The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

• (:;::•"'"/:..::"' NEwS PAP ER • . 1 . , • • k\ - am . ) 'I, A , I k\ • , • ssaud • Clllllll Na 5,050.) TO =TOM OOLUMBLL FOR RV& WEEKLY STEAM COMMUNICATION to NEW YORE lltrect.—The LIVIIIFOOL 11871 YORK, sad PHILADELPHIA STRAM-BELP COMPANY Intend despatch. lag their lull-posered emb ade.bullt fres &sew liteamehipa, calling ot cSo pseensw to sad daspatchic al fellows : MERELY TROY L YE L IFOR IMF YOR/L oaa CITY OF BALTIMORE, Wednesday, Oct ETNA, Wednesday, Nov 6. AM every succeeding Wednesday. Cable patap, 16.17, and 21 guineas, according to the seems sedation. Forward presage, a guineas, Including all proved/we cooked. Fawn/pre for Canada. the United States, sad British Columbia, booked through on very advantageous term—For further particulars apply to WILLIAM INMAN, ts, Wateretreet, Lireelfool : or to EYES and MACEY, 61, Lag Willlanestreet, City. QTYALIK to BREMEN.—Direct Route to Hanover, Driusswiek, ask Central Germany. EVERY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, er the North Herman Lloyd's atamere ADI HOWE, or SCHWALM, from ilorsePr d n, at 11 a.m.. at IllactwaU Pier for pawning% 00041 . Thew Tennis have superior accommodation for passengem Pam So Bronen : en ad 61 ; return tickets, L 7 and ti NlL—Apply at CHAPLIN'S Universal Office, Regent-circus, W. or to PLILLI.IPPS. GRAVES. and PHILLIPPS, 11, Rood-lane. LC. ROTTERDAM and the RHINE.—The BATA VIIIM Davie the Delilah and Foreign Stemet.whart, Way- SUNDAY, at 11 cm. Farm: d 2 b.. LI 10a., and 7a ed PYZNOOLD, from oft the Tower *ray THURS DAY MORNING early. F are Ll.—Apply to ciLtrurs Uni versal 011ee, Low e.e/roue. W.. oe to PHILLIP" GRAVES, and PHILLIIII3, 11. Rood lane. C. 1 OTICE to PASSENGERS for CALCUTTA. ,11 The the teak.bullt ship ROM:IOC:MONT. AI for 13 years, JOHN FLAISANL Commander, la now loading In the But India Docker To mil on :sth inst. His Imantiftd cabin accom modation. and will carry • enrgeon If required.—Apply to oELLATLY, MANLEY. and BE WILL, ST, Loadenhallotram, LC. NOTICE to PASSENGERS for BOMBAY. The splendid fast-sailing ship RAJAH OF COCHIN, A 1 tor 14 years, D. CUMMING, Commander, to load in the last 'adz Docks, bee splendid accommodation for passengers, and will carry an expooenora if required. To sail 15th November. —Apply to Messrs. INDLAY and Co., Sc. Paria ment-street, S.W. ; or to GELLATLY, HANEEY, and SEWELL, V. leadenhalledreet, B.C. NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE socirry. Established 1808 on the principle of Mutual Insurance. TEE W HOLE O! THE PROFITS BELONG TO THE AeSURED Accumulations exceed £4ooo,ooo.—lncome /1.237,000. Amount Assured and Bonuses, £3,370,466. lionusea Assigned to the amount of £1,801,160. The rates of premium are 10 per cent lees thaa those of most asces—a benefit equivalent to an annual bonus. One-half of the first fire annual premiums may remain u • permanent chute upon policies effected for the whole duration of life. Fur Prospectuses apply to the Society's °floes, 6, Crescent, Hew Bridgestreet, E.C. ; and Surrey-street. Norwich. THE STANDARD BANK of BRITISH SOCTII AIf2ICA (Limited). Established under the Joint Stock Banking Companies Amend ment Acts, sad 21 Vie., cap. 49, sad 21 and 22 Vie., cap. 91, which specisll.ihnft the liability of each shareholder to the amount of his shares. L1,5(10,000. In 10,000 Shares of LlOO each. (Power to Increase to .C 4,000,0004 ►'irst Maus, 6.000 Shares.. —-- Deposit on appllca—uu C 3 per share, an d a further payment of on allotment. Calls not to exceed r. 6 each. until £26 per share have been paid, and three months' interval between each call DIRIL'TORS. Jahn Oillespie, Esq. Gillesit's, Chuehw, and Co., merchant, Great Winchester-atreet. James Black, Esq. , Black and Co.), merchant, London, Graham's Town. and Port Elizabeth. Alexander Croll, Emu ,Alexander Croll and C 0.., merchant, Lon don and Port Elisabeth %Ilium Duthie, Esq., merchant, Nark-fare. Alfred Jarvis Esq., London, late Chairman of the Commercial Bank, Port Elisabeth John Paterson, Essi.LiPaterson, Kemp, and Co.), merchant, Lon don and Cape of Good Hope. Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., merchant, Cannon-street-wed, Director of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of Ladia, London, and China. John Torrance, Pass, 5, Chester-place, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Alliance Heidi of London and liverponL Soxion‘hs—Mesars. Flue and Arglea, V, Mincing-lane. BROKERS. Hews. J. and J. Whitehead. tl, If ooreate-street. 31ssarsi. Bragg and btockdale, U, Tbempnorton-street. BANIMIL The Alliance Bank of London aint - . l ,a ivernn . ?1 . (11naltld), Lothbury, London, slut " The lbani" Le'rerpool. Br METART pro tern.—Robert Sinter, Jun., Esq. TerupurAry °faces at the Compen7-27, lloorgate-st PRCO . 4PICIII& --- The progress made durig taut ten years by the British Iceies In South Africa has been very remarkable the imports, aspects, and public revenues having, during that period, multi plied threefold, and from public returns Just t o hand it is minuted that a yet higher progressive increase will be shown m the The banking t 7 capital of the colonies has not kept pace with this Increase of trade, suit it his become clear that a new tanking institution of considerable ma;aitude, and with adequate re issues., is now apublic necessity, and must command success. To meet this necessity, sod as a profitable and safe invest ment of capital, the Standard blank of British South Africa is established. That the proposed field of operations is both safe and pro fitable is allow n by the fact that, although in the South African Colonies the rates of discount on first-elms bulls range from S to It per cent., not one instance of lugs is recorded in the last an nual statements of the local hanks. The 1011.. w ins la a statement of the present selling prtees of &MI iu timing kaal banks, the dividends pall by these banks daring the last year having varied from 12 to 22 per cent. per &MM. STATEMENT._ Paid- p. Selling price. Cape of Good Rope C5O 0 .. £BB 0 0 Cape Commermai 6 0 .. 