The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-29 00:00:00

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Reynolds, Drummed, and Parry ; MIN Miles.—Mr. Evans and Miss Rosalind : Miss Lydia Latimer ; My IL Macarthy and Mr. C. Woodman.—And THE MUTINY AT THE NONA HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. IMs DAT —Morning. 31i. 5Gm Afternoon. 4h. 113 m. To•Mosaow—Morning. 412. Sem Aftelllooll, 412. 55m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29. WE seem separated by more than four-and thirty years from that political Elysium in which the freemen of a borough elected the members, and " every Mayor had the right to nominate a " friend as a freeman, whether that friend was " resident or non-resident." This is the pleasing reminiscence with which the Town Clerk of Tot nee began his sketch of the electoral history of the borough. It was ruthlessly swept away, how over, by the Reform Bill of 1832 ; and as the power of creating voters, at least in its former integrity, no longer existed, the representatives of the borough had to acquire the art of manipulating those already in being. Or, to speak more accu rately, one of them had to do so. Totnes is a close borough as to one of its members, and an open borough as to the other. The Duke of SOMERSET is lord of the neighbouring manor of . _ . Bridgetown, and he " has influence" in Totnes. If we may judge from Mr. PRESSWELL'S evidence the candidate who has the SEYMOUR interest, and who usually bears the SEYMOUR name, has no need to do anything save announce his intention of standing. V It would be beneath his dignity to pay money for a seat which is his own by right of inheritance. No voter with any proper feeling would think of interfering with a state of things so completely according with the order of nature. Upon the best man for the second seat, however, there maybe room for difference of opinion ; but it ought never to be carried to a length beyond that to which Mr. PRESSWELL is himself prepared to go when he tells the Commissioners, " I have gene- " rally supported the Conservatives, but I voted " for Lord SEYMOUR whenever he was a candi- " date." The House of Somea.ser is Liberal ; and this, perhaps, has induced tho Conserva tive 'section of the constituency to be more ...- . than - usually eager to secure the second seat fur a candidate of their own way of think- ing. Local jealousy has added strength to poli tical partizanship. In the opinion of the Town Clerk this feeling first manifested itself in the election of 1832. It was a contest for one vacancy only, and it ended in a tie ; but the Liberal candidate spent, Mr. PRESSWELL has heard, from 1,5001. to 2,0001., while, though the Con servative candidate spent less in the gross, he made up for his parsimony by giving 8001. for seven votes. In the next election the Conservatives were more fortunate, and till 1852 Lord SEY MOUR and Mr. BaufwiN were regularly returned, the one by influence, the other by bribery. In 1852, however, the Liberals wrested the second seat from their opponents, but only by an enor mous outlay. "he voters," says Mr. PRESS WELL, " asked fabulous prices, and, I believe, " received as much as 301., 501.,70/.,andeven 801. " for their votes." From that time the Conserva tives have always been in a minority, probably from the fact of the voters requiring more money to induce them to vote against the Duke of Somali:fur than would be wanted in order to secure support for a candidate of like views with him. There is the more reason for accepting this statement of Mr. PazsswaLL's as substantially true, because " the people have " got to such a state that they don't seem ashamed " of the bribery that is going on, and talk of it " very freely." In 1869 the Conservative candi date retired, " because the voters were such great " gluttons they could not tell how much money " they wanted." Who supplied all this enormous outlay--estimated by another witness at 50,0001. in fifteen years—Mr. PRES.4WELL is unable to say; he is only sure that none of it came from the Swtmouß family. Here, therefore, we have pretty clearly drawn out for us the state of parties in Totnea. High above the storm and tumults of common life towers the Olympian presence of the Duke of SOMERSET. The succors of the candidate who has his interest is absolutely certain. He can manu facture votes pretty much at his own pleasure, and if he disdain to avail himself of the privilege, it is probably only because he is conscious that he has no need of them. The position of the other candidate is far less enviable. If he be a conservative, his part in life seems to be to fight against a power which moulds everything after its own fashion. The Duke of Souzassr, indeed, has no influence over the votes of his tenants that is to say, if the Duke were to become a Conservative, he would not expect them to become Conserva tives also ; but then " they are put in because " they arc Liberals," and in the event of a change taking place in the opinions of their landlord they "Id " doubtless be turned out, and the new fnants would be Conservatives." If, on the sr hand, the second candidate be a Liberal, he of course this influence on his side, but this not seem to amount to much more than a isaion to spend as much money as he likes. In state of things as this we cannot expect to such agreement between the accounts on If we listen to the Liberal witnesses shall believe that Totnes slumbered in purity lace until the Tories threw the constituency nfeaion by endeavouring to wrest the second from the hands of its natural owners. Of lt would -" " tenant i ..1011 ' :, ether hal • ti ".' has of c I t (4 .'. i does not tt permissi, i 1 1:1 , such a al I find mu ; . each aid, we shall in '64 to P c:: 1 . 1 '; s ! •`\ t i l seat frc ''t. I , . 