The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-05 00:00:00

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Tim Eviatnre, THE MARRIED BACHELOR.—Aftar which WAITING FOR TIEN UNDERGROUND.—The latest Edition Cl KENILWORTH.—And JACK'S DELIGHT. BRITANNIA. mm EsitiMVO, THESTKAYki Mrs. E. Yarnold.—The Wondrous Brothers Vletorelll on the Treble Trapeze ; The Great Vsfal Troupe: The Delaranti : H. Wardlni ; The Louisville —And THE FALSE MOTHER. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tues Afternoon, Oh Om. To-miniow—morntu g , uh lot Afternoon. Oh. 3Am. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5. Duanvo the last thirteen weeks, according to the RZGISTRAR-GEXERAY:B return, 4,714 persons have fallen victims to cholera, and 2,298 deaths have been caused by diarrhoea in the metropolis. Practically it is not possible to decide exactly where diarrhoea ends and cholera begins, so that for purposes of comparison it is best to combine the numbers, and to consider that 7,012 persons have lost their lives through choleraic disorder. This figure represents the mortality during what, by a pleasing stretch of the imagination, we may term the summer months. This is a terrible total, and one which in all probability will some day be looked back upon with astonishment, if not with incredl.lttn irom thci . - scent outbreak to make us feel that if we do not as yet know the whole truth respecting " explosions" of cholera in cities, we are able to recognise the enormous danger to which we are continually ex posed by our miserable system of water supply: But if we contrast this figure with the records of past epidemics, the result will afford us no small con solation and hope for the future. In 1864, dur ing the summer quarter, choleraic disorder de stroyed 11,777 persons in the metropolis. In 1849 no less than 15,643 lives were sacrificed to the same disease during a similar period. In the figures 16,643, 11,777, and 7,012 we observe this curious relation—the deaths in 1849 exceeded those in 1854 by about 4,000, whilst those in 1866 fell short of the mortality of 1854 by an almost precisely similar number. The coincidence here must of course be looked upon as accidental, or at least as non-essential. But the steady de cline in fatality of a disease wnich, so far as indi vidual cases have gone, shows that it has lost none of its virulence, is a fact of impor tance, and one which must be considered as in the highest degree reassuring. It is a curious instance of the contempt which is brought about by familiarity with danger, that although the deaths from choleraic disorder last week averaged 34 daily, there is a very preva lent popular idea that cholera has almost vanished from London. At the outset of the epidemic, a much smaller figure than this was sufficient to fill the public mind with apprehension, and even to stimulate the local authorities to unwonted exertions. Now, however, the same bodies are quietly ending the various arrangements which have been in force for the purpose of house-to house visitation and medical assistance to the poor. We must repeat what we have before urged, that such a step as this is still premature. The disease is doubtless declining, but by no means at such a rate as to warrant us in feeling free from danger. This will be seen very clearly by a reference to the figures during September. They stand thus : First week, 289 deaths from cholera and diarrhoea ; second week, 292 ; third week, 248 ; fourth week, 240. Computing the average daily deaths in each week the figures ran thus : 41, 43, 35, 34. So small a decline during weather which was un usually ill adapted for the extension of choleraic influence may well make us feel some anxiety now that the thermometer and barometer have risen, and October seems disposed to change places with August. The tone of the Raotantaa-Gartesm.'s return betrays the same feeling. " The cholera " matter" he says, " is now diffused very equally " all over London ; and as the waters of the " upper Thames, of the Lea, and of the wells be " come infected, the utmost exertions of the autho " rities will be required to ensure its decline." We learn from the same source that in Dublin the number of fatal cases is still increasing ; 98 per sons died of cholera in that city beat week as against 65, 55, 52, 41 in the four weeks pre viously. It is evident that the different quarters of our metropolis have no reason to expect an immunity simply because the outbreak at the East End has culminated and declined. For prac tical purposes they may be considered as so many distinct towns, and in themselves just as liable to a weekly increase of the disorder when once it has invaded them se Dublin, Manchester, or any THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1866. other city. It is certainly a fact that cholera, ' attacking a district, tends to csilininafe rapidly and then decline more slowly than it arose. But it Is equally true that in a large city like our; ibe whole mortality has always been made up of a suc cession of such local outbreaks, and the present extensive diffusion of the influence throughout the metropolis •is exactly the means by which such local visitations are excited. Everyone willbe disposed to echo the Rroseraut- GENERAL'S observations respecting the medical Office!" of health. " Each health officer," he writes, " should eons:der that the safety not only " of the people of his own district, but of three " millions of people, depends on his activity. It " is to be regretted that these inadeluately paid " officers cannot devote the whole of their time to " the duties of their important office." The pre sent is the first cholera epidemic in which these useful officers have been employed. Of the im portant service which they have rendered there can be no question ; indeed it is fair to believe that a considerable