10 0 0 Port Elisabeth Bank Commercial Bank of Port Elmabeth 6 0 .. 11 0 0 Eastern Province Bank, Graham's Town Commercial of Graham's Town Graaff liteiutt Rank l2 1 0 .. 22 0 0 Talon of Cradock Natal Bauk British Kagrarlan Bank Every devcriptlou of legitimate banking business Will be under taken by the Standard Bank, and It can be stated that valuable mercantile accounts hare already been promised. Powers am taken for the Incorporation of existing Mat In the ColollirS. The principle of limit. a Lability uniformly followed in the re cently established banking .011411:11ea has been adopted. Of the 5.1 shares comprised in the lint laime,• large number has already been subscribed for. The head oilier of the bank will be in London. Satisfactory arrangements arc In progresa, which will facilitate a speedy commencement of Meanest. Shareholders desirous of payola up the full VS per share will receive, on so much thereof as may be in advance of calls, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The preliminary esls•uses of the Bank will be strictly conOned to matters if actual outlay. Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association may he seen et the Temporary Olitces of the Coopany, suit at the once el the Solicitors. NO E or APPLICATIOit 7011 SHAMES. To the Directors of the Standard Bank of British South Africa (Limited.. Gentlemen,—Haring paid to your bankers the sun) of .e being a deposit of Al per share on shares in the above Conitany, I hereby request Una you will allot me that munio.r, and I agree % accordion to the form prescribed by the articles of turiociatlon) to accept such chaise, or any less number you may allot MC and to execute the artivies of ilanelAti,4l When re (mired; and I mit - lest that my name may he placed on the register of sharehoklem for the shares so albite/EL Nano. In lull Resident* risifession or bidllllllll Date THE STANDARD BANK of BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA ILinitted„ NOTICE IN lIENEBY GIVEN' that NO APPLICATIONa for SHARER in this Company east be RXCEIVED atter WED. h &WAY neat, the thol last.—By order, RORER( PLATER, Jan, Recretery pro tem. MoorgateatreeL Oct. 16, 1062. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WOB.CESTERSHIRY SAUCE. This deliclous condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs " TIIE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public are retpectlully cautioned against worthless 'mita. tins.and should sec that Lea and Peened manses are ma wrapper, label, bottle, sad stopper. ASK for LEA and PEREINS' SAUCE. Sold wholesale anr exort by the Proprie Worcester Basra CROWE an d d fo BIAC p ICKELL; Messrs. BA tors, RCLAY and BAt, London, Lc., It.. and by grocers and oilmen universally DRHASSALL as well as the " LANCET " iewsesper both repotrt hiabbr of the merits of WATERS* WINE. Slaiiiifactored by ROBERT WATERS. 2, lane, Cannon.street. London, E.C. Sold by Grocers, !whin Wanhonsemen, and other,, at 30s. a dozen. Wholesale Afield+. E. Lewis and Co Worcester. International Exhibition, Class 11. AFINE HEAD of HAIR, the Beard, Whiskers, end Mustachine are realised by the use of ROWLANDS' MAcASSAR OIL This elegant, fragrant, and pellucid oil Is asivenally In high repute for Its unprecedented suncese during the bin t( years in promoting the growth, restoring, and beenti• lying the human hair. It preveu le hair from failing .4( or turn ing My. strengthens weak hair, cleanses it f rom s curf an d elandriff, and makes It beautifully soft, pliable, and glossy. Yor children it II especially recommended, es forming the basis of a beautiful hemd of hair. In all climates It alike displays its M e...reparable result., and has long been an established favourite Is lions. Prima 3s. 6d., 75., Irs. &1., equal to four ,null, and Els. per hottle. Sold by A. Ili OVLANDand SONS, 10, Hatton-garden, "1. hi chemists and perfumers.—Ask for Rowlands' Macassar 01 _TOZEAUI3 COPAHINE MKGE, srtiocemsfully tried in the Park end Leedom Bantler the we of menet 01111 ries, !Wont, Lloyd, Palm& and Lewes Clark ( Lancet, Sth Nor. , Ish.2 . effect& a cars In an average of six days. eltbrr In recent or hn.nic diseases-4s. 1110. per bottle, by post 4.. at C. Joasausa, k'resub chemist, 40, Haymarket. Lamina. T R Z L 0 N D ON, 1111. Teellestreee. neer Tomploiter. BAWTI2:3 FAMOIDI LONDON DINNIZZ for THIN DAY, October 17. will 000eDt of— POTAOI3. Puree de Gibler—i to Miami. POISSON. Wane /Uwe aux Humes—Soles Mtge, =TRW Karl de Volans-Bmile de Filets de BOW aex Cornichons. Mouton &midi—Bad rOIL Ponding A k Vick7trk . —TarieTekes aux Conlnure. Prossege et Salad*. TO-MORROW, October 11, the LONDON DINNER erlll emetic of-- MAUL A l'Anglais—Atte Macaroni. Per Noll. Ansa/1k Mayes—Merlon trite. larrairas. Band de Pereliir—Cot Meta's de M.,aton Sauce Tomato. I 4 Id bfa —Houton rOIL Belgneta d'Oralige—Potaing de CablueL rtecteSe et Salads. ♦a extensive and earehillyeigeeted Meek of French, Rhenish, Moselle, and oties Maim Impacted expressly toe The London Maar. Turtle Soap, and all lialt in moon daily. ma stten nos of Clergymen, Mose% and Professional Gen tlemen le especially drawn to the advantages offered by these eiarm& Saloons, which halal all the requirements of a West end Club of the most artstoemtk and esanstve character. L'on trance dans la Salle de Lecture non settlement les melt leurs Journaux Angle* male mad Joumaux ALlemands, Fran cais, et Beiges. Open on Sundays at four o'clock iiiWYEJ3.. Proprietor. