The Express. — London, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

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NM WILbrer.LIX IX TUX *OMIT Ile -MA MIX= ACZOIIATIL name Mt NIGH NAM AT LONDON INIDGI. Dat—lluesim /fa 1%. ihriumnr—lfinift IL fa..._.... Aft •11111111. 1.1. Kn. LONDON, TUESDAY, 8177. 8. Ern. days have fallen on the Cr6dit Mobaier of France ; that wonderful machine which was to be the lever for moving the financial world at its plea sure. Although the institution carried within itself, mart unmistakeably, the seeds of great peril, and almost certain ruin, we woes scarcely prepared to see asp', st,ye disappear so rapidly, or find the rib lie so soon abandon the worship of the golden image it had set up. Foe month' past its power and infia• epee have been steadily declining, and with them the price of its shares, which has dwindled from above 73/., the quotation the 201. share once ItSChtd. to 341., that of lout week. This represents a fall of above 60 per cent. more September, 1836, and where it will end no one at p atient seems dined to guess. A series of unfortunate events have hastened this crisis, beginning with the refusal of the Government to allow the issue of bonds, pay able at remote periods, for a vast sum. Then came the failure of M. Pt. sce, one of the directors, who was suddenly recalled from Marseilles whither he had gone on his road to Constantinople, charged with • special mission for the regeneration of Turkish finance. This catastrophe, which pat an end to the scheme for a time, was probably • fortunate one for Turkey : and although the affair was very quietly hushed up, it undoubtedly left • scar on the Credit Mobilier, his fellow-directors having been heavy losers by him. The secession of the Count de Mount was another, bat • Ism serious blow: The note in the Mossiteur of the 9th March, 1856, prohibiting the formation of new companies, was of far deeper import, for it dried up one of the great sources of profit both for the Company and its directors. Still later, the suc cessful attempt by the Government to check the de moralising habit of gambling on the Boone, which was infecting every grade of society in Paris, was the coup de grace to the Credit Mobilier dividends. The scene of its great meemees was gradually deserted ; speculation died away, and the vast army of brokers and cuuliseiers in its pay were left to devour each other. In May last, Mr. Cu. Tnuaszvests absconded, leering behind him debts to an enormous amount. He was the nephew of Mr. Atf.V.TE TM A NET.,EN, a director of the Cridit Mobilier ; it was, therefore, naturally assumed that the Company was inrolred in the affair, and that since a nephew and former partner of one of the directors had made such disastrous speculations, the reaps of the Credit Mobilier were no longer so sure as hereto- fore. In a letter to the principal London journals Mr. I. Veletas stated that the Credit Mobilier was in no way mixed up with the absconding bank rupt, that the amount of the failure was exagge rated, and that Mr. AUC.VSTE Tiivarterssex was only connected with the affair as a creditor. It now appears that there was no exaggeration, the amount being declared in the Bankruptcy Court to be 640,0001., and Mr. A. THUIINEV6bEN, from having neglected to publish the fact of his being merely a sleeping partner in the firm, being made oankrupt with his nephew. Immediately following this comes the resignation of Mr. E. ANDRIC, accompanied, it is said, by that of two others of the most influential members of the Direction. The resignations not haring been accepted, Mr. ANIME again tenders his through a legal officer, evincing a determination to - - - get out of the affair, which hu had a most dis utrou effect on the public mind. Men do not resort to what is almost a public scandal in order to sever their connexion with a flourishing institution; so we cannot wonder at the depreciation of Credit Mohilier shares, and of those of all companies con nected with it. These blows are the more serious as this institution is essentially dependent on credit rather than capital for its existence nor, whatever may have been the ease originally. The capital of the Company is 240,0001., of which, at the date of the last accounts rendered, about 36,0001. were invested in the public funds, and the remainder in various shares, the value and convertibility of which mainly depended on the power of keeping up the fever of excitement in the Bourse. It owed on current accounts 4,061,000/., and the bulk of this sum was likewise invested in loans on bonds and shares, the value of which hang also on a tenure which events have shown to be somewhat frail. The mere know ledge that any break down of this immense gambling house would throw upon the market securities to the amount of above four millions, aggravates most seriously the effects of any unfavourable rumours. Nor does the evil end there. We long ago stated that the Cridit Mobilier was a peril is the whole of the Continent. Its unfortunate prosperity— unfortunate for all unconnected with it, led astray the weak and unsound tinaneialista—the speculative and the needy—throughout Europe. The failure of the great prototype would bring down the numerous imitations which have sprung up in Germany and Spain, and would seriously check, if not entirely stop, the progress of the numerous works set on foot by them. Already we find the Austrian public feeling itself pinched by the rut mass of railways, good in themselves, but undertaken somewhat recklessly at the instigation of the Credit Nlobilier of France, and the golden visions of shareholders are fading away. In France the good sense of the Government and the powerful means at its disposal have served to cheek the progress of the mischief, bat not until its effects bad made themselves severely felt. For the Credit Mobility has been the parent of a host of smaller associetiont, all founded with one object, that of profiting by the blindness and info- tuition of share gamblers; to raise up fortunes felt their managers, and enable them to rival lie PZIETICS, the Mutes, Ice. The journalism of Paris was rapidly becoming merely the organ of this or th►t clique of speculators, and the history of the Roma railways wns an admirable comment on th. mode in svt.ois these conductors of industrial jour -1 nals, who combined at the Mlle time the character of genet and speculator, preyed