The Express. — London, England, 1868-10-26 00:00:00

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TIMMS of ETITIIII, MAIMAGIIII, end %AIM', are received until 12 o'clock for iasartios ease arenas. Price la. id. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LOA - DON, MONDAY, OCT. 26. SPAIN AND IRELAND. Tint doctrine of " a free church in a free state " bas not found favour in the eyes of the Court of Rome, and yet it would bo too much to say that the Vatican rejects the doctrine absolutely under all circumstances and in all places. It rejects the doctrine in Catholic states, that is, in states where the Church of Rome is either the church of the state or the church of the majority of the people, and dominant in privi leges and prerogatives. In Italy it resents the doctrine with particular bitterness because Cavotrx announced it as the final formula of the reconciliation between Papal Rome and Italy; as the condition which should enable the Holy Father to resign his temporal power as the ruler of a small state in the heart of Italy, and to pre servo his spiritual supremacy unimpaired and un assailed as the successor of ST. PETER and the sovereign guardian of the tombs of the Apos tles. It rejects the doctrine enunciated by CATOUR, as one of the insidious resources of that statesman's moral engineering for sapping up to the walls of Rome by a series of parallels, and establishing a breach without violence or noise. It rejects the doctrine in France, because it pre fers the precarious and interested support of an arbitrary government which takes the dominant Church into partnership, to the risk of relying on the pious zeal of the faithful, amidst a population infected with the poison of VOLTAIRE. During the reign of Loris PHILIPPE, it is true, it demanded liberty, because it was dissatisfied with equality. But it condemned LAMENNAIS, lIONTALERBERT, and LACORDAIRE when in the flush and ardour of a chivalrous faith they demanded liberty of the Church in the sense of separation from the State. In Spain at this moment the Papal Nuncio is in structed to repel the principle and repudiate the offer of liberty in exchange for the absolute domi nation the Church has hitherto enjoyed. In Protestant and heretical States, which have long since suffered all the horrors of excom munication, and apparently have not been much the worse for it, in Great Britain, in Northern Germany, in the Scandinavian kingdoms, the Church of Rome professes to demand nothing more or better than a generous application of the principle of a free church in a free state, which in the United States, in Canada, in Australia, in all that new world peopled by men of British or Teutonic speech, is the only available condition of ita ex istence and its growth. In Ireland the circum stances are peculiar. There the Church of Rome is the church of the groat majority of the people, yet has for centuries suffered those disabilities at the hands of the state which wherever it is predominant it never fails to inflict upon religious minorities beyond its pale. And as towards Ireland the Court of Rome stands at pre sent in this singular attitude. It would rather for propagandist purposes retain the semblance and Vie badge of persecution than become a free Church, with other free Churches, in a free State. The Court of Rome would not even object to that en dowment in company with other endowed churches of the minority which Mr. DISRAELI was fain to propose. But the interests of the Irish Catholic population are no more identified with those of the Court of Rome, than the in terests of the Italian, or the Spanish, or the Austrian Catholic population. And no doubt the Irish Catholic hierarchy, who know the temper of the race over whose spiritual destinies they preside, have caused it to be known in the councils of the Vatican that a great act of imperial justice and reconciliation c►nnot be rejected in the face of the world, because the doc trine of a free church in a free state, sometimes dangerous and sometimes inconvenient, is the only possible alternative wherever domination has passed or is passing away. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1868. NIL GLADSTONE'S LATEST OFFENCE. Ix the well-known little tale, 1 ‘ A Trap to " Catch a Sunbeam," a grumbling cobbler is told that what he wants for getting out of his troubles is energy. He puzzles over the meaning of the word, but, at last, while he is hammering away at a job with all his strength, a light breaks in upon his mind. " Why, I s'pose this is what " they calls ennigy " he exclaims. The cobbler surprised himself. Mr. GLADSTONE is surprising the Tories. But what is more, they are gravely displeased with his " ennigy." It ap pears to be a violation of their code of morals. Many of our readers will remember a caricature in one of the comic periodicals at an early part of List session. Mr. DISRAELI was expressed as standing on a little hillock, and, while rolling up his sleeves, challenging Mr. GLADSTONE in terms which were no more than a frank parody of what had been said in both Houses, upon the extreme impropriety of free criticism and " bandying " recriminations." " Now, then," Mr. Gls r-ati.t was made to say, " come on " But mind you, no hitting, and no pushing, " and no throwing down, and no punching, an I " we'll have all fair "—or words to that effect. The stupid party still cherish the same notion of political warfare, and they are now particularly angry with Mr. GLADSTONE'S " energy." A weekly contemporary begins a tearful