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1862. THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. (►sow on arscia. coansronion) MANOIDEITER. OCT. 14. I must again revert to the general statement that the distress at present existing in Manchester is in Many respects unlike that which weighs upon the surrounding towns and villages, in order to set in a clear light the peculiar diffiett/ties with which both poor-law boards and relief committees there have to contend. The operative poptlation of the city is far more miscellaneous than that of the country. In moat places of this district it is possible to divide the whole working class into two sections—the natives of this and the adjoin ing counties, and the Irish. Immigrants from other parts of England are rare ; and, where they exist, soon assimilate themselves, even in dialect, to the mass of the population. But Manchester not only has its crowds of Irish workpeople, but, by the attraction which cities of a certain magnitude always seem to exercise, has drawn to itself natives of every county of England and Wales. The other night I heard the particulars of 130 cases of distress, from the lips of the applicants themselves, at a district relief board, and hardly a dozen times were my ears saluted by the familiar sounds of the Lancashire dialect. Then, pauperism, especi ally when it has grown to a certain size, possesses a fatal faculty of self-propagation : where paupers are few, and to receive the parish help carries with it a stigma of unthrift, if nothing worse, .men will struggle to keep their names off the books ; where pauperism lives and grows with unblush ing front, there is • great temptation to dispirited and unlucky men, to become from payers, receivers of the rates. What can it matter if one more solitary dweller in the wilder ness of. streets, with few friends whose esteem he cares to forfeit, should quietly sink into the ever-widening waves of dependence ? And so it conies about that in Manchester it is very diffi cult to draw the line, in such times as these between the respectable factory operative, reduced to poverty by this undeserved calamity, and the occa sional pauper, not unwilling to subside into com plete reliance upon the workhouse; Ido not mean even to hint that the former class has no existence in Manchester ; 1 know that there, as else where, may be found noble examples of that patient self-dependence which has won so high a mead of praise. But it is a fact that the factory hands of Manchester bear a far higher reputation for manual skill than for mpral conduct, and that in all the essential qualities of citizens they are inferior to the same class in the county. There are, indeed, wasp reasons why it should be so. I need not enumerate the peculiar disadvan tages and temptations of great cities, nor trace the process by which close and filthy streets, crowded dwellings, the possibilities of self-indulgence, the contagion of crime, the difficulty of harmless recrea tion, the absence of brightening and retiniug asso ciations, produce the peculiar .form of reckless wretchedness which is characteristic of such human anthills as London, and Manchester, and Glasgow. Any of your readers who kuow what are the hindrances in the way of successfully dealing with the ordinary misery of these cities will well enough under stand what difficulties we now have to meet, when the tide of pauperism rises higher every day, and every day engulfs some of those who have, uptothis time, resolutely held themselves above it. In every district the dietress extends beyond the factory handy to those whom they employ—sempstresses, charwomen, nurses, tailors, shoemakers, small shopkeepersof everykind ; batin Manchester, where there is always a large class of unsettled workers hanging upon the outskirts of the labour market, and never finding more than precarious employ ment, the proportion of candidates fur relief, who never were inside a mill, is far above the average. Then in a great town, the factory system does not operate, in one important particular, as in a small one. In the latter every mill handisknovrn. In all probability he has worked at one factory ever since he could work at all. Even if it has changed bands more than onoe, he may have woven upon the same looms, he may have watched the same spindles turn, and would think himself , wronged if they were given to another. Ile has some relations of kindness with his employer ; managers and overlookers, at least, know where he lives, and how many children he has ; he lives under the eye of a minister of religion, even if he do not attend church or chapel, and has a character to lose. The standard of self-respect maintained by &Lancashire factory hand is a very strange one, for it does not always include sobriety, or even chastity ; but, for all that, it exists, and is better than none at all. But in a great town there is little or nothing of what I have described. The people are mere units in a countless population. Nobody of • higher rank knows them, and they know nobody. When iu better times, or in a sea son of peril like this, a benevolent person takes charge of a district, he has uo natural ties to the people whom he visits ; and a sympathy, which runs up one side of a street, but is forbidden to cross it, is apt not to be very hearty even within its own boundaries. Every one who has served an apprenticeship to this kind of work knows what an advantage is gained by standing to the poor, whom it is desired to benefit, in • relation which is neither vague nor artificial ; and how much larger an opportunity of influence is enjoyed by the employer who actually gives work, the clergyman whose sermons are really listened to, or the doctor whose physic is taken, than by one who appears merely as a professional friend and general adviser. The real and personal connexion which in the country binds together the operatives with their master and those of their neighbours who are higher in the social scale al ready feeds their self-respect, and were its value as a means of popular education better appreciated , might prove to be the source of still greater be nefits. The absence of any such connexiou in the city helps to produce a clam of workpeople whose tendency it is to, swell inure and inure the ranks of the disreputable a•d the vicious. In