The Express. — London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

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ItICILLILTaII. llleaerd Duke of Clottoretert Mr. Walter Mostionery.—To eoodadewlth FAMILY JAMB.— Ceermeure ea T. VTLxm.. Tam Dynamo, LADY ADMITS Szczer. THI OW? GROOT inner. Madames Yaraaid aad Craalord..—Mr. Parker. Madame liapAaad air. W. RaadalL—And ADVEN TS:MU OF A new OF IJIAVE KIWI TIATItR AT lA)NDOIi BRIDOT. TIRO DAT .11.,..111A. 10It 21+ ARwoe•e Ilb. 2.8. TallOaloll-•Matilm Ilk. 1611......A50M800k. Ok. Oak. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. PEOPLE generally hug themselves in the belief that, however much their bread and other articles of manufactured food may be adulterated, their meat is at any rate free from any foreign element, and may be eaten without the fear of poisoning. Our beef and mutton, we fondly imagine, are free from vitiation. We may cut and come again safely at the sirloin or the saddle. We have only to goto a first-class butcher, and pay the best prices (two things, however, which a large number of per sons cannot do), and we are beyond the reach of halm in that direction. The reliance-is more pleasing than well grounded. We seem doomed to impurity and filthiness in the food that we consume. In vain do we fly from bread made of maggotty yeast to the flesh of oxen, sheep, and swine. A large amount of the meat that comes to our tables is adulterated by disease. No doubt this is less likely to be the case when a good price is paid ; but butchers are mere men, and sometimes sell inferior commodities while charging the highest terms. Mr. Slitos's last annual Report to the Privy Council on our sanitary condition opens the eyes of the public to the disagreeable fact that as much as a fifth of the meat purchased for food in this country is diseased. Some investigations into the subject have been made, at Mr. SIMON% request, by Mr. Gsnoza, Principal and Professor of the Edinburgh new Veterinary College, and from these it appears that a good deal of the mischief is found in connexion with the pork we get from Ireland. From forty to fifty thousand of the pigs reared in the sister island are measly, and the greater number of these come to Great Britain for consumption. That such meat should be taken into the human stomach is something more than a disgusting idea ; it is the source of serious disease. Mr. Garrotte calculates that for every measly pig in the kingdom there is at least one human being with tapeworms. When meat is cooked the action of the fire probably destroys the germs of these parasites ; but it should not be forgotten that a large amount of pig's flesh is eaten raw by the lower classes. In Italy raw ham is considered a delicacy ; in England working men frequently indulge in uncooked bacon, and sometimes in pork sausages that are innocent of the frying pan. The danger of the practice is made startlingly apparent when we learn that the muscular flesh of swine is sometimes brought into so poisonous a state by the ravages of a minute species of threadwimm, invisible except by the aid of the microscope, that a small quantity eaten raw will destroy life. Pork and bacon are purchased by our poorer classes perhaps to a greater extent than any other meat, and the pre valence of measles and the various forms of hydatid disease amongst those classes may doubt less be attributed in a considerable degree to their large consumption of swine's flesh. Sausages are especially perilous, for it is well known that the less reputable sausage makers thick no meat 4oci bed to make up in this cieCtrtiTo form, Pro vided the nastiness can be disguised by spict:l and condiments. One is almost tempted, after the revelations we have had of late years, to follos the example of the Jews, and vote the pig an un clean animal hopelessly and for ever. Much as we have done for him in the way of cleanliness, be still continues as great a source of disease to the human subject as he was in the time of Moors under the burning sun of the East. The propagation of parasitical ova from impure animals is effected, moreover, in many ways besides the direct one, and sometimes, according to Mr. SIMON% report, by a route that would never have been suspected by the un learned. For, "by means of dogs and other " animals eating the raw offal of ahiughter-houses, " the eggs of the tapeworm may, and must often, " find their way into sources of drinking water, or "on to various low-growing vegetables or fruits, " which are °assumed in an uncooked state by " man, and, being swallowed, the egg is hatched." The development of entosoa is, indeed, extremely subtle, and very difficult to be guarded against ; but infecieti iood is undoubtedly fr. 3 of the means by which the evil is introduced into the human sys tem. The question is of serious importance ; for, ac cording to the estimate of Mr. GANORM, disease of on. kind or another is fatal every year in the three kingdoms to about 375,000 cattle (nearly five per cent. of the whole number), while in the case of sheep and pigs the pro portion is, respectively, as far as can be ascertained, four per cent. and three per cent. It is very certain that a large number of these animals are sold for food ; and even of those beasts that are slaughtered many are already in a state of disease, and would probably die of their ailments if the butcher's knife did not anti cipate the result. It has been found in • large convict establishment that an epidemic of boils and carbuncles followed the use of meat from cattle afflicted with lung disease. Milk from un healthy cows is also chargeable with some of the maladies which human beings have to endure. We may, in fact, be said to live over again the lives of those animals from which we draw our sustenance, and to be healthy or diseased in proportion to the bodily condition of the creatures we rear for food. It was a qnaint expression, but not an untruthful or ludicrous thought, on the part of old mystical Sir THOMAS BROWNE, when he said that all the flesh of our bodies has at one time been upon our platters. We have, therefore, the deepest interest in seeing that what comes to our platters is in a fit state to be converted into its higher form. How is the mischief to be prevented t Mr. Gauozz is of opinion that sufficient precautions MlNiiiii..... Mift. