swat be deferred for, at any rate, a few days. Letters from Cracow to Warsaw were forwarded this morning by way of Konigsberg, which looks as if the rail from Berlin to Warsaw were also imprec [ ticable. The railway is about the surest barometer to which one can trust to register the rise and fall of the insurrection. Nothing annoys the Russians so much as the stoppage of railway communication, and this wholesale destruction of the line, which L a proof that the insurgents must be in great foroe, is an excellent commentary on the late report, which was forwarded to St. Petersburg, to the effect that the insurrection had been put down. The fact is that so far from being put down, the insurrection gains ground every day, if not directly, indirectly, for by existing from day to day the hold of the National Govern meet on the people becom es stronger, and the Russian authorities are day by day brought into inoreseing embarrassment by their inability to collect the taxes. The peasants are already beginning to regard the National Government in the light of a fixed institution, and the peasants once fairly gained over, the Russian hold of the king dom of Poland is gone for ever. But for the invaluable aid lent by the peasantry in the Ruthenian provinces, the insurrection would there have placed the Russians in the utmost jeopardy. That the crime of Nicholas in forcibly convening the Uniates in those provinces to the orthodox faith, should already have stood the Russians in such good stead, is one of those facts which render it very hard to believe that Providence rules al things for the best. That it cannot by any possibility be fur the best for any individual or people to live under Russian rule, I think even Lord Shaftesbury would have to admit. When travelling in Volhynia, I was informed by • doc tor, living in a small country town, that he would never forget to the day of his death the scenes he witnessed as a boy at the conversion of the unfortu nate Uniates. Driven like sheep into the schismatic churches, the victims were forced to abjure the religion of their fathers, and if one refused the knout was administered till he should think better of it. In particular the doctor mentioned the case of several women, who obstinately clung to their old faith, for which constancy they were severely beaten on the bare back, under his very eyes, and thirty years had not sufficed to effuse the impression from his memory. Whatever course the Western Powers why adopt, there is not the remotest probability that the in surreotion will be put down in any given time. The extent of the military operations during the winter months will depend more or less on the greater or less severity of the season. If the coming winter should be as mild as the last, there isnothieg to prevent the continuance of the sort of warfare which is at present carried on. If, on the other hand, the winter should be a severe one, the number of engagements will be much entailer, bitt the pot is sure to be kept boiling till the spring. The National Government is so universally obeyed, and the taxes paid to its appointed agents with such regularity, that the Russian government exists only in name in the kingdom of Poland. That step which is essential to the success of all desperate under takings, i.e., the cutting off of all possibility of retreat, has long since been deliberately taken by the Poles, so that they have only success or an nihilation before them. It lies with the Western Powers to decide, whether Europe shall be the richer by a generous and intellectual people, or whether the Cossack shall be brought so much nearer to their own doors. I visited yesterday the St. Lazarus Hospital, whither the latest batch of wounded brought into Cracow from the detachment of Tanie wak i were con veyed. It is almost the rule now that the insurgents, in crossing the frontier, have a preliminary tussle with the Austrians, who have lately nearly doubled their force along the Galician frontier. In one of these affairs, which took place a fortnight since, it is reported that the Austrians had four or five men killed, besides nine or ten wounded. Whatever may bathe truth of this report—and the authorities keep these things very dark—nine Poles wounded by Austrian soldiers were brought into the Lazarus hospital. In some cases a sentinel is placed at the foot of the wounded man's bed, I suppose