The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

gut eramelso• TO CORRESPONDENTS. • dossed &titian af• 7tte Capew.ti'o;l7ts7als;tbe Game ',rainy's tar .osartto," s pabbalad every larsday sad Friday mem, to ties pas. Adearebemease Weeilli tor "'The T.sreeek" Leedue E•ehihr Ms". seem ee at tam Oils% Ilsiurerississat, by Two oMesk es as day La pehtieetles. 1110/1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 1..14 DAT —*mum. >t. l7. Anemone, Sk. Ina Towitubuw—lenesing, ie. San ...Atm*" ik, 18. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Wnex the Empress CATUERINE was making a " progress" to the Crimes, her favourite POTEMKIN considered it a delicate attention on his part to pre serve his Imperial Mistress from any miserable sight calculated to excite her sympathies in a disagreeable manner. One ut the devices he adopted in further. nice of this object was to send an order on to all the vi lieges on the route, to the effect that all the villagers should appear in holiday costume during the pass age or the slay of the Emi:ress. The courtier would not have his Imperial Mistress believe that misery could exist in a territory so favoured as to be under her benevolent governance. Queen VIC- Ton:a's Min caters were not disposed, we may imagine, and certainly not able, to present the population oi l I)ublin in holiday costume. The keen eye of the (luxes and her Consort pierced through the living walls of officials atld well dressed people who lined the passages through which she peened, and saw the ragged regiments behind. Her MA JI.,TY caught a sight of those picturesque speci mens of humanity, enveloped in multitudi nous rags, bristling with dirt, and strung together in such complicated figures that it is a matter of cer tainty that the wearers will never take off their gar ments deterred by the sheer impossibility of ever getting them on again. Her MAJESTY, it I. well known, is a lover of the picturesque, and one of her greatest amusements is sketching scenery that comes under that description ; but humanity is seldom pic turesque unless unhappy, and the Quez.v has acted upon a praiseworthy recognition of the fact in sig nifying a wish that the picturesque Celt should be if possible banished from the streets of Dublin. The wish appears almost Utopian, but in a country which has already been subject to so many changes that appear almost magical, it would be wrong to despair. The occasion of her MAJESTY'S being led to express any opinion as to the desirableness of any alteration in the national costume, arose out of the' sending a subscription of 3001. to the Dublin Sanitary Association. The QUEEN and PRINCE ALBERT in trausmittiog the donation accompanied it with a letter, (ruin which the following is an extract: The QUEEN and PRINCE consider it of very great importance to the social condition of her people that this attempt at the improvement of their habita tions should be successful ; but her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness feel also very anxious that some attempt should be made to improve the feeling of the lower classes in Ireland with regard to the state of their clothing, and to induce them, at least, to make some exertion to keep their clothes, of however poor a quality, in a decent state of repair. It might, perhaps, be possible to join to the ad ♦antage of cheap and improved lodgings, some condition that the tenants of these apartments would be expected to make 110€11C attempt at mending their clothes, and they should be made to feel some shame at raggedness, which is (u is seen in other countries), by no means a necessary accompaniment of poverty." That Ireland should ever become rich and well dressed, is a consummation which almost passes imagination, and yet the immense changer that have already taken plane might give us reason to hope. The Castle Rackrents are nearly all demolished. Pro prietors are taking can of their own estates.. The mud cottages are vanishing with the ruined castles. The miserable system of putting minute fractions of land up to competition amongst a starving peasantry is abolished. The thousands who lived upon potatoes from year's end to year's end can afford themselves a taste of meat now and then if they do not prefer an additional quantity of whisky. When alterations of this kind have taken place, there is no reason why we may not hope to see the day when the Irishman shall have a good coat to his back, and when the streets of Dublin shall not pre sent such a " dainty dish to set before the Qvus" as appeared at her last visit. Whether the plan of admitting the poor to the new lodging-houses only upon condition of the " making exertions to keep their clothes in a decent state of repair," or of "making (at least) some attempt to mend their clothes," could ever be adopted with success in Dublin, may be doubted. People who are only decent in their persons by com pulsion are seldom decent any longer than the compulsion lasts. A large portion of the cases of disease in the army arises from the invincible habits of filth that no discipline can extirpate from ■umbers of the common soldiers. We trust more to the inevitable elevation of the Irish labourer's posi tion than to any external regulations. Emigration has delivered him from the ruinous competition which reduced the value of his labour to the lowest pittance which could keep him from starvation. In the place of impoverished landlords--a curse to the tenantry--appear the DARGA2IB, who, in addition to the imaged blessings they confer ce their labourers, add the priceless boon of making the labourer feel that be in sow a free agent, and that he can bargain masa to man far a pries foe tkat labour which is his only insane of support. When the Irish labourer *els that he is so longer half a mendicant in the receipt of alms rather than wages, he will begin to tied that rags are no longer the eastume for him. When he finds that his limbs are adapted for some thing better than lounging lazily in frost of a mud cottage with the eternal pipe in his mouth, he will care more for their covering. We shall not get a model peasantry by paying them for dressing up according to our models. Better their condition—let them have an increased feeling of their own value—and we shall see that the alteration in the man will soon extend to his costume.. In the meanwhile, as the Irish are an u:tra-loyal ; people, it might be worth the while of their in structnrs to point out to them that royalty dors not like rags. And they might be told that this dislike springs from no sentimental equeamishhess en the subject of unpleasant sights, but