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMIttR 8, 1863. MUSIC. THE FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS. •__ WORCESTER, IioNDAy. The one hundred and fortieth festival of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester may be said to have commenced virtually today. All the four hundred artiats, vocal and instrumental, have arrived, and have been busily occupied all the morning in rehousing the new oratorio which is the chief novelty of the festival, Herr Schschner's Ismer. Return from Babylon, and the other leading eelerstions of sacred music for this festival. The prospects of the festival are most favourable, and can only be marred by unfavourable weather. At present the simper:to are unpropitious, but with a return of fine weather there can be no doubt that the festival of 1863 will be the most successful on record, for • larger number of tickets has been sold than was ever disposed of at the same period ante rior to say other meeting. . _ This year's meeting is held under the especial patronage of her Majesty and the Prince and Princess of Wales. It was hoped at ow time that the Priam sod Princes would hays bass iodated to honour the festival with their presence, but the arrangernmts which bad bum already made by their royal highoesies for spending the beginning of September in the Highlands prevented their acceptaoce of the invite. lion, which was given to them through the Bishop of Wor cester, who is president of the festival. The principal voca lists engaged are Mademoiselle Titiens, Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Mies Banks, Misses Florence and Alice Phillips (daughter' of Henry Phillips, cmos himself a principal at these routings), Madame Saintois Dolby, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. K. Mason, Mr. WUbys Cooper, Mr. Sant ley, Mr. Briggs, sad Mr. Weiss. Miss Does, daughter of the organist of Worcester cathedral, and conductor of the festival, makes her debut as solo pianists ; Mr. Arnott (Gloucester) is organist, and Mr. G. Towoabend Smith (organist of Hanford cathedral) takes the piano. Ssinton sad Blagrove divide the leadership of this band, as usual. DRAMA. are not taken against infection from foreign cattle; 1 that there is • great deal of dietetic mismanage ment ; and that animals often contract disease from the malaria of fenny lands. The first of these sources of depreciation might perhaps be guarded against by some species of quarantine ; the second by increased knowledge amongst graziers and fanners ; the last by the conversion of marsh-lands into well-drained meadows. We are only just waking to the conviction that excessive fat is not • healthy sign in man or beast. The corpulent oxen, sheep, and pigs that are exhibited every Christmas at the Prize Cattle Show are animals in a state of disease, however much it may please our festal mood to make pets of them ; and, although there has lately been a movement in favour of a more rational mode of feeding, the old absurdity has not yet died out. This and other errors can only be corrected by time. In the meanwhile we must protect ourselves to the best of our ability ; and we have a right to demand how it is that, with a system of inspection, so much bad meat should find its way to the tables of the community. Every now and then, in some exces sive instance, we hear of a seizure being made ; but when we find that nearly 60,000 measly pigs are cut up for human provender, with tainted oxen and sheep in proportion—that, in short, one-fifth part of our animal food is corrupt—it is very evi dent that the present system of inspection is a faros. Without suggesting that the examiners are open to persuasion, it is probable that they are not men of sufficient education to detect the subtle poison that sometimes lurks in seemingly healthy carcases. In some of the worst cases the symptoms of disease may be such as to escape the eye of any but the man of scienos. Skilled veterinary surgeons are the persons to whose scrutiny the meat we are destined to consume should be submitted. A little expense is nothing compared with the pre servation of the national health, and the avoidance of evils which are sickening to contemplate and grievous to suffer. Inc Qtourt. --•-- BASENAII, OOBURO, bar. 4. The Emperor of Austria arrived at the Palace at Coburg, at 1 o'clock yesterday, where the Queen, the Prince and Pranceas Louis of Hesse, Prince Alfred, and Primer Helena bad proceeded preriouidy. The Emperor was met at the railway statism by the Duke at Saxe Coburg, who drove with hiot Ito the Palace, and wee remind at the entre:me of the Palace by the Duchess er Coburg, who conducted the Emperor upstairs, where his Majesty met the QUeSa. Thera were also presoak Priam and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, witk their eon and daughters, and Prince Edward of Leioinges. A defedser was prepared for the Queen and Emperor aid she royal party, and another for the ladies and gentlemen of the royal beembolds. The Quires wee attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lady Augusta Bruce, and the gentlemen to waiting. Earl Granville ism also present. • Priem Leopold and Primes' Beatrice came to the Palace from the 'Comeau before the Emperor left. Prises Alfred returned yesterday morning from Hum melsheint. Pries, and Prisons Louis of Hem hook leave of bra Ifs jests this evening, ori their return to Demote& Prisms Helena and Prince Leopold, attended by the Marebiesese of Ely and Mr. Buff, have been twice to the theatre at Coburg. The Queen would leave Roseman on Monday (yea tarday) on her return to Ragland. The perfect peace and repose eojoyed by her Majesty at a place oudeared to her by so many tender recollections, and the respite (however short and imperfect) from public business, have been most soothing to her Majesty's feeliogs. With the exception of