1 1 \ 41 N •••% THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1866. which the country, if it be wine in time, will not fail to appreciate. In deference to the " sober liberals," a Wll. the modera tion of which was in reality immoderate, was brought in by a reforming administration. They defeated it, not be cause it was too small, but because it was in their view too sweeping and absolutely unsafe. Yet they now look earnest reformers in the face and ask why they are to be blamed so severely for throwing out a bill which was s o insignificant in its character. The best answer to such disingenuous quibbles, remarks the Star, is to tell them they will never have such another opportunity of escap ing that which they so dread. " Honesty " was the sole recommendation of the last bill, and these writers laugh at reformers for accepting it on so alight a ground. " Honesty" will not be the sole virtue of the next Reform Bill. course such an attempt wps promptly resented, and in their virtuous endeavours to keep out the enemy the Liberals have suffered themselves to be betrayed into some slightly corrupt practices. Ac cording to the other account, Totnes writhes under the uncongenial grasp of the Duke of Solmaxr, and if the voters were not tampered with, there would be little doubt that they would quickly enough make ample proof of this feeling. But the law of political necessity is too rigid to be resisted. Money is the only influence that can be pitted with any chance of success against land and title, and therefore it is to money that they have re course. "If there was no money," says one wit ness, " no one would come to the poll," and the first intimation given to a candidate is that he must bring plenty of money. Totnes is the very reverse of Reigate, where the member promises, but does not pay. Devonshire men have a nicer feeling of honour about them than this, and the slightest hint of what is wanted is enough to ensure its being attended to. The evidence of one witness in particular is very conclusive on this point. He has never met with any instance of direct bribery, but on one occasion he was requested to ask for a vote on behalf of the Conservative candidate. The voter—evidently a blunt and unrefined person— said nothing about his vote, but did say some thing about money. Upon this Mr. BASTARD pru dently retired, but then there came a curious coin cidence. Mr. BASTARD had been selected to under take this particular bit of canvassing because he had a mortgage on the voter's property. Nothing, of oourse, was said of this fact during the interview, but some time afterwards there came a stranger from Exeter, and paid off the mortgage. Pos sibly this had no connection with the contest that had previously been going on ; indeed, the witness tells us so himself, and of course he must have the best means of knowing. But it is curious that the witness should have no recollection what ever of the man who paid him 3501., and we are rather inclined to suspect the agency of some astute person who has had a good deal of practice in the art of not being found out. There arrives a time, says the Telegraph, in the career even of the most patient nation when the enemies of pro gress become aware that their " lease is up." It came in 1832—it is coming again, and by no means slowly ; the meeting at Birmingham has brought is much nearer than before ; and it depends upon the working classes them selves whether any " commission of inquiry" or " Patent Lateral Reform Bill" shall put it off so much as twelve months longer. Step by step the various preliminaries have been completed which seem part of the historic essence of Reform Bills. We have had the features of 1832 renewed, down to the interposition of the Binning ham men. Reform, and no compromise like the bill thrown out—no sham, like that which Mr. Disraeli is hatching—but a measure of reform which will give labour a clear and potent voice in the land it enriches and sus tains, will be obtained as surely as the new year will follow she present. who for two years " assisted " professionally at other members of the royal family, as the mysteries of. the fair defendant's toilette , which I may mention that public subs • sent in a bill of 1,012 fr. (421. Os. 5d.) for corn now being collected at Hanover for th e vatting, nail paring, scissors, files, and rose coloured presenting the Queen with a sple n did pomatum for the tips of the fingers. Mdlle. that the signatures already published i j iZai Leonide Leblanc paid 445 fr. into court and the journals number several thousands 1°4 , 1 Pekes e question was whether this was a sufficient re- e ll s ph eres of life. mtuteration for the peculiar services rendered. After hearing humorous speeches from M. Rivolet, counsel for the plaintiff, and M. Langlois for the defendant, the court decided that though the bill must be cut down the amount paid into court was not enough, and the lady was decreed to pay a further sum of 155 fr. and costa. The Bourse, after s strong upward movement, closed with a reaction. Rente quoted for account at one moment as high as 69fr. 90c., closed at yes terday's price, 69fr. 62ic. for cash ; for cash there was a rise of 15c. Italian rose 50c. ; and Mobilier, 6fr. 25c. Credit Foncier fell 7fr. 50c. ITALY. The Opinione of Florence relates the Woe* Three Austrian officers haring complakted tkai Austin were made prisoners some Hann soldiers teek fe ns la s 4 money an d other objects amounting to 241 lam a G em , Pettinengo caused a reply to be nut, to tm 4 1 14 that although there was no possibility of te meetim during a combat all reprehensible ecte of isolated isi victuals, and although he was obliged to &mad ea h, the personal allegation of the Austrian oaken, y et * a word should be accepted as would that at Italia. similar position, and the