from a sensible conviction ths.t rags arc a! sort of fruit that only blossoms upon very worthless plants. As a general rule, rags mean idleness, filth, debauchery, crime. There may be exceptions to this, and the exceptions were formerly mote numerous in Ireland than elsewhere ; but they do not destroy the rule. A population does not lose its sense of decency until it has parted is :th other qua lities quite as valuable. But rags are not only a tes timony to what the man is, but instrumer.ts of terror if rightly viewed to all who come in contact with them. Out of rags come &Beale, pestilence, death. It was not only the wearers of the rags whom the (l: sex h►d in view when she counselled the Irish to " mend their clothes," but the rest of the popnie:ou grouped Firoond them. The dirt accumulated in the dwellings of the rag-wearers may be the nursery of Cholera. Vie trust, then, that improvid circuoutances, good teaching, and loyalty, may tend to do away with the rag 'miasma in the ►trects of Dublin ; and that, on her MAJEiTI'd next visit to Dublin, bey LAO subjects may bees sprucely Oared ap Mr. DLanAahrs psttern peasants, without having had to . pay the price of thirty or forty years' labour kg ',heir clothes. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 23, 1853 • home of M. /Cattier, his father-in-law, having been authorised by the Minister of the Inte rior to remain there temporstily in consequence of the illness of his child. Monet, the murderer of Viscount Dempmart,in, the, Mayor sof Uses, was executed at Valence on the 19th. PARIS, WIDNIUMAY EIMNI.;10. The -Bsuiegne Pine, publishee the following as the address of the Englis h residents to be presented to the Emperor and Empress on Tuesday : OY HOUSE FALLING IN GENERAL The dispute whether or not jack-shores supported the lower part of the house which fell down, the other day, in the Strand, is a question of much smaller importance, closely u it concerned life and death, than the momentois question whether many other houses in the metropolis art constituted to stand or fall. The example of that downfal caused a lively sense of the attraction of gravitation in the tenants of many other houses ; and, besides, the awakened vigilance of district surveyors, who have been distributing jack-shores to prop up the weak nesses of the metropolis in various places, there is no doubt that many a tenant, at the present moment, is watching the shakes and oscillations of his house, as the carriages pass in the street, and is listen ing on quiet evenings with an uneasy conscience to the crackinga of the timber. And there is rood ground for apprehension. The particular split which almost startles him oat of his five senses, may not have in it so profound an importance es his fears conjure up : but in many streets there is a better foundation for fear than for the houses. This con sideration affects the buildings of the metropolis in two respects: it suggests the necessity of taking a diagnosis of the diseased and feeble portions, and the expediency of building better for the future. Tke experience of one downfal, in calling atttention to the possibility of others, has re minded us that the period has abo ut arrived when perhaps a goodly number of houses in the metropolis should fulfil their destiny by tumbling down. It is almost their duty to do so. They were built to stand for a certain number of years; they have performed their allotted task manfully ; and now they have a right to retire upon their founda tions. London houses are among the best examples of the false-cheap system ; and we are now about to realise, sometimes is the form of disasters like that which happened in the Strand, sometimes in the shape of expensive repairs, the result of the false economy upon which our immediate forefathers acted. It is about sixty years since a very eminent builder, the father of the modern cheap system, began to beautify a portion of the metropolis—which was then rustic—the district now distinguished by Rumen-up/are, with the adjacent Found ling Estate. It is a tradition of that now an tique neighbourhood that the lenses contained a stipulated prohibition against dancing in some of the houses. We know well that tenants have not ven tured upon that species of festivity. If the houses could not stand dancing in their youth, most unques tionably their dancing days are now over. Mr. Mulready, who but a few years back exhibited a landscape taken on the site of Russell-square in 1808, may yet live to sit, like another Marius, and paint the ruins of some antique building on the same spot. We do not know the exact term allotted to some of these creations of the cheap building art; but we are are inclined to think that with many their time is nearly up. They were contracted for to stand so many years, and why should they stand any longer, when a longer term was not paid for? The cheap system has had its fling, and the pro fessors of the art have revelled in the license which they have been taught. There are two grand sources of accident arising from the construction of houses: sources which have been opened up during the interval since the originator of the system began with singular assiduity. One is undue speed in the construction, a speed in the elevation of the walls which exceeds the evaporating power of the at mosphere in consolidating the structure as it rises. The other is insufficient and bad mate rials. Time is money ; and the contractor, screwed down in his estimate, revenges himself by contracting the period necessary for the work. Nay, a kind of reputation has been earned by skill in getting up the appearance of a house, made for sale and not for use ; since they who were interested in the process looked only to the sale, and knew nothing about the tenants who might be des tined to try the powers of the ghostly structure. The materials are bad, for every reason, but espe cially because they are produced by interests sepa rated from each other. The man who buys a bit of land with adhesive earth in it, is struck with the idea that it will make bricks. Whether it will make bricks which will hold together under the tread of human inhabitants he cares little, so long as the baked and reddened earth will sell "at per thousand." The timber is bad, partly from the constant effort to pass off an inferior article for the stipulated price. The lime is often adulterated; any rubbish which will pass muster to the sight being set into the walls. fhe opening of the roads for sewers and other subterra nean works, which so frequently shakes the founda tions, and which is likely to be so common under our sanitary