paring visits from the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, bar Majesty did not feel strong enough to accept those kindly offered by other royal personages assembled at Frankfort. In order to avoid the beat of the sun, stall very great during theday, bar Majesty would again travel by night ; but the fatigue of the joarney would he lemened by repose at Knoichsteio, neer Darmatadt, where her Majesty in tended to spend the whole of Tuesday, o• • strictly private visit to her daughter, Prisons Louis of Be.' Her Majesty would leave Kranichatein at 100'810a on Tsar day eveateg, and expected to reach Antwerp, and to embark at oboe on board the yacht shoat half-past 8 en Wedeseday morning. It is probable that the King of the Belgians will pay her Majesty • parting visit on board before her Majesty leaves the port. Weather permitting, her Majesty may probably arrive at the Noce late oa Wednesday evening, in which ease sue will laud at Woolwich in the course of Thursday forenoon, and proceed immediately to Windsor Omtle. His BiceHenry the Netherlands Minister has left Liodoo for ithe Continent on leave of absence. Chevalier Mani will sot so charge d'affaires during Berm Bentincl'a atesoos Earl Granville, President of the Council, has left Coburg on bit way to England. The Earl and Countess PitzwiElam will entertain a large party at Wentworth Houle dories the smoothies nets at Dosomattr. The Marquis of Hartiogton arrived at Devon shire Hoes yestarday, frost Bolka Abbey, Yorkshire, Baron and Baroness Meyer De liothecbild will return to tows oil or about the 17th from a tour on the Cootineat. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have entertained a distioguished party at Alevriek Castle, their princely seat Is Northumberland. The gamine of the noble duke and dashers ►ave included Lord Envois worth, Lord and Lady Lovaise, Sir licslortek Xurehisoe, Sir William Armstrong, Dr. Wilier' (Tartrate), Dr. Mee, Dr. Beam Joon, the Mayer of Newcastle, Profane Owen. Professor Tyndall, Mr. Gould Ohs asturelist), Dr. and Mrs. Les, Sir Edward Belcher, 0010011 sad Lady Florence Cast, Mr. and Mra. Michell, Mr. Haagen, M.P., sod Ms.. Hodgson, Capt. Gnat (of the Nile soaves), Mr. and Mrs. Bell. Several of the visitors left oa Saturday lest. The duke has been in the enjoyment of excellent health since his arrival at the castle. The marriage of Lord Londesborough and Lady Edith Somerset, yourgest daughter of the late Duke of Beaufort, is fixed to tele place on ThuredAy next, instead Monday, the 14th, es originally inteeded. Mr. Robert Arthur Arnold has been appointed moistest commissioner far carrying eat the pcoosioes of the Public Works An in the cotton districts. Mr. Ralph Ward Jackaon, lato chairman of the West Hartlepool Railway sod Doek Company, hos taken the opportunity of some remarks is the Tina ea railway debentures to address to that journal a long letter In de fence of his owe °oldest, and is answer to the lteport of the Eldora Committee of the House of Lords. The Mayor of Limerick has reoeived an Admiralty reply to as inritatioa for the Channel fleet to visit the Masao% winch ia to the effect that, owing to the Weser of the same, the invitatea.i nowt be aoeepted. It. lifts been ntateti that King Fran;is H., yield leg at boo& to certain urgent entreaties, was oil the point of lowing Rome, but the Kin and Queea are brain repairs made in the Faeces Moos, which eirenenstanoe indicates a profaned stay there. Apartments are also beteg prepared for the Queen Dowager, who is to return with the two pounest of the four ease the took with her to the Chateau of Weillion. The two cairns have 'strand the hoetries army. &meet MosPrraz.. —On Monday, the Mat inst., being St. Matthew's-day, the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen will attend Divine service at Christchurch, Newgate-strest,wbere a earning will be preached by Rev. H. Rornanis.M. A.. of Ein mane' Collme,Canthridge, otter w hicb they will proceed to the great hall of Christ's Hospital, to bear the orations to be delivered by the sealer scholar% scoordiag to simnel custom. The programme will be as follows .—Listin °ratios, coo the benefits of the Royal Bowl tau by J. H. Newman ; Eoglish erotica on th• same subject, by J. H. Wylie ; Greek caution on the same subject, by C. G. Load ; to be succeeded by the follonag transbaloos : Greek lambics from Rickard IL, by L. L. Shuttey ; Greek Hexameters from " Parodies Lost," by C. A. Fyffe ; Greek Menisci, "The Field of Gilboa," 11 W. Farrar . Lam Elegises. "The Soldier's Dresin," by A. Rowell; lotin Lyrics from the "Lady of the Lake." by R. H. Hughes.. There will also he two original poems, one In Eogllsk, and the other in Latin bemunietses, not yet adjudged. OLYMPIC. The present year has been remarkable for a lased of those promiueent topics of public interest which furnish the dramatic author with a ready subject for an apropos farce, or hit at the follies of the hour. The Gorilla has bad his day ; the polyglot lodging-home, which every body appreciated in the height of the Great Eshibitioo, would no looger find a sympathiaing audience ; the epide : mica! btuglairies of Notting-hill are forgotten ; and garotting (thanks to the wholesome severity of Mr. Baron Bramwell) is out of fashion. It would be bard to pitch upon say subject which everybody is now talking of, mikes it be the ghost—we mean the genuine ghost which Mears. Pepper and Dinka are now trying to inscribe upon the rolls of the Patent-dace. The ghost is undoubtedly the rage ; ha has adapted himself to dremea which have hitherto been performed with no ghosts, or with ghosts vastly inferior to the registered article which every one goes to see. He has broken out in the went, in the east, and in the south, and has lately risen in Paris to give effect to the beet situations in the Secret of Mies Aierore. It was not to be expected that so public a character could roman entombed by the dramatic satirist, or that a writer for the siege so watchful for novelties as Mr. Tom Taylor should he losg in making up his mind cm the subject. Ac cordingly a new jest