amount of the decrease of fatality to which we have referred may be laid to the arrangements carried out by them. But the experience of the present outbreak has been enough to show that their powers have been hampered, and their utility much interfered with, by the system under which they are appointed. The time must arrive when the medical officer of health will hold a position independent of the local authorities ; when, indeed, he will be their director as well as adviser in sanitary matters, and act as the responsible agent of Government in overlooking local arrangements. At present there are no less than forty-seven of these officers scattered throughout the metropolis. In nearly every case they are men engaged in the active practice of their profession, and able therefore to give up to sanitary duties only that small part of their time for which the salary allowed is a remuneration. They are appointed by the local authorities, whom therefore it is their direct in terest to please. In these circumstances the amount of self-sacrificing devotion which they have shown is something remarkable. In many cues the officer of health has had to obtain his requirements at the cost of incessant appeals to bodies which always include a number of persons whose prejudices are only equalled by their obstinacy. We cannot help feeling that the only road to a really ade quate supervision of sanitary matters in the me tropolis lies in its division into a few great dis t icta with an officer of health to each. This official should be so remunerated as to enable him to give his whole time to the work ; his appoint ment should rest with the Government, and it should be his business to see that the very com plete orders contained in the Sanitary Acts are faithfully carried out. Factories Acts, shoe.' to be sound by our expel:anal, have as yet bees but imperfectly applied. In his seal, however, for the sneerer. from asel and oppreesive trades, Lord Shaftsabmi wens to leapt the sixtent,hundred thousand persons who are undesthe hopeless seifdom which is the lot of our agricultural labourers. Excilog in a short and unsatisfactory passage, interpolated apparently in reply to Professor Favrcett's challenge, he makes no reference to them. The hearers of the briokfield impress him deeply the miseries of the oorn and grass fields are passed by. The landlords in parliament bore,thechild partinrefcaming the factory system of England, and the manufacturers are bound to return the service by the reform—not less nacre sary—of the land system of the country. Or are we to writ until that " aping -tide of self-confident democracy," whirl, according to Lord Shaftesbury, "is now nigh at hand," sweeps away with some things that ought to pariah, much that, if toryiam will permit, it would be desirable to preserve' The Morning Post thinks that at the present Wage the best service that can be done is simply as the Congress does—to talk about the questions which are brought before it, to turn them over and MR and manipulate them until they take shape and form, and to give to the world such conclusions as may fairly and immediately be drawn from them. Every such oonclusion is a seed of improvement which cannot fail in due time to bear fruit. However precisionista may cavil at the term "social science," the Tekgraph contends that it none the less in dicates a field of labour which has no saperice—perhaps no rival—in the richness of its details and the momentous character of the interests which it involves. The con grew may worthily engage in the labours of the profoundest philosophers as well as the moat practical philanthropists. Nor do the men to whom the modern social reforms are chiefly due fail to appreciate the benefit it can confer on the cause for which they have laboured. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. frills DAY.) THE TREATY OP PEACE Brrwzmr APSTRTA AtiD ITALY. Contrasting the circumstances under which the treaty of peace between Austria and Italy was signed on Wedneeday last with those that accompanied a similar signature between Germany and Italy in 1183, the rind proceed' to remark that the present peace has been won by a moral struggle infinitely more glorious than the material success of the old Lombard League. As it was, after all, Italian patienoe, sacrifice, and devotion that carried the victory, let us heat no more of the humi liation of a deliverance achieved by France or Prussia. It little matters whether Italy was actually won by the Italians. The essential is that it was won for them. It little sigefies how they came by their own, if they only learn Low to keep it. The position of North Italy is now a formidable one, and a nation of men ought always to command sufficient strength to hold it against all comers. But to sz, - , men they need not be n i .:.iers. The strength of a nation is in those public and private vii toes which convert in one day, in case of need, a whole nation into all army. That self. government may be a curse as well as a blessing the Italians may learn from the examples of Greece and Spain. Independence is a goad thing, but public security is a better ; nor are well-balanced finances and light taxation to be despised. Until lately, observes the Daily News, foreign domina tion in Italy was almost universal, and to all but a few patriot' this state of things seemed part of the order of nature. Looking at the magnitude of the transformation, and remembering that as late as the spring of 1859 it was common to find the notion of a free and united Italy de i:ded as Utopian by English speakers and writers, we may well wonder at the rapidity with which the great change has been effected. To Englishmen it must neces sarily appear a great gain to Italy that its nationality has been formed under the influence of freedom, and that the desire for free institutions preceded the demand for unity and facilitated its accomplishment. In looking at the result of so many efforts and sacrifices, it is impossible not to think of some who laboured long for their country, but were not permitted to see their work crowned with success. The Telegraph finds a subject of speculation in the thoughts of the young Emperor of Austria when in the act of Wednesday he recognised the greatest disaster of his reign. Ey two mighty outbursts of one force, whose nature he did not understand—the force of nationality—he was first irritated, then disconcerted, then overthrown. Now that the contest is over, he can perceive the vastness of the agency, of which kings and statesmen were but the ort conscious instruments. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. While fearing that the above association, though be coming every year more social will become less scientific, yet the Tames bas never had a doubt that such an annual assembling is likely to do a great deal of good. They talk about things which are important, end enlist many who have leisure in the cause of practical well-doing. The association has no reason to regret the choice of its new president, the useful nature of Lord Shaftesbury's address, contrasting favourably with Lord Brougham's tendency to disquisitions on everything that can affect mortality. Fixing upon the one subject to which Lord Shaftesbury devoted himself, the relative rekogression of the poorest class, the Times proceeds to argue that the remedy is in the public opinion from which the state de rives authority to act. Until this opinion allows the State to interfere ►nd claim the tender mind as its own there will be no thorough education in England ; and before the evil of prostrating toll can be effectually met the nation must consent to enlarge the powers of the state. The facts as to the female labour in the brick-fields, and the general details which show how moral degradation is a direct consequence of the wretched state of the dwellings of the lowest class, all seem to point one way—that is, in the direction of more efficient state control. The most stalwart partisans of laissez faire must be shaken in their creed when they con sider these things. It may be that we shall have to ap proach to continental usages in many of these matters. Mow far, and by what machinery, are questions which the Social Science people might well consider. Now that it is uneerstood, remarks the Deily New, that the aims of the association are practical, the obstacles created by its pretentious and blundering title may be said to have been overcome, and the misapprehension of its character fostered by the discursive harangues of its venerable president removed ; and though no thinker of the highest eminence has ever made it his channel of com munication with the world, the association does a good work in gathering up the fragments of knowledge and phi lanthropy which eie collectively of importance. On the condition of the manufacturing poor, Lord Shaftesbury speaks with a fulness of knowledge, and an ardour of ze al which deserve all respect. On the themes to which he has drawn attention it may be said that the employment of machinery has altered the conditions of labour, and that apart from motives of philanthropy, the industrial inter ests of England require that our artisans be neither overworked nor under-taught. The principles of the LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE KING OF HANOVER'S PROTEST.. The address to the European Powers by the King of Hanover, a brief passage from which has appeared in one of Renter's telegrams, occupies between two and three columns of the Viennese journals. It is dated from " Hetzing, near Vienna, September 23." • The protest commences with the assertion that previous to the outbreak of the war the Hanove rian government had used all its influence for the preservation of peace, and by stating that, in full confidence in the loyalty of the Prussian govern ment, the aid of Austria was declined. The strictest neutrality was kept. If the Austrian corps which had occupied Holstein went through the country a Prussian corps did the same. The Hanoverian army was ou the com pletest peace footing, and the greatest surprise was felt when a demand was made on the 15th of June that the King should renounce a portion of his sovereignty and independence, only one day being left for the consideration of the matter. The Hanoverian ministry unanimously decided that the propositions were unacceptable, while they expressed a fervent trust that the friendly relations between the two governments would not be interrupted. On that very night the Prussian envoy responded by a de claration of war ; and the Prussian corps d'armde, which was in the neighbourhood of Harbourg, on , its way, as was thought, to Minden, even took up a hostile attitude some hours before the declara tion was made. The King submits this treacher ous conduct to the judgment of the civilised world, who, his Majesty ,is convinced, will recognise that the plan of taking pos session of Hanover had been pre-arranged, and that the original proposition which had been made to it to remain neutral was simply a device to lull it into a delusive security. Unable to oppose an effective resistance the Hanoverian troops were centred near Gottingen, and negotia tions entered into for a suspension of arms; but before the period agreed to had expired the army was shamefully attacked, and, despite a brilliant victory at the commence ment, was compelled to surrender. At the end of the war his Majesty addressed a letter to the Prus sian King, which, contrary to the usage of sove reigns, was not accepted. An offer was then made by him to abdicate in favour of his son ; but all overtures were in vain, and the insidious occupation of the kingdom was followed by its incorporation with the Prussian