property taken from them iho be reimbursed. We find the subjoined in a communiesii. I addressed from Paris to the Journal de Ros es: It appears that the clerical reactionary Tarty t ithe* ing at Some ; the fact is proved by the mime in against the Ouervatare Romano. For some meth put that journal has been not altogether Me n u, moderate, snd at the moment of the Mika Venetia it published an article saying th at * independence of Italy was dear to it, beam h temporal power of the Pope would not be d oe there b y. Thi s language has displeased the cletioalpstmt ill• inan re y plittlilrwithah"mbues4l:idigadtriesaty.edWilata the (I tlad na."l" the tent party do They wrote anonymous letters to in h o against the journal in question, saying that it h ue revolutionary. The Pope, always weak and chim e , solid political principle, his yielded, and ordered aen s in the direction and in the censorship over the One nt‘ entrusting the one to a fugitive lawyer from Bohm, the other to a prelate quite disposed to crate a nanny serve his master. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Till REFORM VESTION. The Times finda fault with Mr. Bright for apply ing in him speech at Birmingham the epithets " base " and " hateful " to the conduct of some of the liberal party in the house last session, and when he attributed to one of them a " control" over the Time journal, he not only stated what was untrue, but what was disproved by every article it published during the long discussions on the bill. But, with his accustomed arrogance and impatience, Mr. Bright expects immediate submission, and is exces sively irritated by the slightest delay, the least clog on the wheel. The Amu defends the course adopted by the liberal . _ opposition on the ministerial side of the house, and asks whether there was one amendment from this quarter which touched in the remotest degree the principle of the bill, or which did not relate exclusively to such secondary in termediate matter of arrangement and machinery as might form a legitimate subject of difference among men agreed upon the main object? Can the most ingenious accuser twist the question of • rent or rating basis cf Louie valuation into an antagonism to extension of franchise, or a political condemnation of the artisan class? _ . . . • Were the members of the liberal party to have no voice and no judgment upon these matters? The Timescannot say this ;but if they had such a right, how could they exercise it except by proposing amendments' The bill was before the bonze, and there was no opportunity for the preliminary, and friendly, and private and informal checks and cau tions which a party may administer to its leaders. The principle of the bill—an extension of the suffrage—is now, and has long been, secure. Every fresh fact confirms this principle. The Tina cannot read the revelations recently made respecting the constituencies of some of our large towns without arriving at the conclusion that the artisan elsaa cannot, at any rate, be put below a large portion of the shopkeeper-electors in honesty and independence, and that many of them rise high above this leveL According to the login of toryism, and of that false liberalism which is not easily distinguishable from tory .. lam, the popular desire for reform, observes the Daily New, is something which may exist out cannot possibly be proved to exist. If petitions to parliament are few, they testify only to popular indifference. If they are many, the signatures have been procured by forgery or intimidation. Are meetings unfrequent and thinly at tended? They show general apathy. Are they, on the other hand, numerous and crowded? They are instru ments of terrorism to which it would be craven to submit. Assemblies in which men of political eminence take part are drawn together simply by curiosity to see Mr. Mill, or to holm Mr. Bright. Gatherings in which the audience and the speakers are of the same mental and social rank are set aside as possessing no intellectual or social significance. But it will not tdo to say that a mid-day assembly of two hundred thousand persona was drawn into a suburb of Birmingham in order that an audience of 6,000 persons, supplied with tickets a week beforehand, might listen to a great orator in the Town-hall in the evening. Mr. Bright came to the meeting ; the meeting did not come to Mr. Bright. Few can read the narrative of what passed there on Monday without feeling that the tories have irretrievably lost the opportunity of passing a moderate measure of reform, which might have given them and the country peace for a generation. They have sacri ficed conservatism to office ; their party to a faction. The feelings of that party were expressed in Mr. Lowe's frank declarations against any reduction of the franchise, and of distrust and contempt for the working classes. The tories and their Adullamite allies are exclusively re sponsible for having brought matters to the present crisis. The party whichwill not yield reform until it is threatened with revolution has only itself to blame if the reform which is at last forced upon it partakes in some degree of a revolutionary character. Lord Derby has cried "Wolf," and the wolf may at last show himself in obedience to the all. The Herold admits that the Birmingham meeting was a genuine one, composed of bona fide working men, and not, like the aims recent assemblages collected under the auspices of the Reform League, a gathering of the roughs, gassing, thieves, and outcasts, of an overgrown city, brought together by the hope of a row and the possibility of plunder. The utter futility, however,of such a meeting as a means of eliciting opinion, diffusing information, or furthering discussion, is obvious. It is impossible to say what the real ideas of the crowd were. All who were present would