d'esprit, estitled An Awful Bice in Spirit', was produced at this theatre last night, from the pen of that gentleman. The idea of the sketch has no claim to originality. It might have been supposed to have beet suggested by a picture in a comic oontemporary pub liaised the other day, in which all the old mo ve:Atonal ghost, of the drama were represented se resetting this sudden innovation, but for the fact that notices of this kind have been the common property of dramatis writers from the Del-e of Buckingham to Mr. Bockatose, whose recent At Home, is which the various types of stock dramatic characters are passed in review , before a facetious manager and his htephistophelen ad- wiser, was produced only last Easter. The Awful Rue is Spirit. mesa with • chturbyard scene, in which Professor Kopper (Mr. Midas), and Qmiroks, C.R. (Mr. Horace Wive) are looking about in search of real glaciate. The old-established ghosts of the drama, from Banque. and Hamlet's father to the Corsican Brothers sod the ghost of Bichardson'e show, make their appeerenee in suosession, and attar their respective rythmiesl Singe at luck topics as may be supposed to be now in vogue. Mies Bentham, as Le Feu toilet, gave an amusing imitation of Mille Stella Coles in the balcony scene in Romeo and ./idiot, and Mr. Vincent, in an imitation of Mr. Charles Kean, was readily appreciated. Miss Hughes, as the Bleeding Nun, sung • long ballad dealing with the story of "Raymond and Agues," the humour of which was not very obvious. The jest d'esprit interludes with the appearance of the Ghost of Shakespeare, performed by Mr. Neville, who delivered • loss address on the favourite theme of the modern de paeracy of the drama, sad the fashion of performing Shakespeare in " bed English," which appeared not to be relished by some ardent admirers of Mr. Feebler and McWe. Bleak Colas among the audience. The sketch is more than ordisrily slight, and although neatly and pointedly written, is wanting la the element of broad him essential to a sure sneers in We kind of writing. The ticket of Leave Maw, is which Miss Foote, the new actress, appears to have fully established herself, will now be the first piece at this theatre, where Ito popularity justly continues unabated. PRINCE 89'& Mr. Henry Loraine and Miss Kate Saville have Maid Mr. Walter Montgomery's company, and the "legit mate' programme with which the new manager opened the hien le still strictly adhered to. ADELPEIL Mr. J. L. Toole, the popular Adelphi comedian, will take hie annual benefit on Wednesday next, when be will play Mr. Leelet's favourite part of John Strong, in Your Liles is Danger, and will appear in Mr. Byrocis short sad amain mock domestic drum, the hearted of Stinging Nettle Farm. Mrs. Stirling in a comedietta, the lifanaisd Man, with the " Ghost" effect, sod a concert by the Nelson sister, complete a programme which ought to draw a tell haw, ease if the benefit was for a far lam popular, sterling, and worthy comedian. At the clogs of the week Mr. Toole will leave London for about two months to fulfil eng►gements in Liverpool, Belting, and Dublin. ALHAIIBILL. Signor Nicosia, the eminent Italian violinist, who maws so us with &solid first-class reputation gained chiefly in Florence and Nei', made his first appearance at this establish. meet lest sight, and achieved a great and decided success. He chose for his opening piece a selection from It Troratore, embracing all the well-known airs, which he performed on four strips*: teiog encored, he substituted • fantastic solo—a kind of polka diatalique—of his own composition, in which, while the air was played with the bow, a guitar moompanimeat we. kept tip with the left head. This was so popular that it wee redemancled, but Bigaor Nicosia, very I wisely cameos and merely bowed hie ackbowledgmente. For his second appearance, later in the evening, he se lected the beautdul Pule to Lucia di Lammermoor, and, this he performed on one string with Wonderful preci sion, grace, Modems', and power. Being again encored he gave • new version on four strings of the celebrated Carnival de Venice, which brought his arduous perform ance to a triumphant conclusion. Signor Nicosia is apparently about thirty years of age. and he hi. evidently what we may call a natural commend over his instrument He holds the highest position we believe in the musical salons of Park, and is placed by the highest Parisian critics on the same level with Sivirri and Vieuxtemps. His performance of but eight was worthy of the testimonials he brings with him. Hie tees is pure sad powerful—the lower notes being particularly effective, sad ►is execution is mold and certain. la whatever &nog 'aria. tines he indulges in be always preserves the origiaid air as a distinct melody which strikes on every ear. Hie d o uble latemelos," as they are called, were remarkably perfect sad plowing. While eoticing this new mosial arrival, who promises to reward the spirit of the Alhambra proprietor by creating a new maaiml seweatioa, we must not omit to ',milt., Mr. fireaßeha, the cooduetor, for the improvement he has made in the orchestra and the operatic selections since this de partment has been m.der Lie charge. The mu,ical e.spa hilitise of the hand &Wainer, are sow turned to the Wig soceent, while the veinal eatertaiemeets still proierve their distinctive diameter and variety. &writ limesimwrow Mcrezett.—During the week midis( Sept 6 the visitors have been at foliose :—On Yoaday, Tuesday, and datordav Ores days), epee t ram 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., 8,1131. On Weditesday, Mund t* , an d Friday (students' days, adalfesios te the pebble 6d.), opro from 10 s.m. till 6 p.m., 1.061. Total, 4,981. From the opening of the Museum, 1,411,802. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LIVERPOOL, 1u ex MOWING. The Canadian mail steamer Hibernian, Cap tain Ballantine, which left Quebec on the 29th ult., arrived in the Mersey about 11 o'clock lest night, after one of the most rapid passages ever made from the St. Lawrence. The papers from New York are only one day later than those already to band, and the Canadian ones con tain little detail of interest concerning affairs in the States. We extract the following items. _ _ . Over 100,000 bales of Confederate States cotton have been captured near Natchez. It is said there are 8,000 rebel troops at Monroe, 6b mike west of Vicksburg. Generals Walker and Heber are in command. _ . Affairs in Kansas and on the Missouri border are assuming a serious aspect. It is reported that General Lace has returned to Lawrence, where he is organising a force to make a raid into Missouri. General Ewing has given notice to the inhabi tants of the border counties that they must depart within fifteen days, and at last accounts several buildings in Cass County were in flames, and upwards of 100 persons were reported killed. Martial law had been proclaimed in Leavenworth. The burial of the dead in Lawrence showed that 183 had fallen victims to the rebel massacre. The merchants and others of neighbouring towns were contributing sums of money to rebuild Lawrence, and the work is now progressing. . . The Baltimore American publishes a despatch dated off Morris Island, August 24, noon. It says : General Gibncre on Thursday notified to General Bemire gard that if be did not surrender the forte, he would shell the city in twenty-four hours, at the same time re questing him to remove the women and children. No attention was paid to this notice, and on Friday night General Gilmore threw 13-inch shell into the pity of Charleston, charged with Greek fire. On Saturday afternoon General Beauregard sent down a flag' . of truce boat, with an urgent protest danouncisg Greek fire u a most villainous compound unworthy of civilised nations, and demanding more time to remove the' women and children from the city. The English, French, 1 and Spanish consuls also denounced the short time given by General Gilmore, and claimed more time to remove the objects of their respective countries. General Gilmore yesterday replied by a renewal of the demand to surrender the forte and public property. General Beauregard answered by asking a truce of four hours. General Gilmore refused to give any more time, or to accept of any other terms than an unconditional surrender. At 12 o'clock last night the shelling of the city with Greek fire was resumed. It is generally thought the stare and stripe* will wave over Sumter to-night. The monitors and ironsides are preparing to go ep at the hour the strainer mils. There is evidently greet trouble in Charleston. It is not believed there are over twenty men in the ruins of Fort Sumter. The whole of the rea r well is down, and shells pass entirely through the struc ture. The sea wall is terribly disfigured. All the guns of Fort Sumter are now mounted on Sullivan's Island. The ruins of Sumter are now held by the guns of Moultrie. There are now only sufficient men in the ruins to keep the Confederate Bag up, which is shot away every few hours. This morning the south sea-wall of Sumter was battered down to the frontier casement.. The Port Royal New South of August 217 has a paragraph stating that the Confederate steamer Everglade, with a cargo of cotton and • large num ber of passengers, including a full complement of officers for • new pirate craft at Nassau, has been lying several weeks in the Savannah river. On the night after she attempted to run out off the buoy, and was soon overhauled, and sunk near Tybee Island. Twentytwo of her pas sengers were captured. (azurzs's ALLEGED DETERMINATION OF THE CON FEDERATES TO ARM THE NEGROES. (By telegraph to Farther Point.) NEW YORK, Auovar 29, Evrarnta. Confederate papers received at Morehead City state that President Davis has decided, after a consultation with the governors of the Confederate States, to call out 500,000 black troops, who are to receive their freedom and 50 acres of land at the end of the war. A large sloop of war of ten guns, flying the British flag, swept past the blockading steamers at Wilmington, N.C. She immediately afterwards hoisted the Confederate flag, and entered the port. This is the fourth war vessel which has run the same blockade at that port within the last aix weeks. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Geld, 26 per met, premium ; New York Controls, 139 ; Illinois Central, 135; Erie, 120. THE DANUBE COMMISSION. CONSTANTINOPLE., Sim 7. The Danube Commission has decided upon the St. George's month as the definitive ship channel. The Porte approves the negotiation of a special loan for the necessary works. SEIZURE OF A TURKISH VESSEL BY THE RUSSIANS. A telegram, dated Constantinople, Sept. 5, says that a Turkish vessel has been seized at Anapa by the Russians, in spite of the protests of the Turkish authorities and English consul. RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. The Neuate-Nachrichttn of Vienna says :—" The Polish question is again assuming first-rate import ance. People are speaking of au immediate war— not against Russia, but against Austria. Should these threats be realised they wou:d, it must be confessed, be the worthy termination of all the silliness and all the perfidy which have hitherto characterised the course of the negotiations on the Polish question. Let us wait. We cannot believe in any danger on the part of France, except in the event of this power wishing, iu concert with Russia, to precipitate a solution of the Eastern question. As to Russia, if she desired t o make an aimless war on her own account, we should be ready to take up the glove. Our brave armies would surely experience real pleasure in hurling back into their dens those Muscovite bears who cannot make head against the Polish insur gents except in the proportion of ten to one. We cannot understand, moreover, how Russia, in the midst of the internal complications under which she labours, could engage in an external war." BELGIUM. Rince the recent seance of the Roman Catholic Congress st lifeline'', there has been manifested an immense amount of activity amongst the leading members of the two great parties that are striving for political pre-eminence in Belgium. Those par ties are what