States. The only pretext, the right of conquest, supposes a war con formable to the law of nations. But there had been no such war ; it would have been morally impossible on the part of a near relative, a sovereign friend, a German prince ; the case was simply one of lawful defence against an unpro voked attack. The address concludes in the fol lowing terms : In view of the facts recited we protest deeply and solemnly against the unjustifiable invasion of our country, which the corps dans& of the King of Prussia effected on the 15th of June and the following days ; against the oc cupation of our kingdom by these troops; against the usurpation of our rights and prerogatives which the agents of Prussia have committed, and which they may yet commit hereafter ; against the injury to our property, our revenue, and chattels of every kind, which we and our royal house have experienced from Prussia, and which we may experience from it hereafter ; against the spoliation which the public treasury of Han over has sustained under the Prussian aeministration and may distain hereafter ; against the persecutions, losses, and prejudice to which our faithful subjects have been exposed in consequence of the unjust and illegal acts of the administration of the King of Prussia, and to which they may be exposed hereafter ; against the obstacles which the avid administration has brutally opposed to the mani festations of our beloved subjects in favour of the main tenance of our dynasty and of the independence of Hanover, whilst it excited and favoured, by the most disloyal ma noeuvres, manifestations in the opposite sense ; against the ill-will of the King of Prussia, who repelled the measure s which we took, or ordered to be taken, with him or his government in order to re-establish peace between us. Finally, we protest above all, in face of the whole world, against that taking possession of our kingdom, and its in corporation into Prussia, the definitive accomplishment o which was announced on the 28th of September of this year, as well as against all the consequences of that act, declaring that this incorporation, or annexation, is an infamous usurpation, a criminal and detestable spolia tion, a flagrant violation of the European treaties, of all the principles of the law of nations, and of the inviolability of states and crowns. This solemn declaration, which we make also for our legal successor, has ptincipalb for its object to repel eve': attack on the rights of sovereignty which belong to us in virtue of the right of inheritance, and which have been sanc tioned and guaranteed by all the European powers. We invoke the aid of all the powers which have recognised our sovereignty and the independence of our kingdom in the conviction that they will never per mit that force override. law, as such a principle applied now by Prussia would menace in the future the existence of all the monarchies and all the legitimate states of the world. We declare, in conclusion, that we will never re nounce the rights of sovereigntyover our country, and that we shall always consider as illegal, null, and void, all the acts which the Prussian government or its agents have ac complished, or may accomplish, in virtue of the usurpa tion, the responsibility of which we cast upon him who is its author. Let ■ll who are interested take this as a warning. We look to future events with full confidence in the justice of our cause, and are animated by the firm hope that Divine Providence will not be long in putting an end to the per ' fidious plots, to the injustice and the acts of violence, of ; which so many States and peoples have become the victims with us and our brave Hanoverians. (Signed) GEORGE, King. (Countersined) COMA PLATEN HALLERRUND, AUSTRIAN POLAND. Count Goluchowski, the new Polish Governor of Galicia, has been received in his journey to the seat of his government with very great enthusiasm, the people seeing in the fact of his appointment the full promise, if not of its national in dependence, at least the right of self-develop ment, and of living its own life, with Polish laws, manners, and language. The Russian press does not conceal its vexation at seeing a propagandism of Polish ideas so near the frontiers of the pro_ vinces which the Muscovite government is seeking to make Russian. GREECE. Letters from. Athens state that General Kalergis has refused the government of the island of Crete, and the command in chief of the armed forces con ferred upon him by the decree of the insurrec tionary committee. Public prayers had been offered in allthe churches of Athena for the triumph of the Cretan insurrec tion. The municipality of the city had undertaken to supply the necessities of the Candiote families who had fled to Athens, and the government had set apart a sum of 40,000 drachmas for their relief. A letter from Constantinople mentions the arri val there of a Turkish frigate having on board 700 wounded Turkish and Egyptian soldier. (acme's TELIGHLIIB. ) RAILWAYS IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 1. The government intend to appoint s mixed com mission to devise the beet means of extending the existing railway lines in Turkey. T.I W. i r j 7 11 ,—L-A ztremit -- ‘ 1 W.l R. I ' l to _ I I 13 Nairn Aberdeen Leith 40.36'551 N.M. 1 1 N.E. Imo 1 Ardroasan 30.35.66. E. 2 3 E. o Greencastle 20.35.65: N.E. 1 3 B.W. ml 1 Valentla 30.73 11. E. 1 1 N. oe 4 Cape Clear 30.30,56 N.E. 3 3 N.E. in 3 Liverpool 30.3454 N.W. 1 2 j E.S.E. em 1 Holyhead Penzance 30.2960 N.E. 2 2 S.E. mo 2 greet .. 30.24 59 N.N.E. 4 3 N.H. inn 0.16. 4 Lorient 30.160 1, N. 2 2 N.E. o 0.01 , 2 Rochefort.. K - - Plymouth 30.2 7 '00. E.S . E. 1 2 L.E.R mf —I 1 Weymouth Portimouth 30.27 SS, E.N.K. 3 2 N.E. zr - 0.03 2 London 90.24 56. N.N.E. 1 2 N.E. mo Yarmouth 30.2654' E. 2 1 E. j ot— I 1 Scarborough. 30.3155 N. N.E 1 1 N.E. nit 0.01. 2 Shields . 