The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

rihr To COI:RESPONDENTS. Beenr.4 .• . e..atalalad tbe P Mi• • VtL.IM'A 0 1• ;4 I 1 , C17 Tlit*l.l dad Yndey kle -. ALOt I: n ••• avende•l 'or " The Lapeer," Landun Lei ciao P-.^r. r—t e, 10, Louterle-street, by fwu titlq.k vs .1.: day ut pub.:anon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 11." DAT 1116 Wm Alterman, l a. •nu T.o4.)uww—Nlarninl. 111L411a, Aftwasor, lli. 2lw. LO DOS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. A LETTER, addressed to US by the Chaplain of Winth.,ter Gaol, appears in another part of this day's impression. Both in this c ommuuication, and in his circular epistle to the Visiting Justices, the Rev. Gm:tic:li "ins to be in a sad quoutlitry. He apologises in the st abject manner for doing what is right. The printed circular to the Jas:icts, which he ve:vs was meant to be private and confidential, he adirms was addressed to them "in compliance with the Act of I'arliameut, which require. that the Chap cis s'etlt Lompewitieute front time 6. !inn , ahy wAirh NW . / ham cusne to his knowledje." So far Irci,i answering this description, the document in question is a laboured special pleading in his own defer. ee for having failed to comply with the injune tiers of the Act. In the opening paragraph he states that the letter is "in reply to the remark of the Citairrizn, 'that the Chaplain was not fit for his offl:e, if be had not brought the instrument of torture for the prisoners , ILder their notice.'" He admits that he had not done this—he admits that ho had also connived at t! :e employment of the prisoners, contrary to law, in the private and domestic work of the Governor—that he continued this connivance for seventeen years. Ile assigns as a reason for this prolonged neglect of duty his desire to act in con- 1 formity with " Christian feelings and evangelical principles:" but its clear from his letter that the rerl actuating motive was fear of the Governor and Matron, against whom ho did not venture to lift up his voice, until, taunted by the Justices for ex premiers which had incautiously dropped from him, he was compelled, as it were, to stand at bay. And in like manner the letter which we publish to-day is a sheer effusion of fright at what the justices may do to him. He still thinks the instru ment of coercion an instrument of torture, and un likely to be successful in the treatment of criminals : and yet, because ho is informed that tho instrument has been in the prison under the authority of the ma gi -hates, he thinks ho was mistaken in his view of it. In other words, it is not for a poor Chaplain to ex press dissent from the dicta of the worshipful quorum. All this paltering and shunting goes tar, no doubt, to weaken the credibility of the Chaplain. Ho is evidently one of those men who lack courage when brow-beaten by authority to act or speak upon his own feelings and convictions. But though his words may be discredited, his actions cannot. His trepi dation and panic reveal the system by which the authorities of Winchester Gaol prevent the secrets of their prison-house from transpiring. If the lain has been taught to stand thus in awe of Gover nor, Matron, and the "tremendous Midasaes " of the visiting coir.mittee, how may not the prisoners have been drilled ? The allegations of the Chaplain, it ought to be kept in mind, are entirely different from those made by the witness examined at the inquest on the pri soner JONES who died in the Queen's Bench Prison. The charges by the Chaplain are cumulative with, not corroborative of, the charges by POULTON. The latter spoke to the insufficient dietary and other hardships of the debtors, the former to cruelties inflicted on the convicts, and to illegal misapplica tion of their labour by the Governor. POULTON spoke of an isolated abuse, affecting one class of prisoners; but if the statements both of POULTON and the Chaplain can be substantiated, there has been a general, long-continued, pervading system of oppression and malversation in Winchester Gaol. We say, " if the statements conk substantiated ;" for, as we remarked iu cur comments on the evi dence delivered to the Southwark Inquest, Pout- TON'S charges having been made in the absence of the accused, can only be received as cx parte ; and, as we have remarked above, the timid shuttling of the Chaplain detracts from the weight of his evidence. Yet, with regard to both, there are corroborative facts which render their testimony, if not suflu•ient to ensure conviction, sufficient to establish the neces sity of inquiry, The evidence of POULTON appears to have been to a certain extent corroborated by the condition of the prisoner JONES (deceased), when forwarded from Winchester Gaol to the Queen's Bench Prison. As to the instrument used for coercing the prisoners in Winchester Gaol, the description given of it by the Chaplain, and his account of its effects upon those to whom it is applied, are not called in question. The defence set up for the Governor and Matron is not that the instrument and its effects have been inseen- ItAtely described, but that its use was sanctioned by the Justices. Well, what is the nature of the in strument, the use of which is thus sanctioned These are the Chaplain's words : The apparatus is a frame of iron and leather to fasten Yount!! the body of the prisoner, with iron sockets at tie hips, into which are inserted iron uprights, or crutches, to be find higher or lower, at the pleasure of the officer. The tops of the crutches era formed to take the arm-pits ; and when used, the arms of the prisoner are raised to a certain height, at the pleasure of the officer, and the uprights fastened to that position. When so fastened, the arms are forced down over the iron crutches, and strapped to the waist. Auy surgeon, or any ens having a knowledge of mechanics, must perceive, at once, that the operation of this apparatus would be to wrench or dislocate entirely, or partially the shoulder.joint. lathe instance in which the chap lain saw it, it was used on a female prisoner, who had used im proper language. She was a darkened cell, to which the chaplain was attracted by her streams of pain, and she was Toth:lon the floor, with her arms black and entirely cold, owing to the circulation being stopped. No contradiction of this statement has been at tempted. The apparatus is apparently one of these dia bolical instruments of coercive torture formerly used in mad-houses, from all of which they have been banished, though retained by the gentle Justices of Hampshire to torment the prisoners in their gaol. The Justices d 3 not question the accuracy of the description given of this instrument, or