on the credulity of the public. The code of morality thus introduced was pitiable, and for this we do not hesitate to my, the Credit Mobilier is entirely answerable. . . Its pretensions to act as a sort of buffer to Indus trial undertakings have been too often ridiculed sad exposed by the English press to need further eocunent ; to the very last, however, they are paraded as claims to public gratitude and confidence, as though the world were ignorant that the ante rooms of the great premium manufactory in the Place Venddoie were thronged throughout the day by Bourse agents of every class and every shade of morality. It is not by such instruments that panics are averted, or that an insane speculative fever is moderated; but it is by such machinery that forty per cent. dividends are created, to be fol lowed by a collapse. That the handwriting an the wall has appeared to the Directors of the Credit Mobilier we do not doubt, but we see nothing to lead us to anticipate an immediate crash. The Directors, who cannot get rid of their responsibility suddenly, and who are still connected with the Com pany, are mea of capital and experience. They will need all their resources to let this famous institution down gently with as little ruin as possible; even under the moat favourable circumstances we cannot . sntimpate that any very lengthened period is likely to pass over before another chapter of popular delu sions in France sill be added to the history of LAM'S Mississippi Scheme. ON the 29th of lut month we published an official list of seven English Militia regiments about to be embodied. As the harvest was in full swing, we made no comment at the time on the smallness of the number; and we advert to the subject now merely for the purpose of expressing our confident belief that, u the harvest is now almost every where gathered in, a much longer supplementary list will be issued in a few days. It is not only for home duty that the services of the Militia will now be required. Our correspon dent at Malta writes, in a letter which we published a few days ago, that the regiments in garriaon in that island are most eager to proceed to India. There can be no doubt that the regi ments which have been accustomed to the compara tively hot summers of the Mediterranean will be better prepared to encounter the still hotter clime of India than those which start at once from home. The regiment' in garrison at Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu, would also, if sent on by way of Egypt, have a much shorter voyage, and be better prepared for immediate forced marches after their debarkation. These considerations point unequivocally to the conclusion that it will be wise to replace the regi ments now in gurriaon at Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu with some of our crack militia regiments. It would be invidious to name individual militia regiments, when the majority in almost all of them are eager to be embodied. From all sides we hear the remark, " Our regiment was not em " bodied during the Crimean war ; surely we ought to . . "he allowed our turn now." A list of seven Welsh, ten English, and one Irish Militia Regiment is now before us--all of which are to be called out this year for training, and not one of which was embodied during the late war. When they have been brought together they may u well be kept together. During the late war insinuations were circulated in various quarters of undue influence having been used by militia officers, who might have been incon venienced if their regiments had been embodied, to have them kept inutile. We know not how this may be, but a study of the Army Lief has convinced us that there are some regiments among oar militia to which, prima facie, a certain degree of suspicion attaches. There is, for example, the 2nd Middlesex, or Royal Mid dlesex Rifles, of which the new member for Mid dlesex is colonel. This regiment has served five years, and is allowed by all the officers who have inspected it to be equal to any in the kingdom; and yet it was sedulously kept in the background throughout the Crimean war, and is now threat ened with the same neglect. Now, of the ten Cap tains in this regiment one is Chief Clerk to a celebrated military agent, two are Members of Parliament, one is Private Secretary to the MINIP.TER of WAR, one is a Clerk in the Admiralty, and one a well-known City Banker : the remaining four are private gentle men, two of whom have served in the Army. Again, of the Lieutenants, two are members of Parliament, one is Recorder of Faversham, one is a City Banker, and one a clerk in the Foreign-offiee ; the mat are private gentlemen. Now it is perfectly intelligible how the embodiment of this regiment might inconvenience so many important gentle men ; and it is equally intelligible how their in fluence in certain high quarters may be suf ficiently potent to avert such an evil. But it would be rather too much to concede that the interest of the country should be sacrificed to the convenience of a knot of gentlemen who wish to play at soldiers twenty-eight days in the year. Thanks to the Major, who was a captain in the army, and went through the Kaffir war—and to the other officers, whose heart is in their business—the 2nd Middlesex is a most efficient regiment. The private soldiers, too—with few exceptions—arc not agricultural labourers. They have been, for the most part, re cruited in London and Barnet ; many have only a precarious livelihood; scarcely any of them would be inconvenienced, and most of them benefited by being embodied. It is just the regiment for active service ; and its influential officers can scarcely hope to escape imputations, which we cannot believe they deserve, if it is not embodied. Of course, in order to neaps the imput►tion, they will use all their influence to have it embodied. CAMBIIDGR, SIFT. 7.