improvements, the feeble defence afforded to the Englishman's home and hearth by the Build ings Act, are subjects too considerable in themselves to be despatched in a parenthesis. Suffice it to say, for the moment, that the regions of cheap houses which began to arise some fifty or sixty years ago, have been imitated and emulated in many a new town now forming the suburbs of the metropolis. Perhaps the vice has reached, or even pawed, its extreme point. Unquestionably a better system has begun ; and the City of London, for all its antiquated abuses, may claim the credit of being more particu larly the site for this better and honester system. The real commercial advantage of making the floor and walls which support and shelter us sound and sterling is ones more understood; and there is no doubt that the outlay now incurred on that head will save a considerable amount to those successors for whom, indeed, we lay up oar savings. To continue that system will be only to follow the rule of common sense ; but the recent accidents, and the expectation of more, remind us that we have another business; which is, to set the cheap-system houses in order to stand at least until we can re move from them, if not until weean build others. It is very unpleasant to have your house give way under you darin g the night ; and no expense that can be i incurred n the business of making your house safe will be wasted. It really is worth the while of tenants in suspected neighbourhoods to attend to this domestic vodka. Inc Court. ._._...._ BALMORAL, Su?. 21. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal sad Coast Alesaader Meuadorf, drove yesterday to the Liao of Quoieh. The Duchess of Kent. Count Alezander Mensdorff, Lady Augusta Bram and the Hon. Mrs. Gordon, joined the dinner putt yestarday Sir John Liddell, M.D , Surgeon and Medical Inspector of Greenwich Hospitals, and Dr. Drnativmd, from the Ad miralty, attended the General Board of Heal•h yesterday, at their ofllces, Whitehall. to confer a, to slipping regula• tons to be issued by the board in relation to epidemic disease. Ihe Secretary of the Colocial Land or Emigration Board, Mr. Stephen Walcott, also had an interview with the II I Board of Health, yesterday, is relation to special regul.atons for the protection of emigrant passengers. THE FOLTUCONING ELECTION OF LORD MATOR. —The election of a Lstd Mayor fir the City of London in the room of Alderman Challis, M P., who will complete his year of office, on the 9th of November, will take place is the Cituldhall en Thursday next, the •19th inst. The aldermen who have not yet petee.d the chair, rad who are I therefore, eligible for 'teeth:a, stand in the following order : Aldermen Sidney, Mono, Salinnoss, Ennio, Laurent', Sir It. W. Carden, Wire, Carter, Cubitt. and Muggeridge• According to usual custom the sissecoliied livery will pre sent two of these gentlemen to the Court of Aldermen, who will select one, so that if the choice of the livery should fill ', upon the two senior aldermen, aa it undoubtedly will, All derman &Unity, being the tiro will, in all probability, be ehi.en to fill the mayoralty for the year 18434. TILE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.—WO regret to state that the latest report en the results of tt • b,iler :plosion at the mill of Messrs. George Ii immord and Son gives the number of d atlas at fire, and others still tonsin in a precarious -'ate. Th • tn..nor's inquiry is ad ! jouraed v. Wednesday neat, after a nar,:y formal openL g EMr INDIA Hot3s.—On Wednesday a Court of D:r Oars was held at the East India House, when FreJe tie. Janus Ral:iday, Esq.. wail appointed provisional mem ' bus of the *Doug of India. RUSSIAAND 'MkKilt: , 4: Advips tin . from Ana el4blielt with saperfitmos abaknd ent of Irina and Eughind by in the • ish Theism. We jay" yester- Amy and on Wednesday despetffitts showing that Austria was resolved to renounce the exeroissof her • good" offices is the strife between Turkey end- Russia, unless the torte would adopt the Vienna note although its injurious character had been attested both at St. Petersburrgg and Constantinople. The note pro- posed by the am ' bwadaes of France and England to overcome the difficulties raised by Reschid Pacha, found no favour in the . eyes of Austria, because it Seeded to give a to the Vienna note opposst to that assigned to it the Czar. The Uttar elf OW French correspondent contains a teleg raphic spatch which has been published in the papers, as well as a disguised form of the same, which we hays noticed in the columns of our Eng lish contemporaries. So tar as they are genuine, they show that the Four Powers have ceased to set collectively, and that the Vienna note has ceased to be a basis of agreement between them. The Constitutionnel notices, in order to rectify, a statement which has appeared in some of the German paws. "It is not true," says the Constita:ionnel, a that the Vienna conference had met for the per pees of preparing a new note. It would have been rosemary to submit the new note to the approbation se both Russia and Turkey, and that would have been to create a double difficulty. The Conference of Mona could not meet except to examine what was to be done in presence of the situation brought te at by the modifications proposed by the Sultan." The " new note " of the German editorial imagi nation is the collective note which it was pro to send to the Porte for the purpose of tranq .ii Ile thensions on the subject of the note w 5 • wee siffieed to the Sultan for signature. This col lective note our readers know has not been adopted. The Frankfurter Poet Zeitung publishes a letter from Posen of the 17th fast., in which we read the following passage : "It is without fear of contradiction from the event that I can affirm, all assurances to the contrary notwithstanding, that the Russians will not evacuate the Principalities. The Czar will pa_y every respect to the representations of the Great Powers short of allowing them to delay the execution of his compre hensive plans. The Czar still offers to accept the Vienna note, but well knows that the Sultan cannot sign it after what has taken place, and that if he should, Turkey could not furnish the millions which he would demand as an indemnification for the im- mense cost of the Ronda) preparations. According to the most recent letters from Warsaw the rejection of the Turkish modifications has been followed by numerous movements in the corps d'artnee stationed there, bet it is got stated whether these had reference to au advance Upon the Danube or to the expected visit of the Emperor. The Russia* officers