of tho effects attributed to its use ; they expect the country to be satisfied with their declaration that they have seen it and approve of its employment. For their retaining in office a Governor who, though repeatedly warned, hat con tinued to employ prisoners for his own private emo. lament or advantage, it does not appear that they have condescended to offer either explanation or apology. And as to the customary diet and treat ment of the debtors, what could the Government In spector, who is said to have been sent to Winchester. learn of these matters by a forenoon's lounge through the gaol, engaged, as he seems to have been, all the time in an agrees!ile chat with the Chairman of the Visiting Committee? Indeed this case, like that of Birmingham, goes to slow that the present system of gaol inspection is a mere hollow Sham—paid for by the taxes, but utterly worthless to the nation. Matters cannot be allowed to pass off in this easy, pick tooth fashion. Suspicions, and more than sus picions, are accumulating and darkening round the Gaol of Winchester. A meeting to contradict certain charges leads only to the accidental advancement of hers. Justices and officials grow heated, and tell L THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1853. LATEST FROM ABROAD. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, OCT. 25. The aspect of this Bourse is still very unfavoura ble, the funds continuing to decline, and the ex change on London to rise. Five per Cent. Metal- Brines, 00. Exchange ou London, 11.14. Bank Shares, 1,273. Letters from Bucharest state that the becediction of the colours, usual is the Russian army before a battle, took place on the 10th. The hospitals aro full of sick soldiers. The Sara Hospital contains 300. In Bucharest, besides the military barracks, 23 houses of Boyars have been converted into infirma i ries. Forty wagvne with sick arrived from the camp on the 13th. Most of the houses in Slativa have been made hospitals. Bucharest, Oct. 15.—The Turks have already I occupied an island of the Danube, near Widdin. By a private telegraphic despatch from Trieste, intelligence has been received from Alexandria to the lath. The prohibition of the export of corn from Egypt has been postponed until after 40,000 ardebs of wheat should have been sent away. (The ardeb is equal to 2 hectolitres 76 litres). FRANCE. (ny ELECTRIC TELZGRATIT) PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING, HALF PAST 9. The Moniteur announces that the two cabinets have despatched orders to their respective Hems to pass the Dardanelles, and that by this time they will have anchored in the Sea of Ilarmora. The Moniteur also contains an article on the Eastern question, which it declares has entered a new phase. In the fifth paragraph the Em peror, sensible, it says, that peace is the lasting interest of the people, has given his solemn assur ance to ce-operate cordially for the preservation of the peace which Europe has hitherto enjoyed; but, it adds, that peace would be wanting in an essential principle if it ceased to be based on the balance of power necessary to maintain the rights and secure the interests of all. The last paragraph runs thus:— So many circumstances united in favour of a cause which is that of all Europe, allow us to regard the ultimate issue with a feeling of security and con fidence." PARIS. IVEDNLSDAT EVENING. A terrible accident occurred this morning on the Versailles railway (right bank). In consequence of a rail breaking, the seven o'clock up-train h•om Ver sailles ran oft' the rails between Courbevoie an I Asnieres. The train ran with great ciolencc against the iron columns of a bridge. Tvi oof the carriages were dashed to pieces. There are various reports as to the number of the passengers injured. Some speak of three mortally, and nine very dun gerously wounded. But I am assured that ' accident was still more serious, and that several of the passengers are already dead. Among the suf ferers was an age d 4k change, who had a leg broken. I have also to mention another accident on the ill fated Orleana line, of a character similar to the last. Yesterday, while a passenger train was waiting at the Etampes station, a luggage train ran into it with tremendous force, dashing several carriages to atoms. Fortunately, all the passengers were ac the moment in the refreshment-rooms, and it is said uo one was hurt. Tho Eurotas, which left Constantinople on October 15th, has arrived at Marseilles. _ . _ Piince Napoleon hoe left Paris this evening for Stuttgard. The Bourse opened well in consequence of a tele graphic despatch reporting Consols at 12 o'clock at to -,. This rise was attributed to the circumstance of parliamet being prorogued, and also to Lord Palmer ston's absence from the last Cabinet Council, a fact from which some speculators inferred that the Aber deen party bad prevailed. The Threes opened at 72.60, but subsequently declined to 72.10 in con , sequence of a further decline in Metallics being tele graphed from Vienna. Later in the day, however, it was said, although the fact was much doubted by many people, that the Consols had reached 93. So great a rise was thought to indicate some favourable ems of a decisive character, and the Threes rose to 72.75, closing at 72.65, being a rise of 25c. from yes terday. The railways all left off at higher pi ices. The Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Pub lic Works, has addressed a circular to the government engineers, in which he recommends them in their operations to pay the greatest possible respect to private property—not taking possession of any with out having obtained all the necessary authorisations and observed all due formalities—and carefully re fraining from committing any . needless injury on property which they may require to occupy tempo rarily. The circular recommends also that the engineers of companies that have obtained the con cession of public works and of railways shall act in the same way. ' The name of the general alluded to by theltullelin de Paris as having been assassinated at Chaions our Marne is Count de Neuilly. Tho following account of tho affair is given by the Concorde of Rheims : It was reported at Rheims yesteriLy morniag th at ef enerat Count de Ncuilly, Commandant of tee Department of the Marne, had been assassinated by an officer of the garrison of Chs.lons, but this crime appeared to us so monstrous that out of respect for the epaulette we abstained from all refer ence to it in our yesterday's number, notwithstanding the positive affirmations which had reached us. Unfor tunately doubt is now no longer possible, and although the military character cannot be damaged by