-INTWIEST OF THE LAT It PIIGIPTIIT or Quartos Cottrok —The internee' of the teasel= of the Lea pvilwt of Qom,' College took place this day in the Zee* ceemaceies. The body lad been std the co ll ege boll the Doe of the night, sad about l l reckon, ins pee rage* started, It peened mead the tire coon of the col lege, and at the maniacs et the chapel - eras marred by the 1t.,. W. G. Seark sad the Row. W. M. Campion, officiatiag mitentee. Chant service was celebrated, and, amid the chop repot of all ananaiated with the late president, his remains wen beneed to their Met reating-plee - - - More failures are reported in Bristol, come of which are consequent re the tenet suspension of payment by Ilmors. Bruford, Dysr, and Co., African merchants. Mown B. F. Pardon and Co., of the Stoke Sospworks, near Bromogrirm him convened • meeting of their creditors at the dime of Masts. Barnard, Thomas, and Co., Bristol, for Thenday next. This liabilities of this tirm an stated at from 30,000/. to 40,0001. On the Maw day a martin, of the cre ditors of Ids. AJUVII Crosfield, gwaeral merchant, of Bristol, Is to be held. The liabilities in this ewe are about 10,0007. Oar. Charles imam, Australian merchant, has also sm. payment, with liabilities amounting to about 1.5,000/.Mil is a id-established house of Gooey W) Id and Sons, recti fying distillers, and wine and brandy merchants, hare also failed, and a petition in bankruptcy has been filed against Keene. Perms and Co., tnerobsum, ship and 111011701 We rUntamed peasouper and general brokers, whose Habil!. ot stated at 20,0004 TEE , EXPBESS, TUESDAY E VENNI . Igo froulf •• • BAILtiIORAL,Bnr4 Th. Queen and Privies Consort drovo yesterday to 13i.kthedl, proceeding thence up Olen Ueda. The Ditcher of Kent and Lord and Lady James Murray were Mandel In the dinner party in the evening. Despraebee wee received at the Colonial:office yesterday been the Governors of the North American provineea, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, eed the Governor of Falkland Islands. The Edinboro' Daily Express 'aye :,--" The Rev. Mr. Card, of Errol, whose sermon, Religion in Comae Life," gave such high satisfaction to the Queen and Prince Albert, was to preach before her Majesty in the church of Coothie, :on Sunday Est.—The Rev. John Stuart, late of Newton-upon-Ayr, who has just been presented to St. Andrew's church, Edinburgh, has brat appointed to preach before the Queen at Crathie church, on the 20th inst. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbary have been entertaining at Achnacary, in the Highlands, the Duke de Richelieu, Lord and Lady Manama, Lord and Lady Dee mer*, the Comities of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, Lord Loughborough, Lord Edward Thynne, the Hon. George Barrington, and Mrs. and Miss Meynell Ingram. Boone stags hare been killed, but grows are nearly extinct on Lordlier. moors, chiefly in consequence of the burning of the heather, which has been universal on this estate. Anna Maria, Marchioness Dowager of Ely, ex pired at Harepten Court Palau. on Sunday last. The deceased Marchioness was the eldest daughter of the late Sir Henry Watkin Daahwood, Baronet, of Kirtlington-park, Oxon, and married, in 1810, John, second Marquis of Ely, by whom she had a numerous family. Her ladyship was Maid of Honour to her Majesty Queen Charlotte, and for some years Lady of the Bedchamber to her Majesty Queen Adelaide. She was born in 1783, and was consequently in her 73rd year. Her ladyship had been for mom time past suffering from repeatod attacks of chronic bronchitis, under which discus she erentually sank. At her express desire her mortal remains will be deposited in • vault at Kenn!. green Cemetery, where those of the late marquis, her eon, were lately interred. The funeral is to take place on Satur day next, end will be strictly private. The North British Daily Moil says :—Lady Barnard, the afflicted widow of General Sir Henry Barnard, la Bring in retirement at Sendgete, where the deepest re spect and interest are felt for her. Her eldest eon is with the army kfore Delhi, and she has several other cbildrea. Her leolythip iy by birth Cranford, of the Lind say sad Balcarree !scaly. Mr. W. H. Gore Langton, Ml'. for Bristol, has transmitted a donation of 40/. to M.. John Vining, mayor of that city, on amount of the fund now being raised for the rang of the waivers by the mistimes in India, The KentisA Gazette gives currency to a report that M•jor-Oeneral Sir W. F. Williams, commandant of the garrison, la about to be nominated to the sppointment of Governor and Comeseader-imChief of Malta, in succession to Msjor-Oeneral Sir W. Reid and Bir J. L. Pennefather, whose terms of Ake will shortly aspire. The Eases Herald says:—" Major Warburton, M.P., ham takes advantage of a brief visit to Harwich to deliver a Wham at the National School-room, on ' Hero ism' The subject was rendered highly interesting by the lOWA lecturer, particularly the touching part relating to the hastiont of the gentler ass. Major Warburton received • ocefflal vole of thanks at the close.•• THE BISHOP OP Itiroy.g.vn THE LYDIAN MUTIXY. Dr Robert Bickerstetb, Bishop of Ripon, has issued the following tette, to the clergy of hi. dime*: " The Pance Rip en , Sept. IM7. I• " Rev. and Dow Brethren,—lt is duty during the present crisis in India to implore the help of A finighty God by special eepplication. In thy hands are the helms al battle. The mutiny which has taken place is kllOllll to 110 of fearful extent. No one can my to what further extent the rebellion may reach. Already mach precious blood hen hoes shed. Hundreds of our peaceful end unoffending fellow countrymen lam been massacred by the trewhomus muti neers, mad net a kw have endured horrors worm than death. It Y evident that before this conflict is over, many more lives will inevitably he sacrificed. Not only are oar troops in India surrounded with all the perils of wee, but the nume rics families from this country who maids to the disturbed districts, am exposed to risks which it Is fined to contemplate. Meanwhile, those who have relatives ar friends in India are unavoidably in deep anxiety and sup pease on their account. The circumstances WI for epeciai and united prayer, and I venture, therefore, to recommend the clergy throughout the diocese, at public morning and evening prayer, to ask the prayers of the congregation 'on behalf of our fellow-ecumtrynwit at home and abroad who are suffering by reason of the war in the &M.' And 1 also recommend the use of the prayer whkh is appointed to be used 'in the time of war and tumults? Permit me, also, to waging the propriety of pointing nut to your amgregetions the duty of tracing the hand of God le this visitation, and of earnestly beseeching him, for the meriea sake of Christ, to grant a speedy termination of the 'kik, end, above ell, to over-rule the calamity, for the glory of his holy name sod the farther advancement of his kingdom on earth. I am, reverend and deer brethren, your faithful servant, "R. Giros." STREET PREACHLyG 7 SERIOUS RIOT IS BELFAST. BELFAST, MoN DAY. A very serious riot took place here on Sunday, arising out of greet preaching. The riot act eras read, and the people fired on by the police. Several rename have been 'overtly wounded. A young Mao, named George Walker, wee shot in Kin-street. At present th. town Is quiet. CANADIAN PATNIOTPIL—h the Quebec CAroniele of August 21 we reed We learn that the Ottawa Militia Field Battery have at their eerviees to the imperial go. mamma', and volunteered to serve in India." THE LATE I4S. PLATT, ESQ., M.P. ?OR OLD RAW.