The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-03 00:00:00

ghee erVrefifi• 'Maar& TIM Briars°, THE lIUGUE.NOT CAPTAIN. Messrs. Tlisnl. sad G. Honey ; Augnsts Thomson, and 11n. OSlrllng.—And QUIET LODGINGS. BRITAIRTLL 'Dm EVRIINO, TUE DIWSKARD'S CHILDREN.—ItIei L Latimer: Mr. 11. Ma earthy; The Marvellous Ilartluettas.—And ERE MUTINY AT TUE :;ORE. NIGH !TAMIL AT LONDON BRIDE! Till DAT —Morning, Th. Ha Attornoco. BA. 30en. To4doalOw—Norning, 911. Min Afternoon. 9b. 6601. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. THI news published this morning from the Great Eastern places Atlantic telegraphy on as secure a basis tie steam locomotion or the penny post. Cables may be broken, may lie for long months at the bottom of the sea, and be picked up and repaired as soon as it is convenient to send for them. This should remove the lingering doubts of the sapient people who up to this morn ing still shook their heads when permanent electric communication with America was spoken of, and who, with messages from New York staring them in the face, have propounded theories and invented facts to throw discredit upon the great enterprise those messages represent. The recovery of the line of 1805 shows that a broken cable may be raised and mended as effectively as a broken tile can be repaired on our house-tops at home, and that neither the action of salt water nor the hypo_ thetic rocks and chasms of the Atlantic's bottom are worth estimating as impediments in the way. Twice every day since the cable parted last year has its condition been examined and re ported on by the experienced operators left for that purpose at Foilhommerhum Bay. Every yard of the LOGO miles then lying useless in the Atlantic has been thus minutely tested, and an accurate record transmitted to the London electricians in chief. Absolute perfection and increased elec" trical strength have been constantly returned, and the highest scientific authorities concurred that the old cable, if found, would be as available for all practical purposes as the new. The companies interested have therefore had their property doubled within the last few hours ; and the in- crease in the working powers of the lines between Europe and America suggests manifold prospective advantages which the public may claim to share. When the Great Eastern returned last year some feeble witticisms were passed at the buoys placed to mark the spot beneath which the broken end lay. But it was well known to the initiated that these water-marks were only fixed as guides for the great ship's grappling ; and that the careful observations made would enable any experienced mariner to take a vessel direct to the point required. It is noticeable that the telegraphic summary closely verifies this theory. The Albany caught and buoyed the cable on August 10, the day she arrived over the grappling ground, and only lost it through a chain giving way ; and the narrative shows clearly that no serious difficulty as to finding the cable arose. The operation of buoying in a rough sea, and the temporary failure of a chain rope, have delayed our hearing the good news, but to those on board the Great Eastern the problem must have been virtually solved for more than three weeks peat. The whole civilised world will rejoice with the capitalists, whose courageous enterprise, and the savants, whose patient unwearying skill have thus added to the achievements of the age ; and it is for the former to consider how they can best make their property useful to their fellows as well as to themselves. A reduction in the prices charged for messages will, it is to be hoped, be one of the first consequences of the double line. The only plea for the 11. per word has been the fear of a blocked wire through excess of custom ; and as this danger is now diminished one-half, we look for at least a pro portionate decrease in the rate. Indeed, as the matter comes to be better understood, it will be seen that the lower the charge the larger the profits of the company. England has been wretchedly supplied with American news by Atlantic telegraph, for the simple reason that the newspapers have not thought proper to pay the rate exacted. Some of the United States journals have had voluminous reports front special correspon dents stationed at various European capitals ; but it has been at a cost which threatens ruin, and has caused bitter dissension among some of the most widely circulating. This should not be. The enterprise has been a national one in interest, and in magnitude, as well as in the hopes it has inspired ; and the nation has a right to advantages which both patsiotism and sound commercial policy call for. Tux experience of the past three weeks must have convinced even the moat fanatical supporters of the Bank Charter Act of the entire breakdown of this obsolete law. Never has failure been more signal. The maintenance of those restrictions which, according to theory, would have caused the resources of the Bank to accumulate, have clearly defeated their own object, while a relaxation has been followed by an influx of notes, coin, and bullion, which pastes all precedent. And yet, ST. If tRTIN'A LOWER HALL BEALE'S TESTIMONIAL. —A PRELIMI NARY MY.ETING will be held THIS Monday) EVENING, at 7.30, to make the NECESS %RV ARRANGEMENTS for raisin a TESTIMONIAL to EDNIOND REALES, Esq., M.A., on the occasion of his diaieiasal from ,to oaks he has adorned, for the Dole crime of picwiiim too manfully and too untiringly the cause of the uuetifranci.i9 , M ,d his fellow countrymen. Colonel DICKSON, Chairman of Preststosal • Coaosittes. J. RANTER LANGLEY. Esq. TIVIEUret. • JOSEPEI OITEDALLA, Hoe. &K. - - - ' Apponitment to Ir;°*ak-7Ti• }t-fr..ige v OEMON'S wagcaEs. Prize Medal, 1865. sent tab. by post. BENSON'S ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET. 2d. BENSON,OId Bond-street andWeetbourne-grove. Steam Factory and City Show Room, 68 and Bn, Ludgate hill. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, nt realisable value, and the workmanship at win - demotic manufacturers' prices. The gold to the claim gua ranteed, and repttruhased at the price charged. " time a tbc note, Bow much your chat weighs to the utmost carat, Tito Ilumiess of the g dd, and charge for fashion." it &Internal. Melititlietery, le, liemietta.street, Covent-garden. W.C., London AFTER WHAT I—After Mellon's Promenade Concerto, IWANTO' to sup We shall meet there. THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1866. according to the hypothesis of the kot of 1844, the directors have been workij an by a stereo typed rule. It was assumecr aa invariable that the higher the rate of interest the greater would be the sums attracted to the Bank, and that 10 OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAT.) THE CESSION OF VISITE& per cent. would thus be more effectual than 8,6, or 5. In order to obviate a departure from this theory the late Sir ROBS= PEEL devised the stringent measure which, though thrice suspended, still remains in force. It is evident, however, The Times thinks it may be said of all the poten tates engaged in the late hostilities that, however improvi dent some of them may have shown themselves in matters connected with their own interests, they have, on the whole, behaved more handsomely to each other than the leaders in any war which history records. The Emperor Napoleon, in the matter of Venetia, has in particular shown himself to have been actuated throughout only by two great motives—the welfare of Italy and the restora tion of peace. Had he resented the stubbornness of the Italians in refusing the boon at his hands it would be difficult to calculate the consequences upon the destinies not only of Italy but of Europe, but happily he was too magnanimous to take offence, and de termined that Venice should be ceded to the Venetians themselves. No one knows better than he what the vote of the Venetians will be, and there is no doubt that its liberation is in accordance with the dream of his youth and the design of his inaturer age. In all probability it will not be long before that right of the people to dispose of themselves by universal suffrage which he now calls upon the Venetians to exercise will be extended to another people whose destinies are more immediately under his controL The termination of the Venetian difficulty will soon be followed by the solution of the Roman question. The Daily linos also thinks it is due to the Emperor of the French to say that the manner of his cession is marked by contideretion and even delicacy. Union by deliberate and universal suffrage appeals to sentiments not less gene rous than emancipation by conquest ; and it may possibly interpose fewer and less permanent obstacles to the esta blishment of a good understanding between the cabinets of Vienna and of Florence than would have existed if Victor gremumel's title deeds to Venice had been written in the blood of an Italian Widows. The fault of the Emperor Francis Joseph in invoking the mediation of France has perhaps helped to keep the peace of Europeasit lueallayed the rising jealousy of the French as to their reputation abroad. The course about to be adopted in Venetia is an acknewledgment that a people has a right to control its own destinies ; and, a fortnight hense, when the day for the execution of the September convention arrives, the Emperor will have the opportunity of completing the free dom of Italy by restoring Rome also to herself. The Telegraph and Star also pay a tribute to the French government for its good faith in reference to Venetia. that whatever the value of the Act may be, it must stand or fall by the truth of the conclusions on which it is based. Experience has proved that these conclusions are wrong, and hence the Bank Charter Act is, after repeated trials, now self-con- damned. In the first place, 10 per cent. has proved to be no safeguard to the public in any degree commen surate with the enormous loss it has occasioned. It did not attract bullion from the Continent—on the contrary, it promoted its efflux; nor did it bring beck into circulation the notes withdrawn from the Bank, and hoarded on the first pressure of the crisis. Neither did it lessen the demand for money, although, no doubt, it seriously crippled trade. The disastrous effect was simply to destroy English credit for the time, both at home and abroad. Sir Rowse.: Pam. never contemplated any such consequence, we may be assured, and would have been startled at the prospect of a contingency of this calamitous description. His great end was, as we know, the maintenance of credit, by placing the Bank under a control which he thought would not allow it to go wrong. Unfortunately, he contrived to saddle the remedy with a possibility, since amply proved, of creating a far greater evil. Within the last twenty years credit has been thrice threatened with annihila- tion, and each time it has been saved by the sus pension of the Act. Facts like these teach infi nitely more than mere wordy argument. During the past crisis we have seen that, in keeping the rate at 10 per cent., the directors were acting in legi timate accordance with the principles of 1844 ; but • it was also perceived by the whole mercantile community except themselves, that the obstinate adherence to these principles was not only inopera tive, but moat prejudicial. At length, after much pressure, the directors were obliged by the weight of public opinion to reduce the rate. The change was marvellous. Distrust once removed, the re sources of the Bank accumulated rapidly ; and there is not the slightest sign that the movement will be stopped, although the rate of discount is TEE ELECTION COMMISSIONS AND PARLIAMLNTARY REPORM. . . .... The Times, in the way rather of suggestion than of direct argument, continues to see in the evidence taken by the election commissions reasons for doubting that a large extension of the suffrage would diminish the corruption of the constituencies. It finds also sentiments which it can adopt as sound and undeniable in the late speech of Mr Laing. The Post thinks it possible that the abatement of an annual abuse of municipal privileges would tend to purify constituencies which are supposed to have grown out of the reach of any adequate punishment. A redistribution of seats accompanied by a rearrangement of the boundaries of boroughs is also, it may be thought, shown by these c (=missions to be advisable. _ falling every week. Secondly, it is perfectly clear that if the direc tors had possessed full liberty to act according to their own discretion, the crisis would have been arrested two months earlier than now. At the commencement, the failure of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. gave so terrible a shock to credit that the limitation in the Government letter to 10 per cent. was overlooked for the time. The question then was not the rate to be paid for money, but the power of getting it at all. Confidence could not be revived until some permanent improvement took place in the money market. As long as 10 per cent. was maintained this was of course impos sible. Hence, if the Government had omitted this restriction, and allowed it to be distinctly understood that the directors would have the same freedom as that possessed