The Express. — London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

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T Altlllllo/t! a ram Omni* saa..olB .:Zet W — And bidaL6, • " : ? hair-pam LION WATII AT LONDON 111D01. raw Das—lisnag, 46.4.1166—.—Mareass. 416 Da Uoamilw-111mles, M. lis.---. alma" AC Um. LONDON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23. Orthe personal vigour, temperament, and views of the Duke of CAMBRICK:I4 his speech at Sheffiekl affords a very favourable illustration. It was frank, manly, practical and useful t offensive to no one, encouraging every one; free from all false sentiment or sham philanthropy, but equally free from viraq tire feelings or instigation to acts of mere vengeance or cruelty, laying down principles in a plain simple way, stimulating by its earnestness the country to wholesome action, and evincing a just estimate of the nation's power and strength. The occasion of this visit to Sheffield is an instruc tive one. It is the custom of the Aristocracy to speak as if the whole military spirit of the kingdom was to be found amongst them and on their estates. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE knows better ; his experi• ence teaches him that it is is large towns the army is most successfully recruited, and that the military ardour is to be quite as largely found in the lower and middle ma in the higher classes. Daring the Russian war one of our very best militia regiments was princi pally raised in this very Sheffield: at the elapse( that war the Sheffield workmen have subscribed to erect a monument to those of their townsmen who fell in it; and at the first burst of this Indian Mutiny, Sheffield has set about recruiting 600 men for the (WEE R'S service. Now Sheffield is exclusively a manufacturing town ; it is a town remarkable for the extreme liberality of its political opinions; it is a place where a few years ago Chartism very largely, it was thought dangerously, prevailed. Yet so emi nent and prominent is the military spirit of Shef. geld, and the patriotic ardour of its population, that here we have the Duke of CAMBRIDOR going down specially as Couwisnen-lx-Cater, in the midst of all the immure of business, to thank it, and to hold Sheffield up as an example to all parts of the king. dote, and to all degrees of society. Away, then, with the motion that we must keep the Army aristo cratic, because we depend on the aristocracy and their retainers for military spirit and military re sources! That is a delusion which the Sheffield grinders have corrected. Well, but if the Duke is thus out of a sense of propriety and justice impelled to thank the working men of Sheffield fur their military ardour and emirs tient, surely the Duke will be consistent, and mat deny to the contribution which Sheffield has mode in a greet emergency to the British Army that opportunity of rising in the army which both jerks and policy demand. It is one of the advantages Si the Duke's positi.n that it releases him ham may influences which is elevated personagesim mar mend of the army could not extricate themeadems from ; and the Duke's mind appears eminently mid to take simple and just views of things. He Is evidently willing to learn, and has courage to set ea his own convictions. What a reputation be might earn by popularising the British Army! The Duke of Ctunattice warns the country that it is not sufficient to keep up an army merely ade qoate to garrison and protect the empire in peace, but that we must also have on hand a reserve for and& n emergencies. No doubt we mast. It is not, however, the fault of the country that we have not had such a reserve. It is entirely the blame of that system of seemsy which penetrates into all oar affairs. Down to the present hour, no Minister has ever fully and frankly explained to Parliament and the public the principles no which the strength of the army ought to be regulated and axed. Government has been content to get r many men as it could out of the Home of Commons without giving it this pri mary information or explanation; and the House, being kept in ignorance, has very naturally been parsimonious in details. This parsimony has kept oar establishments down to an extent which has in its turn made sceresy alcaost a duty, for Ministers hare at various times been afraid to tell foreign nations in how defencelese a plight this empire was. Now, however, the time has come when the strength of the army must be settled on some de &lite and recognised principle, which we can safely proclaim to all the world. The last Session's Army Estimates were much the most satisfactory that hays been presented in our time. But looked at now, India did not receive in them that consideration which it required. The QUEEN . ; troops there suffer in time of peace the heavy depreciation of 12 per cent. per annum, and when the number to be maintained in India has been fixed, a lose going on at that heavy rate requires even in time of peace, we may at once see, an army of not fewer than 130,000 men of all arms, exclusive not only of the Q1'17.74 . 