—The funeral of this deeply-lamented gentleman pre sented an affecting scene. The body was intoned in the new cemetery. and thousands of the inhabitants, with most of the workmen attached to the firm to which the deceased belonged, about 4,000 in number, were spectators of the solemn rites. Mr. Platt wee sincerely respected by the inha bitants of his native town, sad his influence as partner in one of the largest maehioe-makiart establishments in the world had always been exereiscd with a view to advance the inte rests of Oldham sod the comforts and welfare of all classes of hie fellow-townsmen. A epeetator on the day of the &weal mites that " there were numberless carriages pnwent from the rat and wealthy, and the lord bishop of the diocese hastened to exprem his deep comniieeration with the afflicted Rirlivry. There was a long procession, not a mere show. But the tree greatness and glory of that unersospied Irene wee the manifest overwhelming sorrow of a whole district in DEATH or MR THOMAS HUGHES :It is with feelings of regret we here to announce the demise of Mr. Thome. Hughes, an actor of considerable note in the pro einem end also urine the stages of overeat of our metropolitan theatree. Mr. Hughes seas educated so an artist. having, in conjure non with Ma brother, Mr. Ball Hughey, who Achieved a very high preition, executed • work of art in sculpture that even now is remembered with pleasure and admiration it was exhibited to the public reeve years ago, and represented " the descent of our Saviour from the Cross." Idiom many other., however, the charm* of the stage overcame his other predilection. for sot, and he abandoned a_purnit of which, under other circumstances, he would doubtlem have become a diens:o6l:rd proferwor. Hie Inclination. led him in a di&rent direction ; and had he not met with • merlow acci dent in one of his professional engagements in the province., he would doubtleas hove been now found in the foremost rank, of our metropolitan perforniera. Since this accident Mr. Hughes has been unable to resume his profersional co mer, and to Mr. John lints., whose brotherly affection and kindly consideration hare soothed the lest momenta of the sufferer, ha .S. indebted for undeviating attention ever since be became incapacitated from following his profession. He died on Sunday morning, in the 49th year of hie age. MADRID IN THE IJOG DATa.—The sun blares pitilthely out of an indigo sky ; there is no coolness in the f vide breeze which acutely stirs the striped awning. of the bakonies, or rustles the leaves of the rare-laurels in the win dow; the streets are deserted; at yonder corner. group of porters and lanaroni lie sleeping on the pavement; on the otter site of the pl a ne, the gown-vellera beer with drawn thennelves end their merchandise within the deep sha dow rd the arcade., and slumber on their choirs, insured meabst customen at this torrid hour; the puffy quail, which hangs, in whet appears to net a cruelly small cage, at a neighbouring window, has ceased his monotonous call, sad is taking the Siesta; the lest lingering Menthe of snow haw malted from the Gusdarama summits, now dimly aeon through the sultry mina that shroud them : it is dna weather for sleep—ale° for brain fever and hydrophobia, but certainly not fur any kind of ezertice.—Blockircrod's itagatiow for seve. SEPTEMBER 8, '1it8541.:-I:if' THE DR.AM4. HA.TMARLET. Shekspeezes ever fresh, ever mirth-ranking co reedy, Muth alio elated NotAkg, was produced last evening at the Haymarket, for the purpose of introducing toe London audience Mrs. Catherine Sinclair, a lady who had revieualy achieved considerable reputation on the other Aide of the I Atlantle. The delirwente, who Is, we onderstard, the widow of the late Mr. Format, the eminent ArneriAin tragedian, and now merely resumes her amide:, nune, had a warm and ',anemic reception, and alt` se augh not altogether the gay, witty, resets Beatrice " the= 'pears drew," hide fair to obtain a pv.tnenent footing on the metropolibut boards. Her features are marked and expres rive, and her figure good, althoug'j ra lnclining ooneidebly to the totbovoioa, and her acting is Watiuguiehed by consider able vivacity, coupled with an intimate acquaintance with the basins= of the stags. Still, the truth mutt be told, she is • 'Atha too nature and , romanly for the youthful &nice, and throws, consequently, mere pbyeical force into the character the& it Is to be believed the author in tended. Thin are many characters, however, is the high coned In which her tine presence, great of flow animal * and obvious wage experience, may be Woughtent ark advantage. Tho impression elle madam the sante lateanng was decidedly favourable ; and at the end of one seen eke was recalled and warmly ap plauded. Mr. Howe, who played Benedick fur the first time, gave a bravo bat &table rendering of the character, let elf the rather bread jokes " like • shot from a culverin," end looked altogether a Henedlek whose vow of celibacy must prove an hoopoe/ability. But decidedly the moat pro-' minent festive in the whole performance was the DeFberry of Mr. Compton. It wee a genuine Slakepearian delineation, and kept the audience in a rear throughout every ecene in which the worthy constable was on the wage. The peculiar humour of the great dramatist war never more thoroughly appreciated or interpreted, and the actor was re warded with connate evidemees of eymperhy from his audience, which west far beyond the ordinary demonstrations of applawe. That a gentleman poanang so rich and rare • drained° vein aa Mr. Compton Mind be oot mom generally, or more prominently, brought forward le a courant puzzle before the curtain, believer capable It may be of explana tion on the other aide. All the old play-goon