Manchester, then, both the guardians and the relief boards have to do with an exceptional popu lation ; a fact which at once explains the peculiar difficulties of poor-law administration. What these are in the district generally may be summed up in few words. The system is adapted for ordinary times and circumstances—it has to be suddenly ex panded and modified to meet what is extraordinary. The process of transition is neither easy nor brief. ' Impatient benevolence, which always sees its way, is ignorant of many obstacles, and wilfully blind to many more, raises a frantic cry against red-taps if TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. Muss'. iwas.) ITALY. NAPLES, Ocr. IL _ _ _ The Official Journal of to-day says : ' " • flying column of troops has traversed the districts of Ariano and San Angelo di Lombardi, in the Prinoipato Ultra, and, aided by the National Guard, has dispersed the brigands who infested those parte. " Ohiavone's band has taken the road to Pug lia ; Crocco, that leading to the Basilicata ; while Nineo Nanco is proceeding in the direction of Ascoli. " There only remain fiaehitiello, Rtann, and Reotti, and they, being wounded and exhausted, will soon fall into the hands of justice." THE LONDON PAVILION.-LITTLE CORELLI. the most wonderful of *mares, tontines to perform her new and motomehlag feats with increued success. The programmes embraces the combined talent of Miss Con stance, the Star of the West; Madame &retrinl. Madame Valckenaere, Mr. R. De Brenner, ►nd rtsm Collins . la addition to which Mr. Fret Preach, the atraksperian comic vocalist, will appear eVIBY gilt-NINO at the LAIN DON PAVILION, Ticbboraertreet. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Om. 16. _ _ . MIIDIR'S LIBRARY.—A Revised List of the principal works in circulation and on este at Media's Library Is now ready, and will be forwarded, postage tree, on ap plication. "These lists, be It remembered, represent the main manes of the general leformation now in vogue."—fiatarday haview.—CHARLES EDWARD MCDIE, New Oztordatreet, London ; City-orrice, a, Ki -Are Cheeped* ; Crasatreet, Manchester. and Newstenet, The Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia were at St. Gallen on Monday, and at Rugas on Tuesday last. The Swiss embassy to Japan will leave in two parties, the first or diplomatic section on the 20th November, and the second or mercantile section some weeks later. The two parties will meet at Singapore, and continue the journey thence to gether. 110 FAMILIES RETURNING t o TOWN. mumrs LIBELEE* MESSENGERS call, on appointed olaz y to DELIVER BOOKS, in part of London, and in all the suburban towns and rll The advantages of the library are thus brought within easy reach of all readers re siding within six or eight miles of New Oxfordstrert. Terms of subscription, with hats of the principal new and choice books at present in circulation, will be forwarded portage free on *KM. cstioc—CRARLEB EDWARD MUDIK New Osfeedatreet, Lon don. City °Roes, 4, King-street, Cheapside. FURNITURE CARRIAGE FREE, to any Part of the Kingdom. Drawing-room Suites in Velvet LIR • 0 Drewing.room Suites, complete U 0 0 Dining-room Suites, complete IL 0 0 Bcd.rooto buttes, complete Warranted Flnt-clam P. and S. BEYFVS, 144, OXFORD-STREET, and 91 to 95, CITY-ROAD. 111utrated Catalogues gratis and post fns ea swig:agog. SOUTH AMERICA. Ron Guienne oil Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, Sitrr. IS. _ _ The bill passed by the National Congress for the federalisation of the city and provinces of Buenos Ayres has been unexpectedly rejected by the pro vincial legislature. Ministers Riestra and Costa have tendered their resignations that of the former has been accepted. Trade is generally depressed. JC. and J. FIELD, original manufacturers • (in England; of PARAFFIN% CAN ULM, to whom the prize medal (Wel bee been awarded. These can lea can be obtained of all chandlers and grosets In the United Kingdom. Frio, la Bd. par pound also Fie d'a celebrated United Service Soap Tablets., ed. and 4d. each. Wholesale only, and for exportation. Upper Marsh, Lambeth, B. MMES. MECHI and BAZIN'S LIST.—The quality may be judged by their display under the Eastern Dome of the International Exhibition : also to the Cutlery Dc. Vot, Class XXXII., and In the North Gallery, Class 1., Photographic Albums, Dressing Bags, Dressing Cases, Despatch Boxes, Tourist Writing Ca. es, Po, ket.Books, Purses, Bagatelle Tables, Chess.boarris„ Brushes, Combs, Toilet Apparatus, Desks, Workboxes, Inkstands the 'Dec Strop and Paste, supe rior Razors, Scissors, and Penknives : the best Table Cutlery and Mean, Plate; Papier kleche Tea-trays, Walters, and a variety of tint-class ornamental piecea In Papier Meche: Parisian Novelties in Ormolu, Postage Babinres. Courier Bags, Picnic Caaea, Wicker Luncheon Baskets, tVlne ant Spirit Flasks, Medieval Articles, and a variety of elegancies suitable for presents. Mr. Bazin having been appointed by her Majesty's COMMlS sinners aJuror In Class XXXII. of the International Exhibition ;Deering-cases, the firm were by this circumstance pre cluded from competing for a prize medal. A medal wee awarded them in Class XXXII. CCutlery). 112, Regent-street. W., sod leadenhallntreet, /LC., London ,fourth house horn Cornhill). Catalogues post free. GOLD CHAINS.—WATHERSTON and BROODEN beg to call the attention of the public to the FOAM of INVOICE which they deliver with Odd Guard Chains purchased at their manufactory : 6 I. d. To workmanship of pattern chain, EA Inches long To (18, carat gold, weighing os dwt. giro, at £8 as. WA. per mum" mint pries Total.. Open thia system, the QUALITY, WEIOFfT, and YALUR of the gold are certified, end guaranteed to the purchaser; Ilfsther ston and Itrogden looking for a fair remuneration on the work. nnuiship only, which is charged according to the letricacr or simplicity of the pattern. WATIIER.STON and BROODEIf, Ooldsmiths.