13 troops in India, but of the colonial corps, some 6,000 or 7,000 strong, the intro doetion of which into the number of men annually voted only confuses and misleads the House of Commons. Granting his proposition most freely to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, there is, however, a task on the other side of the question to which the country will expect him to give Lord l'Axwrite his resolute as sistance. It io, how to get the country more for its money out of its immense annual expenditure on its present small Army. The public is quite prepared to increase the avenge ordinary strength of the Army to a proper and sufficient point ; but it will not be content to go on increasing the charge of the Army on its present rate cost. How to decrease that rate is the real problem for the Duke of CAMBIUDOZ and iced PANDICIA to solve; for perseverance in the present rate of charge is—with the prospect of a considereile increase of our military strength—only an invitation to future financial embansiement and difficulty. WE do not know a mon useful field of domestic improvement than that which DIN ILLcno the other day in Haddingtonshire, and which ` air! NISBET HAMILTON—the Mr. Chintrrornea ed tad small loaf party—tried to close op. It is abetter provision for the maintenates of our Turnpike Itotai than tolls and statute labour. The old system of roads in England, and we pre game in Scotland too, was that of pariah or township highways, towards the maintenance of which the culliv►tors of the land contributed, according to their respective holdings, labour in kind, called statute labour and, in many cases, a rate. These roads were, and are, placed under the charge of an unpaid or eery small paid parish functionary called the Surveyor of Highways, and his ordinary task is to see that they are passable, and cost the farmers as little ma possible. In case, however, they become very bad, a Justice of the l'eace may present them to the Quarter Sessions, or any persona aggrieved may send a Bill of Indictment before the Quarter Sessions Grand Jury. To this Bill, when found, the parish generally pleads guilty, whereupon a fine is ordered to be imposed on it by the Quarter Sessions, which fine remains suspended and unlevied until the road is to some extent reps;-ed, and thereupon the Bill of Indictment is discharged. When we add that the counties, under the Act of lltaae VIII., maintain the bridges over their prin cipal rivers and streams, we have stated all that the general law of England has done to furnish this country with roads. Manifestly this system is most defective, and very cumbrous ; and the consequence is that in many parts of the country where we have embarrassed landlords and backward tenantry, the highways are in an exceedingly bad condition. Where, however, there is an improving proprietary and an enterprising tenantry, there the money value of good local roads is appreciated, the highways are well maintained, and the parish recognises the great truth that good roads really diminish instead of aug ment its expenditure. Bet there is in the system itself no adequate security to the general public for the due and proper maintenance of our highways ; there is a pretty general abet to escape from all ex pense on them ; and there is no easy and simple way of making property fulfil its duties. All the defects of the system are thorouglbly known, but to attempt to reform sad improve it has hitherto been a task from which Ilome and Under Secretaries have shrunk. The landed interest, as represented by the NII6IIET ILtaturotss, has been too strong for them. About a century and a half ago the squires of England began to find out that it was cot good to live sleet, to be cooped up in parochial circles, with eircumbendibus highways which led nowhere, and vigorously set to work to make through roads. These are our ten:pike-roads. Their plan was to obtain an Act of Parliament which created a temporary trust, consisting of the landowners and clergy interested, enabled the trust to raise money, to purchase land, to form the road, to collect tolls on it, and out of the tolls to discharge the borrowed capital and interest, to keep the road up, and to pay all expenses. For want of a better this was a very good expedient at the time. It fairly opened up the country, inter vetted it with admirable roads, promoted its deve lopment, prosperity, and intercourse, facilitated our postal transit, sod converted raad•making into a science. Although, therefore, it may sow have oatlived its time, we mull not be ungrateful to the turnpike road system; for we owe a debt of deep gratitude to it, and to the squires, too, who so generally availed themselves of it. It had, however, from the Ant great faults. It was begun and carried out capri ciously, without any enlarged plan or general views. Each county had too or three separate trusts, making separate, sometimes competing, roads, with separate establishments. There was little connexion or in ternments even between the trusts of continuing nab. As a rule, the roads were extravagantly con strained and expensively managed, and not a few were sere jobs, either of some large proprietor or of Nam malty lawyer, who acted as clerk to the trust. Had sorb county undertaken the tank for itself, and breeight all the turnpike roads which ran through it in a hetet-pot, they would have bequeathed to us a much easier task of reform and improvement than we have to deal with. lasienuch as turnpike-roads serve for highways or keel roads, they are entitled to statute labour eom the krmers, and this labour is either given in kind sr is commuted into a money payment. But in the min the principle of construction and of reparation Is that those who use turnpikes should pay for them. On a great many turnpikes the principle failed hem the first; for at the maximum rate of toll. and mum her of toll-ban, the receipts never furnished enough to keep down the interest on the debt, to maintain the read, and pay heavy establishment charges. Yet the turnpike itself might nevertheless be a meet useful and desirable one, both as a through and a local road. Clearly, then, however smart a principle it looked and read and sounded, it had from the first THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVFXING, OCTOBER 23, onions defect and elements of diaastcr in it. And since, by the general introduction of railways, turnpikes have, in a great measure, (rased to be tbiough lines of communication, the principle has very generally broken down. The trusts have be come insolvent, a large amount of property has been lost, Parliament has always been looking into the subject, and never dealing with it, in England at least. For Ireland, however, a general measure was