the crime of an individual hitherto honest and brave, it is with the deepest grief that we announce that General de Neuilly has indeed been &geminated by M. de Laporte, a captain on the staff, and one of the general's aide-de-camps. For some time past rumours were in circal stion respecting the conduct of the Countess de Neuilly, who was represented as keeping up criminal relations with Captain de Laporte, and frequently repairing to the private rooms of that officer. These rumours, it must be declared, at first met with gene ral disbelief, particularly as they had commenced a little after the death of the only child of the countess, a charm ing young woman, whose lose had plunged the countess and the general into the deepest affliction. At the same 1 time persona were unwilling to suppose that an officer to whom the general had acted in the most paternal manner could act with each base ingratitude. However, the cap tain and tho countess acted with so little reserve, that their intrigue was soon the public talk of the town, so that some of the general's friends determined to put a stop to it, by mentioning the matter to 'he general. Perhaps, it would have bees better to have appealed to Captain de Laporte himself, but the gentlemen who had undertaken to enlighten the general as to what was going on adopted the course of denouncing the intrigue to the husband. Accordingly, on Sunday morning, just as the general was going out shooting, a secret intimation reached him to the effect that the Countesede Neuilly had just before left the hotel, and that she was at that moment to be found at the lodging of Captain de Laporte, on the first floor of a house in the Rue St. Nicalse. The general proceeded at once to the house mentioned, and knocked loudly at the door of Captain de Laporte's rooms. Re heard inside the words : "It is he ! It is he! we are lost! " pronounced by his wife in an accent of the greatest alarm. " Open ! open at once !" cried the general, 'or I will burst open the door ! " At the same moment Captain de Laporte appeared on the threshold with a pistol in each hand, and barring the general's passage, threatened to fire at him if he attempted to advance a single step. A rapid and terrible scene of altercation is said to have fol lowed, and then both pistols were fired nearly at the Isame moment. The general received both balls in the centre of the breast, and fell heavily, rolling from the top of the staircase to the outside door, bathed in his blood. The report of the pistols attracted some persons to the spot, and they found the unfortunate count at his last gasp. " The coward ! the wretch ! ho has assassinated me !" he exclaimed, and then expired. According to other accounts Captain Laporte attempted to justify himself; but the general, with out listening to him, struck the young officer vio lently on the head with a cane. Captain Laporte was immediately arrested, and is now in the Chalons 'prison. tales of each other which nobody had suspected be- I fore. Panic-stricken officials betray, by their eager haste to soften or explain away their incautious worth., the rigid discipline by which secretly is cuforced within the prison walls. It is apparent that the Winchester magnates fear to have the light of day admitted to their prison. But after the revelations that have I taken place at Birmingham and Leicester such con cealment will not be endured. A scrutiny as public. as unsparing, as that which visited Birmingham and Leicester impends over Winohester. And the nation will not tolerate any misjudging lenity to the Hampshire magnates in the event of their being proved to have offended. Neither, it may be added, , will the nation patiently endure the extension of immunity from:punishment which it seems intended to confer upon the convicted offenders of Birming ham. The abuses in prison discipline, which appear to have spread so widely, must not bo merely inquired into—they must be punished and reformed- Lord PALNEKSTON, so vigorous in other things, will surely see to this. WE still get only " rumours " in place of " facts frum Russia. its savage re glens yield only such in formation as itedespotic ruler chooses to have known- We are now told that the CZAR will give way in the Principalities rather than tight there. To this every one is ready to respond : "Of course he will—if obliged to do so." If the invader finds himself likely to be beaten out—if he foresees in store the punishment ho has so richly merited—he may be glad enough to sneak back from the point he went np to as a bully. It is stated also—and this rumour comes recommended by its probability, and its coin cidence with certain statistical relations which have been made public for some time—that the Russian forces at present occupying the Principalities are in a condition which ought to make the Autocrat regret that he bad ever sent them there. It is stated that they do not amount to anything like the vast number that has before been alleged, and the forces' which do exist are being decimated by disease. The sanitary condition of the army is moat unsatisfactory. A large proportion are in the hospitals, and supplies are deficient. This condition of things affords matter for grave consideration. It is well known that famine, pestilence, and starvation, were the most potent allies of the Turks in their last contest with Russia, and that they would have been sufficient to turn the scale of victory, had it not been for the operation of other causes. Bat the Turks are in a far better condition to make use of such allies now than they were at the time spoken of. They had then nothing but the mere skeleton of an incipient force. The national troops had been slaughtered, and those who were to supply their place hated the system under which they were about to be trained, and of which they had had scarcely any experience. All these condi tions are changed. The artillery, by the CZ.lled own confession, is amongst the best in Europe. The in fantry and cavalry have been subjected to many years' training. The national spirit is aroused. The troops are burning for action. The general is impatient at delay. All these are most important elements in the decision of the most important contest which has agitated Europe since the last grand settlement of its destiny at Waterloo. If we are to credit these reports of the weakened condition of the Itussian forces, both u to number and efficiency,we find great hope for good results should OMER PACRA cross the Danube. The justice of the cause, the better condition of the troop., their numerical superiority, and their enthusiasm can scarcely fail of giving vic tory to the side which is in the right. Such a result