—Manufactory. No. 10, fleuriettaktreek Covent-garden, London, N.C. lista blished A.D. 1714. Amp made of Chains and Jewellery for ls. each. —N.B. This estabilshiesat Is dosed ate In the evening, I'M on BaturdAys at 1. GENTLEMEN'S DRESS.—HAMILTON and KIMPTON be to Worn gentlemen that the NEW GOODS for the coming season are of patterns and textures that cannot be excelled, and specimen garments are kept for inapec tlokor sale at 106, Strand, opposite Exeter-ball. MANLY VIGOUR restored to the most Debi litated Constitution, In a few weeks, by the use of BUDD S ELIXIR of LIM No consultation is required, and complete restoration la effected quickly and secretly, as sure as that day succeeds night. —ln battik:sat lla, and SM., forwarded to any park for cash or stamps, by the Agents, PEWIT and Co., Medicine Warehouse, 229, Strand, Loodon. CONDITION OF OUR TOWNS .- THEATRE FITTING& —THE BUILDER of THIS DAY, price td., by pest fut. contains:—Flue View of Now Warehouses. Brad feed—The Aspect of Dartkpool—Ventilation and Drainage of Cellars :with Illustration( —Notes of the Great Exhibition— Theatre Fittings—Theatre Decoration (with Illustration;—New Materials for Lives of Architects—Hospital Sites—Albert Me mo 'rods—Northern Architectural Association—Payment of Archi tects -The Queen's Crows, Northampton-Bcottlah N ews—Cinireh builing News—Provincial News--Conspetittnits, gc.—Onice, 1, York.strcet, Covent-garden and all Bouksellera NEW SPORTING PAPER. Will be published, on the Ist of November, THE SPORTING GAZETTE, Price THREE PENCE, A new Pint Class Weekly Newspaper, published every Neturday morning, in time for the early trains, devoted to the Turf, Coursing, limiting, Steeplechasing, and other. ports and Amuse ments the branta, Music, and Literature. Conducted ;under the Joint !.toek Compaide. Limited Liability Acta) by a Commit tee of noblemen and gentlemen : nod Edited by W. H. LANGLIY, assisted by practical and experienced writers, and many contri butors of eminence. Annual subscription, unstamped, 13..: stamped, 17a. 4d. dtivertisemente—Six Iln. a and under, 4s. every additional line, lid. Paragraphs of I. lines sod under, 10a. 111. ; every addi tional line, la. AR orders for advertisements and subscriptions must be ac companied by a poet-Mike order, payable to iticba.rd James Rennet, publisher, 14, York.street,Covent-garden, London. W.C. GERMANY. (nom ova OWX FRANKFORT, Ocr. 14. "Ales jacta est." The Prussian government will henceforth dispense with a regular vote of supply by their House of Commons, and raise taxes on the sole authority of their House of Lords ; that is to say, those who pay the taxes have not to decide for what purposes they are raised, but only those in whose favour they are spent. The cham bers were sent about the r business yesterday, and before the end of this year we cannot expect any visible result from this state of things. Next year it is highly probable that the townspeople will ref use those illegal taxes, and government will then be com pelled to do the very thing they so highly blamed iu Elemorate-Hesse, collect taxes by brats force if they will not do without them. There can be no doubt that the country at large will stand by their representatives, and that the government have raised a storm they cannot withstand. Mean while the Junker party do not relent in their insane attempt to exclude every liberal feeliug from the army. Last week a non-commissioned officer was sentenced to four days' imprisonment for having been found reading the liberal newspaper the Volkszeitung. A meeting was held here last week of those members of the German parliament of 1848 who stick to the constitution then voted by them and accepted by 29 German governments. The meet ing, though not numerous, was attended by such leading men as Jacoby, Tumue, Kolb (celebrated for his statistical works), and others, and they all agreed that the parliament having been dissolved by violence, their mandate was not at an end, and nothing could be legally done before their being called together and legally dissolved. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse every receiver of tolls on the high road is a petty tyrant. Only last week a party of ladies riding to Offen bach were compelled to stop in their carriage with no one to take charge of the horses, the tax collector insisting on the coachman's owning into his room to pay the toll, as his dignity as a government officer would not allow him to go for his money. The party was not even allowed to forego their Offen bach amusement by hurrying back : the man in authority insisted on the coachman paying hint hie revenue. These little things show the whole character of the system, and do infinite barns to this government. At Homburg, the party who opposed Blanca, the famous gaming-table keeper, have fallen into disgrace at court, and others more pliable have taken their plane. Family ruin and throat-cutting will yet for a long time he the end of those who are decoyed to these infamous hells which surround us on every quarter. It is highly to be regretted that the respectable Belgian government gives a prestige to our small states by allowing a similar hell at Spa, It is their common answer, if you object to the licensing of such establishments, that the same thing is tolerated in Belgium. The seceders from the Zollvereiu are beginning to give way ; they no longer object to the new tariff; but insist on a treaty with Austria being concluded before they ratify the Prussian-French treaty. By and by they will also drop this request, as their exclusion from the Zollverein would lead to the utter ruin of their manufacturers. The inquiry into the circumstances of the late steamboat collision on the Tyne was resumed on Wednesday night by Mr. Coroner Hoyle, at Newcastle. Several addi tional witnesses were examined. but, owing to the &dammed period of the evening, the inquest was again adjourned till the following day. A COSTLY Joss.