passed, which abolished tolls, and threw the main tenance of the turnpike-roads on the localities through which they passed. In this position of things, Lord ELMO has taken up the question in Haddingtonsh;re. In that coonty, as in most parts of Britain, some thing moat be done, and as in Iladdingtonshire both proprietors and cultivators have, it seems, resolved to keep up the turnpikes in an efficient state, the I practical question is how to do it. By an extension of toll-bars, recommends the great Scotch road-maker, Hr. IPCounet.L. "\o," says Lord Etat°, with spirit and true wisdom; " let us do away with tolls " altogether, and, following the example long wet " in the Highlands, Argyleshire, Perthshire,Peebles, " and in Wale*, resort to rates." To this the Had , dingtonshire farmers., with rare and commendable intelligence, do not object, for Lord }icno seems to hays had their support in his proposition. One of them did, indeed, suggest that before calling on them for rates, the proprietary ought first to assume the liability and discharge of the borrowed capital still remaining unpaid. But this suggestion does not appear to hare received much encouragement, and as it has the great defect of playing into the enemy's hands, we tenet we shall hear no more of it. The subject must be dealt with as a whole. No distinction can be made between debt already in curred and current charge for maintenance. Lord ELCAO'S argument is simply this: Tolls are a barbarous obstruction and obstacle to commerce, intercourse, and circulation : whatever might be said in their favour once can no longer, under the altered state of things, be repeated: they are a costly and extravagant mode of raising the required funds, the cost of oollestion, &c., amounting to no less than 25 per cent. of the sum taken ; and now that tern pikes hare really become local roads, they ought to be locally maintained. To this forcible rearming Mr. NISBET HAMM- Totes oply replj sTsa se appeal to the 'elision, of the Maddingtonshire proprietors. The proposition, he said, mounted tea new barthen on land, and land woe already over-burthesed. This, with grqat submission to that large landed proprietor, is non sense and stupidity. Good road', if necessary or useful to a district, can never be a burthen on it. In the same sense a staircase might be said to be a burthen, and not a conveni ence, to a mansion. Such roads augment and do not diminish rent, because they render celtivation easier and markets more accessible. Statute labour and highway rates are not, then, taxation, but a charge on cultivation, which is repaid the cultivator, and which ultimately falls on the consumer. If it be true that the tolls now collected in Haddingtonshire be mainly paid by the inhabitants of that county, or if even only three-fourths of them be so contributed, then it is apparent as the very simplest sum in arithmetic that to substitute a rata for tolls would be a real economy to the county. But in the same spirit in which Mr. r.......-RIBTOPIIER resisted • free trade in grain, under which his rental has, we dare say, very largely increased, so Mr. Maar HAYILTON in his new sphere opposes a local measure of reform and economy in this question of road maintenance. It is pleasant, however, to observe that the influ ence of such men is rapidly declining. Lord Euno's common-sense view of the matter did not, indeed, prevail at the meeting of the Trusts of that shire, bat it was only defeated by a majority of owe. And thus encouraged, Lord EL MO will, it may be hoped, transfer the labour he inaugurated in Had dingtonshirc to the Imperial Parliament, where only the quistion can be satisfactorily mottled. Cbe Court. WIT:T . IOSO . R, Opr. The Right Hon. Sir Charles WOod r irriedat the Castle yesterday Mier:Loon on a visit. so 4 had tho honour of dining with her Majesty. The Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, and Colossi Ridley, commanding °Moir Sad battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, had also the honour of being invited. The blind of the Scots Fusilier Guards played duris: dinner. Her Majesty's priests bond afterwards perform* the following plimes Oreterw,.44 Pre sax Clercs" lierold. Beisetko from the works of Handel 312imble sad sir, " Karoo Spade Aube,. Musa, " W.gD... The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prime of Wales sad Prince Alfred, rode "t the ridinir-pools this forenoon. The Duchies of Kent visited her Idniany et the Cantle. His Excellency the Prussian Minieter and the Conte= Bernatorff have lea town en a risk to the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth. _ _ _ The Duke de Richelieu hal arrived at the St. Beep's Adel, from Perk. Th, Marquis and Marchioneu of Normanby have Wt the St. George's Hoisi., oa the raw .1 to Mance. The Mardimess of Waterford has left Claridge's Horst, far Curragttnore, irele d. The Marquis of Queenebiny is among tie recent deportorm from Long's Hotel. The F.arl of Howth has arrived at Cltridge's Hotel, horn Howth Cost* Dublin. The Earl and Countess of Darnley and family have arrived et Clstidge's Hotel, from Cobham Hill, Gravesend. Lord Itibblesdale has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The following have been among the company re cently enjoying the hospitality of the Earl of Eglinks at Renton Castle ..