The Express. — London, England, 1859-11-16 00:00:00

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WIIETNEI this country is likely to be involved i• war with France is no doubt at any time • serious gaieties, bat it is one which we do not see that, ender exietiag circumstances, the English press is at all called to discuss, mach lies to decide. Ib deity Is to weigh the words and criticise the acts of foreign Governments, not to assume the existence of secret motives at war with these, and to circulate sespiems founded on the alwaniptioe. The tone and temper of a nation are too ragas to be seized and analysed. They are continually changing. and the very discussion to which we estemit there eels directly on their state. We are st prensat not only at peace, bat in cleat alliance with Freasiased we are not I aware that the Imperial Goverament has recently violated in any way the friendly Medicos existing between the two countries. If It don so, let the • adverse set he freely widened end boldly sea. demned. This is the straightforward sad besets. able course which England i surely staling enough and proud enough to panne, and which the English press, ea the representative of the nation, le bound to maintain. But to mks together trivial lemony *eidetic* from the most doubtful and Assam mourns, and make it the basis of • public Whit meat against the French nation sad the French Government, is neither discreet nor dignified. Evidence of this kind, derived from muse-room talk, quarter-deck yarns, casual travelling gossip, and reckless, party organs, may be obtsised at any time in more or km abundance by those who indas triemly seek it. The political complications of tae moment help to give such gossip jut now an ac- cidental importance which it does not ordinarily passer. Europe is in an uneasy state, and we are at variance with the Government of Franca as an important point of international policy. The situation affords staple scope for the malign activity of gossip mongers, canardmanuferturers, and the testy traf fickers in exclusive information obtained flea the best soarer. Clubs, coteries, and private Us-Ps/dor great and small, abound with war rumour. mad spe culations. Elderly dowagers, male sad fens* we tilled with anxiety and alarm. In aware@ the alarm is genuine. la others it is the result of • love doers excitement—the weak craving ice strong senestioes. In others again, the war talk springs from • morbid paw+c• foe distinctioe, a fumy sense of eelf-importanci. Small men like to talk big on a great subject, and indite themselves in imagine bo• to the dimensional of their theme. From Ibis% and • multitude of akar like causes, it is not sur prising that, in the preen' state of strain, incidents of ordinary occurrence should be invested by small Lade with • inyeteriocis significance, or even con vened into pregnant symptoms of an impending raptors between' this country and France. We do nor, however, mean to say that this is all; but it affords an ad. goats explanation of the feeling exist ing between the two coantrice. There may be on the other side of the Channel special acts oleo unfriendly complexion, in addition to the common talk that every period of political disturbance necessarily produce.. The too* adopted in speaking of this country by some of the French journals supposed to be indirectly cossetted with the Government is • circumstance of this kind. Facts of this nature may be fairly weired and taken lac what they are worth. They afford matter for private duscoasioa, and naturally stimu late the vigilance both of the Government and the nation. To tura them to account in this way is both wise sad prudent. But to seize upon them as adequate proof of lined hatred to this country oa the part of • test/lA.4%lring people, and make them the basis of • public accusation of hostile intention o• the part of • friendly Government, is not only • gross violation of the commooest rules of courtesy and discretion, but the must intuiting and mis chievous course that at inch • crisis could be pursued. We all know that in private life unfriendly or disparaging woedsapoltes in • moment of irritation to a third party have a totally different meaning when addressed directly to the individual himself. In the former case they indicate merely momentary anno3anor, and if the friend to whom they are spoken is di* feet they produce no ill result. But if in cold blood we repeat the injurious words to the face of the person himself, it shows a desire to insult and a determination, if possible, to quarrel with him. The usual preliminary of such a quarrel is the direct a id ofensive attribution of hodile motives and in tentions. It is the part of weak and irritable natures to accept the existence of such motives on slight grounds, and set on the bare suspicion. And miss and in snd acted on, such suspicions, however groundless, tend to fulfil themselves, by converting an in. i:;inary into a real grievsoce. To persist is makia4 an odious charge on insufficient grounds is, of course, offensive, and naturally tends to pro voke • quarrel. Such conduct is stigmatised in private life as mieshievous and quarrelsome, and the laws of honourable intercourse apply equally to nations and individuals. If it is wrong to convert hasty suspicions into rash charges in private life, it is even more so in the public intercourse of nations. Greater prudence and caution are rtquired in this THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1869. Mas kr pester ;.curets ere it seam The ewe sf 'pinks we nadir a penalise resparibility is this RAWL Nit ea question el pesos sad war miqpie imps= Mises is at bottom a question ef pails *plebe. Of all organs of opinion, the lbglisk press is the met unfettered and in fused& It is windy free, and its vs. spessibility is therefore euernsone. On a pave question of our foreign Mations, if it SUANNIMEI Os repeat the reap of exalted coteries It assemarily abandeas its high position, and doss ;aces 'do ublet. It in se light mAtot to Rierepreseat inglend la thes the werliL The true position of the esnatry is amity stated, end ought to be steadfastly main tained by the Gems of its opinion and the !agents of its policy — by Government and the preen Oa principle we dein pease with every nation, and mast of all with err nand neighbours, with whom we are thameted by se nosy political and caniner nal ties. Bat, while anxious tor peace, it cannot be Ilisintatasd at the cost of subserviency to any foreign Power. We have a policy of our own, and are ia dependent and powerful enough to purees it. If we are thwarted and threatened at every turn we can withdraw from the vain and profitless diplomatic costast. If England is insulted she can defend her own. But ohs is at once too strong and too proud to foster mean jealousies and indulge unfounded Ear pickles. She will ant hastily assume that avowed friends are real weenies. But if it be so, when the mask is throws off she will be found ready. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MOM OVIL 0111 N PARIS, TrisaLT Evaxmo. The middle course taken by Prime de Carignan —that of recommending the Chevalier Buoncom pagni to be Regent of Puma, Modena, Tuscany, and the Romagna', instead of personally acoepting the regency offered to him by the assemblies of those provinces—is, at all events, better than the tortuous scheme suggested yesterday of an indefinite adjournment of his decision with a view of practi cally maintaining the statue quo. A great many questions arise. Is the present arrangement a com promise agreed to by Francis and Austria—either or both P or is it an expedient hit upon by the Sar dinian government to evade the prewar" of France, and accomplish the substantial object intended, while abstaining from doing the precise thing pro hibited? Haa England given any advice or ex pressed any opinion on the subject ? Is there to be a new election in Central Italy P or, as the Press* assumes to-night, and as the word ing of the telegram rather infers, will the Cheva lier de Buoncompagni at once assume the reins of power by virtue of the Prince's delegation ? The latter hypothesis seems open to much objection. Delegatus non potent delvers is a maxim not only of civil and common law, but of common sense. I cannot see on what principle the Chevaliers Perusal and Minghotti, who are sent to Tarin to beg the Prince de Carignan to accept the regency conferred upon him by the assemblies, can be deemed to have had any power to offer it to his nominee. Never theless, wears told by the telegram that the Cheva lier Buoncompagni at once accepted the mandate, and started for Central Italy to enter upon his duties. Now if, contrary to the assumption of the Presto, the assemblies should be called upon to ratify the choice of Prince de Carignan, and if, moreover, there should be any serious difference of opinion among them, u to the expediency of accepting, in deference to unfriendly foreign pressure, another dictator than the one of their choice, a division, perhaps a state of anarchy will have been achieved which will marvellously serve the ends of those who wish not well to the Italian cause. Bat if—which according to present appearances seems more probable—M. Buoncompagni should be either all bat unanimously elected by the sesemblies, or should assume the functions of regent without opposition (which he can only do in case the representatives of Central Italy think it more politic to manifest universal con sent by concerted silence rather than by open appro bation), the question may be asked what will the enemies of Italy have gained by the change ? Quiforit p.r alum tacit per all, and the maxim is immensely strengthened in a case where the parties who have alone a right to object to a delegation accept it. On this point the Press. very truly remarks, that "the permit' refusal of Prince de Cosign= is more than compensated by the substitution of M. Baoneompagni. Piedmont, in point of fact, goes beyond the wishes of Central Italy; she does more than accept a regency, she nominates a regent, and thus commits herself to the c►use to the fullest extent." M. Orandguillot, in an article of the Cbeatilistionnel, written apparently before the last despatch from Turin was known, draws a distinction. He says that if the Piedmon- Wee government accepted the regency (alluding to the regency of Prince de Carignaa), it most be taken to mean to support his power by force, if neces sary ; and then, if the Sardinian army should enter the states of Central Italy, on what principle could France object to the Neapolitan army coming there also ? Now it is plain that there is all the difference in the world between the two cues. The government of the duchies has been left vacant. It is admitted as an over-ruling principle in all the propositions for a congress that no force ought to be used to interfere with the wishes of the inhabitants. They have with wonderful unanimity elected the King of Sardinia for their ruler. What, then, can there be in common between the presence of the King of Sardinia's troops in provinces which proffer allegiance to him, and the presence of those of the King of Naples, which could only come as an invading force ? As to prejudicing the question of the congress, the Conagitutionnel very logically places the vote of the annexation to Piedmont and the vote offering the regency to Prince de Carignan upon the same footing. Both of those acts were, according to its opinion, "re grettable," and the assemblies in adopting them were wanting "if not in patriotism, at least in political intelligence." No doubt it was the inten tion of the Italians to prejudice the question as far as they possibly could by manifesting their settled wishes on that great question which so pre eminently concerns themselves—their future system of government. But if, as the Constitutionnel admits, the question was prejudiced by the vote of annexation, there was little occasion many weeks afterwards to bring forward that objection as a bar to the acceptance of the regency by Prince de Carignan. And moreover at this moment the appointment of Chevalier Buoncompagni prejudices the question just as much. He is a Piedmontese ; he will govern pursuant to the vote of annexation as a regent in the name of the King of Sardinia, and he will be only accepted by Central Italy because be represents the Kiog of Sardinia. The Pays announces that General de Montauban is appointed commander-in-chief of the Chinese ex pedition. At the Bourse, after some besitation, the