probably give their voice for reform of some sort. But the working-men of the iron country deserve to be led by • better man, and instructed by a more truthful and temperate speaker than Mr. Bright, whose whole oration was one tissue of evil counsel, mis representation, and vituperation, addressed to men capable of understanding argument and appreciating decent and courteous language, if only they had ever a chance of bearing it. It is absurd, the Herald courteously remarks, to speak of such a man as honest, or sincere, or useful ; as a friend of the working classes, or anything but a mischievous and unscrupulous conspirator against the peaoe and social order of his country. " Fairly and freely," the Herald admits that the men who attended the Birmingham meeting are in favour of a demo cratic reform—that is, of being made themselves the ruling power of the state—and that radicalism is entitled to whatever credit their adhesion may give it. Only, as their opinions were known long ago, there is nothing in their demonstration which ought in anywise to influence the judgment of parliament or the country upon the subject. Mr. Bright, says the Post, may not be inclined to go with Mr. Bodes to "residential manhood suffrage." He may con ceive that Mr. Gladstone will meet him on another " mode rate" compromise. But is it honest to trifle with the working classes in this fashion ? Is it expedient to encou rage expectations which can never be realised ? Mr. Bright may not wish to subvert established institutions, or to con trol and overawe the representation. It is incredible that he has any understanding with Lord Russell, who " has no fear of freedom," or with Mr. Gladstone, who bas repudiated all connexion with the league. But, be this as it may, his speeches lead irresistibly to a conclusion LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE POLISH INSURRECTION IN SIBERIA. The Moscow Gazette of August 22 contains the following communication from Irtkousk, dated July 17 : About 200 Polish prisoners taken up at once were loaded with chains and brought here. One Dombrowski, who styled himself chief of the staff, is amongst the prisoners. The insurgents are well organised. There are already the cadres of five regiments, each regiment has its . camp, its arms, its powder, and scythemen, armed with scythes, which are not at all like those used in the last Polish insurrection, but which have been ape. cially made : in short, the organisation could not be better• They are expecting the arrival of the colonists, who are her. in limited numbers, to complete regiments. Revolutionary proclamations were found on Dombrowski, as well as a considerable correspondence with all parts of Russia and Siberia. This shows that the insurrection has been in preparation for a long time. So much for the penetration of our Argun' ! And this is what comes from shelving humanity towards the Pelee. (SUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. BERLIN, AuoreT_29.. The Austro-Prussian treaty of peace is in all the principal points only a repetition of the peace pre liminaries, with a slight variation in the wording. One of the articles, however, modifies the treaty of commerce between Austria and the Zollverein by stipulating that six months' notice must be given before either party can withdraw from the conven tion. After the peace treaty has been ratified, the Prussian troops will at once commence the evacua tion of Austrian territory and the officers and as sistants of the transport commission intrusted with superintending the operation of that movement left this city on Saturday. Orders have already been given for the transport of the troops of the Prus sian headquarters from Prague to Topaz, and this has probably been already accomplished. GERMANY. MUNICH, AUGUST 29. The troops belonging to Electoral Besse and Nassau, which are still stationed on Bavarian ter ritory, will shortly roturn to their homes. The territory which Bavaria cedes to Prussia contains 33,900 inhabitants. HUNGARY. PERTH, AUGUST 28, EVENING. Count Andrassy is still at Vienna. He enter tains hopes that tho liberal party will be victorious, and that a complete Hungarian ministry will be obtained. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRIMPONMENT.) PARIS, TUE.SDAT EVIESING. Most of the ministers have left Paris to preside at different councils-general ; M. Rouher is at Clermont, M. Fould at Tarbes, Marshal Randon at Grenoble, Marquis do Chaaseloup-Laubat at La Rochelle. The Duke of Persigny, who though not now in office, may be described as an honorary minister in perpetuity, is at St. Etienne. You are aware that according to law the councils general ought not to talk polities ; but you cannot have forgotten that in practice the law is only enforced against ordinary mortals, and that ministers and courtiers often set up, with not only impunity but encouragement, to be exponents of " public opinion" in the councils-general. It is probable that this practice will not be departed from this year, and that speeches will be made by some of the dons aforesaid, which will be considered politically important. The Liberte inquires what can be the hidden motive for the announcement (which I mentioned yesterday) that a French frigate is to take the Empress Charlotte back to Mexico ? All appear ances are, it thinks, contrary to the probability that such news can be true, and it is high time for the Monitettr to give some official explanations on a subject which has become perilously puzzling to the public. It is known that the Empress Charlotte came to France to ask for men and money. The Liberti says the simple and important question is whether she has obtained one, or the other, or both. The Empire of Mexico has decidedly tombi en quenouille. It is now announced that the Empress