by the Bank of France, the matter would have been simplified at once. There would have been no excuse for sustaining panic rates when it was clear that the panic was of the past, and that all that was required was to resuscitate con fidence. This was certainly not done. The Go vernment letter, well meant to meet a crisis which has been unequalled since 1825, was rendered perfectly useless by the condition that all bor rowers must pay 10 per cent. for money even on the best and most convertible securities, and that those not immediately convertible could not be accepted as security at all. Has not the Bank of England refused to lend on title deeds of estates during the late pressure, and further is it not the fact that the hoarding which has prevailed for months throughout the country has made our boasted national wealthamockery so far as obtaining something to represent it? We take issue with Mr. Disesem's recent statement to the deputation from the joint stock banks that what we need is "capital, not currency." What we really want is the conviction that the exchange of property in this rich country shall not be arrested for want of some medium of circulation, and that all the banking and business world shall not be frightened into miserly action because that unneces sary bugbear, " the reserve " of the Bank of England, falls within certain cycles one or two millions. Speculation must bring its penalty ; but without it where would be English enterprise ? You may as well try to dam a river as to prevent it, and within safe limits and in contradistinction to mere gambling, it will remain the rock of our national power. The time has quite arrived when these questions should be dispassionately discussed. We have had a joint stock movement, a plethoric excess, and much abused it has been. All this granted, the ugly and cruel fact remains—that many who ought to have stood have fallen, because property was for many weeks a mere name ; and that we had, in truth, fallen nearly to a state of barter without recognising our real condition. It is against all com mon sense, against the plainest reason, that such things should be. Sir R. PEEL was extremely enlightened in his time, and prepared a grand mea sure for his period. But it is, or ought to be, our destiny to march on. Is the Bank Charter Act to remain a fetter upon the progress of this country or rather, to renew the question, are all our hun dreds of millions of national property to become a dead weight and practically inconvertible be cause a little outburst of speculation brings its recoil? It is time to discard all prejudice and ask seriously why our good property should be at times not only without a price, but distrusted even by those continental neighbours who have until of late regarded England as the safe refuge for capital in times of revolution or war. .... The Herald confines itself to the Lancaster evidence, endeavouring to show that those who in politics affect to be the chosen apostles of purity and freedom of election, and those who in religion affect a higher sanctity than the church can produce, are proved to have first instituted, and for twenty years to have practised, a system of cor ruption and bribery, fatal not only to all political, but to all the moral virtues. _ The Telegraph contends that the infusion of a large element of genuine working men into the communities of shopkeepers, fish-curers, and gin-sellers, would abolish corruption in many boroughs, but that the true cure is to transfer the sin from the bribed to the briber. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Countess of Dalkeith gave birth to a son on Friday morning at Bowhill, Selkirkshire. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., bas joined Lady Emily Feel at the Villa Lammermoor, Geneva, from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. In connexion with the court, the Times says, it is nothing more than just to a faithful servant to say that the current rumours that John Brown, the Queen's favourite Rigida,* attendant, had been suspended from Lis position has been specially contradicted in the Aberdeen newspaper which copied the paragraph, the contradiction on the best and " undoubted authority" bearing that " at no timehas John Brown been dismissed or suspended from the situ- tion be now holds ma a personal attendant upon the Queen; and that be owes his rise and promotion to his exemplary conduct and the conscientious discharge of his duty during a period of 15 years." The Spectate rsays that a very distinguished Anglo_ Wien, who had just returned to his place of exile after a short holiday spent in the old country, was asked one da y what fresh impressions English life had made upon him, and replied, "Oh ! there's nothing new at home but underground railways and having your hair brushed by machbun y." LATEST INTELLIGXNCE. THE RESIGNATION OF M. DROITYN DE LHITYS. The Temps of to-day says on this subject : The news announced by the Monitcur to-day was re- ported three or four days ago, but remembering the severe admonitions which the Moniteur has often given to journals which should venture to publish reports of a ministerial crisis, we did not mention it. It is difficult to penetrate the motives which rendered necessary the resignation of Drouyn de Limy', and the meaning which is to be given to the appointment of M. de Moustier. Between 18414 and 18.55 M. Drouyn de Lliuys had been three times Minister of Foreign Affairs. It will be remembered that on the rapture of the Vienna Conferences he resigned in 1855, and that in the following year he resigned his functions as sena tor. He returned to official life in 1862. The negotia tions relative to Poland, the Duchies, the Convention of Sept. 15, and the evacuation of Mexico are the most marked features of his administration. An opinion had latterly prevailed that M. Drouyn de Lhuya was in favour of making strong remonstrances against the aggrandisement of Prussia, and of urging them to considerable length. However, it would perhaps be going too far to consider the present change of ministers as an indication of an advance towards Prussia. We are not allowed to forget that the Constitution does not admit ministerial responsibility. M. Drouyn de Limy', who signed the September convention, was cer tainly no personal enemy of the Holy See or of the French occupation of Rome. Before his mission to Con stinople M. de Moustier was the French Minister to Prusaia, and it may be that his former relations with the Court of Berlin may have entered into the considerations which induced the Emperor to select him for his present post. • - The other