pronounce hie humour to be as racy, and much ;more mallow. than Munden's. Mies Oliver min • graceful and interesting Hero, end the subordinate characters were played with the care which has dietinguishecl ell the Haymarket production. under the pre•mit manegement. A word of probes must also be given to the manner In which the comedy wag put upon the etege. The dreeetes were varied end handicap*, and the care with which all minutiae were attended to gave the pin the character of a genuine Shaksparin re vival," ADELPHI. Last night witnessed the appearance at this I theatre of Mr. T. P. Cooke in Jerrold'a drama of Bleck •Eyed Sewn, and it is scarcely efteuary to say that be received • hearty welaitie. There is something so thoroughly conge nial to English testes in the line vein of nautical allegory and manly sentiment which run through the piece, to say nettling of Ito practical Jokes and the strong dramatic " Mtuatiou in 11 it abouuds, that its popularity may be looked upon em perennial. To many persons present the figure of Mr. T. P. Cooke, as became skipping on the siege with en agility mucely less than that which he displayed when he first introduced the woes of the hero to • British publie, must have recalled • hundred reminimences of days long since past ; and this, no doubt, contrilmted some thing to the delight with which the house Tenho' the deve lopment of the plot. He wu, moreover, exceedingly well supported. The Susan of the evening was Mies Arden, who was wanting in no requiaito for the due impersonation of the part; Mies Mary Keeley, In her love affair with the aenten tams (Matinee (Mr. Wright), we. as pert and petulant as the sweetheart of the first comic "party' ts always expected to show herself; and Mr. Paul Bedford sang the legend, "All in the p.n.," with a feeling that no one meld Lave credited who Ind only wen him in the parts which he com monly SLlMaini. As weal, the great acene—namely, that which the balls would call " the hem trending inter view between the unfortunate criminal and his wife," dia. solved the pit into tears; and when Mr. T. P. Cooke expe rienced for the limey thousandth time his marvellous temps from the foreyard-arm the Louse went into an erstuy of de light. The maul compliment was paid to the veteran actor and the other leading performers. NATIONAL 4850CL4TI0N FOR THE PROMO TION OP SOCIAL SCIENCE, 1817. This association, of which Lord Brougham is presi dent, end tLe Aleyor and Recorder of Birmingham vice rsaidents, will hold its first meeting at Birmingham; on October 12, and the four tillosieg days. The object of the aosorietion is to aid the development of the eon ui wieners, and to guide the public mind to the beet prac tical means of promoting the amendment of the law, the advancement of education, the romance and repreeelon of crime, the reforniation or criniinale, the establishment of due airsn regulations, and the recognition of round principles le all questions of social economy. The proposed mode of action is, once in every year, to bring together the various societies and individuals who me engaged or interested in furthering any of the above objects, and, without trenching upon their independent exertions, to elicit by discussion the real elements of truth, to clear up doubt., to bartnonlee dinordast opinions, and to afford a i•onimon ground for the mutual excluusge of reliable informa tion on the great .0. ha problems of the day. I The better to curry out this plan, the committee have di vided the misociatioe, for the present, into five departments. via, j urisprudence and amendment of the law, education , t and reformation, public health, and mocha eco nomy; but, at the time of each wetting. any department will, if necessary. be subdivided into sections, for the more ' convenient transaction of it. business. A committee hes been appointed for each section. • Full particular. of the business le be transected in each department will be published previous to the meeting, but, in the meantime, end in order more fully to erplain the range of topics on which piper. end discussion will be received, a short stetement is subjoined under the head of each reties. The Departineat of Jorkeprudenco end Amendment of the Law le under the preeidiney of the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P., and mill be occupied In dimming the science of civil jruisprudence ; it, bearing on the solid condition of the people, the edvanteges derivable from a wide diffusion of it. principles ; the practical defects in our laws ; the evils miring from such defects ; and the fitting remedies. The Department of Education is under the presidency of the Hight Hon. Sir John 8. Pekington, Bart., M.P., and will deal with the various question, relating to education, both industrial and intellectual. whether of the upper, middle, or lower dames of society; tho foundation sehnols of the country ; the connection of sit and literature with national education, Ac Thelieir;troent of Punishment and Reformation le presided over by the iliehop of London, and in this, sec tion will be diet-nowt the variant , quentionn relating to the prevention and repression of crime: the retonnallan of the criminal; the beat mode of eerondary poniehment ; pri eon diloiptine; the management of reformatory schoola and inatitntiona, te. _ _ _ The Department of Public. Ilealtb, of which Lord Stanley, M.l'., is president, will be occupied with the consideration of the various questions relating to the public health and the prevention of divine.; it will collect Mat lethal evidence of the relative hes thine.' of different lototitiee , of difkrent indus trial occupations, and generally of Out influence of exterior rircumstances in the prishe tem of health or diecase ; it will disclaim improvements in house construction (more expc eially as to the dwellings of the labouring dames), In dnutt age' warming, v entilation, public baths and weabboitaes; adulteration of food and its effect!, the functions of go vernment in rvldien to public health, the legislative and ad ministrative machinery expedicot fur Its preservation • sani tary palm. quarantine &.e. •' poverty In relation to difseue, and the effect of unhealthhsese In the prosperity of placea and nations. The Department of Social Economy le preeided over by Lord Lyttelton, end in this section will be conaidered the various iteration/1 relating to social economies; the condi