would be invaluable. A decisive battle in the Prin cipalities, ending in favour of the Turks, might be a turning point in the history of the world. Scarcely any one of the victories chronicled by Professor CREASY as the decisive battles of the world would surpass it in importance,—in the magnitude of its re sults. Dr. ARNOLD used to express in vivid terms his delight at the discomfiture and slaughter by ARMINJUS of the Roman Legions under VARI:S. The Tories, both of the ancient and the modern world, looked upon that defeat of the Romans as a rude stop put to the progress of civilisation which was then following the course of the Roman standard. Dr. ARNOLD saw clearly enough that the march of Roman civilisation meant nothing more than the extension of Roman centralisation. Tho Romans crushed out all nationality, brought all active life in the subject nations within the attraction of one grand system of centralisation, and then boasted that they had done something towards the education of the world. Their defeat by AIMINIUS stopped their progress. It left, in spite of their partial success afterwards, the northern nations in peace, to culti vate their strength and to prepare themselves for the time when they should pour down upon the effete Roman world, and inoculate Europe with the idea of individual freedom. A defeat of the Russians by OMER PACIIA would have a simi lar effect. It would put off for an indefinite period the progress of Russia, which at the present moment threatens the civilised world with greater danger than those with which the nations of the old world were menaced by the Romans. With a few excep tions the whole of the continent of Europe is subject to despotic rule. It is the avowed object of the Cr.ut to extend despotism. He believes it his minion. Luckily at the present moment his opponents, the Turks, give strong grounds for trusting that the Autocrat may be interrupted in his course. Should hostilities begin, a decisive victory obtained by OYES, PACIIA la then to be looked forward to with hope as one of the events which may take rank in history with the great battle which left the Greeks in peace to educate themselves, and the future world—or that obtained by CONSTANTINE, which left the government of the world in the hands of Christians ; or that gained by QUILLS MARTEL, which prevented the Saracens from overrunning Europe; or that between the English and Spanish fleets, which left England to be the nursing mother of freedom and civilisation ; or in fact, any other which has taken place at any crisis in history and has influenced the destiny of nations for centuries. The Principalities may thus become as memorable in history as any other locality in which the battle of humanity has been decided. TTIE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The Lords of the Ad miralty have signified to Captain Inglefield, of the Ill.:mil:, their "great satisfaction" at his proceedings. "My lords highly approve of the firmnes., energy, and good judgment with which you have carried out their instructions, a d of all the steps you have taken in the execution of their orders." Their lordships also signify " the deep regret with which my lords bare heard of the untimely death of an officer so math esteemed by them as Lieut. Bellot, of the French navy." FIZZ TN= FREETIOLD LAND SOCIETT.—Last 'Teals( S 11•111118111 I meeting of the members and supporters of tale radish ess bald in the large room of the Whittington Clul iz t inthe mielselmost, Strand, Mr. Wyld in the chair. In the meeting, the chairman said the society had adopted designation of "Free Trade," not with any view te the pasmotioa of the walled political dogma in its general Missitation, but only with a view to its pro. motion in matter' of land, so that the middle and working dams in this eaustry, by the possession of a right to the asa, might be the better able to evince their attachment to its govessmowt sod sesstitution. Col. Dickson, Mr. Grattan, an other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and in the course of the pesseedings, Mr. Martineau stated that the subscribed capital of the society since August last had amounted to 40,0001., and that two estates had been pur chased (for which a ballot to rights of choice took place at the close of the meeting), one at Anerley, near the Crystal Palace, and another near Canterbury. These would be divided into lota of a quarter of an acre, and allotted to the holders of forty shares. TURKEY AND GREECE. BRUSSELS, WEDNE;DAT EVENING. The following telegraphic despatch has just reached this city : "TRIESTE, Watixasnay. "The Co=startinople post of the 1 ith has just arrived. The reply of Prince Gortschakoff to the summons of Omer Focht', to evacuate the Principali ties, has just reached the I'orte. It is asserted that General Prin has accepted a command in the Turkish army. " A decree prohibiting the exportation of corn has been published in Constantinople. "The intelligence hom Smyrna is to the 19th. It announces the arrest of the (heck, Janni Kalergi. The motive is not indicated. Costa bad been em barked for Boston, United States. The news from Athens of the 21st, announces the resignation of the Ministers of War and Finance. The free imports ' tion of corn had been decreed. The Greek govern ment propose to conclude a loan of five millions of drachms. I. A skirmish has already taken place between Omer Pacha's troops and the Russians." You will observe that the above despatch makes no mention of the presence, in the port of Constanti nople, of the combined fleet. The Turkish Minister of Finance had resigned and been replaced by Moussa-Safetti Pacha, a maa of great influence. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The latest dates from Constantinople are of the 19th instant, the Lloyd steamer having left on that day, and arrived at Trieste on the 2.5 th. These advice, make no mention of positive hostilities, al though the reply of Prince Gortsthakoff to Omer Paella's summons was known. The fleets had entered the Dardanelles, but appeared in no burry to advance, as they had nut reached the Sea of Marmora when the Lloyd steamer came through the Straits. It has already been stated that the vessels are not to go to Con stantinople, but to remain at the Island of Mar more, about 00 geographical miles from the Turkish capital. Many of the German papers which arrived yes terday terminate their Eastern intelligence by ex pressing a belief that " notwithstanding the ex tremely threatening aspect of affairs, a peaceful so- lution of the difficulty will yet be discovered." Such assurances, put forward by unofficial journals, and unaccompanied by a statement of the slightest