are in ecstasies, for they regard a war as inevitable. A letter from Jassy confirms the statement that the Russians there entertained no expectation of leaving the Principalities. A letter from Kaliach states that several Polish nobles who had been arrested at Wroc law& had been brought thither and imprisoned." We read in the Constitutionnel: " The following fact has been communicateed to us, and we find it confirmed by letters both from Constantinople and Schnmla. A European physician who arrived some months back at Constantinople, obtained by dint of solicitation the direction of the military hospital at Schumla. It appears that Omer Pacha soon perceived that this person kept up mysterious relations with Russian spies, and in con sequence he kept on his guard. Soon after, being warned that there was an intention to poison him, he feigned to be indisposed, and sent for the medi cal man in question to attend him. This person, after examining the patient, went out to prepare a calming potion, which, on his return, he presented to Omer Pacha to drink. The general-in-chief of the Turkish army requested the physician to taste it first himself, and as the other refused to do so, he forced him to drink the whole of it in his presence. Seeing that the physician then wanted to hurry out, he forced him to remain in the tent, in order that he might judge of the effect of the potion. At the end or some hours the physician died from poison. We publish the fact such as it is related to us in our private letters." This is doubtless the same story that was contra dicted several days since. CONSTANTINOPLE, SIFT. 8. Russia, u mentioned in my lest, has been actively employed in endeavouring to carry on unofficial ne gotiat►ons directly with the Porte, and to prove that all the difficulties of the present question have arisen from the meddling and pernicious intervention of the Western Powers. Her agents have been observed in continual mo tion, besieging the different departments, and em ploying, it is said, an ample fund of their usual arguments to impress on the government the neces sity of a Russian alliance. M. Argyropulos has seen the Seraskier and Me hemet Nucterdjim, the chiefs of the war party, and had, moreover, on the 4th inst., a long interview on this subject with Reachid Pseba, in which he de clared the impossibility of his government's adher ing to the modifications of the Porte. "In that case," said the minister," we are prepared for all the The Egyptians have terminated their quaran tine, and several steam-frigates are conveying them to their destination. We are anxiously expecting to-day news of the impression produced at Vienna by the modified pro ject transmitted on the 20th ult. I have just heard that a courier arrived yesterday at the Austrian em bassy, which is not improbable; for a Russian steamer, which was to convey the mail next week, started for Odessa about four in the afternoon. Mehemet Paths, commanding the fortress of , 1 Varna, has received orders to prepare for the recep l i - tion of 12,000 men. The fortifications of that place are almost terminated under the direction of French and Prussian officers; the soldiers work four hours a day—and the inhabitants each one day in ten. Lord Palmerston's noble speech made a profound impression, and nothing can equal the gratitude of all ranks and all classes towards this statesman. I have heard several Turks say that were it possible at the present juncture to quit their country, they would willingly start for London to thank him in person for the services rendered in this trying emergency. I have even heard spoken of a national address to this effect, but to which, for obvious reasons, there might be some difficulty in obtaining the assent of the government. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY ETININSI, The Emperor and fripreSi left St. Cloud at half put eleven this morning for the Northern Railway, where they were received by M. Rothschild, jun., and the directors of the railway. The imperial trains left at about half-past twelve. Nothing has been neglected to surround their Majesties during their northern tour with all the accompaniments of luxury and pomp. Count Lepic, Deputy-Governor of the Palace; Baron Varennes, Prefect of the Palace, and Count Teacher de la Pagerie, Marechal des logis, have been sent forward to make arrangements. Upwards of 80 cooks and domestic servants accompany the imperial cortege. In the various towns in the route preparations are going on for all sorts of spectacles, decorations, and illuminations. The style of decoration adopted by M. Visconti at the fête of Aug. 13 is the favourite. The Hotel do Ville at Valenciennes is transformed into a Moorish palace, and miniature Alhambras have been improvised in other places. The Montle/4r announces that the Queen of Eng land has designated the Earl of Levin, the Marquis of Worcester, Lord Bingham, and Colonel Dupuis, to isit the camp of lielfaut to compliment the Emperor. The camp will be broken up on the 27th, immedi ately after the Emperor's visit. The Bourse opened heavily, but not at such low prices as might have been expected considering the serious aspect of the Eastern question, and the fall in Consols yesterday. The Threes opened at 70fr. 85e., and fell to 76fr. 63c., but just before the close a sudden reaction brought them up to the opening price, so that the fall was only lite. from yesterday. 'rho Strasbourg Railway rose Ulfr., but most of the other lines fell, though not heavily. The Courrier de .4014 states that M. Victor Chauf four, ex-representative, exiled from France for ma sons of general safety, is at present at Therm, at the To his Imperial Majesty Napoleon the Third, Emperor of the French. Stan,—We, the undersigned British residents and visitors at Boulogne, desire to approach your Imperial Ma jesty, and offer ear cordial cengratulatiou on your Ma jesty's snivel at this pert of your dominions. It is new upwards of forty years since Boulogne was honoured with an imperial visit. War and its hor rors then debarred oar countrymen from friendly intercourse with Franco. Peace and its Liming' now invite us to enjoy the climate, the literature, the amusements, and, above all, the society of our neighbours. And whilst, as strangers in the land, we cannot but admire its natural wealth and great capabi lities, and the extent to which your Majesty's measures may yet develops them, we sincerely pray that your Ma jesty may be preserved to France to consolidate its institu tions, cement its friendship with Great Britain, and, by a constant intercourse of commercial and friendly