tions of industrial POCCORS, whether of notion. or Mai videmlo ; savings banks and insurance; the relation be tween employers and employed; !mike s and combinations; Irgielatieeinterference with the hour. and wagon 111 labour; legislative regulation of profeseione, trades, and employment generally, and of price and mean, of wipply; emigration, its effect, and true oonditione; exerriot of pub and private charity; relief of the poor; industrial em ployment of women • industrial and economicel Warned= of the labouring cla sses; economics in relation to adulation, Sc. . _ _ g — gmm A elral and tamotennications are to be addressed to eaeretegy,Hastings, Req., 3, Waterleo-glec ths London, S.W., end must be sent in at least one week before the 12th of October, The general committee of the essocia lion, as well as the committee of each department, reserve the right of rejecting any papers which they may consider inappropriate. It is particularly requested that no paper may occupy in reading more than 20 minutes at the most. The following are the smengementa for the meetings Monday, October 12.—Opening meeting in the Town-hall at half-past 7in the smiting. Lord Brougham will deliver an inaugural address. Tuesday, October several departments will meet in the Queen's College at 11 o'clock, a.m. for papers and discussions. In the evening • converiatistral meeting (dams) at the Town-ball, under the presidency of the Mayor of Birmingham. Wednesday, Oet. 14.—Departtoents at Queen's College, at 11 a.m. A dinner In the evening at Deda Hotel, to Lord Brougham and other members of the usociation, by the Mayor of Thrsnioghani. Thursday, October lb.—Departments at Queen's College, at elevens re. In the evenings public meeting in support of the Reformatory and Industrial Schools movement, at the Town-hall. Friday, O^sober 16th.—Concluding meeting, to receive • report from the general committee. at twelve. A reception room will be open diming the days of the meet ing, where letters may be addreeeed, tickets tiurchased, lists of lodgings obtained. and every informati4ll given. Tickets to admit to all the mmeings, ten shillings each. Members of the emaciation (subscription one guinea an nually) admitted free. By the permission of the lion. and Rev. Grantham Yorks, a speck! service for the occasion will take place at Bt. = church, on the afternoon of Monday, the 12th of EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raom ora owx )VT.) PARIS. MONDAY Xvisture. The articles of the Paris journals are not distin guished by any great interest. The Debuts remarks on the declaration of the council-general of the Reranit in favour of a revision of the French cus toms' tariffs, and expresses its satisfaction at the persistence with which that body each year pub lishes its arguments in favour of free trade. It is only by such perseverance, adds the Dads, that the free-trade system can eventually prevail in France, where nothing affords a greater support to the protectionist party than the ignorance which exists respecting the real situation of most of tke great questions of political economy. A private letter from Vienna mentions that a tele graphic despatch had been received in that city bringing news from Moldavia to the 3rd of Septem ber. tip to that date the period fixed for the elections was not known, but it is supposed they would take place in the month of October next. The instruc tions for the formation of the new electoral lists were expected to arrive from Constantinople on the 6th. The members of the European Commission were expected at Jassy in a few days. The Caimacan was after visiting the chief districts of the province. The greatest tranquillity prevailed, and all were quietly awaiting the day of election, when the will of the country would be made known. The Unirers is the only journal that contains a leading article on a political subject. It again re verts to India—a subject on which it expatiates with much gratification—and once more unhesitatingly expresses a hope that the English may prove unsuc cessful in their efforts to put down the insurrection. Its reason for so charitable a wish is that the Eng lish, being protestants and heretics, aro just as great barbarians as the Hindoos themselves. The plan suggested by the Viewers for changing the face of India would in any other journal seem mere mockery—being to send out a number of Roman catholic missionaries—but in the columns of our respected contemporary we have no doubt that it is meant quite seriously. Private letters from America state that the pro- ject of arrangement between New Granada and the United States has been adopted at Bogota, and that the blockade of the coasts of the Isthmus has been raised in consequence—the frigate Independance of 52 guns having left Panama on the 6th of August last. The Monifear dm Senegal of June 2 contains the recital of an eight days' pursuit by a squadron of French Sipahis of a band of Moors who had devas tated Chardon. The rear guard of the band, con sisting almost entirely of the princes and chiefs of the family of the King of the Trans, was at length overtaken and cut to pieces. Thirty women and children, whom the Moors had carried off from Gar den, were recovered. At the Bourse, Rente has been maintained, with a very limited amount of business. Four-and-a- Half per Cents. quoted ex div. at 90fr. 8.5 c. Mobilier and railway shares continued to be offered. Threes have been done at from 66fr. 95c. to 67fr. ; Mobilier, 867 fr. 50c. to 860 fr. ; Austrian, 64.7 fr. to 650 fr. ; Orleans, 1,407 fr. 50e. to 1,400 fr. ; Lyons, 877 fr. Me. to 875 fr. ; Northern, 867 fr. 50e. to 865 fr. ; and Southern, 635 fr. to 632 fr. We. The market continued the same to the close, when the following were the last quotations:-Four-and-a-Halfper Cents., ex div., 90fr. 8.5 e. ; Three per Cents., 66fr. 80e, ; ditto, end of month, 66fr. Wm. ; Bank shares, 2,775 fr.; Credit Mobilier, 860 fr. ; ditto, account, 855 fr.; Credit Fowler, 565 fr.; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 990.; Piedmontese Five per Cents., 90fr. ; Roman, 861 fr. ; Austrian, 891; Home Debt, 371 ; Orleans Railway, 1,3820 k. for cash, 1,3821 fr. for account ; Northern, 86711 r. for cash, 8.50 fr. for ac count ; Lyons and Mediterranean, 8871 fr. for cash. 8601 r. for account; New din), 8,7,5 fr.. for cash, 855 fr. for account; Geneva, 670 fr. for cash, 665 fr. for ac count; Midi, 635 