article by saying, " The industry and energy of Mr. GLAD " STONE . S proceedings in South-west Lancashire " are extraordinary and excessive." We have no doubt that llittAn lime thought the industry and energy of Mr. MICAWBER extraordinary and excessive when that gentleman hit him on the head with a ruler. But there is some comfort for the Liberal party in the assurance thus obliquely obtained, not only that their leader is a good way yet from being used up, but that he is drawing blood where he strikes. And it is to be Loped that the "extraordinary and excessive" variety of the charges brought against Mr. GLAD sioNE will not tempt Liberal leaders, or Liberal critics of any grade, into departing from their pre sent policy of " industry and energy " in pounding away at the two places on the other side on which breaches have been made—fathomless dishonesty and alarming extravagance. THE OPERA IN WINTER. ITALIAN Opera in winter is becoming one of our recognised institutions, and although out of " the season " in London it will bear com parison with the performances in Paris, where " the season" is just opening. The winter months are scarcely more trying to the tenors and soprani on this side of the Channel than on the other. Rain and fog, and sleet and snow, and that raw damp atmosphere for which the doctors ought to pray, are scarcely less familiar blessings to Parisians than to Londoners. Yet somehow or other it is not found that " indisposition" prevails more among opera singers in November than in June. As a matter of fact, however, what is called the Italian Opera, so far as the executants are con cerned, is becoming every year more of a myth. The principal singers of the present company at Covent Garden are, with two exceptions, German, English, and American. The orchestra is largely composed of English players, and the chorus for the most part has a decidedly English cast of countenance. It would astonish an opera goer of fifty years ago to find the New World sup plying prin.a donnas (we take leave to Anglicize the termination) to the Old. Whether Mr. MAPLESON' a temporary occupation of Covent-garden signifies the end of that rivalry between the two houses which began in 1847, and which has profited the public so much more than the directors; whether there is to be an amalgamation of the two houses next year when Her Majesty's Theatre has risen from its ashes, or whether the civil war is to be renewed, we know not. But we trust this winter campaign, the results of which must depend very much on ordinary play-house audiences, will persuade the manager or managers that the Italian Opera is no longer the exclusive entertainment of a select class of society, and can never be fairly made to pay by a subscription list, but like other institutions in these days, must be " democratised," and appeal to that undistinguished music-loving public who cannot afford to pay a guinea for a stall, and who do not go to Covent garden or to Her Majesty's Theatre for the sake of lounging about, in the hideous evening costume of the period, in Fop's-alley between the acts, and trying to persuade themselves that they move in the best circles when they point their opera glasses at • Duchess, or take the name of a Countess in vain. Wrru humble gratitude for a sumptuous enter tainment, we take the liberty to recommend to all English students of their native language, who are not aware of its vast resources, an article in the most gorgeous and gushing of our morning con temporaries--need we name the Telegraph I—on an incident that lately occurred at West minster Abbey, an incident which nothing less than an imagination steeped in all the splen dours of the East could improve in so magnificent a style. It seems that a few days ago an Indian Prince, in the course of a visit to Westminster Abbey, was shown the tomb of Lord Osmium, laid upon the slab several bouquets, and then took off his shoes, knelt down and kissed it, and said a prayer. Upon this simple text our contemporary discourses in what has been variously called the " deli " rious bagman," and the " paste-diamond" style on IdenomED the Second riding down the conquered streets of Byzantium, on Mars, and Constantines, and Muezzin's voieos and crtscenta of Islam, on mogra, and cbampak, and sbradh, and Furroburdin, and bfooktad, and Pir, and Nourmahal'e tomb, and puggrou, and cummerbund, and Siva, and Swerga, and Jumma Musjid, and Heaven only knows what in the heavens above, or the °Aril below, or under the earth besides. For our own part, we confess, wo are perfectly dazzled and bewildered by the display of rhetoric, regardless of all expenze, the prodigious wealth of illitstrs lien, the proper names, and the easy yet majestic sweep of our splendid contemporary's oriental singing robes. We remember nothing like it since TIIACKERAY'S immortal chapters from " Cad " lingisby," in which Sidonia gives audience at his j alace in llolywell-stroet to ambassadors from all Europe, Asia, and Africa, and then goes out with the bag and cries " Old Clo'." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) or 1111. ouneromeo csirvAaL Mr. (11lads tone has completed his canvass, and, rays the Times, the result cannot be doubtful. It is evident that the general election will show such a triumph of liberal principlesthat the single fear of our contemporary is that it may be too great. It is, no doubt, for the national benefit that there should be arrayed against the liberal ranks " another party of different shades of opinion, :Luling it its pride and boast to show courage and tenacity in adherence to its creed ;" but the coming parliament does not promise such a spectacle. A frank acknowledgment that the country had decided against thorn, and a prompt withdrawal from the nominal control of the national p 'hey, might do much to reinstate the members of tho conserva tive rally ; but the suppleness the mass have already rhown and the passion of their leader for power are tarifa s ourable to the realisation of such a plan. The Times anticirates instead the trail spectacle of a wasted band, dragged hillier and thither to maintain the position of the nunihtry, and at last, every mautrucre exhausted, driven into orporition, broken and deinoreli-ol ; but, while fear ing inch a rr suit, our centemroiary will be much better plea: ed if thethinness of the contervatire followers defeats these prognostications. It, vita ing IJr. Gladstone's canvass and commenting upon tie criticisms of his canon, the Telegraki remarks thot the right hon. gentleman cannot help the fervour, the courage, the high spirit, the stamina that urge and sustain him to aid in exertions from which any other statesman would shrink. Ito has proved abundantly during his life that be is more than a popular orator—that, at a thinker on great state problems, a conscientious and careful poli tician, an able administrator, and a great financier, he fulfils the whit functions of a ruling man. Tllli 111CCI STSIIOI. Remelting upon the increased activity of anti-truck association(, the Daily News observes that the objections to the system are rather to it as a whole than to individual examples of it. But the immense liability of the system to abuse, and the temptatioas it offers to such abuse, make it contrary to public policy. The tremendous hold it given to the employers over the employed is such a+ no one let of men can safely have over another. It lowers wages by rendering the workman unable to seek a letter market for hi+ labour, and heightens prices 1•y cleating a monopoly in the supply. It keeps the people in perpetual leading stringy, pies-outs them from saving, renders thrift and foresight needless, and reduce , the whole population which becomes subject to it to the 'coition of • dependent class. Now the law guarantee+ the winking classes the receipt of their wages in coin in order that they may retain complete centrol over the ex yeuditure of their cat nings, and it is in every way da shable that to just and beneficent a law should be every where enforced. OITOLD CNIVI:RSITT. The Pair maintains that if the vote of Oxford ruiversity is tuteuded to express steadfast 6111 instructi4l tidelity t the church of England, no member of the university legally able to undertake its representation iu the 110114 e of Corn mens can be mentioned in rivalry with Sir Roundel' Fulmer. MOUT 1101'91:8 IN LONDON. The Star hints that in cousevence of the diuoveries made as to the connivance of the police in the night house evil, the entire C division has been ordered to the east end—an event unprecedented in the history of the force. he matter Las been dealt with personally by an officer high in Sir Rickard Maynee confidence, and the extreme course taken with the C division is understood to have Leen concurred in as inevitable by this gentleman, as soon as be had thoroughly acquainted himself with the existing state of things. Certain prirwcution, are likely to ensue. and a very careful surveillance will be maintained by the constables who will take the places of those removed. IN TORCION STMTS. The writer on Trade and Finance in the Daily News, noticing the fact that the British capitalist is returning nee more to hie old appreciation of foreign stocks, re marks that it becomes a serious question, particularly for lenders, what is to be done when the foreign states have pawned and [sold all. Necessarily if the money so ob tained is expended on reproductive works, the temporary sacrifice will be more than counterbalanced by the results; but hitherto it has certainly not been so—costly arma ments, the evil fruits of despotism, or national extra vagance have sapped the resources and wealth of too many foreign countries. Their money as well as their men have been spent in absolute waste. Onr English capitalists will be wise to remember this, and reflect well before, merely to get a high rats of interest, they place their fortunes in the hands of such unceasing and unsound borrowers. Or Court. BALMORAL CASTLE, Ocr. 2.1. The Queen went out yesterday morning, accom panied by Princess Beatrice ; and in the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Christian, the Princess of Tech, and Prince Leopold, drove to the Glaasalt Shiel ; and Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Mary Lascelles, rode there. EL and Madame Van do Weyer had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Ocr. 24. The Queen drove out yesterday morning, attendedby Lady Biddulph ; and in tho afternoon her Majesty went out, accompanied by l'rincesa Louise and Princess Beatrice. Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Arthur drove out. The Prince and Princess of Teck took leave of bor Majesty yesterday morning, and left the Castle for London. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Count Weichen, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, went shooting on Saturday in Windsor forest. The Princess of Wales drove out. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales, ac companied by the Duke of Edinburgh, went to the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden. The Prince and Princes, of Wales, with the Countess of Morton and Lieut.