Paris journals merely mention the change of ministers without any comment. The Indipendance Beige says : We beard the news some days since. but we hesitated to mention it as it appeared to be doubtful. Now, however, the Moniteur confirms the report. The causes of this modification in the composition are as yet but impe:fectly known to us. According to the report. most generally spread, M. Drouyn de Limy, latterly found himself in opposition to his colleagues, and *specially MM. Haulier, Fould, and Lavalette, on the subject of the policy which should be adopted towards Prussia. Henoe arose an antagonism which did not allow him entire freedom of action in the direction of his department, and which he thought it his duty to put an end to by reques t ing the Emperor to relieve him from his functions, which request the Emperor complied with in the most friendly terms. It musenot, however, be concluded from this change of persons that the claims put forward by France on Prussia will be absolutely abandoned. On the contrary, they are spoken of more than ever, and they may probably be revived on the final termination of peace between Prussia and Austria, without, however, in the least insisting on them, but leaving to Prussia all the future responsibility of a refusal. In other words, what has gained ground for the moment in Paris is not a policy of renunciation, but a policy of ad journment and of temporising. (WITTER'S TELEGRAMS.) JAMAICA. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3. The steamer Talisman, from Kingston, Jamaica, arrived here this morning. Her news has been anticipated. INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, Serr. 3. The Menageries Imperiales steamer Peluse ar rived hera at 9 a.m. to-day with the India, China, and Japan mails. TRH LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY. Premising that the reports of the late meeting of the above company will not raise the reputation of our basiness men, the Daily News proceeds to analyse the somewhat conflicting statements of the secre tary and of Sir Morton Peto, relative to the over issue of debentures,—coming to the conclusion that the transaction springs directly from the radically unsound constitution of the company. It was a contractor's line, and its very title has therefore been a delusion ; and in the general confusion of functions and attributes which arose from the anomalous relations of the contractors and the com pany, that has been done which all the parties to it must now deeply lament. The company will have to be re constituted, and the shareholders must become masters of their property. This is the first thing to be done, and it must be done at any sacrifice. The Herald does not wish to pronounce without further information upon the transaction as to the overissue. Irregular it most undoubtedly is, but the relations between the company and the honourable member to:. Bristol may perhaps have been such as to authorise it. The consequences of the past mistakes must continue to be felt so long as the line shall last. Whether they are ever to be surmounted must depend upon the degree to which directors and shareholders de termine to avoid in future any repetition of the errors which have brought them to their present strait. nen difficulties are grave, their position humiliating enough ; yet, with careful management and rigid abstinence from their former and fatal policy of forestalling their re sources, multiplying their branches, embroiling them selves with their neighbours, and dissipating their own revenues, they may yet become, not only a great and an enterprising, but a prosperous and well-conducted com pany- -•-• OPENING OF THE WORKING MEN'S INDUS- MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, TRIAL EXHIBITION AT THE AGRICULTURAL- i HALL.-(THIS DAY.) (THD3 DAY.) c: i x .. / ouse o r hi , ebdle eeerk enctooli mm be e i nced ere jujeeci this m0 D0. )4 I t the 107 This afternoon afternoon the Metropolitan and Provincial 1 Exhibition, a programme of which appeared in the The September general "slim s of the penes t„. iul ' Express of Monday last was opened to the public at the Agricultural-hall ; and it is confidently hoped that the the following justices :—br. Jervis, Kr. J o h n result will be a success worthy of such a laudable under- Mr. Baylis. .Although so *hart • time has elapsed w oos A . B elilvf, aat . . taking. Happily the weather has become propitious for , The read offen an ces d s wi t tt forth weil i7:16. TEI CALINDAL imitation of the last minions, the "I mam the occasion , and a bright sun heralds the festive and 1 i e ' lb musical entertainment by which the exhibition is to be I very heavy, there 104 prisco m „ m t inaugurated. . for trial, 89 being indicted for felony, am in f,,...., The number of exhibitors exceeds by from 300 meaner. The state of education of the --= to 400 the number in 1864, and includes about 200 of fm ul m o . imwnerigeht,,,derimareads follows : —Can ' , a ;ft ; can read l2 , test i en different, and, in many cases distant, parts on ly , i .., country, Cornwall on one side, and Scotland on the other, 014 , 43 , in : e l :W hy , face pretences, ste,din, fru:mai d having, among others, contributed their quota of objects eon, breaking and an dwelling-bouses, bigh w t g of various kinds. In the character d the exhibition, too, banes , indecent assaults, found by Wen i ii - g e there is a general improvement, especially in regard to session of houehmaking implements, attempting to „LT embezzlement l at e:want+, assaults with ' - -" pietures,of which there are about 3,000, and illuminated ,_,....__mint to eu , ' ow bodily , indecent exposure, he. penmanship. The catalogue contains 1,151 entries. The SECOND COURT. report to be read this afternoon contains the following 1 I (Before Mr. Payne.) passages: IMPORTANT TO PRILBONII LIABLE TO Hume on 70Et i 1 eas --" "It is impossible to look around upon the thousands of , yhe business of the eourt was much retarded a • od a objects collected within this hall without feeling that ' (pence of the di ffi culty in making up the requiredmm: the working classes have nobly responded to the invi - of traverse jurymen ; some gentlemen who were s tation of the council, and furnished a display worthy were out of town, others were above sixty y - ~,,/ of their known character for industry and ingeenitY- not bad their names taken off the list. Ifpetaam But these, valuable though they be , are no t the onl y are li able to ser v e would p a y atten tion to the 4 and inconvenience T j . alk; illustrations to be obtained of working dams progress- (6th George IV., cap. 50 ), it would