—Leed end Lady Colvlfe, Wr Frederick end Lady Elimaketh Aran:, Sir H. Campbell, Mr. and Co►entry end the Mime Coventry, Captain lobs Hamilton, the Mimeo Handle= (el Pinarove), Mr. W. Hamden, Mr. Gilmour, Mr. Stirling Cetaford, Colonel Chattel*, Kr. Leith Falconer, Mr. sad Mrs. Clrearile Vernon, Mr. Andrew Cookeroll end the Mimeo Cockerel!, Colonel Taylor, M.P., Mr. Thoropeou. Ur. HOOBIOII, Mr. Sinclatr, the Dean Tighe, and the Deem Wilson. The Earl of Yarborough, who is utisfactorily im proving is health, is about to take a voyage in a strain lo Gibraltar anA back. Prayers have been ordered in all the churches et Spain fur the cab deliverance of the Queen. General Le& has availed himself of the passport fiir France *sod at his disposal by the Buspreor in the man- an ■beady dercrilxd. The portend, etc; a kid .ty in Paris, proceeded to his chateau of 7.1 reheat, Dear Medd; in Brittany, where he Intends to occupy himself eselvively with the education of bie three children. The Bishop of Strasburg has issued a circular re tommeadieg all corms in Isis diocese to barn protestant bibles, and all books and tracts whatsoever published by bible societies which say he in ibis hands. M. Thins wu seen at Leon, a few days ago, sur vey* the mood at which the battle of the Bth and 9th of Much, 1815, was fought, ander the walls of that tows. The histatio of '• TM Console's sad the Empire" wee after wards getag to Witt the battle-801d of Creoune. A new journal, called the etreae le, which 14 advoelieed for nest week, Aaree with a (*einem entitled 0 Nana Sahib, or the Strangler of dwindles." _ _ A letter from Smyrna, in the Moniteur de la Rate, ap :—" A Frisch eabjeat has been carried di and held be mecca by some kelps& of Scala Nova and Samoa, It is thought that them men have taken refuge in the latter island and are now concealed there. The commander of the French stearuer Solon hie been applied to by the cousto, and is about to start for Samos, and the Turlnah authorities of Smyrna lave also meat ea Ottoman weenier with a detachment of pollee to Nue the shore, and thew prevent the brigands from 'gawks by Ma." thetoaatiationwtone of the new Nottinghamshire Tows red County Lana* Hospital, on Mapperley-111111, le but to he hild on Friday next, by his Grace the Duke of Newesstiy lad lieutenant of the county. ST. °LAVA'S, HART-STREET. The Rev. I). Laing, who has been presented to the relent living of St. Wave's, Hart-street, !umbels thirty four years in the ministry. During twelve dare years hi was chaplain to the Royal Iduldleer: Hospital. La the ye 1846 he was offered a district in the parish of St. Pawns by the Rev. Canon Dale, ma the rabdieinion of that parish. "Tea new district, eitaated at Camderi-town, had than a popalatkm of 9,000 souls, without either church, reboots, or parsonage. Communing his work in a store-room belonging to the Lou don and North Western R•ilway Company, Mr. Laing gathered s eseereestion about him, sud has eines, daring dm ten mid a ball years of his ineambauty, procured the erection ot a church capable of containing 1,600 persons, of excellent national schools, of a library and reading room, • ' ' ' " •ad of • ragged school, the doily •ttend•na at which aeere(;e• 140. 11•ay other excellent peroclaial institution• have been founded by the rev. gentlemen. The population under his charge luring increased in 1045 to newly 17,000 rola, Mr. Laleg procured • fresh subdivision of the dis trict and the erection of • temporary iron church in the new cure. The committee engaged in building the Bret church and schools having involved themselves in a debt of 4,0001., Mr. Laing became penman, responsible for the money, and has during several years cheerfully sarriiioed more than his whole profogional income in payment, connected with that liability. Hislaboure therefore have been not ealy utterly unremunerated but attended • :th heavy pecuniary sacrifices. Mr. Laing has been for fourteen yeah honorary secretary to the °overawes' Benevolent ',untidier' and Horne,of both of which he may be considered the practical founder. When some yews ago the friends of those institutions perientsd Mr. end Mee. Laing with the own of 800/. as a teatroonv to their eminent sorrier in that good came, a memorial clock wee purchased with • portion of the money, and the rest was devoted by the rev. gentleman and his wife to the foundation of en annuity for an aged governor. It may be added that the Bishop of London was perroallT unacquainted with Mr. Laing till gime time after hia lordattiVe -him to the re, but hie attention was soon called to him ea one of the meet serous end hard working clergyman In the diocese. Mr. Laing in IM2 refused • listing of 1,0001. a year rather the quit the dither of London, to which be b tenth attached. It is in contemplation to divide the peoceede of Bt. °lris with the Impoverished adjacent parish of St. Akintwato. FROM PARIS. (PION 091 OWN PARIS, TRUILIIDAT Primate. A telegraphic despatch, d a ted Colmar, this morn ing, brings the result of the judgment in the case of Count Migeon. The court has declared itself with out jurisdiction to decide on the charge of fraud on electoral matters. It pronounces M. Migeon not guilty on the charge of wearing foreign decorations without authority, but Ands him guilty of having illegally worn the Cross of the Legion of Honour, and for this offence sentences him to one month's imprisonment. It is to be presumed, although the despatch does not say so, that the court must have found attenuating circumstances in his favour, be oause otherwise the minimum sentence, according to Article 2d9 of the penal code, must have been six months' imprisonment. The . . "attenuating circumstances," in the mind of the 1 , mart, no doubt, were, that the count bad really been nominated a Chevalier of the Legion by Louis Phi lippe, although his patent had never been made out, and that the charge had been brought forward dis honestly, in aid of a political persecution. The judg ment, however, is very unfortunate for M. Migeon. lie strenuously denied the fact of his having worn a cross, and M. Jules Favre, who evidently believed his word, said that he would be the first to denounce as disgraceful in the last degree the unauthorised assumption of such an honourable emblem. My own impression, on reading the evidence, was that M. Migeon really did not wear the order of the Legion, and that the witnesses who swore that they saw it on his breast mistook the cross of the Roman Order of St. Banyan for it. The ribbon