-Colonel Koppel in waiting, attended Divine service yesterday. The Duke of Edinburgh has lately honoured Mr. Robert Dowling with sittings for his portrait—which that gentle man has been commissioned to paint for the town of _ Launceston, Tasmania. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Malta, the North American Provinces, British Columbia, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. The projected journey of the Prince and Princess of Wales abroad has, it is said, now been definitely decided upon. According to a contemporary, .' they will leave England about the middle of November to proceed to Paris, Germany, and Denmark ; afterwards Grows and a portion of Asia Minor will be visited, and finally the dis tinguished voyagers will proceed up the Nile to the second cataract. The celebrated African traveller, Sir Samuel Baker, will accompany them on this portion of the journey. No yacht being at present available which is suitable for the purpose, a fast steam frigate will be told off for the ma Lagos... - On Saturday last his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had another good day's shooting in the royalre serves in Windsor Great Park. The Prince of Wales and party intend to visit General Hall, at his seat near Newmarket, for a few days' shooting, during the present week. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is still in a very precarious state. Late last evening it was stated that she was somewhat bitter, but there is little hope of her recovery. FOREIGN NEWS", (THIS DAY.) (110000 R REIITNieII AONMI SPAIN. PABII, Oar. M. The Afenifeur publishes the following news from %melons, bearing date the 23rd inst. : The Junta, which has hitherto refused to dis solve, has despatched two of its members to treat with the Provisional Government thereupon. It may safely be predicted that an amicable rettltrucnt of the difficulty will be arrived at, which otherwise might have resulted in prolonged resistance of the Junta. From Madrid it is stated that the Council of Ministers has definitively agreed upon the mani festo which is shortly to be addressed to the people. The Novedades demands that proceedings should be taken against the Count do Meath, the late Commander of the Royal Forces in Catalonia, for having insulted the nation. The Junta of Seville, upon its dissolution, issued • manifesto to the people, which concluded with the following words :—" Down with the dynasty and its lineage, both direct and indirect.' THE HANSE TOWNS. HAMBURG, Ocr. 26, broaxma. The English mail of Saturday has not arrived, and tun only be expected this afternoon. A pale fitm the tiouth west prevailed yesterday and caused a high tide, and ruin has now set in. INDIA. BOMBAY, Ocr. 22. Vb. Flirting', sr. 3a.; 8 Ob. ditto, Gr. 3a.; forties mule twist, 111 ; quiet. Cotton, nothing doing. Dhollera, 23,ir. Exchange on London, h. 111 d. ; Four per Cent. Government 81!Cli rities, 941; Five per Cent. ditto, 1081 ; Five ar.d-a-lialf per Cent. ditto, 114. The latest London date is 19th October. CALCrTrA, Ocr. 21. 71b. shirtings, 4r. 13a. ; 811 b. ditto, Gr. ; 31b3. Madapollams, 2r. 7a. ; forties mule twist, 33 — market depressed. Cotton, 101. Jute, Dossk, Saltpetre, Gr. 10a. Exchange on London, Is. 11 11-11;d. Freights to England—Jute, Ns. OUR PARIS LETTER. (TROY ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SuNDLT Evierniro. It is rumoured that the Crown Princess of I'rus.ia will, towards the end of the autumnal seen u, pass a week at Compiegne. The Empress, the story is, when she got hold of her at St. Cloud the other day, would not let her go without con ditionally promising to accept Ler hospitality. Should circumstances not prevent the visit, the Crown Prince will doubtless accompany her royal highnos. 'lhe sth of November is at present fixed for the depurtine of the court for Compiegne. 1 hol e we are not going to be cheated out of the Martinmas summer, which often brings the most enjoyable Paris weather. Frost, alter nated with heavy rains, characterises the end of this October, for which the great heat of several preceding months was not a good preparation. Chest and throat diseases are this week prevalent. Rossini is among those suffering from inflammation of the respiratory organs, in .Lis case complicated with fistula. The F °verity of the attack, which occurred on the vary day when he was to have quitted his Passy villa for his winter residence in the Chaussee d'Antin, alarmed his friends. In addition to his private physician Dr. Bonet°, Drs. Nelaton and Barthe were called in. The bulletin they issued last night announces a diminution of general fever and of local inflammation. A singularly worded paragraph in the .Itmitertr and other papers announces that " the mother of M. Alexandre Dumas the younger " died this week at Neuilly. The author of " Monte Cristo " generously tries to secure for his son the reputa tion of greater literary genius than himself, but tLis is the first instance I remember of the Paris press giving the pas to Dumas fits. Marshal M•Mahon arrived in Paris yesterday from Algeria. An alarming accident happened while the Emperor was out shooting at St. Germain on Thursday. One of the keepers accidentally shot the Duke de Caumont La Force, who was close to his Majesty at the time. Fortunately the wound was not serious. The Sernaine Religieuse, of Paris, which is pub lished under the control of the Cresu, says