—A letter from Prague of the sth mentions • curious affair, which proves that *ties in matters of business may sometimes cost dear. About a fortnight ago a hop-dealer of the neighbourhood entered the counting-house of • large merchant at Prague, with Whom he had bad commercial relations. The latter asked him how business was going on, wten he replied : " I am doing so little that I am almost inclined to enter your service as a clerk." "What eatery should you require r asked the merchant. " Only 2,000 ilmina • year," replied the other, laughing. The merchant shook hands with him, saying : "Then it is a bargain." After a little further conversation the hop-dealer retired, and neither one nor the other ap peared to think any more of the matter. Six days attar, • considerable rise began to take place in hops, and the mer chant went to Sass, the largest market is Bohemia, to make purchases, and to his annoyanto found that the dealer had got the start of him, and purchased ell he could find. Meetiog the dealer in the street, the merchant asked him what hops be had purchased, and the price. " That is my affair," was the reply. " Whet du you mean by your affair? You forget then that you are my clerk, and that 1 hays a right to inquire what business you transact on my account You are free to newel your engagement hereafter, but for the present you act for ion" The dealer went to consult as advocate, who told him that his engagement was valid, and that in any ease • trial would be • tedinua affair. He them went to the merchant, and after a long discussion agreed to pay 4,000 rthe NERVOUS and DEBILITATED.— florins (10.0001.) damages for cancelling hie go t in a BOOK on this subject will be forwarded. gratis, to the order to retain for his own account the profits e specula &Meted. All persons suffering from the ordinary aliments of tion he bad mode. When the money had been paid the mankind 'Mould at once send • stamped directed envelope to Prague merchant declared that he would out keep a farthing Mrs C. ff.. 1, Edithttreet, Hackney-road. Landers, when • copy of it, and distributed it among sours poor relations of the will be immediately returned. dealer. Just published, price la, post free 14 stamps, or in • sealed nu, elope 20 stamps • Mettles! 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Additional] officials do not move quite quickly enough in the desired direction ; officials, on the other hand, cherishing a bigoted attachment for methods which they have themselves devised, and which have worked well for many years, are, besides, in wholesome fear of overstepping the letter of theism. Then, difficult as it may be to alter methods suddenly, it is still more difficult to change nm. Poor-law officers of every grade are accustomed to deal with habitual paupers, who are unscrupulous, untruthful, and incorrigibly idle : whit wonder if they learn in such a tithed to be sharp, suspicions, arbitrary, incredulous of all that they do not ac tually see, distrustful of the very existence of un. merited misfortune and deserving poverty Y Both men and methods are fitted to deal with a clan separated from the criminal by a very shadowy line, and cannot quickly be moulded to meet the necessities of those whose indigence is no fault of their own, and who bring with them to the pariah some remnant of pride and self-respect. And in a great city like Manchester, where the pauper class is always large, and tests in ordinary times all the resources of the system, it is hard, r hot absolniely impossible, to draw the dis tinction between the respectable and the disre putable operative, which is made with comparative ease in less crowded centres of population. This single circumstance is sufficient to explain why the Manchester board of guardians, with an admirable organisation and the most benevolent intentions, fails to recommend itself to the 185,000 souls which the law has committed to its charge. From personal inspection I can speak in the highest terms of the completeness and efficiency of its arrangements for the relief of the poor, the rata of payment being Is. sd. a head, and the rates already amounting to 3s. 3d. in the pound. Nor is the board indisposed to adapt its methods to the altered circumstances of the times. I have already mentioned its co-operation with the sewing and adult school system, and its establishment of both these agencies on • large scale for persons wholly dependent upon the rates. In another good work which they have undertaken I felt a par ticular interest—the collection, namely, of 300 little children of persons receiving outdoor relief into two or three schools, where they receive a good elementary education, and three plain but sufficient meals a day. Although the rations of each child only cost the incredibly small sum of 10d. a week, the little ones whom 'saw were ruddy and well ; the hunk of bread and the warm milk which they were to get for dinner were all that could be wished, and the ragged garments and bare feet with which they trooped out of the street were at least much more picturesque than any tame uniformity of i workhouse dress. But then all the good works of the Manchester board are, in the eyes of a certain clam*, neutralised by the fact that they jealously maktain the labour test. In addition to the usual oakum shop, and, I believe, stoneyard, they have a farm of some fifty acres, in connexion with the new workhouse at Crumpsall, upon which able-bodied paupers are set to work. The experiment succeeds as pauper labour and indeed all labour in which the labourer has not a direct interest in the quan tity and quality of his work always succeed& The unhappy bailiff who presides over this untoward gang of workmen leads a weary life amid their idleness, their freakishness ; their regular recurrent mutiny. Almost every week a deputation is sent down to the board to ask for some diminu tion of their hours of labour, or some change in its circumstances which will tend to reduce the already small measure of result to