Rents became firmer on the rumour that the Congress would meet in Paris on December 16. It rose 200. for cash and 15e. for account, closing at 70fr. in each case. Mobilier rose 7fr. 60c. Railways improved from 2fr. 50c. to str. A new work called "La Democratte," by M. Vacherot, has jut been seized. The Lyons journals have the following :—" M. L—, a wealthy merchant at Lyon., loot about three years ago a pocket-book containing 3,000 f., and though he offered a liberal reward for he restitutioci, he could not bear anything about It Be soon forgot the matter, but three days ago be received a box containing 3,450 f. in notes sad gold, and this letter Sir,—lt was I who three years ago found your pocket book. I was then a poor fellow, in see:eh, like Jerome Paturut, of • social position. lat first thought of giving it up to you, but I reflected that the money would nut make you richer than yen see, whilst It might enable me to pumper is life. And so I capitulated with my conscience. But I promised myself to reley_you In the event of God crowning my efforts with moms. This is what I now do. Hers is your money, and the interest it would have produced you if invested. I am now tolerably well off, having prospered in Ninetieth. I sm inserted, and haves child six months old. I have given your Christian name te the little fellow, for though you have unwittingly been my benefactor, I do not the less feel indebted to you, and I blend your name every day l." The Postmaster-General gave notice yesterday that ship mails will be made up in the General Poet-office fur Melbourne to be forwarded by the steamer Great Britain, which is appointed to leave on the 6th proximo. A VETERAN ellAßOEß.—There is at present serv ing in the 11th Hawses a chestnut coloured troop horse, • naiad Bob, of the remarkable age of 30 years. By the horse register of the regiment it is thee that this home joinwl the 14. h Dragoons as a four-year-old, on October 2, 1833, and IV. Pal:lettered In 1842 to the 11th Hussars. He embarked for the Crimea in 1854, and was present in all the actions, ieeludiug Balsklava, in which that refitment was engaged, b-tag one of very few horns who survived the exposure of that winter, and is still fit for duty Ia 1869. It is to be hoped that such a horns may never leave hie regiment, whatsoever infirmities may overtake hiss. Coe Court. WINDSOR CaIITLZ, Roy. U. The Medias riders arrived yesterday after alma Dadra at Oribeided sad Prisms Katy, samba by lady Cleaddlas dloodend sad Llsoadimaadiall Tunes; Es Due;losse of Welllegke. ts Piriessin Mir tor (Omit Lamas), Os Ilarquals sad Kereeliwaisa et All.- bury. Os Lel rid Celsius Spoor, Court Dearkabs% mai kekreattmell WAls. aril- WIEN= e Maw Pith Ith the etheth‘ bathed Petro f resais. Priam thedthek = el Perin Miami it l) th , the Prisms Aar" Comers , Othethe ithetheb the Rieke Ea W. IL eith elliniths.the them Perporelher, Cloths thei Ithwei alth BONS thane Methasete, es/ the Athens this thrived la the etherie. TN bead of re let La Guide areard, r pima Waver dr - arm' " ................ Vtaeleitel . 1:02r =Ol M. 186‘ wen ........ 111= .... .... .................. the Dar re-sere re owner :ter ........ . . Asher. . r .......... Mersiltatsth il :risrie aux Gluier_ . Write swaspered by Mares Frederick Whirrs of herr ( ntim. lioyal), the Prioress Altos, sad Pharr Nary et Orahridm walked is the Hare-park this sarra lac owl rebel the Darer of Kest at Fregrese. Tire Press Cower west er oberalag. seseersaled by Prime Freadelt WWI of Pressia„ the Priam of Leht• ierustieseralset Ageetoryead awl Ilgarar. Barr ere is re e f The Hwtlws Prier of Ho zddere arrived et the OP A S=OII ?Mt to bit leaded by Dena de Rapprealeht. The Duerr of hoe moor dad Vieserwe Jocelyn r Lady la Weary to the era. Lied Ceram awl the Los. flealthile Wad bre ruled Led blether sod Creed the Sea. A. Lidded as Lod sod Oren la Warm to her flesessoA/b•Eltaa, the Peers =,.mosareated by Kr. Shred D. fiesewtsb,hed is ierrview with Load feba yeseisdr, et be revelwediee. 14. I.dwriessa, dreti-elainwire, cad Mt. I. A. Teal, Is the Gomel Associative for the Aeßn liea hod irerrow whh the Doke of &words ea Meedr, at the Celsidel-elloi. TIM Lord Meyer ha as Interview with Sir O. C. Lear yesterday, at the Howoosare. Sir Deareds Pre bed ea [atavism with the Dar of Ifewertie yesterday, at the Cvloaral-rike. A depertiva of direeres of the Arica sad Tier Railway Careay had ea iaterrew with Lord Joba Rawl' yester day, et re Feriereffise, ea the 'abject of Oak , aria co the Premise swerearst T be Tired= es rawer. TM Cheraw ef the laeherree sad R ledstar ro tator le Leedom yealsedr, from the DemonMl G at Wrier. Damatehr were art her re Crealese reterey to the Omar et Comb. (ram &art stoats oosorri.) Wurnaos Crams, Nov. 11.—Thu day bad sadi sm, at brif eli —Bran All Khan, Envoy &Do oodlmy isd olazy from Qs of Psi* to bit co lloodpoir odooololo. To Whet, oodasoos be woo boirodsool by lord Jobs avisrAl.her blabloty's PA*. algal lboaceory dare Pailga Fannon-omen, Nov. 11.—The Chasse had bow Mipima to _melee dtr Artbs Cloths aow kr Blijestra Envoy Extraradieary ible tt Minister Pleelpeemelery to UN King of Sesdesind Nceway , Mbe her Majesty's Nem Extroordisary end Meister Ilsolfeeeadery M We most faithful Majesty the King of Parse a 1 sad the Atoms; the Hon. Hemp Solyarde Ai, Jupraa,_ sow her Majesty's Envoy Extract , Maury enil wawa Plmapotoutiary to Um ot Wortem =b=dejesty's Savoy Exubirdinary sod Minister %the Woo of Sweden and Norway ; George hill RAM Osedui. Seq. now het MaMety'e gem Bitrariesary sad Wakber Plistipotentury to the Meg of Hamster, le he hee Majesty's awn Sztraorlinery sail Mewriseipeteredery as Lag of Wutiembrg. end His., hisai• Mewled, Nev. sow her Majesty's Envoy Mateeirimery end Modeles Theelgeentisry to his most YIhAI Majesty the Kisg of Pertegal sad the Algoma, to be bee Mojesty's gamy .B:nugatory sad M Whiter Plea. pelentiery % t ill Mimi of Hanoree. Foazioli-omcd, Nov. 14.—The Queen bee been I=t r o . appore et Mr. John P. O'Sullivan se Consul at ke the United States of America, end of Mr. C. Broderses **Coma at Hang-Yoe( for his Majarty the King of Haistarr. _ _ _ flownlien•refurr, Nov.l4.