that in consequence of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain, three hundred Spanish members of the order have, within eight days, taken refuge in France. They are billetted in the Jesuitical con vents at Lyons, St. Etienne, Toulouse, Castro, Bordeaux, Limoges, and Bourges. None of the refugees are allowed to come to Paris. Upwards of 230 have been sent to Li4e and Namur, where the followers of Loyola have flourishing houses. M. Pasteur, a very learned member of the In stitute, bad an apoplectic stroke on Friday while he was reading a paper to the society. Ho was carried home in a dangerous state, and it is feared will not recover. M. do Meienier, tho Russian consul in Paris, died last week. Tho Diable d Quafre affirms that the now silver money issued instead of the coins called in con tains lees silver than the old, and that a profit of no less than 130 millions will be inado by tho operation. It wants to know who gots this largo sum. M. Cornmuniva will probably chargo him self to answer this impertinent question. A serious accident has occurred in Now York upon the railway ;crossing the Hudson River. The acci dent was caused by a broken rail. The train ran off the tack, and the carriages were greatly &usage& Three persons were killed and 30 wounded. An Italian line of steamers, intended to touch at the Mediterranean port and then proceed to New-York, _ . is about to be established. The object is to oonvri Italian fruits rapidly to the United States, a trade greatly on the increase. Germany is likely to bo blcaaod with a uniform and decimal coinage, the want of which has been felt for a long time by the banker down to the most humble tra veller and trader. The delegates of the Chamber of Com merce at Berlin have demanded a unification of the coin of the North German and Premien States, and Austria is understood to desire to come into the arrangement. The French coinage is to be imitated. _ A cheap book, designed for the people, " The Secret Memoirs of Queen baba," has met with a prodigious sale at Madrid, and is one of the most humilia ting picture. ever held up to public execration. It is said that Marfori is an Italian, but the Italians do not appear to be very proud of him. Be is a mark for the witticisms of the satirists who write In the small journals of Florence. When some of the jests upon him wore repeated before Victor Emmanuel, he remarked, "That gallant has done us good service in getting Queen Isabella dethroned. The Pope may curse him, but, wastrels mkt though he be, he is an excellent subject of ours." GREENCASTLE, OCT. 26.—The Allan steamship Austrian, from Quebec on the 17th, arrived in Lough Foyle at 4.10 a.m. to-day. She landed mak 34 cabin, 72 steerage passengers, and 297 troop. •• nurcrit 1111(10 TO SPAIN. M. Victor Hugo has addressed a letter, dated Oct. 22, to the people of Spain. In it he says: There is a nation which, for • thousand years—from the sixth to the sixteenth century—was the finite Europe, the equal of Orme in epoposia, of Italy in art, of Fiance in philosophy. This nation had its Leonidas in relaglns, and its Achilles in Cid. It began with Viriathus, and closed with Riego. It had its Lepanto, as Greece had its Salamis. Without it Corneille would not have created Tragedy, nor would Columbus have discovered America. It is the unconquerable country of the Awe lin o , protected by its geographical position almost as completely as Switzerland. It had forest meetings contemporary with those of the Houma forme, where the people ruled twice in each month—at the period of the new and full moon. It had its tastes in Lion 70 years before the English had • parliament in London; it had its Tennis-court oath in Medina-del- Campo, under Don Sanchez. As long back as 1183 its tiers rtat was dominant in the "odes of Bode, and a single city, Saragossa, sent fifteen deputies to the National Assembly. In 1307, under Alfonso HI., it proclaimed the right of education: in Aragon it appointed an individual named /wiles superior to the man called ling. It established in opposition to the throne its formidable sieve no. It refused taxes to Charles V. At its birth it held Charlemagne in check, and Napoleon when it was expiring. This people had its diseases, but it was no more dishonoured by its monks than is the lion by its vermin. They wanted but two things—to get rid of the Pope and to get rid of the Ring. In navigation, in adventure, in industry, in invention, in colonisation, it was another England with less of isola tion and more of the sun. It had its captains, doctors, poets, prophets, heroes and sages. This nation had its Alhambra as Athens its Parthenon; its Cervantes as France its Voltaire. The soul of this great nation spread so much light on the world that a Torquemada was aequired to put it out. Over its jet the Pope has put his tiara—an enormous extinguisher. Papirm and absolutism joined hands to ruin the nation ; its light was turned into flame, and the pyre was spread over the land. The smoke of this ? wined"ro has been for three centures the hideous cloud of civilisation, and—the burnings over—it might have been said—these ashes were the patios. From these ashes the nation has arisen. What is a myth in the Phenix is true of • nation. The nation has arisen. Will it arise grand or little That is the question. Spain can reassume its rank —become the equal of France and England. The opportunity of Pro vidence is immense, the occasion unique. Will Spain neglect it Another monarchy on the continent! For what Spain the