save themselvesurc 4 e There exist amongst us societies devoted to the culti va- as the court • deal of trouble tion of music—to the advocacy and promulgation of lag is anextraet:—"Copiesof the July Lists forthe mod e certain principles calculated to improve the social position year are annually fixed upon the doors of all Mama of the people, and associations having for their object • chapels, &c., in the pariah, on the three first B - 3 I:go. mutual ass ist ance in time of mitfortuns- With many of September. These lids are always revised at the, •, therefore, the council conferred, and the result has petty session, held for that purpose, within tk been the organisation of a series of musical an d other de- ;days of September, on • day and at • place of which um monstrations, which, while giving a distinctive and milli- *men at the foot of the Sete affixed to the chntriam projects. ! ra y qualification, or from some permanent infinent . nal character to the undertaking , will also tend to A ny person w h o j a exem p t from serving en iceiss on, popularise the idea of cooperation, sad prove its b e i ng above 80 years old, or from being witheet Da adaptability to recreative as well as industrial Among the societies to take part in the festival are mu , A .. ) , .„ a whose name appears e the Tonic Sol-Fa Association, the National Temperance , s h ou ld ap ply to th e overawe b e f erel 4:2 o,l League, the Band of Hope enion, the United Kingdom ' held, or should attend the special session, and the Alliance, the Foresters, the Tonic Sol-Fa Choral I there present are empowere d to str ik ehie nem col Union, he., and to the officers and members of these th e li s t a; any application of the sort to th e , which he is summoned as juryman is useless; aertoiel the Council are desirous of expressing their acknow- All his name appears in the lists, he will be piste], ti summoned by the sheriff, and to be fined by the i t lodgments for the goodwill evinced in carrying o ut 1 the arrangements. Their thanks are also due to the author of the Ode, Mr. John Plummer, formerly a non-attendance." factory operative, and to Dr. Spark, the composer of the I Several persons who did not appear were fined 21, at music, of the merits of which`you will presently have an opportunity of judging The council have likewise to an nounce that the direc tors of the Agricultural-hall Coin pany, and numerous other well wisher. of the undertaking have kindly offered money prizes fm . e des irtition.; also that Mr Won has gratuitously a prise medal especially for this exhibition. With the object of encouraging exhibitors, and of mitigating the disappoint ment of unsuccessful competitors, especial facilities have I been afforded for disposing of their articles, and an art and industrial union has been established in the hope that yid ' tors will avail themselves of this simple and inexpensive 1 method of extending their patronage to the industrious work , man. At an early stage of the proceedings the council solicited the co-operation of the Science and Art Department, and the Lords of the Council on Education have been pleased to contribute a valuable collection of works of art from the South Kensington Museum, supple mented by the loan of objects from the Right Hon. Wil liam Ewsrt Gladstone, for the proper displa y . of which a gallery adjoining the lecture hall has been specially fitted up. It may be interesting to mention that the whole of the objects admitted for competition are the productions of bona fide working men, and that nothing has been ad mitted into the catalogue that was exhibited in this hall in 1861. Although the means of the Council were news eerily limited, the undertaking has been made known throughout the country, and contributions obtained from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and almost every county in England, be-ides some few from the colonies. The greatest number of exhibitors in the provinces are found to be from Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich, and Ply mouth, while Clerkenwell, Islington. and the north-eastern metropolitan district claim the largest number of London exhibitors. Thenumberof differenttradea representedeither , in skilled or amateur work is upwards of ;Y2O ; of theme there are iti clerks, 44 printers, 41 engineers, 37 carvers, 37 carpenters, 35 engravers, 12 watchmakers, and 12 1 labourers. Space has also been allotted to 2'23 females, and the total number of exhibitors is upwards of 1,500. To decide upon the merits of the articles exhibited the following gentlemen have already kindly consented to act as adjudicators :—P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., Society of Arts; Rev. C. Boutell, Crystal Palace; D. Clarke, Eeq., Society of Arts; S. C. Hall, Fog., Art- Journal Office ; 0. Smith, Esq., wood engraver ; J. Datioine, Eel., Art Journal-office ; W. Parker, Esq., silversmith ; Digby Wyatt, Esq., Society of Arts ; John Hopkinson, Esq., pianoforte manufacturer ; Mr. Baker , cabinet-maker ; Mr. Brooker, engraver ; W. Campion, Eel. ; Mrs. Warren (Editor of the Ladies' Treasury), ladies' work. " In addition to the features already noticed the Exbibi tion contains a large number of articles oontributed by chil dren belonging to the Sunday schools of north London and the scholars under the tuition of the Ragged School Union. It is intended during the progress of the festival, to invite all the children belonging to the Parochial, Bri tish, Sunday, and Ragged Schools in the metropolis to a free inspection of the Exhibition—the council believing that such a course may inspire many with a desire to take a part iu future displays of a similar character. Arrange ments are also being made for bolding a fruit and flower show, for the delivery of lectures on popular subjects, and for other similar attractions, announcements of which will J I be made from time to time." k e -- SURREY SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The adjourned urines for the county of Surreys., inenoed this morning at the Sessions-house, Nevi*, causeway, before J. E. Johnson, Bui., chairman, t ow Titian, Esq. ,deputy-ehairman, W. Harhay, and K. R.Atima Es The calendar contains Idtty prisoners for felony, and siz for utisdemeszour. The status el ohs Lion was as follows : 13 could not read or write, li t w i e read, 38 read and write imperfectly, and three wall and write well CAUTION TO GRAND JURYMEN. The following gentlemen were Duel IF. being absent ..