—The Queen has ben te 'fluent linstell Robinson Robintmo, Eq., to Ito Wash/ Engisoar for the Colony of the Cape of 0•774 hop. William Y. Collins, Esq., to be Poecu.star- Oinseal of ihs C.elsay of Natal, and George William Nicol, E R , le be Cataial Secretary and Accountant fur Ur Celetay of Iherts /Ate,. KITOIALL, Nits. 16. Th. Queen him bss teed es disci halm patent to b• weed ands the Great granting th e dignity of . knight of the United K of Drat Delleta sod irenui4 unto Bryon EdwardiV, Chid Janke of Imam. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had • abet Ivey at thaw os Bnad.y ovirlog at his ►part •taia i• St. Jsam'a P.irv. Their iiireoe Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward at Sear Wither bees strived at their maim le Peeked-Om from Soothed. Easily Daemon of Beaufort and the Ladies meet have arrived et their residence to Hill•street from Ileamistoe. Thu Marquis and ,Marehioness of Stafford arrived et the Pasibon Hotel, Folkestone, on ktoeday, on their Mora from visit* tia Emperor and Empress of the 'mach at Compligua. The Connteasof Derby and Lady Emma Staid/Ay have arrived at St. J meet's-equate troy Knowsley Hall. HI/ lordship riaerias at Knovraloy: The Earl sad Countess Delawarr mid Lady Ara bella havitedle West have arrived is tows from vialtiss ths Jolts sod Lady Pakiagen, at their neat is Wercas tenhin. The Earl and Counter of Ilerborough hay, arrived is was from their seat is Ireland, is order to be pi rant st the marriage of Lady Cecilia 64rdon Lesson sod Lord Bissbas. The Earl and Countess Stanhope are passiog the tows at Perla. The Earl of St. Germans arrived in town last evening from Port Eliot, to, lordehip's seat In CorawalL no *obi* earl pee to Windsor Castle to-day to joia the deal@ •tai the ttottea sad the Priam Cowart. The Cownees of Casimir&ld and Lady Evelyn lkinhopo arrived at their oraesioa is Orosessor-rquare, a• Moldy, from Brisby Perk, Leioesiershire. larcialap is eaperted b Solna to-day. The Earl and Countess of March have arrived in Mrs frog Usbridge. Tho Countess Dowager of Jersey is staying in 'Whiniest with ts Hos. Frederick end Lady Elizabeth at Belli Hell o rawtjamptoaohire. Among the company now at I;:'4hton are Lady Preadergaet, the Dowager Lady Leigh, at; Earl of Yu kwoogh, Led and Lady Maavers, Lady A1m.,0 Peal, air William Burnaby, Lord Dorchester, the Marquia and lEarcbione., Townabend, Viroonnt Ilayabaia, Lady Lana Slassos, Siz C. aad Lady Cowley, Su:. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PAILS, Wiranswer. The Masi( ter of to-day contains tis following -- ; "The musters Roland, General Wiens, Smiley, the Arab iehops of Boarges and Toulouse, the Bishop s ef Naar/ and Limoges, took the oaths of allegiance to the listpuor, last Sunday, at Compiegne." NAPLES. 11.6.1t8R1LL211, Nov. 16. Advices have been received from Naples to the 12th. It is positively stated that it is the wish of the Ling of Naples to be represented at the ap mashing congress. Orders have been given to the Neapolitan Embassies to deliver passports to all Neapolitan exiles who may demand permission to return to their country. CENTRAL ITALY. 80m$ Nov. 12.--Cl(a Mariam.) His Holiness the Pops has consented to send a representative to the congress. Awarding to advises from the Romagna, the provisional govern ment of Bologna is abundantly supplied with 7• FLORENCE, Nov. It—(VI! Marraßes.) General Garibaldi, with several battalions, had marched towards the frontiers, in coasequence of a rumour that disturbances had taken pleas at Ancona; this rumour, however, turned out to be without foundation. It is asserted that the volun teers under the command of General Ildeznacappa have demanded permission to march on the papal troops, and it is difficult to restrain their ardour. TURIN, Nov. 16. It is said that the Sardinian Chambers will be summoned to assemble before the congress meets. The question of the annexation of Central Italy to Sardinia will be fully discussed and numerous Wrenn from the people of the duchies will be presented in order to give additional weight to their canoe. PARIS, WIDWPIDAIN A Paris semi-offloial correspondence (reeeived by Mr. Reuter) contains the following:—The manage received from Turin stating that the Prince de Carignan did not confine himself to the refusal of the Regency, but undertook to offer a substitute in the person of M. Suonoompagni, has produced every bad impression here. It was stated that the government of Sardinia had not followed the wise oouneile offered by the government of France, as expresssd in the letter of the Emperor to the Ring. " It is questioned by what right Sardinia under takes to prejudge the decisions of the Congrem in naming a Regent for Central Italy, and thus, by his nomination, assuming that the llnchies were already annexed to Sardinia. This proceeding is contrary to all custom, and not in accordance with the right. of the people." AUSTRIA. TRIESTE, Nov. 16. _. The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Bombay: which ran ashore a few days ago on the Illyrian come, near Uois, is afloat spin. HAMBURG. HAMBURG, Nov. 16. The elections of the burgesses of the city are con cluded, the result being entirely in favour of the liberal party, and in opposition to the conservatives and the corporation committees. TURKEY AND GREECE. TRIESTE, Nov. 15. Advice have been received from Constantinople to the 6th inst. A reduction of the civil list, amounting to 8,000,000 only, and a diminution of the salaries of the employes, has been decided upon. The Porte has addressed a memorandum to the Powers which have signed the Treaty of Paris. Label-Effendi has returned from Crete. It is said the difllcaltiss there have been settled. Said Pacha has been appointed of Widdin. All the Redits have been dismissed and sent to their homes. The apostolic prefect, M. Planchet, of Syria, has been mmrdered by the Kurda. News from Smyrna to the bth inst. states that Sir Henry Balwer has arrived there en route for &lo nics and Vole, to meat Prince Alfred. Letters from. Athens to the 4th inst. announce that the protecting Powers have claimed from the Greek government, on account of interests due, a yearly payment of 900,0001'. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LIVERPOOL. TIMSDAI Wynne°. The Montreal Ocean Mail Steamship Company's screw steamer Anglo-Saxon, Captain Ba llantine, which left Quebec on the 6th instant, passed Dona ghadee this morning at half-past eleven, bringing the Canadian mails and telegraphic advice" raj Father Point from New York up to the evening of the same day. The Anglo-Saxon will probably reach this port about midnight. We (Manchester Examiner) understand that Mr. Cobden, whose interview with the Emperor of the French wse reported a few day. ago, received for himself and Mrs. CoEdam am invitation to visit the Emperor at Compiegne, bat that their private arrangements did not allow them the plea sure of accepting it. The Union states that the Archbishop of Modena and his anfitagene, the bishop' of Reggio, Corp', Ovatelia, and Mama, hays addressed a memorial to M. Farini, com plaining of certain violations of the rights of the Church by the dictatorial government, and especially of the suppremion of a religions order and the sequestration of its property with out the sanction of the Pops. They also protest against the imprisonment of several priests; the licentiousness of the per; the introduction of civil marriagee ; and all Mole time of the old lave respecting the acquisition of property by Th. check lately given at Vienna to the Hun prima atudeete, who came to primmest a petition praying that the lectures should to given lima in the Magyar language, ham not, it would appose, deterred others from taking a stalls, sup. The Breslau Gazette rates that a deputation from Cracow, • few days ago, arrived in Vienna for an =abeam object, and on applying for an audience of the Count de Than, Minister of Public Instruction, an affirma tive answer was granted. They accordingly proceeded to the residence of the minister, bat when about to enter the anti chamber were arrested, and canted off to the polioe•offies in earrioge• previously provided. By the African mail advice. have been received from Dr. Backer, in charge of the Niger expedition, dated the 21at of September, at Rabba. Lieutenant Glover, R.N., left that plow oa the 4tb to meet the Rainbow, which vea el wee reported to be at the Confluence. There are no adv:ose from the Sunbeam or the Reletbow, and the report of awe Tamil having been attacked to palming through the Delta le believed to be without foundation. They entered the Niger in company on the 26th of July, and on the 6.1 t of October the interoolonial stearuer Retriever sent a boat Into the Nun, where the natives reported that a boat had been down, but had gone beck again, probably meaning the Rainbow, which yew( descended the river in July, and roaecended, u before stated. The natives have shown no hostility during the four relate of the Niger that have been made in the last two pen, though at each ascent the traders in the Bram river have hoed reports that the steamer had been attacked and eat oft THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. BOARD OF TRAM INQUIRY. mom ovz owir aoiI2III.OIIDINT4 LIVERPOOL, TUMIDLY. The inquiry commenced this morning, in the Crown Caere, St. Oecritieehall, end woe eredemet by Cartels hints, RM., end Mr. Manafiski, stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool. Mr. O'Dowd spewed for the Board of Trade, inetracted by Mr. Tyndall, of Liviepol ; and Mr. atipinall (barrister) Sr 2 Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, mod Co., the owners, instructed by Yaws. Lowndea, Bobtasea, sad Co. Mr. O'Dowd, in opening the eri, said that within Ma own expertise., and he warred to say within the memory of man, no event had occurred so dr. treating in its cheratter, and so lamentable for the =Mat of its reviler and looms as that whisk they wen shout to investigate. By the official register the Royal Charter papered to be the property of Gibbs, Bright, mad Co., who reprernted the Liverpool and Anauhr Naviga tion Compaq; her official number we. 1,366, sad her rota tired teenage 2,184 78-100. She was built st leadiercilt (Plistaire) le 1866, under the swerhitiodioes of Mr. We. Fllttdlloo., of Bristol. Having quoted from the NOW and also from Dr. floorteby's journal as to the site, comma Yen, steam power, he., of the ship, Mr. O'Dowd said that itzece within the body ol the alp woe divided treas. v by bulk-heads, awl comprier altogether seven water tight compartments. The Royal Charter we. oommanded by Croats Taylor, a gram= of the higher respectability in his prefer=; remelt coedited of 112 peewee ; and the cargo resigned to Mesas. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., consisted al wool, sheep Wins, and • large quantity of gold. but the vowel Lad a more precious cargo sal—three he.. dred sad seventy Ave presagers, or thereabouts though of the precise number it wee impossible to reek with , as the whole of the ship's pawnwere lost. The vessel MttMelbourrne on rear of A ugu st, and arrived et Irak Heed on the 24th October. After landing 12 of her persogers at Queenstown, she procersd on her voyage, end same abreast of Holyhead, when she took In 12 riggers from the United Carry'. steam tag. At this tiros the wind blew fresh from the 8.N.8. At 7.46 that day the dto the aeries, end the wind hiscoring tare scrawly, a gale. About 8 o'clock signals of darer were era, and rockets and blue lights exhibited. Thia, bad been done daring the whole evrrg, end abort to the time of the wreck. Prat Lynes was made drat tea o'clock, and the riders es to the direr at which it was pared varied very meth, err whams, giving it as three, rases tow and five, sad one 16 miles. The rile had increased to a horrors and at ten o'clock Captor Taylor gave orders to loess the mar-topeall, sad set on the alp, the only erns befog the riala-toprall and spears; but, notwithstanding this, she drifted rapidly nadir the prewan of the storm. These users having failed to prevent the drifting of the ship the sheet sacra we. let go, sad immediately afterwards the starboard anchor. Every tart lied been made to take soundings dares the w hofa earn, and almost to the time of the occurrence of the wreck At the time the anchors win let go she had 100 fathoms chain at the port anchor, sad 70 at the starboard, with a sulkiest number of hands standing by to J ove her plenty of eabie. About half-peat one the port chain pared, and below the order could be gives to bring up the two arm anchors the ship drifted rapidly, and struck