of that order is red with a black border, and the border being hidden by the rosette of a commander, might very easily be mistaken. Besides, as M. Jules Favre observed, his client must have been only fit fur a madhouse if he had worn the cross amidst such a company of officials as was assembled at the inauguration of the statue of General Rapp. The sentence being for a misdemeanour only, and note crime, does not prerent M. Migeon from taking his scat in the house. M. Himbert, M. Migeon's secretary, who was included in the indictment, is altogether acquitted. Al was expected, the Divan of Wallachia, follow. ing the example of that of Moldavia, has voted for the union of the Principalities. A telegraphic de spatch, dated from Bucharest, at 3h. 40m. yesterday afternoon (21st), states that the Divan ad Aoc had voted unanimously : Ist. The maintenance and guarantee of the Itoumain Autonomy ti 2nd. The' union of Wallachia and Moldavia ; 3rd. A foreign prince; and 4th. A constitutional representative government with a single chamber, and a very ex tended suffrage. The latter article was not coin ' prised in the resolution voted by the Moldavian Divan. Notwithstanding the decided expression of ' the wishes of the Romaine themselves, it is certain that the powers hostile to the union, viz. Turkey, • Austria, and England, are at this moment more de cided and more united than ever in their determine ' lion to prevent it from taking plate. Apprehensions are entertained of floods on the banks of the Loire and its feeders; and although the latest published despatches from the prefects state that the waters, after having risen to a somewhat alarming extent, are subsiding, it has been thought • prudent, as a matter of precaution, to despatch troops 1 to the theatre of danger. A battalioa of the 50th Regiment left Ivry Barracks, for Tours,by special train, last night, and the 2nd battalion followed this morning. Two companies of engineers, from . Arras, passed through Paris to-day, for the same • destination. The Bourse opened heavily in consequence of the discouraging advice. from New York, but Consols coming a shade firmer, the market improved a little in the afternoon. The Bente closed at yesterday's price—Gofr. 70c. for account, and at Car. 75c. with a rime of 10a for cash. Mobilier rose 7fr. ftoc. The railway market was undecided. Orleans rote 10fr., and Lyons Orr. Northern and Eastern were stationary. Southern fell 15fr., and Western 2fr.soc. The enormous fall in tho Beziers line yesterday brought forward buyers, and prices recovered to the extent of 20fr. After Bourse hours a peat deal of business was done in the Coulisse, at quotations considerably higher than those in the official list. A report wra circulated that Delhi had been taken. It was also said that Consols had left off at 89, and that the bullion in the Bank of France, which was re duced the other day to 190 millions, was now aug mented to 206. On the strength of the favourable . _ _ news the Rente rose at one time to 671.., and left off at &gr. 87 le. Marshal Randon, the GOVOI left Paris to-day for his post. Preparatory to the grand hunt yesterday in the forest of Compiegne, the Carrefour du Paits-du-Roi, where the meet took place, was surrounded at noon by a considerable crowd of persona. The grand huntsmen were in full costume, and a number of officers in uniform were also present. At one o'clock the Emperor and Empresoin hunting costume, arrived in a char-j-kne accompanied by sonic of the guests at the palace. Tho Emperor slighted and of Algiers, entered into . conversation with some officers of the foot ehasseurs who bad come from the camp of Chilona. The weather, which had been rather showery in the morning, cleared up and became very favourable for the sport. Their Majesties mounted their horses, and in a very short time a stag was found, which was ran into in less than half an hour, the pace haring been a vet) , furious one. A pack of magnificent English staghounds were used on the mmasion. In the evening the euree took place as usual by torch-light in the grand courtyard of the palace. SPAIN. The following list of a ministry was in circulation at Madrid when the last mail left : Admiral Armero, President of the Council, and MM. Moo, Martinez de la Rosa, Serrano, Bastille., Castro, Caved*, Rios Roam, Bermudez de Castro, Zalaverrio, Ballesteros, Moyers*, Cams, and Fernandez Negrele. It was said that General Roe de Olano would occupy an important military post. The Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived. It was said that the new cabinet had resolved to dis play indulgence towards the press, and not to seize journals except for attacks on the subjects of religion or morality, or for exciting disturbances, or for in sulting public functionaries; it was even supposed that it intended to modify the law on the press in a liberal spirit. The newspapers were so delighted at this news that the offices of the Iberia, the Occident., the Estado, the Diteueion, and of almost all the other political journals were illuminated; bat at the request of the civil governor, who thought the demonstration objectionable, the illumications were extinguished. On the formation of the ministry, the ambassadors at London and Pariswere to be changed, Permission had been sent by telegraph to Count de . Reuss (Prim) and M. Chien y Rent* to return to SPain. LTOHS TO STRIA, THROUGH THE ARCHIPELAGO. (IT AN LIITUMIAL mouse.) LYONS, Ocrosza, HST. An old commi&royageur once gave me a piece of advice, which I commend to the notice of all com pilers of guide books to the South of France. When ever you go to Lyons, said he, do not forget to take an umbrella, a Macintosh, and a pair of goloshes; if you remain there two days, both of them probably, one certainly, will be wet. I have always profited by the warning, finding his appreciation of Lyons weather wonderfully correct, and would suggest an