subject of a King, who is himself the subject of ether powers. What a degradation: Besides, in the present age, to set up a monarch is to give one's self a great deal of trouble to little purpose. The decoration is going to be changed. A republic in Spain would be a" have a care" in Europe, and " have a care" pronounced in the ear of kings would mean peace; it would mean France and Prussia neutra lised ; it would mean the impossibility of war between the military monarchies owing to the mere presence of the revolution—a muzzle put on Sadowa as ou Austerlitz— the perspective of butcheries supplanted by the perspective of labour and wealth, the ('hussepot abandoned for the Jacquard ; it would be the equilibrium of the continent established to the detriment of fictions by the weight of truth in the scale ; it would be old Spain regenerated by the young force— the people; it would be from a com mercial and mercantile point of view, life restored to that double coast which ruled on the Mediterranean before Vc nice, and on the ocean before England ; it would be in dustry reigning where misery now crouches ; it would be Cadiz the equal of Southampton, Barcelona the equal of Liverpool, and Madrid the equal of Tarim. It would be Portugal united to Spain by the mere attraction of civilisation and prosperity. Liberty is the magnet of union. A republic in Spain would be the pure and simple declaration of man's sovereignty over himself—a sovereignty that is indisput able and that cannot be submitted toile test of majorities and minorities ; it would be production without a tariff, consumption without a custom-house, circulation without %letter. the workshop without proletarianism, wealth with out parasitism, conscience without prejudice, speech without • g a g , law without lying, force without an army, fraternity without Cain ; it would be labour fur all, education for all, justice for all—the scaffold for none; it would be the ideal made real, awl as there is a swallow which leads the way, there would be a nation an exemplar to others. As to danger, there is nine. Citizen Spain is Spain strong. Spain democratic is Spain a citadel. A republic iu Spain would be probity in the administration, truth in the government, liberty in power ; it would be sovereignty made real and unconquerable. Liberty is tranquil because it is invincible, and invincible because it is conta gious. It seizes him who touches it. The army sent to attack it reacts on the despot. It is therefore left in peace. A republic in Spain would be to the horizon the irradiation of the true—a promise for all—a menace only to what is evil ; it would be this giant-Justice upright in Europe behind the barricade of the Pyrenees. Spain a monarchy, Spain is little: Spain a republic, Spain is grand. Which will she choose A singular accident lately occurred to Lieut.- Colonel Diver, commanding the light cavalry in Poona. Ile was at a children's fete, distributing presents from a Christmas tree.when something fell upon his out-stretched arm and mapped the bone above the elbow. Tus kasiticas Cwams.—Notwithstanding the curt contradiction given by the 01o6e to the statement in the Lady Nile*, "that it has been agreed between Lord Stanley and Mr. Reverdy Johnson that the respective claims of British subjects and American citizens arising out of the Southern rebellion shall be determined by an international commission, composed of an equal number of British and American membere, we are assured that the important announcement is sub-dantially true; inasmuch as the approval of the American government is alone required to render the arrangement between Lord Stanley and Mr. Reverdy Johnson complete. We have also reason to believe that Lord Stanley is willing not only that the British and American claims arising out of the late civil war in the United States shall be adjusted by a mixed communion, to sit in London," but that he is also willing to submit to the arbitration of the Emperor of Russia the knotty question " whether the sailing of the Alabama from Liverpool was or was not • breach of international law." Should the Czar decide in the neg ati ve, the United States will withdraw the so-called Ala bam a claims. In the contrary case, these claims will be examined and ad justed by the mixed commission, which will sit in either case for the adjustment of the other "outatzading claims." —o6serrer. - _ PUBLIC WORKS AT BRCSSELS.—The proceed ings in reference to the English company formed for the purpose of carrying on certain public works in Brussels concluded before the Correctional Tribunal on Thursday. The tribunal was presided over by M. Vlemiuckx ; the other judges were MM. Harmignies and Knopff. It is understood that the judgment of the court will be deli vered during the present week. Among the variaus wit nesses examined on Saturday iu reference to sums which they were promised by the original promoters of the com pany was a gentleman named Keymolen, who had a claim against them to the amount of 8.0001. for "an idea." The President having asked him what services ho had rendered to the company, he replied with amusing gravity—" Since 1863 I conceived the idea of a new Bourse. This idea has very much occupied my thoughts, sad cost me much labour and expense. It was for the in formation I gave on this subject to the concessionaires they allocated to me the 8.0001." "Did you make plans:" asked the president " Oh, no," solemnly answered the witness; •• they paid me for the conception of the idea." There was much laughter at