30.3665; N.E. 2i 2 N.E. Im 2 IIIBCILL&NEOU8 TOPICS. Treating of our salmon supply, the Tines shows that the ;ntervention of the government came not an hour too soon, and that even the beginning of a better system has resulted not only in a decided increase of supply, but in a perceptible diminution of price. Our lordly fish. mongers of the metropolis have not yet condescended to lower their terms, but in the county generally nehmen, for the last year or two, has been both cheaper and better. It should be remembered, too, that this decline in price, if not very considerable in itself, has been established in the face of a general rise in the chief articles of food. The large pecuniary resources of the King of Hanover will enable him, the Daily News says, to keep up the forms and state of court, but Englishmen will feel regret at seeing members of our own royal family joining the crowd of intrigu'rg princes without a definite and recognised position. The King's course will place many of his subjects in a position of great difficulty, but otherwise make only the slightest difference to political history. The regret which is felt for him in Hanover is personal rather than political. He prevented improvements, both in Hanover and in Germany, and even those who sympathise with him would think twice before taking any measures for bringing him back. We doubt whether a single person out of his family believes there is the s'ighteet chance of the restoration of his throne ; and these considerations make it to be regretted that King George and his son should surrender themselves to vain wishes, and, to no purpose, keep their friends in Hanover in a position of 1.1114/84310411 which ill rewards their devotion.' According to the Herald the person who has decided the Brecon election in favour of the conservatives is Mr. Bright, and it adds that he may rely upon it that he has rendered the seine service in a multitude of instances that will not be revealed until the next general election. This =lea stupid and unscrupulous abuse of everything vener able, rational, or decent, has gone on for years with a sort of placid forgiving and forgetting, on which he has at last presumed once too often. England is a law-loving, order loving country ; but, as be will discover henceforth, hat not a moment's toleration for fools and firebrands. This the Herald takes to be the moral of the Brecon election. the (court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 3. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Lieutenant- General the Hon. Charles Grey, drove to the Spittal of Glenshee on Monday, and rode on ponies over the bill to Kindrogan, from whence the royal party drove to Pnlkeld. Her Majesty Nisains at Dunkeid, on a visit to the Dowager Duchess of Athole. A Committee of the I irds of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Right Hon. Spencer H. Val_ pole and the Right Hon. H. Coley. Mr. Helps and Colo nel Harness attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Hon; Kong, Ceylon, Labuan, Gibraltar, Malta, and Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricardo arrived at their residence in Stratton-street last evening from a tour of visits in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are enter taining a select party at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. The Duke of Sutherland's yacht "(incline, with the Duke of Edinburgh on board, was stranded on the rocks, near Boryhead Harbour, yesterday morning, but got off. _ The Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., is on a visit to Portland, in Doraetthire. We (Herald) are informed that Mr. Rowland Knyvett Wilson, M.A., bas resigned his fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. It is stated that his ground for so doing is his um; 'llingness to bold an office, the tenants of which are assumed to be bona fide members of the church of England. Mr. Wilson was the senior classic in his year at Cambridge, and is the nephew and heir-pre sumptive of Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, of Delhi, Bart. Yesterday, Mr. Taylor, the Government Com missioner, opened an inquiry at Liverpool intothe sanitary condition of the borow3h, and heard evidence as to the injury to public health caused by the various deposits of night-soil. The report of the medical officer for the last week states the deaths at 437, which is an incrc-se over the corrected average of the fait ten years of 147. Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., has accepted the invitation of the committee to attend the West Riding demonstration in Leeds, on Monday next, and speak at the evening meeting in the Victoria-hall. The committee charged with the preparations for the Bright banquet in Drblin have determined upon a 255. dinner ticket, and have engaged the largest available apartment in the city for the purpose of the " demon stration." The list of the committee printed in the Dublin papers comprises 18 members of parliament. A meeting of the liberals of the county Tip perary, convened by requisition, was held yesterday at Titurles. It was most numerously attended. Resolution■ were unanimously agreed to, inviting the Hon. Captain Charles White, late candidate foe the county Dublin, to contest the representation of Tipperary with the Derbyite catholic candidate, Mr. Waldron. The requisition to Cap tain White is now being signed. A letter in the iticlipendauce attributes to Prince Napoleon the Intention of being present aa an eye-witness during hie coming stay in England at some of the reform meetings which are to be held. The Empress Eugdnie has, it is said, addressed an autograph letter to the Holy Father, requesting his permission to defray in the coming year the expenses of the new foreign legion from her private purse. The offer has been graciously accepted. " Prince and the Princess