additional "hint" to travellers who may propose exploring Lyons, namely, a pair of boots with v ery thick soles. So long as they confine their peregrina tions to the lower part of the town the waterproof part of the equipment will suffice but if they in- tend to disit the Croix Rouse and the heights of Fourvieres, they will do well not to neglect my warning. For there are two modes of climbing these elevated localities; one hymens of the numerous flights of stone steps, varying in number from one to three hundred—the despair of short-winded gen tlemen and stout females ; the other by the steep and tortuous streets, or rather paths, ono and all paved, where there is any paving, with those dreadfully bard and narrow-edged stones which the French paviours exercise so perverse an ingenuity in collect ing and fixing with the most uncomfortable aide up wards, to the destruction of the toes of enterprising tourists. Properly equipped, however, the traveller will not repent his exploration. The Croix Rousse is the weavers'quartcr at Lyons, built on a steep hill at the northern end of the city ; high above the smoke and dirt, enabling the work man to execute the most delicate fabrics, and won derfully different from the squalid, fetid streets of Bethnal-green. In every window of the lofty stone houses the framework of the looms is to be seen, and their clicketty click fall, on the car incessantly. The workmen's quarter of Lyons is meliorated from the St. Giles' of them ty, the suburb of La Guillotiere, where the police are always full of occupation, and which is situated on the opposite side of the Rhone, having the new suburb of Les Brotteaux, the resi dence of the rich manufacturers, between it and the bridge leading to the Croix Rousse. In fact nothing gives a better idea of the general form of Lyons than a tongue, not of land, but of an ox, as it comes to table. The elevated root of it will represent the Croix Rouse, and supposing the spectator perched on the savoury eminence, and to be looking towards the point, he will have on hie left the Rhone, and on his right the Saone, meeting at the tip of the tenger, and flowing on as one river, the Rhone, to the Medi terranean. And es this tongue lies nearly north and south, the root being the northern end, he will have to the south-west the heights of Fourvieres on the other side of the Saone, and behind him the Ceite d'Or of Lyons, covered with villas and gardens to its very summit. On his left baud is the suburb of Les Brotteanx, and then La Guillotiere, both built in a low plain, deeply flooded at the time of great inen dation/. In front of him, on the flat surface of the tongue, lies the commercial quarter of the city, with the Hotel de Ville, the' great Opera-house, the Museum, &c. Further on, and reaching to the tip of the tongue, lies the quarter of Perrache—the Faubourg St. Germain of Lyons, and the locality of the Great Central Rail way Station, whence the trains start in every direc tion. Across the Saone, at the foot of the hill of Fourvieres, lies old Lyons, with the cathedral, very dirty, very ill paved, and almost abandoned to carters, carriers, and all appertaining thereunto ; but at the same time the head-quarters of all sculptors, masons, and plaster figure makers. The Ile Bathe lies on the Saone, behind the Croix Rouse, at the northern extremity of the city, and is a singular locality, covered chiefly with the re mains of a mediteval fortress, which has long ago been converted into dwelling-houses, reminding one of the old Italian towns. The long sloping roofs covered with yellowish thick tiles ; little terraces with trellises over them; a strange-looking square turret or two, and the tower of a Roman church, give it, especially in the sunshine, a peculiarly southern aspect. On the level portion of it some excessively Cockneyfled villas have been erected, with such inscriptions as " Mon Plaisir," " Mon Joujon," over the doorways. But on a fine day the Belvedere on the summit of Fourvieres ia the great attraction, and the panorama is worth the labour of climbing so high and by such fatiguisg roads. In fact, since every one now-a-days does his Mont Blanc, more or less, I should recom mend a week's practice in Lyons as a capital pre paration, which leaves nothing to be desired in the way of steep ascents, slippery and pointed stones, and gutters, self-made, in every direction, to represent the mountain rivulets. From the top of Fourvieres the whole of Lyons is seen, as on a map, and the course of the Rhone may be traced for a considerable distance along the plain, bounded by the Alps, Mont Blanc himself being often visible towards sunset. Here stood Roman Lyons, the convent of Notre Dame de Fourvieres occupy ing now the site of the forum, and the ruins of the Palace of the Citiars serving as the foundation of a mail-house. The old Romans, perched on tl“ti height, must have held the terrible inundations of the rivers at their feet, if they took place in those days, very cheaply. They are, however, becoming now more frequent, and it slightly damaged the value of house property here in my eyes, when I found that a mark, inirmting the level to which the Saone rose a few years since, was eight feet four inches above the pavement. Not very long ago there was hardly a straight street of any extent in Lyons, and they were, without exception almost, narrow as well as tortuous. But Lyons, like Paris, is in course of rebuilding. Its handsome squares have been finished, and a splendid street, the Rite Imperiele, with facades surpassing those of the houses in the Rue de Rivoli, stretches from the great theatre to wards Perrache. The eastern facade et the Hotel de Ville, a capital specimen of the Lou's XIV. style of architecture, is being completed, and the building generally restored ; but Lyons will probably long remain a curious specimen of splendour and squalor, elegance and vile taste. The Lyon