is called the conservative or catholic party on the one hand, and the liberal party on the other. The principal organ of the latter party, who are the " ins," is the Indipendance Belgt ; that of the conservative party, who are the "outs," is the Journal de Bruzellea, and a fierce paper war has been raging for some time in the columns of those two prints. The battle is waxing hotter and more exciting as the 10th approaches, the day appointed fur the election of a representa tive for Tournai in the Chambers, in the room of M. Dupret, who has retired. The candidates in the field are M. Rogier, the Belgian Minister for /- - Foreign Affairs and the chief of the government, on the ow aide, and M. Louis Dumortier, brother to M. B. Damortier, iseenbar for Roulers, and the great nintamontanist leader in the Chambers, on the other. This contest is the first great political fruit of the recent catholic Congress at Matinee. There is no doubt that the catholic party have been acquiring considerable strength in Belgium within the last year or two, both in the Chamber of Representa tives and the municipal institutions of the country; whereas the liberals have been gradually losing ground. The coming election at Tournai is looked upon as involving the co ntinuanoe in office of liberal ministry or the ascendancy once more of a catholic or nitramontane party. The greatest in terest is felt in the result. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor OCR OWN PARIS. MONDAY EVINING. I now believe that the Debate is substantially right whin it laughs at the whole story of the Rue elan constitution and the Russo-Franco-Prussian alliance. The France, which yesterday made a show of fight against the sarcasms of the Dihate, now "caves in " ignominiously in the following paragraph : We have ressoo to feat that the party which wfl hear o no compromise hes owe more got the better in the eauseele of St. Petersburg. Some reforms, no doubt, would be con muted to, but they are far from ha.* the otteracter which I the authors of he projected eonstitution desired. We are assured that Prussia continues to make serious efforts to effect a good understanding and a pacific solution, but every thing depends evidently upon Russia, in whose hands alone the future of this great question remains. The truth seems to be that some few days ago Prussia, frightened at the leading part which I Austria was taking in the Germanic Confederation, made a desperate attempt to get up the alliance which has been so much talked about, and France, glad of an excuse for the inaction which, for many potent considerations, she had resolved upon with regard to the Poles, affected to lend a willing ear to a combination which she knew all the time would end in smoke. It is quite true that the initiative which gave rise to all this stir was taken by the Prussian minister, M. de Goltz. Prussia, desirous of revenging herself on Austria for the demonstration at Frankfort, employed that diplo matist to beg the cabinet of the Tuileries to suspend the publication of the three notes on the pretext that Russia was disposed to make concessions. But all this while Prussia was acting without the authority of Russia ; and the latter power does not mean to make any concession at all. The libe ral measures which she still professes an intention to take " as soon as the Poles lay down their arms," are merely those which were prodigally promised of the Czar's mere motion in the Gort chakoff despatches, which the three powers have condemned as unsatisfactory. The game is now up ; but the diversion his no doubt very well answered the purpose for which it was. played. The enthusiasm in France for Poland has cooled down ; all idea of war has passed away, and, moreover, it is now too late in the season to think of a campaign this year. The Em peror will go to Biarritz this week ; and poli tics will probably remain quiet and dull till after the close of the hunting season at Compibgne. Only when the Corps Legislatif meets at the most protracted period allowed by law, i.e. some time in November next, may we expect something stirring. Prince R. de Metternich, the Austrian Ambas sador, is expected in Paris this evening, from th Rhine ; it is said that the Emperor has sent for him. This news gives rise to a rumour that now the Prussian attempt in favour of Russia has served its turn, the French government is disposed to show itself more gracious towards Austria. The Bourse continues to be extremely firm. Rent. rose 35c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69fr. 25c., and 69fr. 30c. Mo'eilier rose 26f r. Mr. Charles Mathews is to make his srst appearance in Paris, at the Theatre de Vari6t4s, this evening, in his own piece of the Bashful Man, the French translation of which is (In Anglais Timide. WIukTRIE RIPOBT.--(THth DAY.) TIIIIIDAT, 8111115112111 6, • 1./L 1., ILI D. W. I. I. H. I. I. B. , —.- Nairn 20.17 W, 2 W. 4 30 b CM Aberdeen Maid 6 N. W. 7 28 b 619 Lariti 19.66 67 4 W. 3 U a Shields !9.71 66' $ N.W. I 243 b Seerboronidt 116.76 6d 4 W. 4 26 b Greencastle 69.76 62 2 W. 6 60 0 CM Galway ..... -19.81 161 5 W. - U -&U - Valenti& [ N l9 9 .—, - 80 0.16 3 LI ustown —ll9 66: Quaes venioel —. . 85 6V ,I W. 10 la is 11.6 1 7 3 Holyhead 29.84 66 &W. 7 U &It 3 Pembroke ;20.97 66 W. 7 111 4 Penzance . 130.00 67 W. s Is 4 Brest .. .... 11.14 67 W. 7 U 6 L'Orlent 130.16 60 W. SIN I koohetort ... 10.14 11 BP. 6 24 &ft 7 Plymouth _D BL . & gy w. I 18 I Weymouth AN 11 W. I U 0.1111 1 Portsmouth — 67 W. 7 U 2 London - th Dover UM - W. 4 10 1 Vermou KM 84 6 N. W. s is s Huousks lnn se s W.N.W. 1 le u 0.4 S 7 isOSABIA WINIIIIIDAY. ON Tug THOLIDAT. BALL to W.M.W. and Nom-.Um. S.W. to N.W., trash W.N.W., strong to to Moderato. fr S.W . . ;k to N.W., WEST Comm. S.S.W. to N.N.W., to moderate, some fresh to moderate, raln. showers. &LW. to N.W., fresh, MOUTH COASTS. W.B.W. to N.N.W., squab , to moderate, fresh, some showers. rele In places. S.W. to N.N. W., fresh, 80r2N-Htne. W.B.W. to N., fresh. squally to moderate. ••• • North-Zeat , -Caltbarso to Norfolk. Weet=Dooopl to Corn wall. kotatk=eltsaael sad Bay Corte. South-griA=Stralt of Dover to Norfolk. Tun CONFRDIIKATI STRAY RAILS AT BIRISN READ.