Charlotte—her husband's universal plenipoten tiary—intends before returning to France to pay a visit to the Pope, in order to settle with him cer tain thorny points relating to the Mexican con cordat. Prince Louis and the Princess Victoria, children of the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, have arrived in Paris from Osborne House, en route for Darmstadt. Prince and Princess Christian of Augustenburg have paid them a visit at the Hotel Bristol. There was a talk several years ago of the die- covery in London, by M. Edouard Fournier, the dramatic critic, of a play (never acted) in the handwriting of Beaumarchaia, the illustrious author of the Marriage of Figaro. The small sum of 201. was paid on speculation by the discoverer, who bought it on account of the Theatre Francais. The not very large sum (assuming the authenticity of the manuscript) of 8001. has since been offered and refused. The leading national theatre, after keeping the piece a long while in its pigeonholes, has at length resolved to bring it out. The France says that the consent of the heirs of Beaumarchais, of whom the best known is General Roulaux du Gage, must first be obtained ; but this must be a mistake, since " perpetual copyright " is not yet established, and, according to the existing French code, the heirs of Beaumarchais have no more locus standi in a court of law than the heirs of Job. It is stated that the Prince Royal of Prussia in tends to fix his residence in the city of Hanover ; the daughter of England his wife will there find herself in a family home. People who get on the top of an omnibus and pay only three sous are often ashamed to stop the ear -1 riage when they want to get down, and some are not aware that they have as good a right to do so as those who ride inside. The constant habit with most omnibus riders is to show their activity by dropping themselves on the pavement while the carriage is in motion. It has just been decided in a court of law that an omnibus is bound to stop at the request of any passenger ; • but that if the passenger chooses to dispense with the right, and an accident happens to him in consequence, the omnibus company is not liable to damages. A pedicure and chiropodist named David tried an action a few days ago against Mademoiselle Leonide Leblanc, late an actress at the Vaudeville Theatre, but who, since the publication in her name of a work of small literary merit called " Les Petites Comedies de l'Amour," has found means to leave the stage, astonish the Bois de Boulogne with her equipages, and rejoice the hearts of pro fessional diners out by profuse invitations to an ever sumptuous table. M. David, ITALY AND THE POPE. The Tines reiterates its opinion that, although Rome may yet be the nominal capital, it can never become the seat of government of the Italian Kingdom. What Italy could not turn to any good purpose of her own may well be given up for the use of the church—of the church, not of the papacy. What constitutes the attaction of Rome, what crowds St. Peter's and the Corso with the !lift of Europe, is not the Pope as king, but the Pope as priest, that series of shows and ceremonies, of processions and masquerades, of benedictions and fireworks, which make up the Roman season as well for idle believers as for unbelieving idlers. A reconcilia tion between Rome and Italy, between the Papacy and patriotism, is a matter of equal necessity with both parties. Civil rights are secured in Italy ; full toleration ia established.l,The monks are gone, the pro. pert yof the church is seized; bishops and priests, the whole hierarchy, are at the mercy of the state. With the fall of temporal power the Pope himself becomes a pensioner—powerless for harm ; of an immense beneficial influence yet, if both he and hie people know h. _IOW to accommodate themselves to the new orderof things. For good or for evil, the papacy has been associated with Italy for fifteen hundred years. It is one of the glories, one of the monuments of the land now the era of Popes as kings is over, and better things may be expected of a new series of Popes who shall no longer be kings. The evidence given before the election commissions in Yarmouth, Reigate, and Totnes continues to be a topic for comment in most of the journals of this morning. t ite Court. BALMORAL, Aucusr 26. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and attended by Lady Churchill, went out driving AUGUST 27. Yesterday was the anniversary of the Prince Consort's birthday. The Prince and Princess of Wales came to luncheon with the Queen, and the two young Princes Albert Victor and George, visited her Majesty in the after noon. ----- The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, went out in the afternoon. A committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council met yesterday at the Privy Council-office, White hall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords pre sent were the Lord President, the Right Hon. S. Walpole, and the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry. Colonel Harness attended the committee. The Duke of Cambridge, travelling under the title of Lord Culloden, and accompanied by his aide.de camp, Colonel Clifton, arrived two days back at Frank fort. His royal highness came from Regensburg, where . ... he had an interview with the King of Hanover, and will proceed from Frankfort to Rumpenheim on a few days' . . visit to his relatives there. Thu Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have arrived in town from Jerveaux Abbey, Yorkshire, on their way to Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal have left their residence in Groavenorsquare for Hampstead Marshall, Newbury, Berks. Tho Earl and Countess of Dunmore are enter- taming a select party of friends at their seat in the Isle of Harris, N.B. The Earl and Countess of Fife are entertaining a select family party at New Mar Lodge, N.B. Viscount Kirkwall and Baron de Vahl have left .wn for a tour on theTontinent for several months. Lady Sandys and Hon. Miss Sandys arrived at Pitford a few days back, on a visit to Admiral Ferguson. Lord Henry Bentinck, since his arrival at his shooting quarters in Scotland, has had excellent sport. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons and Lady Charlotte Denison are staying at Lang. well, Caithness. Captain the Hon. Walter Talbot has just arrived in England from the North American and West Indian Station, on promotion, having had command of her Majesty's ship Fawn on that station for the last year and a half. Captain Roberta has arrived at the South Ken sington Hotel, Queen's-gate-terrace, South Kensington. The Rev. J. Lee bas arrived at the South Ken sington Hotel, from Dublin. Mr. J. M'Dowell, from Tunbridge Wells, and Mrs. J. M`Dowell, from Prris, have arrived at Cataldi's HoteL ----- Mrs. Munroe and family have arrived at Cataldi'a Hotel from Paris. We (Dublin Evening Mail) are in a position to state that Baron Fitzgerald has been offered the Master ship of the Rolls, and has refund it. This morning was issued from the Parliamentary Paper-office " further correspondence " respecting the ' British captives in Abyssinia. It adda scarcely anything material to what we previonaly known. We have mentioned that the contract fcr the catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 had been adjudged to M. Dentu. It is calculated that the cost of printing a million of copies, including paper, expenses of advertising, &c., will be 300,000 fr., which, with the 503,000 fr. paid for the privilege, will make the total oast 803,000 fr., which baa to be covered by the sale of the work. FUNERAL OF THE Ray. JOHN GROTE.--CLM BRIDGE, Ai ctair 28.—The funeral of the Rev. John Grote, 8.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, took place at Tnimpington, of which place he was vicar, this morning. The Bishop of Ely, whose chap lain the deoeaaed had been, attended specia ll y to commit the professor's remains to the earth ; and he was assisted in the service by the Rev. R. K W. Kirkby, chaplain of Trinity College and curate of the pariah. The deceased's brother, the famous historian of Greece, and the Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, librarian of the University of Cambridge, were amongst the chief mourners. There were present also nearly all the resident fellows of Trinity College, in cluding the Rev. W. C. Mathison, senior fellow and tutor. Dr. Paget, and Mr. H. W. Pemberton, the latter the squire of the parish, also attended. The body was buried in the churchyard at the back of the church, the bishop per forming the service in the presence of • large number of parishioner,. On Sunday evening • [antra anthem was performed in Trinity College Chapel, the words being taken from the Book of Wisdom—" The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God," &c., and the "Dead March" in Saul was performed as a voluntary. PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO RENNET giszg WHITE. —We are glad to learn that the rector of Wilford, near Nottingham, having had his especial attention ealled to the fact, that there is no memorial whatever to the late Henry Kirke White, in Wilford (his favourite resort) or the vicinity, is anxious that an effort should be made to supply the deficiency ; and with that object in view intends to solicit all admirers of the amiable poet of Nottingham to aid him in his effort to phase • memorial window in the church of that village. The proposal is sure to be warmly welcomed.—Nottinyhans Guardian. GREAT EASTERN RAIL - WAY. --f THIS DAY.) .- The eighth half-yearly general meeting el al amalgamated company was held this &hereon si London Tavern; lir. C. H. Twain (chainesa h company) presiding. There was a large attendance of shareholders. The report, of which the substance has already snot was taken as read. The net traffic receipts of year were stated at 390,964 f., and after mom., other companies, interest on mortgage and debentoeue, and interest on temporary loans, there remained a net balance of 139,4=; the payment of the dividend on the preheats Bede This amount would pay in full all the preform reds created before August, 1662, leaving, however, tis dende upon the preferences created at sad shoo is amalgamation unprovided for. The ()RAHMAN, who on rising was received Tithe* moved the adoption of the report. He felt thither. hoard bad inherited difficulties and not created tles,l they bad no desire to reflect upon part millions. and extravagance. The accounts now presented wale roughly honest and truthful, the shareholders ho the worst, and any turn that took place moo hir the better. (Cheers.) His policy was and he had endeavoured to consolidate and tans th farent interests represented upon the board. Bendy he entered upon his duties as a director be ow rained that the only way to sustain the credit d tis company was by borrowing 300,0001. The dinette kW it impossible to raise that sum on the credit d these o% and in that state of things, himself and three caul. rowed the money upon their own responsibility. fib* A law clerk had been appointed at a fixed Baku, ad h. Baxter's services had been retained in Mame Y der metropolitan extensions and for parliamentary wok, EA he hoped they would know very little abost ie Ise (Cheers.) The questions in dispute with the beaten Unn Company had been referred to the arbitration d 191 the recorder of Leeds. It was satisfactory to law the the mileage earnings of the Great Eastern wan kir tie those of the Midland traffic, so that when prow warm was exercised, and the working expenses wen Maud there were good prospect' for the Gust