the and. The utmost centurion ensued, arise which Cepdate Taylor did all be could to encourage sad aware the pr esager ; ordered them below, and gave directions to have the boats brag is tackle. A. • further precaution he ordered the mare to be cat down. The quartermaster in his evi dence described the captain as being unceasing in his exertions, and stated that he we. repeatedly knocked down while giving his orders. A man named Joe Rogers hiroically went ashore with a hewn" sitar the mewl had etre& on the rocks, end by this ours • few lives were saved, while a few other persona were saved by being cubed ashore. With these exception* all on board perished. The oriel broke somas the main hatchway, and went to piers. Mr. flialth, of Beaumaris, who would he examined, would, Imre Isis obearvstions of the subsequent petition of the wreck, give the court steeliest information on this sutject. There were two most important considerations suggested by this inquiry; Art, that thh abinvieg to atoms of an iron ewer seemed to Indicate not only a deficieacy of strength but positive weak sees; and, esomilly, as regarded the captain, though it was with the greater reluctance that he (Mr. O'Dowd) would throw the slightest imputation upon his memory, or ask the court to review his conduct orsoriotaly, yet the Interim of the pablle demanded that Captain Taylor's proceedings should be as rigidly and thoroughly investigated as though, instinct with lik and professional pride, he were that day in court seeking to protect that commirion which authorised hint in pursue his profession. Upon these points he (Mr. O'Dowd) should sot obtrude any opinions of his owe, convinced that the court would do the strictest justice in the matter. He , then proceeded to call evidence. David Ikroagman was the first witness called. He de that be was quartermaster on board the Royal Charter for about two years. She sailed from Melbourne oo the 26th August last. The voyage was good tip to the time of how arrival off the Irish cam; It occupied 68 days op troths land fag of souse pareogara at Qesenstown. Thirteen passengers were bonded there on hoard the pilot boat Petrel. The me ow up the Cheated as far se Holyhead was very fine. They reached Holyhead about half-peat 4 o'clock p.m. That was as Tuesday. the 26th October. The wind was then from the B.E. When witness cams on deck at 4 o'clock it was very thick. The vessel did not go close to Holyhead ; she kept about five miles of In the early part of the day, before they got to Bardaey, they took on board some ri That was about noon. It was witneeds watch below= they reached Holyhead, and he came en deck at 4 o'clock, me he stayed on deck till 6 o'clock at the wheel. He thee west below to his supper, sad wee on deck several throes after, bat was not himself doing ditty. Saw Pont Lyme Light about 20 minutes or a quarter to 7, than went below and remained there till 8 o'clock. The light append 6 or 7 miles off, and was broad on the starboard bow. Whams, however, did not know the exact position of the meld at this time. At 8 o'clock witness relieved John Hudson= the watch. The wind bad freshened wafter leierloghlolyhead , and wee at this time blowing very bard from the north east. Witases did not see Captain Taylor on deck at eight, but saw him there at s quarter to nine. The captain ordered the halm man to starboard, is order to bring her head to the wind. The man at the wheel said the helm was hard a-etarboard. This was after nine o'clock. At a gamier to ten wittier was ordered by the captain to heave the lead, and he did so from the starboard bridge. The first soundings were 18 fathoms. The speaker was then the only sell on. The screw was going, end the vessel was steering E.B.E. He hove the had • emend time, about ten urinates afterwards and got 16 fathom. The weasel was then drifting so fast that the line got wader her bottom, though he threw it as far sa possible to leeward. Captain Taylor, after the first mat of the lead, ordered the lower maintopsail to he loosed, and after the second cast gam orders to prepare to let go the anchors. About belt-peat 10, or a quarter to 11, an unsuccessful attempt was mule to stay the easel. Captain Taylor then ordered the chief tear to try to wear her, but witness did not know whether this wee done, being engaged with the lead. The third time withese hove the lead he got 161 fathoms, the wind still increasing. The captain ordered the chief officer to let go the port anchor, which was done, and about a quarter of an hour afterwards he ordered him to let go the starboard anchor. She dragged the poet anchor a little, but It appeared to bring her head somewhat to the wind. Before the second anchor was let go the cap tain told wittier to get the deep sea had up in order to try whether the vessel was drifting. When the starboard anchor was let go the vessel ceased to drag. This was about half past 11, and without was relieved about 20 minutes to 12. The vessel brought up somewhat when the starboard anchor was let go. Witness then went to the wheel, and remained there till 10 minutes put 12. The helm wee still hard a starboard when he went. When relieved he went forward to the port bridge, took hold of the line, and found that the mewl was sot dragging. At this time rocket' and torches and blue light were burning, and guns firing, and bad been Mace 8 o'clock. After being about 20 minutes in the fore outlet witness again went to the bridge and found that the vessel held fast still. About half-past 1 or 2 she parted her port chain with a very heavy pitch, there being a great ass ea. Captain Taylor then gave orders to get up the stress sachet out of the attar hold. The stream anchor was brought up on deck, bat was not bent. The starboard chain broke, and the vessel's heed turned right round and she went Rebore. It took nearly an hour to get the anima anchor out of the hold. She struck about three o'clock, or hall-past. Some heads begun then to dear the bate, and in about a I quarter of an hour after the vessel struck the mainmast was ! out army. It fell over on the port side, the lee rigging being cut aw,,y stterwardr. Witness thought the wreck went clear of the screw. It ceased to work a few minutes after the striking, and befire the mast was cut