relations, render both countries not only tke guardians of the liberty of Europe, but generous rivals in the perfection of the aro., and reciprocal consumers of each other's produets, at tariffs based on the sound principles and enlightened views, of the interest and prosperity of the many, and not the aggran disement of a few. If the world acknowledged the prowess in the field of the first Napoleon, it equal'y admires the magnanimity of his successor, whose "Empire to penc►," and prays that the tranquility, which his strength secants to France, may, in turn, wore to himself a long and peaceful reign, bn•ed on the affections of his people, and blessed by the enjoyment of domestic happiness. Upon her Majesty, whose virtues merit and adorn the throne, and whose happiness is the constant care of chivalrous affection, we pray Heaven to bestow its choicest blessings ! EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO TILE NORTHERN DEPARTMENTS OF FRANCE. ARRAS, THURSDAY EVININO. It would be difficult to describe fully the enthu siasm of the inhabitants of this ancient town is their essay to give effect to the preparations for the due reception of the Emperor and Empress. All the decorations were completed u early as three o'clock this morning, the flowers having been plucked but a few hours prior to their being fashioned into their re spective positions, for the better preservation of their fra grance, a precaution, characteristic of the care bestowed by the French artists in the minutest detail, and which gives them that pre eminence so widely acknowledged in efforts for effect. At the railway station is a superb canopy, crowned with evergreens entwined with the choicest bouquets, and over all the golden eagle, with, on either side, the letters N. and E. (Napoleon and Eugenie) worked in burnished gold. The national flag floats majestically from various points of this tastefully arranged erection, while the flooring, sur (teed with green velvet fringed with golden lace, augments the imposingness of the interior. Paging from the last mentioned point of attroction, we behold from the Porte Rouville to the Prefecture the entire length of a long line of streets bearing ample testimony to t he ingenuity of those employed in catering for the oc casion. Here are trees growing, as it were, for years, yet not many hours in the pathway they skirt at both sides of 1 the roadway. There is even unity in this temporary plan tation; gaily woven garlands and festooning, gracefully linking them into brotherhood, while the letters N. and E., most artistically worked in flowers, catch the eye on all sides. As early as eight o'clock in the morning the various deputations from the town and communes began to assemble, and at 10 o'clock the municipal body were burying to h • rendevoes for the purpose of assigning places to th, se bodies. All this was of course conducted under the im mediate inspection of the prefect and mayor, for the preser vation of regularity in conducting the cortege through the town on their Majesties' arrival. The more distinguishable for bustle, however, were the clergy, hundreds of whim were to be seen now in bodies assembled together, and men dividing themselves into sections and mingling with the laity for the purpoee of aiding the general arrange. ments of the trades for a display of banners and the insig nia of their order. By this general aiding of each other all classes had the satisfaction of being marshalled according to the rules laid down by the municipal authorities for precedency. As the time drew on for three o'clock, officers, both mili tary and civil, were to be teen dashing through the toast in full speed to acquaint themselves of the line of route being kept open, and shortly after that hour the Prefect, his officers, the municipal body, and the deputations of the trades, together with a deputation on behalf of the pea santry of the district, took up their positions in the place allotted to them, adjacent to the canopy at the railway station, while the elite of the town to the number of some three thousand, had taken their seats in en immense am phitheatre, which had been constructed at their own cost. At four o'clock the Bishop of Arras, with other high dig nitaries of the church, approached the hall leading to the canopy, and where, surrounded by their clergy in full eanonicals, they awaited the momentarily expected arrival of their Majesties. The picture presented at this moment was most imposing, crowds of people acting as shade to the gay festooning of flowers, while silken flags wafting in the b augmented the eked. It was stated that there could not have been fewer than two hundred thousand per sons in the town, and when ft is considered that the popu lation of Arras is under 26,000, it may easily be believed that the interest mast have been extreme. At a few minutes to Rye o'clock their Majesties arrival was signalled by the booming of ten heavy guns, whereupon the bell of the Cathedral, quickly followed by those of the various churches of the town, informed all that the visit for which they had been so eagerly looking forward, had been at length placed beyond the possibility of doubt. Their Majesties were received by the Bishop of Arras. the Prefect, the Mayor, and the Municipal body, and were• amidst the most vociferous cheering of the multitude and a salute of artillery, on their way to the Prefecture to receive the addresses of the townsp. ople through their deputations, when this despatch was being sent off. The lower and upper tcwn is to be brilliantly illuminated tonight, and a grand ball, to which their Mojesties ars in vited, is to take place. ITALY. ROME, BEM 14. The government of kis Holiness, through its official organ, the Giornale di Roma, of yesterday evening, replies with more than usual bitterness to the com l meats of foreign papers upon the conspiracy of the 15th of August. The following article has produced considerable attention here, from the severity with which it lashes jonroalism of the anti-revolutionary, as well as of the revolutionary, party, and the alarm with which it alludes to religious reform : The Brussels journal of the 3rd inst., fully believing the Gazette du Msdi, gives enormous proportions to the at tempts at disorder, ably prevented, which were to have taken place in Rome on the 15th of August last, if indeed assassins and Mazsinians have ever any fixed day for com mitting crimes, all days being alike suitable for them. We are able to reassure the editors of these papers that what ever were the mad and wicked ideas of that party, certainly the means of which it could dispose were