fr. for cash, 63.5 f. for account; Western, 722}fe. for cash, 717jfr. for account; Strasburg, 6771 fr. for cash, 675 fr. for account; New ditto, 665 fr. for cash, 660 fr. for account ; Grand Central, 613;fr. for cash, 6131 fr. account ; Sardinian, 495 fr. for cash; Austrian, 6511 fr. for cash, 645 fr. for account. CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN PERSIA. The following piece of intelligence has been re ceived from Persia, and will be read with great interest :—" The official journal of Teheran will in a short time publish a despatch, by which the Shah will proclaim absolute equality between the Mussul man, Christian, and Jewish subjects of his domi• nions. All Persians, without any distinction of race or creed, will be declared fully capable of discharg ing all civil and military functions. This document, prior to its publication, has been sent to the provin cial governors, with injunctions that they should strictly and faithfully enforce the will of the Shah in this respect." THE ENTRY OF THE ARCHDUKE MAXI MILIAN INTO MILAN. MILAN, SEPT. 7: The entry of the Archduke Maximilian and the Archduchess Charlotte into Milan took place on the 6th instant. Their imperial highnesses were re. ceived by Count Sebregondi, the Mayor of Milan. ROMAN STATES. A despatch from Rome, dated Saturday, Sept. 5, announces the return of the Pope to the Eternal City. His Holiness was in excellent health. PARMA. Placentia, like Rome, is to have its monument in honour of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Duchess Regent has given a colossal Roman column, which will be erected before the cathedral and support a bronze statue of the blessed Virgin. A subscription is in progress, and 7001. has already been subscribed. HOLSTEIN. The strife of nationalities grows more critical in Holstein. The Diet of Iteehoc, knowing that it is supported by the national sentiment of Germany, and encouraged by Austria and Prussia, holds a bolder tone towards the 'Owlish government. A despatch from Kiel brings the terms in which the sommission charged with examining the project of constitutional law submitted to the deliberations of the Diet of Holstein has concluded its report " May it please the Assembly of the States to de cide that the text of this present report, with such modifications as the Assembly may eventually see fit to introduce into it, may be presented to the king as the respectful expression of its advice on the grave position of the country, and to add to it the declaration that the Assembly of the States finds itself, with profound regret, unable to meet the gra cious intentions of his Majesty concerning the intro duction of a revised constitution for the special affairs of the Duchy of Holstein before the political position of that duchy in the monarchy has been regulated in a manner conformable to the legitimate pretensions of the country, and to an independent existence and equal rights." The Datats Mates that Prince Gortcbakoff has notified to the German courts that his government will support that of Copenhagen against demands which would weaken the connexion of Holstein with Denmark, and impair the entireness of the Danish monarchy. THE CIRCASSIAN WAR. Le Caucase, published at Tiflis, supplies news of the Russian Cordon de Lesguiask, dated July 17. It says : The snows which cover the Stenos& chain of the Cancans half the summer bad hitherto prevented the Cordon Lex guinsky from undertaking a movement into the interior of the mountains. As soon as the papaa became practicable Lientetuust-General Baron Wrewaky, commanding the troops on the line Lenguinskais, concentrated a detac.hmect near the Tower of Coder, with the intention of exploring the district occupied by the hostile people of Didoiak, and on July 6th he began his march forward. Two days were occupied in making • path over the mountains available. On the 9th of July, General Baron Wrewsky left a part of his troops sa well as the park of artlilery and transport apparatus in its old position, and with • de tachment composed of six battalions five came, of militia men, and six pieces of artillery, entered himself into Didoisk. In the evening he pitched his camp at the foot of the wooded chain of Khouprimik, behind which is situated Rhoupro, the principal village of the Didoits, and the residence of the Naib. General Baron Wrewhky, who had provided himself beforehand withal' the necessary tools, set about the opening of a permanent road over the mountain*, toward, Khoupro. On the 11th of July, Wood Ds Sage, commandant of the regiment of /Divan, Imperial Grenadier*, commenced felling wood. The stockade and the blockhouse raised by the moun taineers were immediately carried. The Touche militia, who formed the van, forced their way even into the village of Kboupro, and set fire to the furthermost cabins (wkly), Genets' Baron Wrewsky, whom chief object was to establish a good road, recalled the militia, and having destroyed the enemy's defences, employed the day in thinning the wood. The mountaineers, driven from every point where they had striven to make a stand, confined themselves to the firing cf musketry at a distance. On the following day the troop were allowed a day of rest. On the 13th, Colonel Lahods, commanding the regiment of Mingrelien grenadiers, continued the felling of timber and clearing of the slopes ; the enemy, who had suffered shortly before ■ considerable lose, resisted feebly; towards evening the Kbonpro road was open, but the snow that had fallen in the night compelled General Baron Wreireky to wait, in order to march onwards, for a veneer and clearer day. The loss of the Lerguinsk detachment, down to the 29th of July, consisted of two soldiers killed and 24 millers wounded, of four militiamen killed and 12 wounded. THE WEIMAR POETS. WEIMAR, SEPT. 4. The statue of Wieland and the Goethe-Schiller group were this day formally uncovered. Crowds of spec tators from all puts of Germany were present, and the greatest enthralls= was manifested on the occasion. AN AMERICAN' NlBBlfiyi..ll9"B ZIPERIENCEB IN INDIA. The Rev. Mr. Hay, the American missionary, who, with his wife and two children, narrowly waived death in India from the mutinous eepoye, and who hes just arrived home In the Indian mail packet Ripon with his family, preached in the Independent Chapel, Above Bar, Southamp ton, on Sunday evening, to a crowded congregation. In Me sermon Mr. Hay described the position of the fields of labour which the three great missionary societies had marked out for themselves. The American Board of Missions, to which Mr. Hay wsa attached, restricted Peen to the north-west provinces of the Bengal Presidency, the headaparters delis Indian revolt. Mr. Hay was himself stationed at Ails where there were ',hoots colleges, and printing presen where from the latter the Christian Scriptures were issued is every language of the surrounding countries. The whole of the missionary property at Allahabed, worth 10,0001., had been destroyed end 30,000 1 . worth in other parts belonging to the same 'society had been sacrificed. It was exactly three months ago on Sunday night that the massacre of 17 English officers nut of 23. at the matertable at Allaha had, took place. At the breaking out of the mutiny in that place all the Europeans who were not massacred fled to the fort for safety. 