--John Harding, William Bevan, Riad Roach, F. Carwig, John Cole, P.T. Odell,andG. Edwina of Clapham. Two gentlemen were excused on the mill being saver sixty years of age. The deputpchairsna wised them to look at the jury lists on the church tiss, and see their names struck off, as it would save thus isi4 summoned another time. CHASGI TO THE GRAND JORT.--TSCSTABI OF COSI 13 THS COUNTY. _ The Chairman, in his addreao to the Grand July, nil that he was happy to see among them many wks lel served before, and who knew their duty well, thnehie need not trouble them with any lengthened await He was, however, sorry to say that the calmer re unusually heavy, there being sixty Omen kt trial, besides several out on bail and committed aims* calendar had been made up, which no doubt 'woad IQ the number up to 70 for them to deal with. Lan 'wane time there wereonly 48prisoners for trialorhowingtistlim was great increase of crime in the county. He could* account for that, as at this time there was plenty el ark and wages were higher. Among the charges an W. simple stealing, seven for stealing from the pence, tests robbing their masters, two for stadimi ins ihrelliackna four for embezzlement, two for breaking and entensg,sa for assault with intent to rob, two for insulting polices stables, two for inflicting actual bodily harm, tee ki receiving stolen goods, two for unlawfully wousdiag, m for anon, which he doubted whether they enY have jurisdiction to deal with, and than is one which required their particular abode That was a signalman in the employ of a is* company, charged with being drunk on duty. U a recent statute that was made a criminal offence. Aft some further remarks the learned Chairman diming I grand jury to their duties. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. IXTRAONIDINAXT ASSAULT oN A scum. Thomas Adams, a powerful young man, wee sansmi before Alderman A lle n, to answer a charge of mai Mr. Key Hardy said—l am a surgeon in practise n lio 4, Wardrobe-terrace, Doctors' Commons. Os evening, the 28th of Aagtst, between 1; and 7 obl bl eelt was sent for to visit a patient at No. 12, Ireland-yokel before I could leave my house a second messenger canes say the patient was very bad. When I got 6n saw Mro. Adams who told me that it as a young girl named Mary Ann Wilson sh: ah lni me to see. The girl said she was very ill. I be what she had taken, and she said she had takes man 1 that was given her by Tom. I asked Mrs. Adams wiegfes was, and she replied that it wu her soa,wils wa , this)" , scut. I then turned to him and said, " Wiwi ten you given her ?" and be said he had not gives borpf thing at all, but that she took it bend Ile defendant after that denial turned mud to tbi 7 8 1 girl, and said, "Yon will not say tbst l el it to you, did you not take it yourself r and she N r " Yes, I did take it myself but you gave it to ne. I still wonted to know what she had taken, buths ~_ violent and would not let me vela to the ' - am,_, appeared to be very ill, but the defendant sat " me speak to her. He Lot between us pushed se le against the wall and ultimately hustled 1110 eel 4il house. I went to the police-station, and stated cuinstances. They made inquiries as t o the giel, W ' "; " have beard nothing more a b o ut it. The poliosaddesiti to take the course I have adopted. It would be itios6 o if a medical maw, when called in to see a pens ilo, rently poisoned, were to be subjected to tsarin a as I have described, and the patient to be left to" tended to. The defendant in defence said the girl had "lit toms ammonia that he bad given he r six maths IF ••• 1 she was very well now. Alderman Allen said his conduct had boo "If .* I proper, and he should sentence him to 21 dier . prisonment with hard labour. I The prisoner, who appeared astonished at W Isis^ was then removed to the cells. • BOW-STREET._ NEW RELATIONS BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The Memorial Diplomat ique contains the fol lowing : A letter from Verona confirms the happy symptoms of reconciliation which are manifested between Austria and Italy. On the 19th, Colonel Tromboni, orderly officer to King Victor Emmanuel, expired at the military hospital at Verona, from the wounds which he had received on the sanguinary day of Custor.za• The military authorities organised a funeral, calcu lated to render to the deceased all the honours due to his rank. Two battalions of infantry in full uniform, with their colours and band, escorted the funeral car, around which marched Austrian non-commissioned officers of hussars carrying lighted torches. Austrian officers of all arms followed to the cemetery. The Verona Gazette, the day after the ceremony, contained a very eulogistic article on the Italian colonel, who, since 1848, in combatting against Austria, had received no less than 23 wounds. We also find in the Nazione of Florence a letter written by an officer of the Garibaldian volunteers, dated from Pre in Val di Ledro, in which is related a circumstance very honourable for the Austrian army, to the humanity of which the writer eagerly renders justice. Colonel Chiassi, who commanded a Garibal dian corps, had fallen struck by an Austrian ball. Five of his companions, in the number of whom was the writer of the letter, at once threw down their arms to be able to raise and remove to the ambulance their chief, mortally wounded. About twenty paces off was a detachment of Austrian Chas Burs ; the officer who commanded it, seeing this act of devotedness on the part of the Italian soldiers towards their leader, stopped the firing, not wishing to wound brave men in the back. The young Garibaldian officer was so much moved that he says :—" If I knew the name of that worthy Austrian officer, I would go and seek him even to the most distant parts of Austria in order to clasp his band." The Turin Gazette mentions that Mr. Gladstone is expected in Rome, and intends to remain there for three months. W The -- following letter has been addressed by Madame liatteizzi to the editor of the Si&le :—" Bir,—l have just learned that a book has been published in Brussels entitled ' Les Marriages d'uee Edipsgnole,' and signed M.R. lem informed that some persons have been pleased to attribute to me its authorship. Now I declare that I am not only not the author, but that I have not read it or even seen its cover. Be good enough to insert this denial in one of your early numbers, and receive with my thanks in anticipation the amurance of my high con sideration, MART Rtrrtzzi." Last Monday the unwounded prisoners who had been captured during the late campaign were exchanged at Oderberg. The Prussians liberated 57.3 Austrian officiers and 35,036 non-commissioned officers and men, but this is not the total muster-roll of the Austrian prisoners who fell into the