away. The cutting away of the mast eased her • little. She was broad side on to the sea when the struck, and everything on the starboard side we. carried awsy. The captain was the only person on the poop then, and he wee keteked down several times. Witame helped him up. After the vessel struck, but before she beat up to the rocks, witness took the lead and sounded inside. There were 31 fathoms aft and 2 forward. Witnees never went alt again, but remained is the foreman until he thought it was time to be moving. Orders had been given to get out the boats before she struck, but witness did not think that the men were I " told oft" for the boats' crews. The lifeboats were ready for swinging, but were not swung out over the ship's aide. A great Homy of the crew were in the forecastle, end slao large numbers ol the 3rd clam passenger% but not ea deck. About 6 o'clock witio or was able to make out the loom of the land. Wilson, Joe. Rorer% and bituselt determined then to make an effort to get on shore. Rogers went out on the jibbootu, taking a bawstr with him, and having dropped into the water, sureweded, alter being washed about for some time, in making it fan'. A boatewainn chair was then fastened to the hawser, and by this mesas several tenon% including the witnem, mimed. There was great scrambling for the chance of going in the chair, as the ship was fast breaking up. He himself was on laird when she began to break up; before be left he saw the poop go down altogether. The vessel parted at the mein hatchway, amd then length ways fore and aft. Only shout threrqu'itters Of an hour elapeCd from their esentnenciog to get the hawker on shore until the broke up. Witness saw no lifeboats put out from shore. It was wing daylight when the easel struck, and broad daylight when he landed. He never eaw such • her riesne before, though be had been in a typhoon. In reply to Captain Harris, witnees stated that it was quite calm when they weed Team light. in. Norma psomeger, and a magiatzate of New Booth Wail% yen asitiniamiond. His midtown was extremely fovoareble to the oharaotar of captain as a eeemaa. Mr. A. C. Taylor, *mbar presager made ea importeat mate moat to the diet that Caen Within had alien said Ow a daring the voyage that l Charter " weak aelther wear nor tear, sad that bar mute win woe* pleoed... After this evident* the inquiry was adjourned to ones o'clock to-day. By the latest iatalllgeara we are Informed that awe bodies hays bees washed ashore from the ma*, bat awn of them have beta kleatllled. EINAR WARD BERCRIR ON ISE HARPERS P.RBRI INBURRICZION. Mr. Beecher, of New York, in his sermon, on dandy wean, the 30th ult., spoke es follows of the Ilarper's Pony mama : "I avail myself of the present state of our land to utter mess sontizemde on the subject of slavery, though I have not dens so for a considerable time. The nation is now greatly melted and deeply coomened about the recent sudden sad unexpected attack at Harper's Perry. Seventeen white rum, without organisation, without • military basis of operations, without the countenance or approval of say legal or delibe rative body, most unexpeetedly and openly Mack en entire Mate to release and rescue an ..slaved race. They were not celled upon by the saffron, nor expected even by them. They undertake all themselves. Yee, these seventeen white men munencined two thousand people to manuater to them, sad they did as they were required ; and these seventeen men held them all In dermas for two fall days. They waited satil the forces of two states' were massed to release them. Ido not wonder that the Virginians feel lettuffiated. EMI one feels for them. No one double the tummy of the Virginians —not at all. But people may be sometimes armies& and taken unawares. However this may be, it seems to as strange that Ude invasion of seven teen men should have maned so ninth alarm, so much con fusion end noise It Is no wonder the Virginians try to soaks the most of it. They feel ashamed of the facts, and everyom is sympathising with thaw. There was fall enough of the matter, and I think we shan't have any more of it, or mythieg like it. There is something In the matter which Genoa be got over, in the fact that seventeen men held two gemmed people prisoner. for two days. They cannot hide the signitioame of this single fact, do what they will. It comet be oormealed. Them seventeen men invaded • state, seined open the government armoury, and held two thousand of the inhabitants of that state primers for two days, till two sues had risen and descended en their eclipse. The Virginians feel piqued to be sun, but they only remind us of the story of the fox which got his tail cut off in • trap, and then endeavoured to get the other fear to get their, cut off in a like manner, but nem of them would do it. There is something—there must be som thing —un derlying all this, which caused two thousand V' gid to submit to the power of seventeen men till the forces of two whole states should be brought against them—till volunteers should saascoble from every portion of them two stater—till the United States forces should arrive at the some with their —till the whole south should be excited sad ah and the north should wonder and eympatlibe. u i lm A not r e i a t r any more about this riot. There was one who ag throughout it, however, to which mote allusion should be made. An old, honest, industrious matt peacefully west to settle with his leanly in the west. His IN was omit in Hamm A great stave state adjoining the territory marches her muted MOD in einoog the pescefal settlers to dragoon them to uphold slavery by force of arms. They moss the boundary and subvert the law, the order and Ma mime • civil war. They pollute the bal lot-box, and carry destruction among the harvests, and death among the quest cultivators of the soil. There weft no marines no militia seat to oppose tiono--no. There were forme there, but they acted on their skit; it was ma the side of the wrong-doers, the invaders. It was her, that Brown learned his first lessee cm the Jamey sys tem ; bent that old man endured he first sufferings in the death of his first-born, who was dragged manacled across the country by the slavery men In the heat of • broiling ens, and afterwards beaten by inhuman officers