not sufficient to produce the effects which seem so much to alarm the editors and correspondents of the papers alluded to. It is a sad thing to refisct that in our days, more perhaps than in other times, exaggerations, uncertainties, and fears, should have taken hold of men who yet belong, I end wish to belong, to the party of order. This wavering of spirit is very advantageous to those writers of lies and calumnies who fill the demagogical journals, and thereby encounter less distrust and contempt than is necessary, not to confute them, because they do not deserve such an honour, but mere& to let them fall into the mire whence they rose. It also gives courage to another class of journals, belonging to a Pet of men who are neither assassins nor republicans like the others, but who, by adopt ing other means, tend to the same end, which is that of attacking the pontifical government in every way, ap parently just or unjust, superficially true nr lake, and what is worse they fully agree in directly attacking the catholic religion It is not certainly a republican journal which a few days ago invited the Italians to study religion, not at the pure fountains from which it springs, but in the " Ilis. tory of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century," written by a Merle D'Aubigne, and concluded the apostrophe by gating that the future hopes of Italy repose in the develop ment of the relitious question. Having thus full evidence of the spirit which moves both par Lies, it behoves us to op pose more energesically than ever this doubb host of ene flues, allies in the attach on the frith of our fathers. L ty ing aside therefore fear, and despising exaggerations, we must tight with tie spirit of charity, but with courage and, firmness. The preceding number of the Roman journal (Sept. 12), contains a formal denial of the statements in the Ticiness Ga:etla respecting the nocturnal Bight of the delegate of Ravenna, the seizure of his apartment, and of tbe direction of police by the Ass trawl major the preletutions of the delegate of Fedi, the flight of tho Marquis Guerrini to Tuscany, on account of threats from the inhabitants of Forh, and other circumstances tending to illustrate the ill humour prevalent in the provinces. As, however, these disorders naturally arise out of the high price of breed, it is useless to deny partial facts, when the enormous dearness of wheat remains a notorious and distressing source of mischief. On the 12th inst., his Holiness held a secret con sistory in the Quirinal Palace, and appointed bishops to the sees of Sabina, Terni, and Citta della Pieve, in the Roman States ; Ruse and Bitonto, in the kingdom of Naples; Breslau, Guadeloupe, Guada laxara, in North America ; and Chacopoyas, in South America. His Holiness also received the petition for investiture with the sacred pallium from Mon signor Alemanny, archbishop of the newly erected Metropolitan see of San Francisco in California. A great deal of intrigue is going on just now in the papal court amongst the prelates qualified for the vacant nunziature or embassies, death and promotion having left the holy see unrepresented in several of the most important continental courts. The certainty of the first class missions being direct stepping stones to the cardinalition purple renders them posts eagerly sought after by those ecclesiastics who de vote themselves with equal zeal to temporal and spiritual employments. Monsignor Grassellini, Papal Commissary Extra ordinary in the Legations, published a notification on the 6th instant, informing the landholders of the neighbourhood of Bologna, tkat the engineers charged with tracing that part of the Central Italian Itailway which traverses the Papal dominions, are about to commence their operations from Castel Franco to Bologna, and thence to Sasso. Front the right bank of the Panaro, the line will take a direc tion north of Fort Urbane, by Anzolo to Bologna, north of the Emilian Way, passing the Reno below the bridge of San Felice. Another branch will stretch to Casalecchio, and thence to Sasso, where the first tunnel will be bored. Similar notifications have been issued by the authorities of the other four governments concerned in the central line which it seems to be their intention to carry into execution as soon as possible. - . A grand m i l itary festival is to take place this after coon in honour of the French inspector-general, Andre, general of division and senator, who is come to inspect the division of occupation. The show (a carrousel militaire) which is to be executed by the officers of the 11th regiment of dragoons, will take place in the great circus of the Ville Borghese, and will be the first festivity of any kind held in that de lightful spot since it was so dismally disfigured by the military operations of the republicans during the siege and defence of Rome. It is hoped that the Prince will henceforward consent to the villa being re-opened to the public, especially as it is tradition ally reported that it was under that condition that the property originally came into his family. NAPLES, SEPT. 14. The Austrian corvette Novara—the same vessel which performed a bit of imperial brigandage at Smyrna the other day—has made a mysterious visit to Naples, and shipped a large amount of silver money—l have heard as much as hulf a million of piastres; but that would be a large sum for the Bank of Naples. It is by no means impossible that this money is wanted by Austria to carry out her plans in the Danubian provinces. It is perfectly well known here that the cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburg are working together to break up Turkey, and Lord Aberdeen will assuredly add another blunder to his diplomatic imbecility. On the other hand, it ie generally admitted by Russian and Aus trian diplomatists here, that the question will be patched up for the moment, because public both in France and England, would, at the present moment, force the hesitating go vernments of both countries to adopt a more honest and honourable policy. But Russia assures the Ita lian despots of her success ; and having cleared Turkey of political exiles, the small free European powers will be coerced to do the same. Be sure this movement of Russia on Turkey is but the first step of a well-digested plan to destroy that little re mainder of continental liberty so offensive to these Kings of armies and ships, who are bow of necessity Russian in their sympathies and policy. Church feasts, and miracles, and image worship, are quite the fashion in Naples. This year the na tional feria of Piedigrotta was got up with