hem property. (Cheers.) During the hat ball pc they had had to contend with aow commercial panic, losses through the cattle plasm eels increased rate of wages, and also with malicieu sad o founded rumours, which had done a great deal dijey but notwithstanding all these adverse inborn, th debentures they were about to issue would odor a sesl second to that of no railway in the kingdom. The emu anticipated that in the next half year the divided.? all the preference shares would be covered, sad flubs the reduction of working expenses and armageostatoill bad been entered into with respect to coal teat shareholders would after the two next half yams two an honest dividend. (Loud cheers.) Mr. GROWS SUM seconded the motion. Dr. O'Rsu.ty said he had had on many foram semis to complain of the reckless extravagance of the dittos. and the result of the policy of the late board wes sada in the most unfavourable report that it had ever is his misfortune to receive from a railway eompsay t I had confidence in the present directors, and he bogies a reduction would be made in the cost of the web Stratford. Mr. Leon, having been told at the list meetirsl/ 9 committee of investigation that the prefers* Us* holden were secure, and that statement hung toe* firmed by Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, and ice disappointed with the present report The ee had not benefited in any material form NNW SIN rug directors entered into office. The discussion was proceeding when oar 1, 2411 despatched. WEATHER REPORT.-(THI8 DAT.) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST W, E Li IL T. w. 1 1 111,—L--.1 w. i lz •1 r: is AI D. -- --.-----...-44.01- 1 Nairn —.. 29.63 65 E. 3, 1 • Aberoses .. 25.55;544 NICE. 2! 2 ' N.Y.. re 06 . WWI 19.3811 N.14.F.. 218 , N.B. OIN Ardrosian. 29.5 7 157 N.B. 3 3 I N.W. 48 '" ' CaP O Mal. _ , _ -- . Urerpoo! ;29.47 sal s. s! E 4- f Holy/ma — 1 29.47158 N.N.W. $ 2. N . W. 0 ii i Penzasos 129.00 68 N.N.W. 45; N. 84 1- 6 • Brest .. 1 2 0 . 85157 W.N.W. 56 , vi.N.w. re 'lli i i Latent , 29.6 16 9 21 W. 4 5 W.N.W. c. O . . 49.76;67. W . 4 4 st . fOf 4 Plymouth Esebeiset. 129.50;68 W. 6 8 V. e. t Weymouth '29.4115/4 W.N.W. 2• 4 8.1. 0 :: i Portsmouth 29.37157 i W.N.W. 314 1 8 . 1 s l _, , tt . '" - Landon _.....29.36158, B.W. 2. 5 S. I' . Yumosth 2 9.35 611 S.W. yI 1 W.S.W. •lel B I BwwborosBa. 28.32 1 57, N.N.E. 14 , 1 6 8.1. 1 4 i 0 ; 4 ! , Shields 29.5159 ii. E. 4 k '' B.W. ; 80.4: REMAKKII. The area of low barometric pressure noticed 0 60 biting to the southward of thbt coun vWO eastward—barometers on the southern coma Malt Pr: about three-tenths of an Inch, while on the math messer, they are now rising. Hain has fallen on the taratlea_. eastern coasts, and at places In the south the Wein A' smezertilang.sit.,llnteuwitnaredschablevneyberstarme ynorthebmrumesstestl A pr is still very unsettled. • ••=___—----•••-------- Dn. JaconVa SPEECH. —We gave in Ilhe' 4 Express an abstract of the speech delivered Jacoby in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies elttsi_..* forcible annexation of German territory by the government. The number of the VoUreetswf tinned a more ample report of the speech wu rid reellintedPeaaristh inPrtl:scsec)pintaltaionfs for many yeas • well-known member oe the 1 011 s: provincial press, in the capacities of editor, rty l t:as contributor, and also as a writer in Fraser. "Tb!:‘ wth.eG•orlinteellijoXtissa 6 of the tffit," " The Age of Veneer," sad " CW74 - • 4 4 Orators were from his pen. Mr. Fnuacis died of 50. Tan Crtv or LONDON.—The inhabitant, el t City Proper are year by year decreasing. to I Bs _ l ' ig stance. there were 129,128 inhabitants eVill'lri:4l boundaries ; but this souther bad d ° I ~ 113,387, and probably in 1871 the populatice of 7 0 renowned commercial city in the world, 0 111 ,,_.n b , sr 100,000, or lea than the number of poor , u,:7„1 - sse sington. The army of people, principerii67-00 on the City every morning, is pe J ut in number by any human tide that li r o s, diurnally in any city in any ado d The difficulty of dealing with such a vast infas.„ l • titan and vehicular, is increased in oessulae"" 0 narwness of the streets within its anis t' 0 true, ro constitute about T. 3 per cent. of ill tir* ec ot,'l i public' ways traversing it in every WU dir ft".ooo* ect it these only 194 have suffi cient vehicles only, and 174 in addition are d w ow isouthost it fares. Thus, it will be seen, that el orff thirds of the City streets are Us* si ; any considerable etresm of vehiculu ..,, There are only 86 which admit of two lines of rtS7. 68 which admit of three or more. Batt Pr'o;sil main etream of people coming into the OA it: I%W And their way along two lines, Flee - our g:loiliff street, the two thorthiyhfareouls:74.loll_,l,..rtd. coming to • dead loth bout US _ . ,,j, It day at the Poultry. The el" t ru i o ef o l i r place should and would have been' for the almost pzieeless value of laud in t he Once a Week. PUBLIC FEELING IN HANOVER. (Taos ova owe coussrosnur.) HAMBURG, Amur 15. Ugly revelations have just been brought to light in Hanover. In the archives of its Foreign-office were discovered documents and correspondence showing how the Prussian monarchy was to have been cut up and apportioned between the allied German sovereigns in cue the fortune of war had gone the other way. There was even a map of Germany to illustrate at a glance the new distribu tion of territory. It is instructive to learn how they had settled the division of Prussia among them, which was as follows :—Austria was to have Silesia, the States of Thuringia to be given to Saxony, the Prussian county of Henneberg to Saxe- Meiningen, Westphalia to Hanover, Hohenzollern to Wurtemberg, the province of Eichsfeld and a part of Thuringia as far as Langensalza and Nuh lenfeld to