1, nfortunately many of the native Chrietiene did not deem it neoeseery for their eddy to enter the fort, and they end their families were apprehended by the au thority of the Moulviee. Their fendlie. were ineareerated and exposed to every intuit and privation, while the native Christian ministers and teachers were pot into the public stocks, and exposed there fair nearly a week, night and day, with scarcely any refreshment, while savage eta infuriated fanatics were often brandishing swords over them, and threatening them with the most horrible mutilation unless t forswore their Christian faith and embraced Mahommedenism. The Europeans were blockaded in the Get far 10 days, during which time they could not go 60 yards outside without being fired at. Outside the fore were 400 Sikh soldier.,' whose loyalty was question able, and the only defence of the European% against them were seventy or eighty invalid artillerymen. A t the Europeens were 100 ladies and a large number dad . At one time a mutiny of the Sikh. was appre hended. They obtained possession of spirituous liquors, be. cams drunk and riotous, and howled like wild beasts. For three successive nights the ladies crouched silent and sleep less in the fort, awaiting death; while the European Fa guarded them, each with a revolver in hie hand, expecting. r they continually did, an attack from the Sikhs. Mr. -- Ho pan athrilling dewription of these terrible scenes. M fortunately the Sikhs abstained from any outrage while the Europeans were in the fort. As coon as an oppo= of swipe occurred, the Commandant of Allahabad all non-combetante down to Calcutta ; and Mr. Hay Is now on his way to America to communicate to the MY. denary Society to which he belongs the disasters which have befalknthem. UNITED GERMANY! —The East-German Post ex presses Ito astonishment and sincere regret at the abeam d a Pruden delegate from the statistical congress of Vienna. Twenty-seven governments. and amongst them Turkey and Ruse* have sent representatives to Vienna. Prawn' aloes has not done so. The Aufgburg Ca.:eVe says It is sad to be obliged to confess that the third international stational congress gives to Europe the opportunity of witneering a picture of the disunion of Germany. Although the Austrian government sent an express invitation to Prussia, the latter has thought it expedient not to have any representative at the congress." This absence of a Prussian delegate from Vienna is the more remarkable, as Prussia was represented at the statistical congress which was held two years ago in Paris. - WEALTH OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILT OF RPSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Yon% German Gaunt, says The magnificence which the members of the imps. vial family of Russia display in their journeys in Germany need occasion no surprise, when the immense revenues which they dispose of are taken Into account. The crown domain' yield annually from 38,000,000 to 40,000,000 roubles, and the aponagea 4,000.000, while the state allows in addition $ civil list of 11,000,000." The Austrian government is about to introdace newspaper stamp. The stamp is to be one krentcer, about two centimes, and is to take effect from the Ist of Janusz/ next. _ _ BOOK POST TO THE COLONIEs.—The Post-office authorities Imre issued the following notification, viz :-011 the let October next, and thenceforward, printed or litho graphed letters may be sent, like other printed matter, under the regulations of the colonial book matt. At the same period, an alteration will take piece in the scale of weight under which book packets sent to the colonies have hitherto been charged. When a book packet does not nosed weight four ounces, it will be chargeable with one half only of the present rate of postage, and when the weight of • book packet exceeds one pound, the cheep will increase bf steps of half a pound instead of by steps of one pound, se at present. The colonial book post has now been extended to the whole of the British colonies end possessins. Ne hook packet most exceed two feet in length, width, or depth ; end book witch, sent to the Sag Indies or to NW South Wales must net exceed three pounds in weight. A BOAT CAPsIZED IN VIE 'AIEEsEE.—A few days ago a boat belonging to the Australian emigrant ship Ebb' ' Brake was patting off from the shore to return to the which was at anchor in the stream, when she capeird7 .6 ' the whole of her crew was thrown into the water. The Ed. I dent was men from the Ebbs Brake, and some men tamped Into one of the quarter-boats, which was fitted with Clifford's patent lowering gear, were in an instant lowered down, and the poor fellow. lives saved. It is but justice to remark that • 'serious Ices of life would have occurred but for the admirable invention which aided in the "speedy lowering a the quarter-boat of the Ebbe Brake.— Liverpool Dade lbst. THIRTEEN SHEEP KILLED BY LIGHTNING. -- • Daring a terrific storm which passed over Beigham. Suffolk. ow Friday afternoon, the electric fluid struck a tree in field, on the Sum of Mr. Cooper, Heighanehall, cent eta ipped off the bark, and killed thirteen estes out of belonging is Mr. Mudd, dealer, of Stoke-byaNayland, whack had taken shelter beneath it. The heed of one of the ebeeP was kite ally enutebett to pieces, and two of those which are vim are mach affix:tad by the shock. A large tree in the Lors of T. L. Ewen Seq., the Rookery, Dedham , was et ale - dme shivered by the lightsbeg.—Burs