great care, it being the completion of a fifth century since the foundation of a church to which the Kings of Naples must pay a visit annually. On this occasion the procession of the Madonna to the royal palace was a perfect rare show. The image was placed under a gaily painted purple, and so carried to the royal palace to visit the King, accompanied by some favoured nobles, flags, soldiers, private and opera music. The church has made a good thing of it, for all the poor people think it a blessing to contribute to the favoured Madonna of Piedigrotta. M. Maupas has at length arrived in Naples to re present the Emperor, it not France. It is reported that the King does not look kindly on his arrival here, because he is a thorough Napoleonist, and therefore no friend of the Bourbons. At all events, this will be a reason for his receiving unusual civilities from the court if the old policy is carried out. SPAIN. FALL OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY. A telegraphic despatch dated Madrid, September 19, 6.30 p.m., was received in Paris yesterday (Thursday), and is to the following effect : "The ministry of which General Lersundi was the bead has resigned. " The Queen has accepted the act. " The Count de San Luis (M. Sartorins) has been summoned to the Royal presence. He has undertaken the task of forming a new administration, and has taken the oath as Minister of State and President of he Council. " M. de San Luis has proposed to the Queen the names of the Marquis de Girona (M. Castro), the Marquis de Moline (M. Roca de Togores), M. Do menech, and Lieutenant-General Blazer, as his col 'leagues, and they have received the approbation of the Queen. 0 4 M. Stevan Collantes, who held the portfolio or Public Works in the late ministry, will enter the new government" The Marquis de Moline was at Paris when he was informed of the fall of the government; and would immediately set out for Madrid. M. Sartc;rins and M. de Moline were members of the last ministry of which Marshal Narvaez was president ; the first ail Minister of the Interior, and the second as Minister of Marine. At that time M. de Castro was President of the Congress, and in that capacity seconded the plans of the ministry. At the present moment he occupies an elevated judicial post.' M. Domenech was Minister of Finance with M. Olozaga. General Blazer is not known as a poli tician. The Madrid journals of the 17th contain lcng de tails of the entrance of the Queen, the King, and royal family into the capital, on their return from La Granja. Their Majesties went to the church of Atocha before proceeding to the palace. The streets through which they passed were lined with troops, and they were received with enthusiasm. The railway from Aranjuez to Tembleque was opened to the public on the 13th. A train con slating of ten waggons left Madrid at half-past seven in the morning, aud, after waiting a quar ter of an hour at Aranjuez, went on to Temb leque where it arrived at halt-past ten, the distance being about 60 English miles. GERMANY. - • - BERLIN, Seri. 19. In a recent letter, I undertook to state that the journey of the King to Olmutz, .poSen of by some papers, would not take place, and further, that it wes sever intended. To-dac the lithographic C,rresponflenz publishes the following announce went, with all the typographical attributes of an official communication While several journals are announcing the visit of his Majesty to Olmutz, others are calling the cecuraey of that statement in question. We are authorised to state absol u t e l y t h at such a visit was never projected by the court of Berlin." The National Gazette of Berlin declares p Aitively that there is no truth in the report that the King er Prussia is going to Olniutz. DENMARK. The annual meeting of the Diet is fixed by royal decree for the sth and 7th of October. The Schles wig Provincial Diet is to meet on the 3rd of the same month. JAMAICA. The great topic of interest in this island is the advent of the new Governor, as drowning men catch at straws—not that his Excellency is by any means a man of straw ; but, as the sinkiug still buoy them. selves up by a weak struggle to grasp ut objects, the power of which to support and to save they inagnity by hopes excited by desperation. Truly has Go vernor Barkly his work cut out for him; but it is more than to be feared that the fatal consequences of the present destructive and repreheusible feud between the several branches of the legiature are too varied, fixed, and diffused to be either averted ur corrected even by his active genius. It is difficult correctly to bala'ice the blame of the original quarrel among the parties concerned ; what we have now to do with are the consequences which might have been avoided, and the subsequent con ' duct of some of these parties. The most serious act has been that one of Sir Charles Grey in disbanding the police, and lettiug loose upon society a free corps of prisoners, some of whom were under sentence for the worst of crimes. The Assembly had provided for these essential dis. bursements, but the council rejected the bill. A gee. tleman offered to advance the Penitentiary expense s for one year, but the Governor refused his sanction, and on his head, therefore, and his excellency's clique in council, let the blame lie of the robberies, burglaries (a crime hitherto almost unknown here), and personal atrocities, daily and nightly being committed ; but beyond this it is frightful to con template the probable growth and spread of the poisonous fruits of this devastating and demoralising mission which a " governor "—save the mark !—hu dispersed a band of lawless ruffians to dissea.inatc. Sir Charles Grey, however, seems to have not L=ea far wrong when he hinted at the possible advantage which commercial patriots would take of the rernoal of the duty on imports. Great was the indignation; nevertheless this " deadlock" has opened the ports for the profit of 'he importer only. If the consumer benefits at all, he does so to too trivial and partial an extent for appreciation. This selfish line of pa triotic policy has been peculiarly felt, moreover, be cause the extensive failure of the provision crop has during this interval forced the population to sub sist all but entirely on imported provisions. How ever dear we may have to pay for it by and by, therefore, a present boon would, at all events, have been conferred, had the importers allowed the con sumer a fair share of the gain, instead of a monopoly doubling its advantage by weighing in the scale of charges the necessities of scar city. The distiller keeps up his price, and has also made his harvest ; but, as far as that goes, one can hardly grudge the struggling planter a lucky turn for once. 