nese seem to bare remained perfectly contented with the admirable situation of their city, and there is probably nothing in France more striking than the entry into Lyons by the railway from Paris, passing along the side of the Cdte d'Or for miles, covered with splendid country houses and handsome gardens, indicating unmistakeably the vicinity of a very wealthy city. Hotels and omnibuses are clearly looked upon here as modern inventions, and are quite in their infancy. The latter are in the hands of a Lyons company, and are a sort of packing-cases on wheels, for the most part furnished with springs which do not even pretend to be elastic ; but what they lack in eoinfort is fully made up in noise, for the rattle they make is deafening to the passengers. Some little progress has been made during the last year in the matter of hotels, the Hetet de Lyon having been erected, containing a coffee-room which does not foster suicidal intentions, the rule being in other hotels that the coffee-room shall look on to the tiles or the court-yard, and that it shall be carefully deprived of any other accessory that might tempt a traveller to sit in it. Nowhere was a tourist who does not need, or cannot afford, a sitting-room, -room, worry off than in Lyons. The hotel-keepers made it point of conscience to offer him every inducement to shorten his stay there. No danger of missing his train in the morning could exist, for the single bed rooms are ingeniously contrived to be within reach of all the noises of all the house, either opening upon corridors looking on to the court-yard, noisy all night with arrivals and departures, or separated from each other by plink partitions, which allowed you to know the exact point your neighbour had reached in his morning or evening toilet, or to benefit by his sleep-dispelling talents if he happened to snore. It might be supposed that at the centre of the silk manufacture of France, the public picture gallery would be rich in works of art ; but the collection is of the poorest, showing that the Lyonnese take an extremely practical view of the tine arts. The arcade which runs round the interior court of the Museum is rich in Roman remains, and while the traveller is spelling out the inscription on a Roman altar, tomb stone, or military column, he may also learn the last price of stocks and shares, for the rendezvous of the dealers in those articles is there. Not a soul seems to care for the antiques, and there is at all times plenty of room in the Picture Gallery, for which rea son I presume the Emperor has selected it as a re ceptacle for two pictures, one worse than the other, and which he bu presented to the city of Lyons either am a record of his profound ignorance of art, or as a sly hint that, for their indifference to it, the Lyonnese merit nothing better. Three fine mosaic pavements and some excellent bronzes, all of Roman work, are, however, worth examining, as are also the few specimens of medireval pottery and balmy ware; but, on the whole, the collection is a disgrace to Lyons. I was not surprised to find trade here very de pressed, or that a general anxietyand gloom existed among the merchants and manufacturers. The ar rival of the American mail, bringing no prospect of a speedy termination of the monetary difficulties in the United States, leaves the Lyons houses without hope of finding, as usual, large customers in that quarter. Vut numbers of looms are still, and the warehouses overstocked with goods destined for the American market, and prepared at a time when the raw material was dear. The manufacturers are of course unwilling to submit to the fall which must necessarily . ensue, and buyers do not come forward at present prices, so that it is feared that a very serious blow may be given to the prosperity of Lyons should the general monetary pressure increase, aid should the dealers in woven goods seek elsewhere for articles of lower price and different character to replace those which Lyons has furnished hitherto. DENMARK. (ram ova owe CONIMPONTIIIFT,) COPENHAGEN, Ocr. 16. The King has not yet returned from his journey through Jutland and Schleswig, and this excursion has thus been longer than was expected. It was sup posed that Flerusbarg would bare been the term of the journey; but it now appears that the King had determined likewise to Nan the south-western part of the duchy of Schleswig, the so-called Eider stedt, with the towns of Twining and (larding. It was somewhat doubtful what reception his Majesty would meet with in this district, which during tho war of 1848 distinguished itself by the fanaticism with which it adopted the insurrectionary cause, and where those of the inhabitants whose sympathies are with Germany ende.svour to carry it with hand over that part of the population which Danish. From the accounts hitherto received re garding this part of the King's journe7, it seems, however, that he has been received in this portion of his realm with the greatest affection and cordiality. A correspondent of the BerlingsAe Tidende describes in the following words the King's reception in Toning : " Tonning is swarming to-day with county people, in their characteristic national costume. The last time the King was here few of the inhabitants were seen in the streets, and a strange spirit of me lancholy seemed to brood over the place. To-day it is different. The Danish flag is waving on the greater number of houses, and the King has been received with enthusiastic cheers. The people ac knowledge that they have been in the wrong; and the reception afforded him to-day is the best satisfac tion that could be given the King. In truth, the mild and friendly manner in which his Majesty has greeted the people here cannot but make the inhabitants of Tanning feel that he has forgotten bygones, and that his love, even for those among his subjects who in a moment of aberration rose up against him is greater than