fact to; which hope can attach, very nearly approach to impertinence. The idea of an active Prussian mediation is still further discredited, by the latest advicee from Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. It is again stated, but with no apparent increase of authority, that the French government, dissatisfied with the services of its representative at Constanti nople, is about to recall M. De la Cour. A niplomatist of military rank is speculatively designated as his successor. M. Xavier Raymond, who transmits communica tions from Constantinople to the Journal des Debals, notices the delay of the fleets, and says that the Turks find the manlier in which the presence of the vessels is offered not to bo sufficiently intelligible (n'est pus asse: tiettement ebyinie), and accord ingly the ministers of the Sultan have re plied to the ambassadors that if it is the security of the Sultan and Constantinople they are anxious about, they (the ministers) can answer for that ; they arc very sensible of the good inten tions of the powers, and are ready to give proof of their disposition, by permitting the fleets to pass the Dardanelles, and anchor at Gallipoli, at the entrance of the Sea of Marniora, but just as Turkey has de clared war, the fleets can only be useful at Constanti nople as the forces of active allies; their presence there in any other quality would be an avowal of weakness, which would wrong Turkey in the eyes of all Europe. In another part of his letter the same gentleman says that he has not met one person who has seen ' both armies who does not consider that the first battle fought must result favourably to the Turks. Elsewhere he refers to the alleged danger of the Christians in Turkey, and says, " Nothing can be more false, I assure you. Everybody here is of one opinion : and Francs, English, Turks, Italians, Germans, all agree that the Christians never were more secure or more respected." A correspondent of the Vienna Wanderer writes from Bucharest, on the 12th inst., that the steam ' boat communication of the Lower Danube is sus- pended, and that the express boat Albert was not allowed to touch at Rustschuk, nor so much as to de liver letters. We have published later intelligence from Vienna, according to which the mails for Con stantinople have for some days been sent overland from Belgrade. It was with a fall knowledge of the state of things existing on the Bulgarian shore of the Danube at the latter end of last week, that the Im perial Danubian Navigation Company advertised that its boats would steam as far as Rustschuk this week with merchandise. The Wanderer's correspondent i goes on to say that Prince Stirbey is still at Bucha rest, but the rumour runs that he will before long take his departure. The Minister of the Interior has officially warned all persons holding forage and other stores not to demand too much for them; as, should they do so, the Russians would take the com modities by requisition, and in return give not ready money but bills for so much of the price as they pleased. The Russians are constructing winter quarters in the ground (Lorded), consisting of square excavations covered over with small twigs and I thatch, and having two openings above, one to ad mit light and let out the smoke, and the other to serve as an entrance. In the ancient times the Wal lachian peasants lived in such holes, bat not for a century past. The anstittaionnel states that the Ottoman go vernment had " recognised " Schamyl and the other Caucasian chiefs. What is more to the point, Tur key is sending there arms and ammunition. The Constdationnel does not state by what inlet the chiefs are to receive these munitions. The election of the new Patriarch of Constantinople I took place on the 6th of October. Anthimos was chosen, at the recommendation of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and 4e immediately proceeded with great pomp to the ierial palace, in order to pay his respectful homage to the Sultan. The Sultan re ceived him with much cordiality, and gave him an assurance that the government would always main tain the liberties and franchises accorded to the Christian populations; but, he added, he ex pected that the newly-elected prelate would on his part make every effort to respond to the magnanimous sentiments of his Sovereign. M. Anthimos afterwards proceeded on horseback to the Sublime Porte, where he received the investiture from Reschid Puha. M. Anthimos (bays the cor respondent of a German paper) alone bad courage enough to accept the candidateship and election ; and the Ottoman Porte immediately confirmed it, because it believed him to be opposed to ltussia.l But another danger may result from this election to the Porte. M. Anthimos is a zealous Christian, and bas large views respecting the regeneration of the Eastern church and of the Greek nation ; and ho possesses sufficient energy to execute the designs which may grow out of those views. The Ottoman Porte contents itself, under the existing circum stances, with putting at the head of the Greek church a man whose energy gives him a guarantee that a union will take place between the Russian and Oriental churches. THE FLEET. (Pr ELICTRIC TELEGRAPII.) PLYMOUTH, O. 2G. Admiral Berkeley arrived here to-day ; it is said that three war steamers are to be commissioned to- morrow. The African mail steamer sailed yesterday. VOt court. wixoson, OCT. 26. The royal dinner party yesterday included the King of the Be!roans,the Duchess "f Brabant. the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Brabant, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchies of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Beleian Minister, the Austrian Alinister and Countess Conoreile„ the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Bight Ilan. W. E. Gladstone, the Count Gustave de Lat.noy, Cclonel do Maerkerke, Baron Prisse, and Monsieur Ricken. The Band 'of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended in the Castle and played during dinner. Her Msjesty's private band was in attendance afterwards and performed the following selection : Overture, "Marco Spola" Aulrer. Yontasea, Flute—Mr. Itich.2rdsen lttchordenn. Selection, " Le Prophete " lehrticer. Airs Ade Pellet, " Geave " The Queen and the Duchess of Brabant drove out this morning in a pony phaeton; Colonel Hon. elferles Grey ' attended on horseback. Prince Albert, with the Sing of the Belgians, the Duke of Brabant, and the Count of Flanders, went out khooticg, attended by Lord (umoye, Colonel Wylde, Count do Lannuy, and Colonel de Moerkerke. The Prince of Wales and Prioco Alfred went out en horseback, attended by Mr. Gibbs. The Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princes.: Char lotte of Belgium, took a drive yesterday afternoon in au open carriage. The Belgian Princes and the Duchess of Brabant returnee! from London at seven o'clock last evening. The Countess of Desert has succeeded Viscountess Can ning u lady in weitirx to her Majesty. Lord Camoys and Lieut.