one still smaller. And within the last few days a public meeting of 2,000 unemployed operatives has been held, at which, not without some intemperance of language, a deputation was appointed to wait upon the board, and demand the abolition of the labour test, and the payment of the whole of the relief in money. It is almost needless to add that the request, which was accom panied by a not obscure threat, was at once and de cisively refused. It would only weary your readers, without answering any generally useful purpose, were I to investigate the special difference of opinion which has thus arisen between the Manchester Board of Guardians and the persons in receipt of its out. door relief. The board might be admitted to plead that they had already reduced the hours of labour on the farm to six per diem ; that they had added the boon of a daily dinner to all the labourers ; and that all relief given to men above GO, and to women of every age, was already given in cash. Our present interest is with the general principles involved in the dispute. Work house labour is rightly denominated a test. It is not expected to be commercially reproductive. It is not managed in accordance with any commer cial principle. The hours of work are less than the customary hours ; the wages paid do not represent the market price of labour. Even the work itself has often a certain character of aimlessness about it, and is not done because necessary or expe dient but for the sake of itself. It thus partakes of the nature of the treadmill, or the crank, the most irritating of all work, inasmuch as it is contrary to the instinct of humanity to put fortis strength of mind or body without some definite pros pect of result. The pauper accepts such work as a disagreeable necessity ; he does as little of it as be well can ; and as for the idea of degradation, he has in all probability long got over that. But to the decent working man—even to one who, not being among the best of his chola, has still some shred of self-respect left—this labour is inexpressibly distasteful. Why should he be exposed to a test, when he has shown, by working all his life, that he was willing and anxious to work I As to that there can be no pretence or deception : be has been no idler about the streets, looking out for any passing job ; the mill where he has worked for years is known ; and so is the fact of its having stopped or slackened work. What fresh item of information can be drawn out of him by the appli- I cation of any test 1 I believe that objections to labour, as labour, come from the habitual pauper, but not from the respectable working-man. The latter may feel that the kind of work proposed to him is above his strength, or prejudicial to his health, or likely to incapacitate him for his own work, when the time oomes for returning to it ; though even in regard 1 to any of these difficulties be will not be disposed to make mole-hills into mountains. But while wit- ! ling enough to work, there are many things in the ` system of workhouse labour to which he feels a : strong and not unnatural repugnance. He does not like to work a whole week for 2s. dd. merely because he is a single man, while the next man to him gets NIL for the same amount of labour, on the ground that he has a family. He objects to [TWOPENCE being paid for his work on any but fair commercial principles ; he wishes to do a good day's work, and thinks that he ought to receive for it a fair day's wages. He is scandalised at the contented idleness of his pauper ix "ghbour ; and yet he hardly feels stimulated to put forth an industry which will meet with no return. Why, Le asks, can he not be set to piece -work, and paid for what he actually does ? He is discontented at being kept at work when there is nothing for him to do, as if he were a dangerous animal which it was necessary to keep out of the streets for as large a part of the week sa possible—or tertainly an idle, dissolute fellow, who could not betrusted to employ his time to the best advantage of himself and his family. These are real feelings, which I have heard from the lips of working-men to whom parish relief was a most painful necessity ; and I must warn Poor-law guardians that they will make a great mistake if they confound them with those grum blings of idle and discontented paupers to which they have been long accustomed to close their ears. I do not pretend to tffer an opinion on this diffi cult question to administrators of the Poor-law, who are necessarily much better acquainted than I am with the possibilities of their position ;it is enough for me to have put before them an aspect of the matter with which they may got be familiar. But the necessity of providing labour for unemployed men is now presenting itself to other ;' than Poor-law guardians, and will every day be- t come more importunate. Considered not merely as a matter of economy, but as a means of preserv ing the self-respect of the people, it is becoming of the highest consequence that as large a proportion of relief as may be, should be given in the shape of wages. Roads may be made or improved ; sewers cut ; drainage effected ; waste land levelled, moorland reclaimed, according to the seve ral opportunities of each district. The practical' difficulties involved are, I know, very great. Many private interests will have to be consulted, and the balance of public and private advantage will be very hard to equalise. But lam satisfied that' such a system can be successfully carried out only by adopting the principle of a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. Ido not mean that a mill' band, unused to out-door labour, should receive the same sum per diem as would be paid to a sturdy Yorkshire navigator, but that a remuneration pro portioned to his ability should be offered, and that, in return, the same measure of industry and in telligence should be exacted of him as would be required in the mill. The appor- . tionment of