that of most princes for their people?' The journey from Tonnuig to Harding presented an equally unexpected spectacle. The inhabitants of all the villages along the King's passage —men, women, and children—assembled outside their houses, and cheered and waved their hats when We Majesty drove past. In Harding, as in Tinning, all the houses were decorated with the Danish flag, the very flag which in 1848 was treated with so much ignominy, and was superseded by the German tri color. Tee whole population was out of doors, and the inhabitants of the surrounding country also thronged the streets. It is neither unimportant nor uninteresting to observe these facts, for they are strongly indicative of a change in the sentiments of the German population in Schleswig. The question relative to the constitution for the whole monarchy, to which I alluded in my last, and which was to be pin by Mr. Ploug to the ministry, ' has not yet been broached in the FeMething (second chamber). It seems almost as if all parties were equally averse to starting a subject which can only lead to irritating debates and not to any Rractioal results. Upon the whole, the Holstein affairs seem in abeyance at this moment, and it is likely that for I the present no decisive steps will be taken on either aide, the more so as the King of Prune; who is un doubtedly one of the most important personages con , cerned in the matter, is in so precarious a state of health. The accounts of his Prussian Majesty's state aro read here with deep interest, for he is generally , regarded here, I know not whether justly or tin , justly, as personally hostile to Denmark and to , Danish institutions, and certainly, the relations be tween him and us have undergone a great change since 1846, when Frederick William IV. paid a visit to King Christian VIII., in Copenhagen, and was received with great distinction not only by the Danish ' king but also by the Danish people, who then re garded him as a friend and ally. Three years later • his troops, without any provocation on the side of • Denmark, overran a great portion of the terri tones of the Danish state, and from that • time to this, his mediation and interference • have ever exercised a paralysing influence on the • development of our political organisation. A change , of government in Prussia would therefore cause I general satisfaction here, for it is hoped that a new government would lend to a new system ; and should . even the new system be decidedly hostile to Den , mark, I believe that such open hostility would be much preferred to the intrig uing an d irritating • policy which Prussia has assumed towards Denmark I since 1848. The debates in the Diet have hitherto not been of ; much interest to foreigners. The ministry have sub ; mined the bill for the abolition of guilds and for the I introduction of freedom of trade and industry, bat, • in order not to frighten the adherents of the old I state of things, the government proposes that the new law shall not come into force before 1862. The first reading of the bill in the Folkething proved , that, upon the whole, opinion is in its favour, and it . is to be hoped that the debates upon it will be brought to a close during the present session. PRESENTATION SWORD TOR TIM DUKE OP CAM BIIIDGE.—Mr. C. F. Hancock, of Bruton-street, has just completed the sword which the City Corporation is about to present to the Duke of Cambridge. In respect of workman ship and material it is one of the fittest weapons ever pre sented to a soldier. It le • state sword of strict regulation pattern. The kilt is or teary, carved. The transverse part le of gold, ornamented with wreathe of laurel and acorns, the worm of diamonds, the leaves of emeralds. In the centre, a sword and marshal's baton an crowed ou a red enamel ground. On each side are oriental cabochon emeralds, with which diamonds are alternated. The mounting of the entire upper portion of the sword is very finely executed. The blade,which is elaborately damaskeened, beam the following inscription :—" The freedom of the City (together with this sword) was presented to hi. Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the British Array, by tho Corporation of London, in testimony of their high net - mat ion of hie dieting-Welted character rod service.. A .D. 1857." On the other Fide, together with other damaekeening, the City arms aro engraved. Thu scabbard, of gold 2 ie covered with earktimentr, both of eel and material. hoer the top la a panel containing the crown end the prince's cipher. a ' reversed, in diamonds, on a red enamel ground, a combination which has a rich effect. In a panel below the City arms ore wrought in clones, on a whits enamel ground. The lower part of the ecabbard is mused obliquely with labels, on which ore inscribed the words ‘• Cnmem," "Alma," Inkermann." " Sebutopol," and beneath these to seen ohs wrathful head of the British lion. The presentation is appointed to take place at Guildhall on the 4th of November. A RUN or MISFORTUNE.—The old adage, " Mitt fortune aldose comes sine.," woe fully realised within the last few days. Mr. J. Codling, farmer, of Lioeiugton. hod the misfortune to lose his pocket-book in returning from Caistor fair on Saturday lost. It contained notes to the vales of 401. and • cheque value 20W. On Monday last one of his servants was at plough with two valuable horses; they took fright at something, and the boy being unable to control them they ran away, and, most extraordinary, both over a hedge into the road, with the plough after them i . ea g of the horses, which was a Way cor-014 colt, of the Yalu of from 301. to 40f., id, and the othcr falling over it, broke its back end died in a few minutes. This was a great favourite with Mr. Odling, and wee highly , rallied. The young one was much Nand by Um fall, end will most likely be of little worth. frau the ask received on its knees, !co.—Mon./ea Zwerry.