—The Morainis Post states that these two vessels of war, which have now almost arrived at completion in Mr. Laird's building yard, are to be detained by government, and a court of law will determine whether, order the terms of the Foreign Enlistment Act, the detention is legal. A MaxtesN BRAVO AND THE " LIGION or Hosoua."—Ws read in the Times :—" Math surprise has been created in the City by the statement from Paris that the Maximo Goosed Marquez has been nominated by impe rial decree Commander of the Legion of Honour. Thia person, who has long been one of the most energetic chief tains of the ecclesiastical party, baa far distauoed all his competitors, including even Miramon, by the ferocity of his career, mad stands charged with some of the worst outrages ever committed in Mexico on foreign citizens, After the fall of Vera Crux, the fact that Marquez was known to be at the head of a force io the neighbourhood of the capital is stated to have spread consternation among all the inhabi tants, which was appeased only by a notification that Gruel Foray bad sent orders to him not to enter. It is to be presumed that, either directly or iodireetly, the Emperor Napoleon will our the civilised world to be made acquainted with the reasons which are considered to have rendered the bestowal of this honour expedient; but in the absence of explanation it seems maculated to offend the moral sense which hitherto has sympathised with the French govern ment in their determination to put an end to Mexican horrors." (GOVERNMENT EMIORATION.—The emigrant ship Sir John Lawrence, 7C3 toes, Mr. George Ellery, master, belonging to Mr. Osage Lidgett, London, riled from Ply mouth at 8 o'clock on Saturday evader last for Adelaide, South Australia, having ne board 312 government emigrate, loader the care of Mr. William Booker, surgeon superinten dent. The Hotspur, 1.574 tons, Captain B. Stacey, beak:aging to Messrs. Se ymour. Precook, aid Co., London, also sailed from Plymouth at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning last for f3ydney, New South Wales, with 447 government emigrate, under the ear of Mr. G. Winston*, surgeon superintendent, assisted by Mrs. Slain Amato, permanent matron. ras INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TOR THE PBOORBBB OJ SOCIAL SCIBACB. Great preparations are being made for the hold. Gag of the second session al she International Associative for the Progress of Social Science, at Ghent, the great menu. lecturing town of Belgium. All the leading railway companies throughout the Continent have so far coops. rated with the promoters of this movement as to signify their intention of reducing by one-half the prices of their ordlasry fares to all such passengers as bold cartes al membership, or who intend to waist at the Ooegress ; this privilege to extend to their raturu to their respective homes According to the regulations of the committee of management the members of the woods, tins, both Belgian and foreign, are invited to assemble at she Hotel de Ville, Ghent, on the 14th, at 10 o'clock, a.m. They will be there received by the communal administra. tins of the city. After this ceremony is goes through , they will be eciedscted is a body to the palace of the university. On their arrival at this place the foreign members will be grouped together according to their re ; sportive countries, and each group will elect the vice-presi dente sad seeniteries of the different sections forming part of the 001111011 of administratioe for the service of the year. The solemn opening of the stances will take place at 12 o'clock of the 14th (immediately after the conclusion of the preliminaries just stated), in the Rotondo of the Basis de l'Unimmdtk. The bureau will at ones proceed to the Mstal halos of the sections. Each section will then name im mediately its bureau and committee. This having been done, it will 6i the ceder of proceedings for the next day. Each morning during the *feriae the sections will assemble is their respective miles at 10 o'clock. The general closing of the &faster will take plate at 4 o'clock on Saturday, the 191 h. The whole pramedinp will be wound up by a grand banquet 'adieu at 6 o'clock. A vast number of interesting questions will be submitted for discassiou— gradients connected with comparative legislation, education sod instruction, art and literature, charity and public' health, political economy, he. is addition to the programme of the procesdinp of the association itself, the andtoritim and leading societies of the important town of Ghent are buss► organising a series of Mee, balls, sad festivities of °Ts" kind, in honour of the numerous strangers that here already signified their intention of taking part in the pee lesedinp of the mooed session of the Isternational A Mob. tion for the Progress of Social Seisms. RAILWAY COLLISION AT DARLINGTON. A serious collision took place at a few minutes before 8 last night at the }unction of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The parliamentary train, which was due at Darlington shortly after that hour, ran into a goods Main, the result being that the tender and several of the carriages of the grouser train were thrown off the line, and were greatly damaged. One of the passengers was seriotudy injured, and several were slightly bruin& TEARFUL STORM IN THE CHANNEL. ACCIDENT TO THE ISLE OF MAN STEAMER, AND SUPPOSED lAMIS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, NOIDAT. The storm which has swept over this port for the last twenty-eight hours has unfoetunately extended far down the Channel. The captain of the Isle of Man steam. ship Mona's gases, which arrived here this afternoon, reports haviog experienced fearful weather on the voyage from the Isle of Man. He says that be never law such heavy sea outside in all his experience ; and as proof of this we may state that the Mona's Queen has had her hal. warts stove in, her binnacle knocked away, her skylights smashed, her cabin, flooded, and other portions of the vessel