Frederick of Holland," a Stockholm letter says, "hare arrived here on a visit. The King and the Queen went out to meet them. The royal family and the newly arrived guests repaired to ilriksdaL" A Florence letter says :—" General Garibaldi two days before leaving proceeded to the Villa Mario di Candle at Pino, on the old Bologna road, where Madame Gialis Grid now resides. The general visited the celebrated amtatriee, and expressed a wish to hear her sing. She acceded willingly to this fancy of the general, and tang to him one of the mat brilliant cavatinas of her repniory." One of President Johnson's former slaves called on him at Cincinnati, daring the recent tear. The negotiations with the Porte respecting the capital and guarantees of the Smyrna and Aidin Railway have been satisfactorily concluded. THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. CORFU, Ocr. 2. Later advice' received here from Candia give further details of the last battle between the Can diotes and the Egyptians. On the 22nd nit. 20,000 Torso-Egyptian hoops attacked the Greek camp, which extended from Malesca to Keramia. The Greeks repulsed every onslaught of the enemy's infantry. On the following day the battle was renewed, when the Greeks, who had received a reinforcement of 2,000 men, totally defeated the imperial troops. The latter are said to have lost 3,000 men, taken prisoners. The remainder of the Egyptians were taken on board the Turkish squadron, near Malexa. The Turkish troops have been again reinforced by the arrival of 8,000 Egyptians, 7 Turkish battalions, and a con siderable force of artillery. JAPAN. (By Overland Telegraph from Galls.) SHANGHAI, Sir?. 5._ Advices received here from Japan announce the reported defeat of the Tycoon by Prince Choiahu. A treaty of commerce and navigation between Italy and Japan was signed at Yeddo on the 25th August. It will come into operation on the lst January, 1867. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, gm 4, 3 45 r.r. An Imperial proclamation issued this day ter minates the state of siege in this city.—Tina, Second Edition. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE SOIREE. Last evening a soiree in connexion with the congress took place in the reception-rooms of the Amine Courts. The Earl of Shaftesbuiy was amongst the cam_ pany, and there were also present the majority of the most distinguished persons who have taken an active part in the proceedings of the congress. The magnificent hall was fully ilium ,ated, and from its grand proportions and the convenient arrangements of wl';ch it is capable, proved to be admirably adapted to the purpose. The promenade was in all respects most af,...eable, and it was gratifying to feel that, although the company were free to regard the event as intended especially for their delectation, the objects of the congress were kept in view as far as was compatible with an entertainment of this description. Many specimens of handicraft were exhibited amongst other features of attraction, and these included specimens of skill in the industrial arts from various homes, refngar, and reformatories in different parts of the United Kingdom. Conspicuous in the list of institutions of this nature were the Edinburgh Wellington Reformatory, the Cambridge Industrial School, the Leamin7ton Female Temporary Home, the Kirkdale Industrial Ralfged School, the Girls' School of Industry, Perth; the 1, nited Industrial School, Edinburgh ; the Paddington Home for Girls, and the Cripples Home, Marylebone-road. The many proofs of industif and skill emanating from the inmates of these various institutions excited much interest and attention, and it was gratifying to find that the representatives of those institution.— more especially the lady who presided over the supply of " arts and manufactures," sent by the Cripples' Home— took an active part, not only in extolling the merits of the young folks under their charge, but also in pointing out the great advantages sect ding from the benevolent mea sures now being taken for the repression of crime, and the employment of those who had been bred in indolence. In the evening a meeting was held in the Crown Cour', for the put pose of giving information as to the work of reformatories and industrial schools in different parts of the world. The chair was taken by the Earl of Shaftes buv. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, ocrosea 6, 8 L.Y. REM ARK& A eeneral increase of barometric pressure, *amounting to nearly two-tenths of an inch, has occurred over the British Isles and France. The winds are still Fght or moderate, chiefly ;rout the not.heast. Temperatures continue rather high, and there Is hut little evaporation. The weather is overcast r -misty. Strong earth-currents existed last night on the eastern and north western lines of telegraph. According to the Gazette de You, Count Bismarck has refused the order of St. Hubert, which the Bavarian government had conferred upon him. A German correspondent of the Temps repre sents the court party at Berlin as sedulously attempting to undermine the influence of M. Bismarck with the King, seeking to arouse his Majesty's jealousy by representations of the undue prominence accorded to M. Bismarck in the public mind. The correspondent further hints that M. Bismarck's illness was more or less feigned as a part of his strategy in return. The crowded audience at the Porte Saint-Martin assembled to witness the " Parisiens it Londres," had a narrow escape on Tuesday night. At half-past 11 the curtain rose for the fifteenth taMeau, which connate of a dicor entirely in crystal, raised slowly by means of pullies from the stage in order to display the inner scene illumi nated by electric light. An immense number of actors and actresses were on the stage, when a crack was heard, and down fell with a tremendous crash the whole crystal cur