hands of the enemy, for 13,000 wounded who cannot yet be removed still remain in Prussian hospitals. Austria gives back about 430 Prussian un wounded non-commissioned officers and men, and about 120 wounded are unable to be moved. There were also seven Prussian offioem liberated. On the same day shout 5,000 prisoners, who had been taken from the Bavarian and Hems Cassel troops, were released. A letter from Berlin, dated Friday, says : " Berlin is very empty ; the usual garrison and the crowds of officers who generally fill the streets are all away at the seat of war. Over many doors are painted up the red crosses which mark that within subscriptions are received for the military hospitals and wounded. At the doors of the public offices, and at those of several shops and hotels, little padlocked boxes painted with the black and white stripes of the Prussian colours, and labelled Par die Err rumble, invite the alms of those who loiter or who pass by. Here and there& convalescent soldier is seen, with his hand bandaged up or his arm in a sling ; and one passed up the Linden this afternoon, jerking himself along slowly on a pair of unaccustomed crutches, for he had lost one leg. Preparations are, however, being made for the triumphal entry of the army, which is expected to take place about th e middle of next mouth." The advices from America regarding the harvest seem to indicate a deficient wheat crop, but an unusually abundant yield of Indian eorn, which for home purposes in that country is the most important staple. ♦ few weeks beck the reports of the growing wheat were dims tram from most of the Western States, from the effect of protracted rain, but the subsequent accounts have been less discouraging. In California there is unusual abund ance, sad a probability is smarted of a surplus of 850,000 quarters for exportation. The crop of Indira own this year will, it is said, be the largest ever produced in the United States. In 1840 the total crop was 47,000,00 quarters, in IMO it was 104,000,000 quarters,and this season it is estimated at 130,040,040. CHARGE OF MURDER. THAMES POLICE•COURT.-(THISDAY.) Timothy Murphy, aged 29, an Irish labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Sullivan, another Irishman, at No. 34, Royal Mint-street, better known as Rosemary-lane, in the immediate vicinity of the Royal Mint, on Saturday night. This case originated in a drunken quarrel, and ter minated fatally. Both men were intoxicated on Saturday evening, andiwere fighting, quarrelling, and abusing each other. The prisoner afterwards went out, and declared, in the hearing of several persona—" I will kill that to night." He went into the shop of Mr. Loans, at the corner of Dock-street, Whitechapel, and asked for some medicine. Mr. Loane, jun., who was in the s hop said he wanted no medicine and told him to go home. He then uttered a threat, and said he had a knife, and would use it and finish Sullivan. He also said in the presence of a police-eonstable, No. 99 H, that he intended mischief. He went home, and soon afterwards there was a struggle in the passage of the house where the parties lived, and when it terminated the denecteed ex chtio.ed, " I am stabbed," and fell, and when bis wife threw herself upon him she discovered that her husband was dead. He had been stabbed in the body, and the knife is supposed to have penetrated his heart. The prisoner ran away directly he had stabbed his countryman. Information was promptly conveyed to the Leman-street station-house in Whitechapel, and Inspector Dendy, of the H division, took the most vigorous measures for his speedy apprehension, which was effected the same night by John Fox, a police constable, No. 144 H. The prisoner managed to get rid of the knife after he stabbed the deceased. The prisoner's eyes were swollen and disooloured, and he said the in juries were inflicted by the deceased. Dr. John Loane, of No. 1, Dock-street, Whitechapel, said the deceased had been stabbed on the left side near the heart, and that wound was the cause of death. There would be a poet mortem examination this afternoon. Dr. Loan's brother was examined as to the prisoner's threats on Saturday night. Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner, who appeared quite unconcerned. Inspector Dendy said the prisoner was laughing and whistling in his cell the whole of yesterday. MUSICAL EDVCATIoN. Six youths, dressed in the Italian mountshar 'lll which has lately become so familiar in Ms aww: m with cal li s c i ft n re dm me of Hewitt, the mendicity officer, on s chant! , a 7,=,m. s l a nt two od il oafpitdathemiaap,rowviedreedbraught up je,.... ja. They gave the names Carina( Porelli, N 1 1: _ . ,7 o ;ii i Paolo Ferri, Loreto Coppoli, Pietro Masrii an . Hewitt stated that on Saturday afternoon , _.... Great litissell - strt o ear'___,, I gs e rers and three other in 1 with Gthe bonds of mica7m ; Cristeffurio. Their ages varied from 12 to lit he too* I seen in wel tire n teets as usu p a laying their with s r u ' handl ha awN . catory gestures , and bolding out their . Th ey m i l a dancing, but o owing ladies and Paudi eate ' la 1"r ; I He gave them in custody to • Potha l f7 b ' e m 2, 1 some coppers in their pockets — torth e r, e w h o Bow' - - -- - I Signor G. Luciano, the secretary of ? mi d be it THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINETER.—THE Era nve ed with the boys since they were in g e TEES IN Sr. STEPHEN'S HALL.—III consequence of the , rmadreabee had only been i n L ou d e n fou r r i damage done to the statues of Hampden and Lord Claren don, by visitors privileged with the Lord Chamberlain's . . was the Irst day they had been out. ____rio I lent Society, 20, Grovillc-street, Holborn. oster ned from the strong likeness betwnes" order to visit the Houma of Parliament, extra police are they were y rom re their be a ms by a w pulling. mem i of these wanton acts. These statues cost the country more T e e .' bad been a p prenticed by yell. The rao than .500/. each, and both are seriously damaged. The . they a " mndeal education " in guilan d • wane d. 4 statue of the Earl of Clarendon was damaged by sonic per. receive hail ve brought them to Paris, where be no w> e m m 0 son mischievously climbing on the pedestal to place a to bacco pipe in the hand of that statesman, and in doing very likely to learn much of music under GI _long materially damaged the elaborate embroidery of the robe. tuition, there no doubt they could cwro ! ,_l,• DEFALCATIONS BY THE SALFORD BOROUGH TREA- in the streets, as much money 111;_an,740, and si nging non=--Some serious defalcations have been discovered on would keep them for the rest of the _yesr a l li m o the part of Mr. William Naar, the treasurer of the borough en i had sent them on to London. Althou Ul.ei ..,....4 of Salford. A change in the system of rowever, they would not have the beirefil „ : l 4 A ge recently decided upon by the mayor and the finance 0 band over all the money they Pero a me r--.