-General Sir F. Stavin have re lieved Lord de Tablet' and Lieut.. Colonel Hon. It. Boyle as lord and groom in waiting. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince William of Hesse Philipsthal ar2 expected to-day on a visit to the Queen.' The Hight Hon. W. E. Gladstone left the Castle this forenoon for London. Sir Charles liotham had au interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official residence in Downing strect.—Captain Elliot had also an interview with the Noble Earl. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to town yes terday morning from Windsor Castle. Sir NVin. and Lady Molesworth arrived last evening at their residence in Eaton-place from Deelmin. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauri tius, and St. Helena. _ Despatches were sent yesterday to the Goreraor of Gibraltar. PROPOSED STATUE OF PRINCE ALBERT IN HIDE•PARK. TO THIS BUITUIL OF THE Exrreass. SIR,—I have recently had the honour to suggest • national tribute of admiration and respect to his Royal Ilighness Prince Albert as the originator of the Great Ex hibition of 1851. It is proposed to erect, on some part of the site of the Great Exhibition, a monument of which the principal figure should be that of his royal highness, as a memorial illustrative of that great event, and at the same time as an evidence of the gratitude of the British nation for the eminent services rendered upon that occasion by the consort of our beloved Queen to the industrial and commercial in terests of the community. The project has hitherto met with unanimous approba tion. The support I have already received appears to render success certain ; but my great anxiety is that the movement should be of a general and popular character. May I, therefore, take the liberty of asking you to inform at your earliest convenience whether you concur in the movement, and if so, to what extent I may count on your support ? I take the liberty of annexing a few of the names of noblemen and gentlemen from whom I have received pro mise of support.—l am yours faithfully, Mansion-House, Oct. 15. THOMAS. CHALLIS. The Lord Mayor, 501.; Duke of Devonshire, 50/. ; Duke of Bedford, 501. ; Marquis of Breadalbane, 50/. ; Earl of Ellesmere, 501. ; Earl Spencer, 501. ; 'Aid John Russell, 501 ; Lord Overstone, 50/. ; Right Hon. Edward Strait, 501.; J. K. Brunel, Esq., 501.; S. M. Peto, Esq., 501.; Clowns and Sons, 601. ; Marquis of Westminster, 501. ; S. C. Hall, Esq., 601.; Duke of Norfolk, 1001.; Lord Mather ston, 201. ; Sir Strafford Northcote, Bart., 201. ; Sir John Boileau, Bart., 25/. ; Sir:Joseph Paxton, 251. ; Sir William Cubits, 20/. ; Spicer, Brothers. 251.; Samuel Morley, Esq., 251.; C. Wentworth Dilke, Esq., 201. ; R. W. Kennard, Esq., 101.; T. F. Gibson, 101.; T. flanker, M.P., 101.; Don M. De 'nazi, 101.: Sir C. Lye'', 101.; S. Scott Russell, Esq., 10/. ; Sir C. Eastlake, P.R.A., 10/. ; F. Fuller, Esq.,' 101. ; Sir R. Murchison, 101. t C. R. Cockerel', R.A. 101. ; Professor Faraday, 101.; G. H. Barly, R.A., 10/. ; Sir John Lubbock, 10/. ; Professor Lindley, 101. 10s. ; Lord Wodebouse, 101. ; Sir IL De la Beche, 101. ; Proprietors of " the Athenaeum," 101. 10s. ; Professor Graham, 101. ; Professor Hopkins, 101. ; Sir A. Y. Spearman, Bart., 101. ; Titus Salt, Esq., 25/. ; Hibbert Platt, and Co. 25/. ; Dan. Mediae, ft.A., 51. ; G. T. Kemp, Esq., 61. ; Lord Mayor of York, 51. ; W. Dyne, R.A., ,51. ; Digby Wyatt, Esq., 51. ; F. Bennock, Esq. 5/. ; R. Redgrave, R.A., 51. ; Pro fessor Edward Forbes, 51. ; Professor Owen, 51. ; E. Smed ley, Esq., 31. 3s. : J. and R. White (Cowes), 10/. ; Thomas Stirling, 5/.; l'etcr Graham, Esq., .20/. ; S. Mordan and Co., 201. I , TORTURE" IN WINCHESTER GAOL. A LETTER FROM THE CHAPLAIN. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPIIE,S. Sut,—The letter I addressed to the Visiting Jus tices of the New Prison at Winchester was not intended kr the publick, unless further circumstances had rendered A necessary to issue it as a general circular ; therefore I sent copies to the Visiting Justices only at first in compliance with the act of Parliament which requires that the " Chaplain shall communicate from time to time any abuse which may hare come to his knowledge." An inquiry has been made to day by the Visiting Justices and I am informed that the apparatus had been in th e prison under the authority of the Magistrates and was similar to one used in the hospital for securing patients, and that if I had heard explanations which in heat at an expression dropped at the meeting I had declined to do, I I might have heard sufficient to convince me that I was mistaken in my view of the instrument. Therefore however dreadful the effect may have appeared to me since the use and disposal of the apparatus have been with due sanction I beg to state that on this head no blame is attached by me to the governor and matron of the prison for the use of it although I differ as to such means being likely to be successful in the treatment of criminals I beg you to insert this letter in your columns and to ex press my regret that the matter should have been made so publick before due explanation had been given 1 beg to remain your obedient Servant, Oct. 2.i. It. J. W. Chaplain of the Prison. CO.VGRESS OF MECHANICS 121:STITT: T!O \'S. -*-- TAMWORTII, Nt'ut)Nr. , n tv. - - The annual congress of the Midland Association of Institutions was held in this town yesterda7. In the morning, a meeting for business matters hid: plu s at the Town-ball, Attended by about fifty dilegates crow Birmingham, Derby, Wolverhampton, &afford, We-limp, Grantham, Lutterworth, Lanceln, Leicester, Chesterfield, Nottio;hem, and other plre , x in the Midland Coun ties. The Earl of YARBOROUGH preshicd at the com mencement of the pruceedings, but was soon aftirward a succeeded by Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the President-elect for the ensuing year. Suggestions of a practical character were discussed, seine of which it was thought expedient to adopt in the ceneuct of the TithlJA institutions, with tile view to increase their efficiency and W. fulersr, and a eery general coreurref.ce of opinion we, expressed s.n ti, Ki-j,ct of the advantages which had lxca found to result frcm this annual congress. In the afternoon, the delegates visited Drayton Manor, oil S r linbert reei's invitation, the