to see that he does not run away while having his leg cut off. I found the same cheerfulness pervading the patients which has struck me on all my visits to the hospitals, and which, I have no doubt, helps them to get well the faster. There were several who bad received eight or nine wounds, and one the back of whom bead bad been lopped off by a sabre-cut. THE WHITE BEAMS CAGE. "Mrs. Schmitt," we read in the Gazetk des Tri bunaux, "is not obliged to go into the white bear's cage." This announcement, which must afford great satisfactioe to Mrs. fichmitt's friends, commences the report of • suit that has lust been heard before the Tribunal of Commerce of the S.One, and which is headed with the words, "The Ferocious Asinsels of the Hippodrome—The White Bear and Mrs. Schmitt." It appoint from the prooesdiep that the success of Crockett the lion-tamer had tired &molt, the director of the Paris Hippodrome, with • noble emulation, and be resolved to asr•L i ta live li wild beasts to his intelligent audiences. He had of • meoagene at Ghent, kept by Mr. Schmitt, and compelling four boas, two black bean, two hyenas, and a white bear, all warranted ferocious. He succeeded in bring this savage collection to Pans, together with one Hermann, the &inter of boasts, whom all Paris has seen Oboe then paying friendly vista to the animals in their dens and taking the White bear's supper into the cage where be lived in solitude. People began to get used to thin, and it occurred to the enterprising Arnault that it would be a re ductive novelty if • woman could be got to venture upon the name familiarities with the captive monsters. An agree ment was signed with Mrs. Schmitt, who, not lees valiant than graceful, accepted a sum of 4,000 fr. to appear at the Hip podrome fora fortnight and to enter the cage of the oombined animals--that is to my, of the lima, hymns, and black bears, who all lived together. Kra. Schmitt stoutly per formed her part of the agreement, but the manager wished her also to visit the Polar bear, which she refused on the grounds that be was ant at down in the hood. Howe • double lawsuit, in which the lady mune off with Byiog colours. In the course of the trial nom* indiscreet revels.- Sons were made by the mainger's advocate, calculated much to discourage that eccentric John Bull who, moordieg to • current tradition in France, continually attends exhibitions I of this class in hopes of seeing come exasperated lion or irritable bear make • meal of the tamer. The white beer, it was declared, is gentle as a lamb, and only formidable in the bills of the performance, consequently Aram& did not seek to expose Ira. Schmitt to the least danger It was known to all the people employed at the Hip podrome that when Mr. into Hermann went the cage wi th the sapper, grooms, with rods which were concealed from the Wait, pushed the pieces of meat away from the bear, so as to excite the animal to signs of hapatiesce acid anger. Mr. Hermann, in the Amoco of the p wee in the habit of . smoking his cigar in the cage without paying the least attention to the bear, and his keeper, Jacob, used to let the mile inhabitant of the Polar notions take sager from between his teeth like a dog—a degree of gentleness cm the part of a bear which emialely did not justify Mrs. Schmites pretended terrors, and the real came of her refusal. It err alleged, 'rag a wish to keep up Martin the bear's usurped espntatioe of ferocity. The mart, }ewer, considered the lady's can to be out, and segiesood Assault to pay the 4,00 Kr. YAK meta. OSTIRAL PALacia.--. OKI Ilisaisura MONDAY, AUGUOT 31. Aibakiivia 97 payment. 8, 463 ; data by Mama LW* TM; Mt•l. M 93. UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED YEN SHUT UP IN ALARMING COLLIERY ACCIDENT. A PIT. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, MONDAY Num. • Intelligence has just been received of a most alarming accident having happened at Berm Sim Colliery, about six miles from Newcastle, it which pit it will be recollected that about three years ago ninety men last their lives by an explosiou of fire damp. The present accident resembles in its general features that of the liartley calamity, but we hope without the fearful loss of life that them occurred. About one o'clock to-day while the engine m u working, the winding mashies halanceoweiglit became detached by some defect, came crashing down through the engine•house, smashed the machioery, and broke th e two winding ropes. The two cages having thus nothing to bold them fell to the bdttom, completely cutting off all oommunicatioc with the men below. There were betweet ode and two hundred men and boys down the pit at the time. If the owes in falling have destroyed the bratticing, which mu only be awartained by inspection, for which no mesas at present exist., the peril of the men is fearful to contemplate, as in that case the ventilation will be destroyed, Hopei, however, are entertained that all yet remains intact and that the rescue of the men is only • question of time. Preparations are actively meeting to get the cram, ready so as to reach them. There is • commuoimtioe be. temp this pit and the neighbouring one of Segbill, bat be. , him it can be made available, substartial stone stopping' meat be removed ; and some degree of hesitation is felt as to touching them, as they play an important part in the ventilation of the mina MR. SERJZANT KINGLAKE, M.P. TO TIM IDT/011 OF MI liIRIFO. 8171,—My attention has been called to the fol. lowing paragraph, ia your paper of the 27th of Ws mentb : " A rumour (seys the Berk Caron irk) is freely dreulaated that Yr. Serjeaat }Umiak, intends shortly retiring from the Wasters Crirettit" I write to inform you that there U no foundation for each a report—the only ground for it that I am aware of is my absence from the late circuit, conuioued by a temporary injury to my arm, which prss vented my usual attendance there. I shall feel obliged by your inserting this correction of the above paragraph it your paper.— I am, &c., JOHN A. KINGLAHL Ocnut Place, Idonktoo, Taunton, August 3L WEATHER REPORT.-(THD3 DAY.) mow. therisstna 1. a A.N. X- Q. L U o U o 716 • lb 1 U b U o o • 23 lb 8 36 e • IS o I 30 b I XI a 6 14 • 34 b 11 e r c I I 6 INC 7 14 1 • U b • 16 • It .7 Nairn 11 . 4 .Tdi0• •••••40_4 Link MOO . Ittll 111.11' := 11.1 1 Galway lO.lll Vsientla _ L Quisastowa Holyhead 36.02 NT Pembroto IMI2 66 Pesmutoe sale Bred 13.2026 L'Orleet 0.16 12 Rochefort 30.21 66 oftmouth lan 66 Weymouth KUM Portsmouth 10.97 61 Loudon 204.04 II Dover 10.11 Tormouth .., 30,01 YR liellepeleett ,10.00 11 W.W. & W. W. W.W. W.N.W. SM. W.N.W. Z. N.W. N.N.W. W. N.W. Z. W.N.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. W. SAW. Oil TO THIIIISDAT. N.W. to N.l. and pack. Norri•Rasz. N.N.7, _to W.S.W , trodi to I.4orsto. siodire. to frith: soma ma. W.N.W. to NITA., Wi! COASTS. N.W.toll.W.,lsodarate moderate, generally to beak Mowery In fine. W. to N. and N.H. goirnteomirt. N.N.W. plaram to W.S.W., moderato. One. trek gown. W.B.W. to N.N.W. and Sorra-lan. N. ST w. sae kW.. N.N.L, moderate, fine. modaz+te to fresh. North Faat=Calthnesa to Norfolk. Weet=Dooepl to Con. wall South=Chanaal and Bay Couto. Soath•Yaat=Strait el Dover to Norfolk. The Attorney-General has appointed Serjeant Kinglike senior counsel for the Poet-office on the western circuit, in lieu of the late Sir F. Slade. THE ARCHBISNOP or Dnin.nr. —Up to a late hour on Saturday night the reports of his Games health *WO more enconregiog. He bad passed a bettor night, sad was somewhat stronger on Sunday than he had previously been. The other symptoms, however, remain use-hanged.— Dublin Daily Express. AN ECCLESIASTICAL CONORESB.—A oongrees of Many and laity, muter the auspices of the Duke of Marl borough, the Earl of Derby, Lord Ebary Lord L= 0 " 1. Lord John Moaners, XP., the Hoe. Algernon M.P., Mr. Begley, M.P., Mr. C. Bristow, ME., r. Bib. bert, Y.P. t Mr. Garnett, MP., Mr. Hubbell, M.P., Mr. W. J. Legit, IL P., Mr. Mowbray, M.P., Mr. Odes Puller, M.P., the Arebbisbop of York, the Bishop of Manchester, the Bishop of Oxford, and other noblemen and gentlemen, is to be held at Mariehester next month, with • view ha ocesultatiou so to the hest mesas of promoting the efficieley of the (Aura. The mopes& is to be preceded by a service in the Cathedral on Tuesday, the 13th of October, and the meetiop will be held in the Free Tradohall on the follow iag days, at which papers will be read introductory to dis massions ou the following subject@ :—Church Extension Supply and Training of Ministers, Lay 00-operation, th; Church of Ireland, Management of a large Perish, Parochial Mission Union, Growth of the Church is lemeenhire, the Law of the C olonial Church and the Supply of Naito Mi nisters, Day end Sunday Schools, he. Papers will