tain. Women screamed, men jumped out of the boxes ; the theatre was filled with a shower of splintered glass, which half blinded everyone present, and in consequence of which it was extremely difficult to ascertain the real amount of damage done. Fortunately the gas was in stantly turned off from the footlights and stage lamps, and the curtain lowered. From Saltzburg, in Upper Austria, it is reported that Baron de Lerchenfeld, formerly Bavarian Minister at Vienna, has just met with a serious accident. He audtwo other travellers, when making au excursion, fell among the glaciers of Untersberg, and it was not until three hours afterwards that they could be succoured. The baron was very severely braised about the head. It is announced from Canada that a large emigra tion has been going on during all this year from the British provinces to the western states of the Union. Mechanics, especially, thus change their homes, over 1,000 carpenters haring left Quebec during the present year. . . Experiments are shortly to be made at fortress Monroe, under the superintendence of a military board, to test the resistance of iron-plated fortifications to heavy crdnanee in comparison It ith the resistance of earthworks and stone forts. SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A GENTLEMAN FARMUL —An inquest was held yesterday at Newton-with-Scales, in West lAnashire, on the body of a farmer named John Richardson, who lived on his own estate. It seems that the deceased went into his garden with a loaded double barrelled gun for the purpose of shooting, and afterwards to pick up some fruit which had been blown off the trees. He went into the garden about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and shortly afterwards a shot was heard ; no notice was taken of it, but, as Mr. Richardson had sot returned at 4 o'clock, a search was made for him, and he was found in the garden in a dreadful condition. From the position of the body and the gun it appeared that while the deceased was stooping to pick up some fruit the butt end of the gun, which he had over his left shoulder, became entan gled in one of the trees and that one barrel bad exploded. The contents had entered his left thigh and torn open the flesh for sor 6 inches. He then seems to have fallen and the burning wadding afterwards set his clothes on fire. He was burnt is a shocking manner from the abdomen to the throat. Some shot that he had with him in a beg was rotated. A verdict in aorerdance with the above hots was returned by the jury. LAW INTELLIGE . (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) rig /Li 7111/ICIB cnairinua. The bankrupt wee a merchant of Pen-court, P ai i 6 A street. Th e adjudication was mad e os the peese,-1 creditor 7 , Mr. Joseph Fry, of Gresham-bow, OW street. This was the sitting for examinaticesead Bust The liabilities are WV — nrrarde 300"...t h 4 14, 025/, i s i n respec t of bills discounted ; 13, 7,005 f. h unsecured creditors, and 7,359/. t o th ose hew _ Assets—Propert Oren UP, I ,OZI. ; data Zan chore, 7,0791. This proPerty eratiata,„ vias ersi s !„; an d charges over two ships—the ...Lavern sad% AR °reread, Gurney, mid Co. (Limited) an e 1 creditors for 2,4 M., holding as seonrity a mooed m e *: Mr. on the Cleopatra. Lieresnoe appeared for the lankenps, Mr. Downing, far the assignee', did se e °ppm, aor any creditor. The bankrupt attributed his failure to AA el thel s of Pinto an d Pere; to whom he had beams Bailee h extent of 9,0001. He had gone to the wag swat stay s c4sll ll 4teed r r . Fry, the til lat i do ratt(lnjbe attisL Y : m in that ensw finli er to yd ille sioner, dated that he bad thoroughly iarestigssed eesek and was satisfied that the epsomite were quia emit' His Honour granted the order. TN NZ P. A. CANTER.-1N OLD BANIPNPTCT. The bankrupt, described as an asgstent h a h a dealer, of Wood's-mews, near Groevence-squale ow* fore the court with debts of 1,3101. kng ago as l Mr. Re.ds t t ew when tha ! the th ba ere nk u rtipt a formerwas in balibighi besi t : publian and horse dealer, in St. John-sh ee t Boa,: obtained his certificate under that builoraic no ZT applied for it a preliminary to obtainingla AW N ; under the new bankruptcy. His Honour, on referring to th e o ld observed that the bankrupt had never passed pie ist lion, but bad been adjourned sine die, es* i s f a sewhinte being unsatidaetory. Mr. Reed stated that the debts ander tbs inn* Tapley had all been dim:baled under a satemp l y solvency. The requisite notices bad beta turns a l b one a to oppose. Hir=r said he could not grant the cerihkeheale the old bankruptcy without first pawin g th e h et Itinhb. tion ; and if he - did that he should be psai og it a smu t which had been declared insufficient. Reed again urged that the debt under die fed isk, ruptcy had been disposed of by the insolvsesy. His Honour said he would °onsider the eraran,sel the meantime would look at the proceeding' lai r % insolvency. Adjourned till the 9th November. IN as CAPTAIN JOHN AI:GM:ITT/1 rimirween. The bankrupt was described as a captain sad** of volunteers, of Hounslow. He ascribes hie Weenie. ' non-receipt of moneys from his mother, k i father's will being disputed and being sued by naa rs ditors. The debts are about 1,60 W. — This Wall the rifling for examination and tint the balance-sheet Lad not beau filed. The not appear but sent a medical certificate of b from B rwjstaira Mr. Johnson, for the assignees asked for ea afisne. meat for six weeks, which was ordered. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) IMMO AND DANCING The court sat this morning, and again pateadel the dispoaal of applications for licenses for n dancing, under the act of the 25th George 11., Mr. Henry Pownall, chairman of the court, pa 418,11 there were several magistrates on the bench. Joseph Gladman, of the Eastuor Castle, Urdceenen, Somers-town, applied for the renewal of a linen music. _ _ Mr. Sleigh supported the application, but it spank that he (the applicant) had disposed of his inters) la 161 house to another person, and he had neglectedie givens necessary notices, the license was not granted. In an adjourned case, that of Henry Richard Bfasi, yr a music license for the Talbot Tavern, Caladocusersek Islington, being called on, Mr. Sleigh said that this was a very peculiar sod et% same time a very melancholy Cile. When the cass sM called on yesterday an application was made to prim its consideration until to-day in consequence of the Ow of Mr. Speed. Little was it thought that at they this application was made Mr. Speed had got on el bed, opened the window, and jumped out, and babied upon the spot. Under these painful circumstance. lint plication was th►t the license should be granted 6) Ye widow, and thus secure to her and her children ease d the benefits that would have been enjoyed by her WE* nate husband. . . The Chairman inquired if there was any will Maim {rag the property to the widow ? Mr. Sleigh said that there had not been time tosisuth that, but he suggested that the license should lammed to the widow as en act of sympathy towards her isle her affliction. Mr. T. .7, Bosnian said, as the court would ben* during the day, it would be better that an assmiselft should be made as to whether the widow would berms possessed under a will, and if so, then she could elms si a later period of the day, and the license could at mate granted to her. Mr. Sleigh said that should be done, sod the we widow, who appeared overwhelmed with grief, left ths court. Acelans Sturcke applied for a license for mato Me Brown Bear, Leman-street, WhitechapeL A memorial was presented from the authotitise d 111 parish of Wbitechapel, stating that this house was tis resort of thieves and prostitutes, and that &achieves going on there every night. Mr. Williams supported the applicatioe, but the lions was refused. William Hendebourek applied for the reeeirelof ems& license to the City of Gloucester Tavern, St. LOW& terrace, Chelsea. A long memorial was presented against the mod, which was signed by the authorities of Chelsea 531014 on the ground that fights. brawls ' and indecent took place in the streets, and that the quiet of the bourhood was eompletly disturbed. Mr. Begley wu baud in support of the mentmil,lad Mr. Sleigh against it, the latter designating the *FPO* as very unjust and wicked. The license was granted. • THIS LONDON PAVILION. Emile Loibl and Charles Sonbammer applied he a license for music and dancing for the London PselhP, Tichborne-street, Haymarket. It was licensed last PS for music only. Mr. Sleigh, in support of the application , sai d he • Mlle move that the old license be enlarged by t h e Memnon the word " dancing," and by that it was intended nib have dancing by the public, but by artiste on a raised MP After the war of a most scandalous nature whisk If been waged between the owners of music halls sad lie proprietors of theatres, in which the latter had Lis worst of it, and which he hoped would be still Wass., lowed up next year by a legislative enactment , he WO the bench would grant the license prayed for, sad I! could pledge himself on the part of Messrs. leibi Sonhanimer that the license should he used in no Mee shae or form than he had indicated. T'he Chairman put the question, and the limes loi granted for music only. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERKENWELL VIOLENT ASSAULT ET A CORONER'S BUM& Charm Jeffries, of 3, Wslcot-place, Church coroner's beadle, was charged with violently George Morrison, newsvendor, of 7, High-street' Newington. Yesterday afternoon the p ros ecutor was rill si l l the Stoke Newington-road, on a hone, when e MOO thing ritss his bend as if a stone had been thee" IP got off the . 1 horse, and the only person that t$ sd was the defenda nt, who came up to him add 1 stone in his hand, hit him three or four times os his bend, and inflicted a severe cut, from which the 1N . ,: flowed freel. He seized hold of the defen dant, db e scratched b y face and bit his finger. He was addr!„.„'''' he thought the defendant was drunk. He bad a sk r!: the defendant the least provocation for conualtdsM assault. He was so ill when he got to the paboo 4m•- that the sergeant there felt it his duty to seed far see geon to have his bead dressed. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said d!! !: plainant first assaulted him by hitting him on the in the eye with the butt end of a whip. drunk—in fact he was a man that hardly ever taok but he was excited at having on Monday last beta , his nervousness was perhaps mistaken for drunkedisdi, The complainant said that he never toughed de fendant, nor did be give him the least provoestios. Mr.Rarkersaid that he could not s o°whatthedr j • loss of N. on Monday had to do with his the complainant yesterday. He considered it sled 4,7 and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 3L sdo costs, or in default of payment two months hard the House of Correction. The fines and wets were at once paid. WO RSH IP-STREET. A STRANGE CASE OF ATTEMPTED OITICM 51".'1Th...4 Janes Bass, years of age, was charged with ing to destiny himself. Charles Vale, • gonad dealer, in Ge018e 4 " 14 12.1 nal-green, said—Yesterday evening I saw the Ft; 0 the side of the Regent's Canal, dabbling his hd° ll _ m od water as though to feel if it was cold , presentuntifials away, got on the top of the bridge, and AMP . water. I was very much surprised, but sr" g him and got him out . ICJt bulakei et' ~.. co. Lnic, VI? DOI .I,;tii.; b. we dt2.: :LIV * DOW hal Bs cua du* The this lx Spring. The < Be. 10d THOLE! The wort■ a Temple the sevo Xeddle and Wi Ritson, Webste Upoz Into a Ile cowl r; jam an be keewis bastdre ,W 1 . 1 6 11 4 o lob d e abr oa w ets I d Powers *wird,