celebritel galiery, eon. tamping portraits of Lis illubtriens father's distinguished tontemporarier, being opened to public view. A wnversa:ione place at the Town-hall in tl.e mt. mug—Sir ll , tbirt Peel in the chair. Amongst the e.:37 any were the Earl of Yarhorough, Sir 11. Wilmot, Mr. Adler ley, M.P., Mr. M. Manes, M.P., Mr. Earn, M.P., Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., Recorder of Dirmh.gharn Mr. W. S. Dugdole, of Merivale.ll7ll; Mr. C. 11. Brace. bridge, of Atherstone-hall ; the Mayors of Birinicgt..ms, Derby, Tamworth, &c. BARNSLEY 31EC71.4NICS' 121-STITUTION. --*-- The re-opening of the lecture hull of this institu tion P.ae just talo u place. sad on 'lll. .day evening a pub. he mect.ug toth. place in it ; w..en Air. Conoax, presided. . _ _ Mr. liauvrv, the president, intrcauced Mr. Cuban to the niceting amidst loud applause. Mr. Liaise, the post master, gm a short outline of tha pet history of the institution, including its d. cry and re cent resamitation. Mr. JACS.ON, surgeon, stated that the number of meat hers was recently 250, but within the last week the number had been mercesed to 2eo. An analysis of the members had shown that the institution was more a mechanics than they had expected. Mr. COBDEN, after some familiar remarks upon the in etitution, proceeded to ask 14 LLt were these inttitutiens established fur ? Not as a System a eeucatiou, but to hue plenmet the %alit of educatiun, and we want the edufetion still which we wanted when these institutions were lountied. 1 know this is mode a vexed queetion, and to mime extent very question. I never regarded. at es a party question. 1 e.un't cure through what it comes—give me voluntary education or state education, but education I want. (Loud applause.) 1 can't accept statistics to prove the number of people who attend scheels—to prove that the people ere. educated, because 1 can't shut any eyes to wLat is evident to my senses, Beet the people are not educated —that they are nee being educated. (Applause.) I was talking only yesterday with a merchant in Manches ter, who told me that he had attended at the swearing in of the militia in one of the largest manufacturing towns in Legiand, aid that not one-nalf of Ow:e swum in could read, and not one-third could sign their name. Olean beer.) Now, without wishing to utter any fanancal opinion with regard to the peace question, 1 must say, with ail sincerity, I think it weuld have been much eeeter to EiN c hohded these young men over to the echo( la:aster 'either than the drill.bergeant—(" hear, hear," and laugh tei)—for I think the flinty of this country would be more promoted by teaching them toread and write than by teaching them to face about right rightly. (Laughter.) I wee talking this subject over to an old friend of mite , at Preeton, audits said, " I attended the coroner one day last week at an hi quest. There were thirteen jurymen—fire sieved their lames, and eight nitric their mark." Can I shut my eyes w what is goieg on around us ? I cannot, and theiefore say we arc not an educated people ; and I say, it is our duty—and our safety calls upon us to see that the people are educated ; and 1 know of no place more fitting to die cuss this subject than in such a meeting ea this, because I tike it tor granted you arc ail interested in it; you all ad mit the deti.ieney of juvenile instruction, or you would not have attended to the defective adult education. We are not au educated people, and I have no hmeation in asserting that in point of school learning the mass of the English people are the least instructed of any protestant community in the world. (Shame.) 1 say that deliberately. I remember quite well at the time of the II uugarian emi gration lute, this country after the revolution, a very distin guished minister or religious teacher of Hungary was talk ing to me on the subject of our education, and 1 teed him a large portion of our people could neither read nor write. Ile could not believe it, sand said—" If it is true a large proportion of your people can neither read nor write, how do you maintain your constitutional franchises and your poetical liberties .+ Why, it is evident to me that your institutions are rather a-head of your people, and that this self-government is only a habit with you." It is a habit, and we will cling to it and hold it, but I want a st.!er foundation. I want to have our self govern ment a habit of appreciation—something our people win be proud of, and not simply a habit—and there is uo security unless it is based upon a wider intelligence of the people than we meet with at the present moment. It meets us at every turn—you can't do any thing in tweed reform but you are met with the question of education. Take the question of sanitary reform. el , by do people live in bad cellars, sur rounded by filth and disease ? You may say it is their poverty; but their poverty comes u much from their ignorance ILI their vices, and their vices often spring hone their ignorance. (Applause.) The great MLA of the people don't know what the sanitary laws are ; they don't know that ventilation is good for health ; they don't know that the miasma of unseavenged and unsewered streets, er impure alleys, produces cholera and disease. If they did know these ' things, people would take care they inhabited better houses; and if people were only more careful in their habits than they are, and husbanded their means, the might get into better houses. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) And when I hear persons advocate temperance—which 1, as one of the most temperate men in the world, always like to hear advocated-1 say the beet way is to afford them some other occupation or recreation than that which is de rived only through their senses; and the best way is to give them education. If the working man is deprived of these recreations, which consist of the intellectual and moral en joyments that education and geed traininggive, he naturally halls into the excitement of sensual indulgence, because ex citement all human beings must have. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, when you wish to make them more temperate and secure moral and sanitary and social improvements amongst the working c:asses, education, depend upon it, must be at the bottom of it all. Gentlemen, 1 sec in dif ferent parts of the country a great social movement going oa between differtut classes of the community. Parr in stacce, in the town of kreeton you have 20,000 to 30,e00 persons out of work, and there is in that place not a chim ney but is cold and cheerless—neither smoke no; steam cheering your eyes. Look at the destitution and misery caused by laying a town in this state Per a month or six weeks. Wiry is this? 1 answer, it springs from ignorance. (Hear, hear.) Not ignorance coeflued to one party in the dispute. (Applause.) It is ignorance on both sides, and deplorable is is result. (Renewed applause.) But do yon suppose that when the world becomes more enlightened that you will have such a scene as this, eA a whole com munity stopping its labours for a mouth or six weeks, and creating miseries, immorality, and destitution that may not be removed for five or six years to come? (Hear, bear.) When masters and men understand the principles upon which the rate of wages and profits depend, they will settle their matters and arrange their differences in a less eungling way than that which now brings so much misery upon all parties to the quarrel. (Applause.) Even now, however, we see great progress in this rescue I remember the time when the cessation of labour by 25,000 persons would have led to riot and disturbance and the call ing out of the military. This is not to be seen now. (lieu, hear.) We see passive resistance and firmness to an extent which, if they had policy and propriety at their back, would be highly desirable and most commendable. (Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, we shall probably live to see the time when another step will be taken onward—you will live to see the time when men will settle these matters, not by resorting to blind passion, by vituperation and counter-vituperation— when the question of wages will be left to the master and man to arrange according to their own interest—when the whale question of wages, and the rate of wages, will be settled just as quietly as you now vee the price of any article fixed in the public market. (Hear, hear.) They did not find that people who went to market with cattle, potatoes, or anything else, struck against the buyers of those cattle or potatoes. They did not find that the seller of the cattle struck against the seller of the potatoes, and that the buyers and the eaters of the potatoes stood quietly by and nerved whilst the potatoes rotted. They did not find men doing such things ; but they found that it was by the higgling of the market that they tranquilly decided its price; they thus fixed the mice of the day, and the whole thing was quletiy settled without that irritation and waste of property, o without that misery and buffering, which I consider most ! painful, and as a sign of the intelligences of the day, the most discreditable—that struggle between muster and work people which is passing in our time. (Applause.) Now, mark me, I am not saying one word of the merits of either side 1 upon this question. Both emetics think themselves right, a and both are no doubt right in attempting to get the best , price they can, the one for his labour end the other for his capital ; but if there were more intelligence upon this ques tion—if the laws were better understood which decide finally and inexorably the relative value of labour—as well as everything else, these matters would be settled walnut that hideous amount of suffering which I deplore to KO accompanying these strikes and troubles in the manufac turing districts. (Applause.) And when I say, gentlemen, that intelligence will put an end to these things, I am only saying that will be done hero which has already been done in America. (Hear, hear.) You cannot point to an instance , in America—where people have more education than they ' have here—of the total cessation from labour of a whole commuuity, of an entire town given over as a prey to desti • tution. 1 ou cannot point out such an instance in Ame. rice ; neither will you see it England when that intelli gence and enlightenment which these institutions are in tended to promote shall be spread throughout our country. Well, gentlemen, this brings me Hack again to the point diet . we want schools—schools to teach people these principles— GERMANY. It is stated that arrangements have been made for the reception of Prince Napoleon, son of Jerome, at the court of his uncle, the King of Wurtemberg, with the honours due to his rank. A letter from Vienna says : The increase in the price of provisions has awakened the solicitude of ' the government, and it is about to diminish tho cost of the conveyance of corn. It will begin by lower ing the tariff on the state railways. The bakers of Vienna are so much embarrassed by the want of money, that they wish to borrow 400,000 florins from the municipal council. BELGIUM. THE CASE OF THE IRISH GIRLS NEAR LOUVAIN. BRUSSELS, TUESDAY. Lord Howard de Walden, the British ambassador at the Belgian Court, having ascertained that fifteen Irish girls were still employed in the flax spinning. mill at Florival, the property of the Hanoverian consul in this city, and having read in the report of a recent public meeting at Belfast that those girls were desirous of returning home, on the ground of ill treatment and broach of contract, sent down yes terday to the mill a Belgian barrister, M. de Liege, in order to ascertain the truth of those assertions and charges. On examination those fifteen girls declared unanimously that the charges brought against their employer and his agent, Mr. Steele, were totally un founded ; that they had no complaint whatever to make ; that they were perfectly satisfied and happy, and that they wore not desirous of returning to their native country. Towards the end of this week an official investigation will be instituted by the Belgian government. The charges against M. Oldenhove, the owner of the mill, and his afent, were first made in a letter of the British consul at Antwerp to Lord Clarendon. SPAIN. -• • - The Spanish naval division at Cadiz,consisting of tl.e steam-frigate Francisco de Assis, of 501) horse-power and mouuuting 16 guns; the corvettes Villa de Bil boa, of 30 guns; Fermlana, of 30 ; and Colon, of 16 ; the brig Velador, of 12 ; and the transport Muriga 'ante. is to procted to Carthagena, s% here Brigadier Rubalcava, its commander, is to receive his last in structions. • It is believed that it will be ordered to the East, but nothing very definite has transpired respecting its destination. ITALY. - 41. - Advices from Turin state that the Neapolitan go vernment will lose no time in repairing the serious error it committed in rekcting the civilities of the Duke do Lespano and forbidding him to laud at Naples. It is stated that the French Minister at the court of the Two tiieilies, to whom instructions have been sent to demand his passports unless full apology be made, will in all probability receive such apolo- getic explanations and excuses ss will tatisfy the wounded dignity of tilt:. French government.