-"'""DE awatamts. during the term of apprentioeshiN a' th e i t h e o. should be handed over by the borough treasurer, and, as committee, made it neoessary that certain balances He, Mr. Luciano, had explained to the e ' wo od let at he was unable to comply with this ernuiginnest, an in. go for this once the society would mend lea vestigation into his amounts took place, when deficiencies th e m Tm d eeme e t Paris. were digiumv i • amounting to considerably over LOON. were found. This , ti p Z t a — t hi e en am el: 4th," prisoners wan shown on the fee° of the books, for there had . been no attempt whatever to tamper with the figures, i CLEIIKENWELL• situi t sat not allowed to beg, and it the m agistrate . .__ ba l ER THE NEW SA- . Dale and he was debited with several sums, which were 'Da ; TIBET CONvlen: uw l) . numekr. o f , 4 I;la io , forthcoming. The money consisted, we understand. in a P ftderi4 Willia sum mon ed b e Mr. groat ;trito n, i i i r ad ef b c o r a pod ea t eg for i :he aha ssernen baoka t aa of gaaaa wagen, aad r i d a i strict , ep for la li of affitau n d aam wee ma - anetaah ;:slsPee ter iuost ,' cil had not been paid into the bank. An einuninstion of the books of the d t has been made within the last the vestry of the parish _ emu :d fro' the house 1 0 . Y.. _ 0 on the hutment door of few days, a report prcpared. Mews. Brownirig, roam the oseaus.,.. t Do° street • end also a front room on Farren, and Co., are camped in cheek* the item, prior , . _ ,.. _,_ i, w o r my to the trier, he did "unlawfully suffer to oe to the report being presented to time Mamma committee. DOW" No- for leiLatw-wr_w_:, managem ent or_. b og 0 It is not at present known whether any pressedings will of the act for thetirseT ap. " eh owe Do* be taken against the defaulter.—Manokeskr Gnordian. pow (lath and 19th V ii., flit Court. BALMORAL, Aucus? 31. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday morning, In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove to the Lynn of Mulch. Princess Louise. attended by Lady Churchill and the Hon. Emily Cathcart, went to Abergeldie in the evening. and was present at a ball given by the Prince and Prize of Wales. SEPTEMBER 1. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out in the grounds yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise. and attended by Lady Churchill, drove through Csetleton to meet the Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, who travelled to Perth by the mail train, and then posted over the Spital of Glenabee. On their royal highnesses' arrival at Balmoral they were re. ceived bytbe tenantry and servants of her Majesty, who had erected a floral arch close to the bridge, where they presented an address congratulatinst their royal highnesses on their first visit to the Highlands, and giving them most cordial welcome ; after which the carriage proceeded at a foot pace to the Castle, preceded by the royal piper, and accompanied by the tenantry and servants. Lady Susan Melville and Colonel Gordon were in atten dance upon their royal highnesses. THE CorET IN THE HIGHLANDS. —Since the ar rival of her Majesty and the other members of the royal family in the Highlands the weather has been most fa vourable for out-door rambles and sport. The Queen has therefore been enjoying daily drive% to the favourite places about Balmoral and Braemar, while the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh have been busy and successful among the deer and grouse. The Court at Balmoral were joined on Friday afternoon by their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Arthui, who made the journey to the Castle, after leaving Perth, through the Spittal of Glenshee. The Braemar gathering of the clans —the Duffs, the Farquhamons, and the Forbeses—for competition in Highland games of strength and fleetness is fixed for Thursday next, the Gth of September, when the company present, including moat of the royal party now in the Highlands, is expected to be more distinguished and nume rous than it has been since the lamented death of the Prince Consort. Braemar and Ballater never were so full of strangers, for Deeside appears to be yearly growing in favour with summer tourists and holiday searchers after health. The little parish church of Crathia is quite • sight of a Sunday at present, strangers from all party of the world who may be sojourning in this country evidently making it a point to see her Majesty and her Mart worship- Ong after the simple form of the Scottish Kirk. Yester day the Rev. Principal Talioch, of St. Andrew's, wen to preach, and next Sunday. the Rev. A. K. H. Boyd, the well-known essayist, is mentioned as likely to co nd uct the services. l asi three feet the tioor of the WE. 111. " boas No. 2 so o w to heath. Mr. filitan , dslingeoa. efaults. caters of the monad sad complained of , 0 4 paid any The new Beni t ip of the evouniO4° of mot to leavens the Pena' a • were abl lie should ask end also for the costs the then failed defendant be Mr. Bolton, district surf *mined the lowa that it isnot six •• • amunined th A rc ot, and f e door of the width. The level of the fast to the : Evidence w of 2, Caledon his wife and house h 7 E 0 front kitchen her husband, was occupied Mr. • vestry of I — ' the house, aft of eight ebildren—se pied by one messuremeot 155 imbio fee ' each pereon The &fen it wee the do whet they The m evils oomp penalties am monad to penalties se Ineoffe r"*". r. we ing Ann P main grievous Gully, 97 last I was i was lying found Ann another on leave. She that she as struck her custody, an en flew at Mr. Lle brought to the wrist, faint from r l 'night have produoed a runnlngatra sldeways,an by a direst and then moment dozer, an . Van whole offal Of the m e were not iu Prisoner Folmar VI DAY (Dogl As at the the order, the gee The of the it g iott of Mesa rib BAs bustle of bones fair to-me horn deal the inn 7 the reoe migns of dro ta ves of ra r rl train; dad OPEN!: at Yoeutsi M riridge alert i Crbrua r lt disease, rooovery, woman mid& and said that sin the had • .Taz NoaroL renamed Ames the dest lieniser, tot of the Rill, of ' attendee was the seedless • sal the attend who we found t vans let attend r to tithe Ho also 1 requestb detalAed vreahi ladab°6ll46°77 : llBl6°ll : 7 : l li 4l:' Rat I 11 101;in;r - \ \