also be reed and damned in sections on—Free and Open Churches, Diaciplinee, Modes of Augmenting Small Livings se a : Mlle Redemptions, Rural Amami Meetings, Diocesan Synods, sod Convolution. CIIIIIten DIFFIRANCIIII AT Sr. ALBAN'S, HOLBORN. —Some disagreements have sprung up between the clergy of St. Alban's Church, Gray's-inn-Lee, sod the contra Lidice, in reference to the mode of caduating Divine ser vice there, and the clergy have horned a torsi letter which doee not yet appear to have the breech. The church, consecrated • few months Moss, was built at the expense of Mr. J. G. Hubbard, M.P., whoas patroe, nominated the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, M.A., who was one of the curates of St. Georges-in-the-Piet during the prevalence of the disturbances there, to the incumbeocy. Into the church of St. Alba's'. Mr. Idsokonochie has intro clued many of the practices which founds., much disfavour at St. George's, and it is the feeling which has been mani fested towards one of these which ham led to the reverend gentleman's pastoral letter to the congregation. It is the custom in most of the churches connected with the esta blishment for them of the congregation who do not purpose to remain during the administration of the Holy Com munion to retire immediately after the sermon, bat in come places the congregation remain until after th e reading of the prayer for the Church Militant, on arriving at which point there is a pause in the service, and nos-communicants leave. But them practices are disregarded at St. Alban's, and the system which was pursued at St. George's-la the-Fast is adopted. Imiestely after the sermon, the preacher, who is meted in a white surplice, de scends from the pulpit, and the communion service is at once proceeded with, no pause being /Bade at asy part, so that those who do not wish to partake of the sacrament, wbieh is administered every Sunday, are compelled to stay during the whole time of its celebrations, or to disturb the communicants by moving out of the church. The clergy complain of the interruption so caused, while on the other baud the congregation object to being detained against their will, sod throw the blame of the interruptions on the aleriry. THE GAME SEASON IN THE EAST.—There is A good supply of partridges awaiting their doom this meson in Norfolk, and doubtless a large number will be brought down to-day. The past summer has been exceedingly favourable for the rearing of game of every kind, and ~tends out in strong relief in this respect sgsinat 1562. Not only has the Prince of Wales secured a *bootie( estate is Norfolk, but his Highness the Maharajah Dhaleep Singh has followed the example. The Duke of Wellington has, however, left the county, having disposed of the Clermont-lodge estate, to which his grace in former years invited the Due de Malakhoff and other distinguished insets. The harvest being completed, sportsmen will have NO uninterrupted range over most of the fields, and should today prove five, some capital begs will doubting' be made up in Norfolk. Suffolk, and the adjoining occusties. It was expected at one time that the Prince of Wales would corns down to Sandringham early this month for the partook of dealing execution among the partridges, with which the skate abounds, and that has royal breams and the Primer of Wales would come on to the Norwich festival. The Prance and Princess mum, however, to have fouled superior attrac tions in the Hi elands at present. NARROW ESCAPE. —At Whitby, last Tote/day, two ladies. • mother and her datighter, wandered along the South Sear, adruirrag the cliffs in the neighbourhood of Saltwick. and having their attention take, up by thou sod other °biome of interest around them, till they 'mod them • selves surroendia by the tide. A gretlenian from Hull (Mr. E. Raw), who was shooting gulls on the top of the cliff, absolved the Wise le their extremely dinecrcul puei tion, mad be prepared seek seesautes as led to their rescue, bed set before they bed bees immersed in salt water up to the waist. They were battled up to the top of the cliff in a very affrighted and exhausted state. Had they not been din. emend by Mr. Raw, it is all but certain that they would both have perished, as a little further to the south, the direction they were taking, the water was deeper. 1...1!I • el gni Phi In& be ii;i toe I IA Sal *lt . a ii :41 weal erhi