this, the president observing, "That, indeed, was a valuable idea." The depu -pro cureur, not believing that 8,000/. could be promised for a mere •• idea," interposed with this question, "Did you plan the Bourse r' The reply was, " Oh, dear, no • but the ides of the site was mine." The witn ess added that Doulton and Swann sent him the undertaking for the 8,0001. after a short interview with him , in which nothing was said about payment. "Then," observed the deput-proeureur. " this engage ment to give you 8,000/. fell down from Heaven " Yes," mildly replied the witness. " Come, now." said the president - ''yon are a man advanced in years, and a serious man. How, then, can you prams to think that for nothing those men gave you an undertaking to pay you 8,0001. r With an expressive shrug of the shoulders, and • persuaidve waving of his hands, M. Keymolen re plted Well, you know, I have always understood that the English are very eccentric in money manes." This caused such • roar of laughter that the judges had to threaten to clear the court. THE RAW/TB:WAKE AT PERU ANP ECUADOR.— Sorriantir Rasa rtlND.—The contributions to the fund during the past week have exceeded 6,0001., includ ing • dcsm from H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, and • sum of 6001. from the Corporation of London. This liberality of the public will enable the committee to remit • further sum for immediate distribution among the ruined survivors of this almost unequalled visitation. It is a re markable fact that at Anon and Iquique heavy losses have fallen upon our own countrymen. NATIONAL ENNIIIITION OP WORKS op AZT, AT Ise.—ltaturn of admimioes :—Saturds_ y, October 24, WW I by session Hags% 914 ; by paymentpayment t of 28. OL 'sob, 1,848 ; VOL LONDON AMUSEMENT! ` (THIS EvENINO.) OPERA. CUTEST OA turn —" I.4nool2anktnila." Wrlee THEATREB. Decay Lan t.—" A Model HAW Q." " King frtenc.... H " A Co-asperedive Mmeaent." "Leah." " A p swam .."—T o'clock. rgt• AbILI /11.—" Up toe the Cattle Maw." "Neste (1,14, o'clot k. • PIIINCRAWA.—" A Chorusing Pair." " After Junea's Birthday."-7 o'ciork. Lteacr.—" 'I be Married hake." "The Rightfd 7 Otruerc.—" To Oblige Damara" "Thu Ticket of 1.. r.. 7 o'clock. Quars's.—" The Troubadour." " The Larsaahue r..„ a.iudi. Foe pasta ace advt. graaae,—.. Masterly Menne." " The Field of the (Ur " Marriage at any Prioe."-7.30 o'clock. Parton op WALES'S. - " Attila!" "Society." - 7.11 0.,1,,, AL UoLseas.—" Miechief Making." " Blow for Blow.- y HUTALTT.—" Married Daughters." "The ihse awl ELI Richard HL" MuMill."- * Scartar.—" Beautiful for Ever." "Lad hats sad Watcr ' "Masten o'c'ock. SADLIS'I WILL/I.—" Ihe FIOWCTS of the ' , meet." " !. 3 Casalight."-7 o'clock. Rona. A den ,sct MaLsoas. Arolo. Arena. 7.30 o'cicek. Rural. At vita.—" Phidee Singh." " Diaraood *et I, :v . Fur particulars ate advt. BRITAII NIA.— Fourth act of " ieginiwP " Thc •a I • " Bluebeard."-4.45. STA DIDAIU,—" MaLlgs Wildfirc." " A Story ..f ;4.4, o'Llts.k. XISCELLAHEOHS. eNtlllt NIKATILRLA, J• 1111.0 1 .11 HALL.--9 9 . OALLRRT or 11.1.17 4 "tor. — Mr. Mark Leman f _ Morning Terformanee at .1. L,Trria HALL, PICCADILLY.—Mt. Fleenor, N.,r k.,,• meet.-8 ROYAL TA 13.11 c Fran , - : Orleans" (gnyinal and ipctor,al eat , r !I • L . , Organ, ne. X TV.AACOL m ml. af no i . osenn s ,C L l ,a t hi r t l a na O ke e F R, flo T og: l or t E x o reh. t ha • r to bear that the Earl of Dolby has ag a i n eak E in the Th pt e. of the s of to his bed on one or two days last week. address to the electors of the northern respecting the Ind' church as "a rash ass. i• expedient, unjust to the members of that • s a - • and not likely to be accepted as final : catholic population of that country." Mr. tv adds that he is "strongly opposed b , •-• • of the difficulty," and sees in •.• • • t. step towards the entire disruption ...i t: . e s . t between ;church and date, which part of the constitution." He expro- • , the reform question is settled, and L •,. • . Bribery Prevention Act to dimish comp:. to the depression of trade, and the aux:•.t.• : the finances have been administer-el. ..:Mr. H.l • cured "that the darkest hour has alo a•iy p •.. and that we may look forward to the f w • deuce and hope." The government. he ad i., !.r: Touted to keep down the expenditaro •- • : limit compatible with the efficiency of and tiny will persevere in this dnectien. Lord Claud John Hamilton. M.P. f-r I. • eery city. bus been appointed the lri,h Leri . sus y, in succession to the Hon. Gerard pr • the poet of Patronage Secretary. His : second son of the Duke of Abercorn, and is age. It is usual fur the lords of the treasury :, :- the three kingdoms, and the ordinary practice .• tint out in Lord Claud Hamilton's appoi:s.::. • - Whitmore being the English, and Sir Gra! )* gomery the Scotch lord. Previously there were . for England, and one for Scotland. the intore,t • having been cared for by Colonel Taylor, the la.. tary secretary. The Marquis of Bute has consented to chair at the anuietreary festival oil St. Andre. - (Nov. 30) of the Scottish Hospital: and his Royal is .• the Rance of Wales has graciously consented to • .. chair at the festival of the Royal Caledonian • spring. His royal highness.' we believe, express,. regret that be will be unable to do the same good two.. the Scottish Hospital on the occasion of the St. And: • Day banquet of that corporation, since prior wren : gem intervene, under which he will be in Denmark at the referred to.—London SAOIIII4II. Mn. GLADSTONE'S SPEZCIIES.