'f he great evil of the duty being taken off rum is the vicious consequence of every other hovel becoming a dram shop, a set of most appropriate nests for the foul birds of prey which Sir Charles Grey has un caged and let fly among us. In the meantime labour is growing dearer and more scarce—a subject on which I shall touch in a future letter. In conclusion, let me add a word at parting with Sir Charles Gr ey. His Excellency W a kind-hearted and well-intentioned man no doubt, but the responsibilities of his excellency's high office required for their conscientious performance KWlC thing more practically active than good intentions. DETERMINED SUICIDE BY ARSENIC. Yesterday Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the Ward School-room, Black Raven -court, Tower -street, on the body of William Curie, aged 45, who committed sui cide under the following circumstances. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased and his wife lived at No. 16, Mincing-lane, the latter taking care of chambers as housekeeper. In consequence of some disagreement be tween the deceased and his wife, they had for the last two years occupied separate apartments. On Tuesday night the deceased came home at about nine o'clock, and taking a glass of water with him, immediately went to bed, As he was not heard stirring fur some time after his usual hour —that was about six o'clock—at h 46-past eight o'clock his wife and the servant girl went and opened his room door, when they were horrified at finding him dead on the floor. A surgeon was sent f rc, who immediately attended, but he declared that life had been ezzir.ct for some time. It seemed that the deceased was much addicted to drinking, and had often remarked when he came home that that would be the last time, but, as this observation was frequently re. pealed, no notice was taken of it. Mr. Ilughes, a surgeon of Leadenhall-street, on entering the teem. found the de ceased dead, and on the drawers a tumbler, in which were the remains c f seme white liquid, and beside it a p►per packet, containing about six ounces of white powder, the greater portion of which consisted of arsenic. The liquid in the glass was also strongly impregnated with arsenic. The paper in which it was contained was marked with the word 0 Poison." This packet of arsenic must have been in his possession for a considerable time, as it was perfectly white, whereas under the new act regulatibg the sale of arsenic, if it lad been recently purchased, it would have borne some particular distinguishing colour. The jury returned a ver dict of " Temporary insanity." GALE AT SEA.—Several of the vowels arrived at Liverpool within the last few cleys report a violent gale from the westward on the 10th and 11th inst. The Nicho las Biddle, which sailed from Liverpool on the 3rd inst. for Savannah, put back to that port yesterday with loss of main and amen topmasts, fore top-gallant mast, and main yard. Sbe experienced the gale in lat. 52 N., kin. 19 W. The Devooport, arrived at Liverpool from Apalachicola, encountered the gale in lat. 51 N., lon. 22 W., which con tinued to 6 a.m. on the 12th, with a heavy rolling sea. TIN British Empire, also arrived at Liverpool from Bombay, did not experience the gale, being too far to the southward, bat had a very heavy sea from N N.W. for several days before making the land. The Admittance ' from Liverpool for Montreal and Quebec, has put into Londonderry, having caught the gale in lon. 12, where the vessel became leaky, and crew refused to proceed. PLAYING CARDS.—Ia the New Stamp Act (16 and 17 Viet., c. 50) which will take s Sect in a few days, there is a provision to prevent the evasion of duty on playing cards. It has been customary to cut the corners off cards, as described in the act, and to omit the ace of spades, on which the duty was impressed, selling the same as waste. It is deemed expedient to prevent such a practice, and it is enacted that no playing curds, except such as shall be bona fide spoiled and rendered unfit, shall be deemed to be waste cards; and no playing cards, except waste cards, shall be sold otherwise than in packs, each pack containing 52, including an ace of spades, duly stamped. For exposim: for sale cards, other than described, a penalty of WI. to be imposed, and 201. on a manufacturer selling suck cards. The cards may be seized by any officer of the Island Revenue. THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC JUNCTION RAILWAY. —Surveys for the great central railway route destined to unite the Atlantic and Pacific are proceeding. The sus• veyors have &ready reached the Great Colored., of the west, to which point the passage is found to be a c'n'i n•ious valley, goad for railway and for settlement. The peas at present selected is curiously ascertain. d to be the primeval buffalo route across these wild regions, this rou:e being adopted by the enterprising surveyors from a know• ledge of the fact that if they follow it they will have a lice direct "as the crow flies." the buffalo. it appears, 113%.ng an instinct in finding his way by the nearest, most direct. and richest route. The surveyors and engineers in this re• markahle exp:oration experience, it would appear, in the snowy Dud inhospitable regicns they have to traverse many perilous and imposing adventures totally unknown to European engineering. • ADVENITRES OF A LETTER.—So admirably are mitten conducted now-a-days under the direction of the authorities at St. Martin's-le-grand, that an Irish let'er addressed to Weybridge, and basing to be forwarded sat, sequently elsewhere to the party to whom it was addreo , d , %,,s compelled to make the following entraordmory tete' grination‘ :—Passing through London, it was sent from ttc central office to Weybridge, from Weybridge it was sent to Chertscy, from Chert-cy to Wu hridge, from Weyhodge to Chertsey, from Cbertsey to Weybridge, from bridge to LAnlon, and from London to its ultimate destination. ..... --- UNWHOLESOME FlSH.—Several persons were yes terday fined at the City Polite Court, for exposing un>ouad fish for sale. Mr. Maude intimated to Mr. Noton, went tendent of the markets, that great vigiLnce should be wed. not only iu the discovery of unsound food, particularly fi.b, but also in getting it out of the way as promptly as pess!ble, so es not to induce cholera. Mr. Noton assured him that attention was riaid to the matter, as a proof of which Is stated that in four days 25,100 lbs. of bad fish hid been seised.—Manchester Erantaner.