of these mew Another ton was shot down by the same men. Revolving the indignation In Ids mind against the apemen that would tolerate sad countenance such cruelty and bloodshed, he is goaded by hie own feelings to • mad but fixed determination to oppose it to the end of his life. And now, as he is in the depressiag, the moat trying einumetanote, no one can fail to diacover le th is same old men a manly, straightforwani, dependent soul, which rises high above all those among whom he is at present, however insane he may be. I shrink from the folly of the bloody fray in which he was engaged; I shrink farther from the bloody fray which will follow it ;but while I do, I feel that breand-bye, when people will read the record of the whole tragic some, they will wonder at and admire the bearing of the old man who, through all his misfortunes, woes, and suffering, main- Weeds dignity and indepe denoe and a sentiment which may shines in lull brilliancy when contrasted with the conduct of his accusers, who poems their reason. But one word more for those states which have powder for their car goes. Supposeseventeen men mixed the armory at Sp Ham do you think they would subject the inhabit= that place; t h at all the militia of New York and Mmes. chneetts and other neighbouring states, and the federal troope,wonid have to be called out to release them and to over. come the seventeen ? Do you suppose that the goverment would be alarmed, and that the president would have te de liberate with the Secretary of War on what was to be dose? Not at all. You cannot. You and everyone else would rest satisfied that the people cf Spong Bald would be billy stile to manage the business themselves, and no body would feel &termed. Bat there is a drea d' hanging over the southern states which paralyses them on the very shadow of danger arising." The election of Lord Rector of the University of Glaagow took plsoe yesterday, when Lord Elgin wee chew= by a majority of all the nations; the total number being, Elgin, 653; Disraeli, 411. The total number of residents in Cambridge Uni vendty during the present term is 1,652, 1,097 of whom Tr side within college wells, 550 in lodgings, and bin Dr. Humphry's Hostel. The number of matriculations this term was 398, thematrionlations in 1858 having been 364. The Lord Chancellor is about to prevent the Rev. Wm. Crawford (eon of Dr. Crawford, NI.D , of Winchester), to the rectory of &eldest, in the county of Hants, end ;Boons of Winchester; sod the Rev. C. H. Sale (curate of Newton, in the oounty of W.arwick), to the rectory of Kirkby HUI. alto Kirkby-on-the-Moor, in the county of York and diocese of Chester. The Ven. Archdeacon Mackenzie has accepted the invitation addressed to him by the Bishop of o:ford to head the new minion to Central Africa. Mr. Contngham, M.P. and Mrs. Coningham have loft Kemp Town to visit Lord Zelliand. at Upreathans, Radar, Yorkshire. Mr. George Anthony, • well-known and highly respected artist, at Manchester, died, we regret to say, froth the effects of gastric fever yesterday. Mr. Anthony, though not so well known as some of his brother artists in the pro. ielekle, WU a wan of highly cultivated taster, and stood high in their estitustion as an art-critic. He was the author of art-criticlems which appeared for many years In one of the leading Manchester papers under the signature tf " Gabriel Tinto." His death will be a iciurcat of sincere grief to a numerous circle of friends, and to none more than those eaweget his brother artiste. LONGEVITY AMONG TEE PZEILAGE.—Ii L not a little singular that of the snore or so of peers who have died since the commencement of the year there are sixteen whose united ages amount to no less than 1.229 yearp, giving an average of seventy-nix years and a half to each, and totting at nought the dictum of David as to " three 'core years and ten." The list of noble lords is as follows:—The Earl of Aylesford (aged 72) ; Lord Northwick (SI) ; the Earl of Ripon (76) ; the Marquie of Bristol (89 ) ;_ Earle( Devon (81); the Diphop id Bangor (86); the nke of Leeds (60); the Earl of Moray (63); the Earl of Tanker/ills (83); Emil Cathcart (76); the Kul of Harborsuek (62); the Eat Mingo (76) ; Viscount St. Vincent (92); th e Earl of hem Mt); the Mori of Westmoreland 1 . 75); and Earl Wsldagrave (71).-o*th a Week. PAINFUL ACCIDENT.—It is our painful duty to report a frightful and fatal accident that occurred to a little boy named Arthur Edward Dye, second son of Mr. Robert Dye, farmer, of Cheveley, on Saturday last. Deceased, an interesting child, between six end seven year. of am accompanied his father and brother orer the farm to the afternoon, and stopped to ate some men at work who were telling an oak tree. Wist.ing to see the tree down and th inking it might be • conthlerabla time brat , Mr. Dye called to one of hi* men who was passing with a Gen to take Arthur home, but the odor. innate child entreated his father to allow him to remsfas To this Kr. Dye consented, and shortly afar, seeing that the tree wee likely to fell, be ordered the boys to get out .1 its reach, as it was uncertain in which direct* Son it might fall, and the next moment it fell, and the deceased, la attempting to run out of d+Naor' wee crushed to the earth beneath it. Mr. Dye and htseldart son and one of the labourers had Pi very narrow mem The nese that followed was truly &fleeting, and the feelings of the agonisod father may be better imagined then described as he tried again and again, and dtr iracreely celled for arisistetZitut in Selo; to remove the tree from the body of his attic!, whom he sow dying before his eyes. A bores and dodos were scat for, but before they could be obtained one of the men succeeded iII cutting' away that portion of the tree (the base of a large arm) that pressed upon the child, sod drew him Isom undot the tree, but too late, for, after a slight quivering at the lips. the plor little fellow (whoa. reek was afierwarts found to be broken) brest had bie last. The sad intelligence wee comma , . Masted to Mr-. Dye, who at once became so freak with grief that it rrquind considerable force to restrain her, and obi efterwarde remelted in a state of unconsciousness for Rivera! hours. 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