—The speeches - livered by Mr. Gladstone in his fortnight's vigorous • , reign in South-West Lancashire, printed in solid m::. • and made up in consecutive newspaper columns. sv till six pages—occupying 36 or 37 columns—of the 7 When it is considered that each speech was devote. • new subject ; that there was no repetition of are--. or language and that they were delivered with ins- • less fluency without the aid of notes or mem0:.,:... though occasionally eutenng elaborately into sem.: will be admitted that they are the most reser c. speeches ever delivered. 11 hen to this is added that -2. • have given enthusiasm and ardour to his sail.:: - throughout the division that they have brought a . • roue clergymen on to his platform and that they • supplied arguments and facts for smaller men to rep::.:. • : in every political circle throughout the country. we also say that they are perhaps the most successful. as • . are certainly the most powerful. eerie* of great elc.: speeches we ever remember to hare hearth —L.r. .11deen. MR. BRIGHT'S INTENDED VISIT.—We ur. stand that the working men's meeting which Mr. is to address on the occasion of his approaching vi-.: Edinburgh will be held in the Corn Exchange • evening of the Mb November, and that Mr. Grant Val, M.P., will preside.—Seasoion. MR. BRAND. M.P., AT LFWES.—On Fri 1 evening a crowded meeting of the liberals sf the boro...ra of Lewes was held in the lecture hall. under the presi• dency of Mr. E. Monk the principal object being : • hear a farewell address from the Might Hon. Heury Brand, one of the representatives of the borough, who u. consequence of being deprived of his seat by the new Reform Bill. is at present seeking the suffrages of th electors of Cambridgeshire. Mr. Brand met with a m enthusiastic reception. DEATH OF THE QrEEN'S SURGEON AT W1N1 , 4 —We regret to have to reconl the death of Dr. ,7 Brown, late surgeon to her Majesty the Queen at W - r Castle, which occurred at his residence, Sheet-e. Windsor, at an early hour on Saturday morning. i•:. Brown, in his official capacite, had attended her Ma;e-',• the P rince Consort. and the royal children for is t.l pars. Owing to failing health he was compelled to ro- !."4 his office a year or two back, and was SlltVetstled by Fairbenk. He, however, from time to time attended Queen and royal family. Dr. Brown was about tei yistr• of age at the time of he decease, which was more unsie ctiately brought about by dropsy and a diseased list • Dr. Brown leaves a widow and two children to lam a: his lON. DF.ATH OF MR. FREDERIC DlCKENS.—YeSter,'.:ty morning the sod closed over the dust of Frederic Dickens. latest surviving brother of Mr. Charles Dicke,- Mr. Frederic Dickens—who has resided in Darlington du:. ing the last 12 months—had for three weeks before 1. • death suffered from an abscess in the lung. Ou Sun !ay and Monday last he wall considerable better. and no .1. :- ger was feared. About half-past 3 o'clock on Tue.-lay morning, however, he because seriously ill, and shortly after 4 o'clock. The geniality—it was soinerhois more to those who could see below the mules. of Mr. Dickens' nature, and his ready fund of humour am! "co dote will not readily be forgotten by those who kites best. and liked him best. —Darts 'erten Tomes. WRECK OF A GOVERNMENT VESSEL OFF LAND Elias—Loss or Smarm Leese.—We regret to have : • record the total wreck off the Land's End of one of h•-:- Majesty's vessels, with the loss of sixteen of those .• t be a rd. The Devon, a lighter which for some years 1•• st been constantly engaged in the conveyance of stores he: . tween the various government dockyards, left Devote , .• on Wednesday with stores for Pembroke and Queonst.:s• - • She put in at Falmouth, and left for Pembroke on Thurso is evening, having on board a general cargo of dock stores .e. a few passengers. She passed the Longships Lighthouse. Land's End, at 1 o'clock on Friday morning. the wind been: fresh from the north-west, the night dark. , then o-10 squalls of rain. The captain. Mr. Helsel'. gave the course N.N.E., which was followed, wheu suddenly. at It minutes after two o'clock, the vessel struck on th. Brisk!", very dangerous rocks half a mile from land oft St. Just. A considerable sea was running, which speedily beat the ill-fated vessel to pieces. So ne of the crew we:- • washed on to the rocks, to which they clung, exposed the weather and to the danger of being waiiti.sl throughout the night. In the morning the wool. ws• Perceived , and messengers were APIA to Senni•n, rii miles distant for the lifeboat, Cousins sad St y Anne, of Bideford, of the National Lifeboat luditio-,e there stationed, which was speedily got under wsv pulled to the Brisson'. To obtain ace ~ to the °`-'- wail a task of no little difficulty and danger, but th' boat C7llll behaved with great gallantry, find suscee.l ! in rescuing t/se only survivor, Davis, *enter Me': The coastguard officer had gon e tl or in the lifeboat so the rocket apparatus, and when the boat mocha the to .• he fired a line across it, which was seised by the man. e• a life-buoy being hauled to him he was brought on bo t ! the lifeboat almost entirely naked and exhausted. .sac d safely brought to land. Among the ltl drownel,, at • Richard Mason (the master), VI ilharn Belford. Th Gibbs, James Voeper, two men, ono woman, and t hildren, peamegere. p 1 I • 1.1 / 31 ec 1;1 X 10 :;. 111 L ; te : a EC CI ri IC (41 11 14 jl 1 SI t el tl C - 4 ti et LI lu DI It II IC 1.1 11 It et tL Lc tb all 11 ea La ml 1.1 11 C: I. 1 1, C I C 1 :3 i• • • is f • e .1 • • • 1 1