the relief to the number of a man's family would be easily managed, by increasing or diminishing the quantity of work. A single man would be allowed to work one day, or oneend-a-half day a week, while the father of a host of little children might be continuously em ployed. It must not• be forgotten that labour is moral or immoral in its effect according to the con ditions under which it is performed, and that the very means taken to keep the people above pauperism may be the surest way to pauperise them. To set an industrious man to work among idle ones ; not only to give no encouragement to his industry, but to show hint that idleness answers, every practical purpose quite as well ; to make his ' wages independent of the quality and quantity of his work, and to put 1,000 to do what every man of them knows would not find real work for 50, is, it seems to me, diligently to inculcate every lesson which an industrial population ought not to learn, and to unfit them, as far as possible, for the pro ductive energy which, it is to be hoped, they wil soon be called upon to exercise once more. THE EVANGELICAL ALLlANCL—Yesterday, at the liminess meeting, Sir Culling Eardley presiding, the com mittee appointed on Wednesday evening submitted the following resolutions with reference to the war in Americas which they had agreed to unanimously :—" That the fee. ternal communication received from the. Paris bench be affectionately acknowledged ; that the beet auk, of the conference be °mimed to our French brethren, for their expressions of warm interest in the operations and success of our branch el the Alliance, with the. assuratimi that we participate in their deep sympathy with our common brethren in America in the fearful calsr. unities which Lave sprung from the civil war now raging. That this conference desire to express theig deep sorrow for the continuance of the civil war in America, and the fearful amount of bloodshed and suffering to which it has led. Believing that in is the cause if God's sore judgments, and that the evils oonucted with the main themes of slavery in she South, and complicity with those evils in the North, are cue peat cause of this solemn visitation, they renew their expresion of the earnest prayer that peace may be restored, that these evils, and all others which have led to these calamities, may be removed, and the immense meserees and energies of the American churches be set free I. promote the cause of the Gospel of peace mid love. They desire further to record their conviction, as British Christine, that the duty of our country is to read in this war not a warrant for self-righteous pride, but a loud call to humilia tion and prayer and repeutance, lest our own many national eine shoulddrawdown upon us, inters, the judgments°, God. That considering further the distress thus occasioned to large dames in our country, they recommend that Sunday, Nov. 9, be made an occasion far public and private confes sion of ado, and special prayer on thole grave subjects, so far as praeicable, in all the churches of Christ and Christian families throughout the land." The Rev. H. Schmettau, the foreign secretary, read a paper by N. Alexandre Lombard, of Geneva, oe the " liteps taken to promote, the better ob servauce of the Lord's-day in Switzerland since the Geneva Conference of 1861." A discussion took place ou the sub ject of the paper. and a resolution in favour of a bettor ob servance of the Sabbath was adopted. With reference to Syria, a'reeolution was passed expressive of satisfaction that the calamities which had taken place in Monet Lebanon were not unlikely to be overruled fur the religious good et Syria and the Holy Land. A resolution was adopted ex pressing regret at the death of the late Archbishop of Can terbury, and condolence with the family of the lath prelate. Amongst other things, the resolution mentioned Lis kind ness awl courtesy in all intercourse with Noncouformiste. In the evening there was a public meeting : Lord Calthorps PeOsided, aid the epithets were the Rev. T. It. Birks, 0. Winslow, D.D., and W. Umiak, D.D., the Hoe. and Rev. B. W. Noel, the Rev. S. Minton, and Dr. Ralopothakes, of A thesis. _ _ _ _ iiIDNI3 HT MEETING Itioratmor.—The committee of this iostitutiou, after holding twentynix meeting@ since the commencement of their efforts, arreaged to hold eight meetinp in various parte of London &trio( eight sneweeelve weeks. The first of these gatherings took place at the Lecture-ha, Bagnigge Welle.rusd, King's-cress, which was attended by 120 poor fallen women. After tea they were addressed by several friends. The order and attention wen most pinning. Several were rescued. RETIREMENT OT • &VIVI! JUDGE.—Regret will be deep and general throughoutSootlaad (says the Co sewn) en learning that Lord Ivory has come to the decision not to resume his mat as a judge in the Court of Session. The cause, however , we are glad to lawn is not present ale health, but rather approbeetion that hi; health would fail if he were again to attempt VW arduous work of the dot division. LARGE A/RIYALS OF COTTON FRON BOMBAY. The large arrivals of cotton continue at Liverpool front Bombay, and yesterday so fewer tine nine large stnps entered the Meney from Bombay all lades with cotton. The SWIM of them ships, and the amount of cotton they bring, are as follows : —Albion, 54041 bales ; Visommt Canning. 3,247 bales • EMMA; 4148 bales ; Them* 3,0 Z bales • Crescent, 5,911 hales ; Dalkeith, - 3,010 bales • ; Sir Joh n Mandeville, 6,300 helse ; (losers of Teak, 4,247 Wen ; and the William Cheadle; 3,601 halo, *alas a total of 40,388 bake of cotton. ARRIVAL OF THII Parsaacese. —A despatch re eeived in Liverpool yesterday easeasees the arrival at Qmemstows of the warm/ steamer Peterhof from Xmas, with about 1,500 bake of settee on board. The Peterhof' is one of Mr . Z. 0. Peareoe's " blockade betakes ;" sad la addition to her cargo of she has ea heard the family of the late Bishop of Nona