damaged. It appears that the Mana's Queen left the island about nine o'clock this morning, the weather at the time being vary dirty ; at half.past two p.m., two immense seas were observrd following is the wake of the vessel, and before anything could be done to escape their force, they broke over the vowel, carrying, it is believed, two of the cabin passengers overboard, heckles doing the damage we bare already stated. FATAL COLLISION IN TEE CHANNEL. LOSS OF FOUR LIVES. During the heavy squall and rain last Sunday evening • shocking collision happened a few miles off Dammam, which Gamed the foundering of Ike barque Elvin., Captain Haus, and the lose of several of the crew. The barque wee on a voyage from Jamaica, with • mixed cargo of rum, sugar, and In wood, and was booed to Hamburg. She put into Ply mouth on Saturday for orders, mid resumed bee voyage the same evening. According to the few particulars whieh have been gleaned from the Deal boatmen, she was making I her way up Channel, the wind blowing strong from the N.W., with heavy rain, when she was run into by the Ocean King steamer, and sustained such fearful injury that I she foundered. The owner of the Elvin, Mr. Bellamy, was on board his barque, and he mid Captain Hans, the commander; Mr. Wilson, the mate; two apprentices, bro. then, named Willy; and Edmund, the steward, were rued. The second mate, named Green ; Holmar, • mamas; Yamblin, an apprentice, and another are believed to have perished. The steamer is reported to have ham much damaged. SHOOTING A GAMEKEEPER IN ESSE". (From the F.stex Herald.) We deeply regret to learn that the commence ment of the shooting season has been marked by one of those desperate conflicts often leading to murder, which, though beard of in other parts of the kingdom, are happily not frequent in Reset. No serious persocal injury hu is this Matinee been sustaitied, though as a band of game watchers were twice fired upon by poachers, it appears to have bens mare chance of the moment th at life was not notated. . _ It seems that early os Sunday morojag four keepers oaths estate of r. B. Western, Esq., of Fen/ Hall, were watching the preserves known as the chicks, at &weaken. expecting, it would seem from their strong force, an attack upon the game in that quarter. About 6 o'clock they beard several reports of fire-arms, and on reaching the spot from which the sounds proceeded they encountered two poachers with guns, one of whom was reccenisied as Henry Towns, keeper d the Cherry Tree, • small public-house in the oat skirt, of Witham, and Thomas Agar, • labourer, of the same place. Of course the keepers prepand to close with the depredators, and William Burrell, Gee of them, Whig in front, attempted to take Towns, who turned upon him, raised his gun, and deliberately fired. Fortunately the charge failed to take effect, hot the swain was very narrow indeed, as it paired between Burrell's arm sad body, and cut down the brushwood immediately behind him. The keepers iattaistly closed upon him, and after • desperate struggle they obtained presestitio of the gun sod .word bins. Burrell thee observed Agar, the other man, making his soups with • gun in his hand. and being the youngest and appareatly the most active of the keepers, he at once gave chase and rapidly gaMed upon his man, who, finding he most be taken, turned when his pursuer was within a few feet of him, pointed his gun at him, and fired. The charge struck the keeper to the side, and knocked him down, setting fire to his clothes and injuring the flesh, but fortunately none of the shots entered his body. Ager then camped. The other keepers imme diately ran to Burrell's assistanoe, and found the poor fellow lying or the ground. Oa examining him they found him clothing shot away, his breast very much bruised and dis coloured, but, es we have said, most fortunately now of the shots had penetrated. Towns was handed over to the police, and quickly transferred to the Witham statioa. Mr. Superintendeot Catchpoole, with hie men. immediately went in pursuit of Ager, who was eporehended between ewes and eight o'clock is the evening. Ager at first denied having been at itisenhall, hut afterwards observed, "The fns went off by accident.' The prisoner was takes to Bpnog field polionat,,tion for the night, sod yesterday he was coo. veyed to Witham far esuimiestioa. Ager is a young and powerful man, and be has previously been convicted of poaching and theft. —Ewer Herald. THE AVETRALI•N RIFLE MATCII.—On Mon lay next the rifle match between the Australian and E..glish Hite Volunteers will come off at the Sudbury rifle butts. The challenge wu gore by the Hamm Company of Austra lian., and accented by the Nu. 1 (Castle) Company of the Nottiogliam Rubin Hood., who were the best shots in England for the peer 1862. The ten markamso to rera.i. sent the Castle Company will he selected from the follow ing :—Lienterrent Brans, Essig° Porn, Corporal W. Smith, Corporal Redfern, Sergeant C. W. Siinkiee, awl Privates Shepperley, Coles, Baas, Haddon, &seater, J. Waite, and Kirk. GRAVE CHARGE AGAIENT A LEEDS CLOTH Mu- CHANT AND COVIHAPION AOHNT.-06 Saturday, at the Leeds Town.hall, Charles Henry W. Hirst, cloth merchant and commission agent, Victornecbanibers, South-parade, was placed in the duck on the charge at having committed • misdemesisour under the Bankruptcy Act. He absconded from Leeds on the previous Saturday , his liabilities being upwards of 5,000/., to meet which his meets ware not ex pected to realise more than 2001. Oa Tuesday, he was mode bankrupt by News. North and Son, at the sail of • creditor, and it being understood that be intruded to leave the country, the bankrupt was followed, and apprehended at Frida y by Detective-officer Hayden, cue of the metropolitan force. He had taken berths for biased' lie the name of Waterhouse) and for • friend to New Z s lam!, the peamgremoaey Wog 421. each. lo his pockets he bad upwards of 60/. in notes and gold, sod also a large quantity of property. Mr. North, who appeared to prow. cute, asked for an adjournment for a week, which Eli granted. Bail was refined.