the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, some parts of Rhenish Prussia to Nassau, and the rest divided between Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt. It ap pears further that Russia was to be tempted to concur in the spoliation by the province of Posen or Prussian Poland, and all that was to have been left to Prussia was to consist of the provinces of East and West Prussia, Pomerania, and Branden- burg. All this was fully settled by the diplomatists of Austria, Saxony, Hanover, Bavaria,Wurtemburg, and Hesse-Cassel, and would no doubt have been executed had the treaty of peace been dictated before the gates of Berlin instead of Vienna. Cor respondence has also been discovered in the bag gage of Austrian generals killed at the battle of Koniggratz confirming the above details, and more over promising them royal domains in Silesia and Prussian Saxony, as a reward for the victories it was hoped they would achieve over the Prussian armies. The chamberlain Von Bock-Willfingen, who it will be remembered was arrested by the Prussians on a charge of high treason, for being concerned in smuggling the regalia and crown jewels out of the kingdom, and who has ever since been kept in the fortress of Wesel, has now been restored to liberty. It is now stated that the King of Hanover has al tered his plans, and will take up his residence for the future at the palace of "Het Loo," near the Hague, which has been placed for that purpose at his dis posal by the King of the Netherlands, as a proof of his sympathy with King George's fallen fortunes, The Queen continues to reside, with the two prin cesses and a small suite of attendants, at the country palace of Herrenhausen, near Hanover, where she intends to remain till circumstances oblige her to seek another asylum. As some of the German papers maintain that negotiations have again been opened between Prussia and Hanover for the restoration of King George, it may not be superfluous to state that nothing of the sort has taken place, nor in fact any communication whatever between the two sove reigns since the capitulation of Langensalza. What probably gave rise to the rumour was that last week King George sent his Minister of Justice, Baron von Hodenberg, to Berlin with an offer to abdicate in favour of the Crown Prince, but had the mortification of receiving from Count Bismarck the humiliating reply that it was " too late." Though it has been known for some time past to be the intention of Prussia to incorporate Hanover as an integral part of the monarchy, the Hanoverian could not be brought to believe in the possibility of such an act ; and it was only when the King's message was read to the Prussian par liament, and Count Bismarck laid on the table of the House of Representatives the bill for the an nexation of the conquered dominions, that the Hanoverian awoke to a sense of the reality, and began to look the danger in the face. Being thin rudelyawakened out of their dreams of security, the first question that offers itself for their immediate consideration is the oath of allegiance which they will be required to take to their new sovereign ; and this is a subject that is fraught with some difficulty, as King George V. has hitherto flatly refused to release them from their oath of allegiance to himself. The ez monarch appears to be systematically kept in the dark as to the rapidly passing events of the day , and not being personally able to read the news papers, which would alone give him an insight into the state of public affairs, is dependent for information on his little suite of followers in exile, who for their own reasons continue, as they have done all along, to withhold from him the knowledge of many things of the utmost importance, and which are well known and understood by every body that has eyes. King George, who is one of the great sticklers for the theory of " kings by the grace of God," still fully believes in his speedy re storation to the throne of his ancestors ; and I have it from the lips of a Hanoverian officer who last week had an interview with him at Vienna, that he is quite sanguine of being very shortly reinstated on his throne at Hanover, and is busily employed in drawing up plans for the future. Among other things he told that officer his plans for the re-organization of the army, and his intention of re-introducing the original scar let uniform, in which the Hanoverian gained their laurels in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. It is the uncertainty of their future position that now most alarms the inhabitants. This feeling might be considerably mitigated, were Prussia, as soon as the bill for incorporation has passed, to convoke the Hanoverian Chambers, and come to an understanding with the representatives of the people, so that the transfer might be made with some apparent show of legality. But this does not appear to be the intention of the Berlin Cabinet. On the contrary, it is under stood that only a few of the notabilities of the kingdom will be convoked, with whom an arrange ment will be made concerning the most pressing questions affecting the administration of the coun try. It cannot be said that the fallen fortunes of King George have caused an overwhelming feeling of regret among his subjects, for he was far from being popular ; but great sympathy is felt for the The oommi -, /_. I ol d moreme • s keet, Prestos, me iminediatet w in not be tin le reply havi s at er thwaite Irridig night*" of ?radon. I from attends= este with Jot Mod Monday morni into Yar bedded the 6,0 tar, G. C. J 4 comma/dm' , / 61 parted, d•Pm election at kJ c a o sed throll and t ar. to 1:1 Mr. Anarial he undertook the course of mente a ve of us, end Keeler. He ties but bet Mitlitif4 ll • l ' saki I en which give Spence r race they all thre • cowl 'Wales same t 5. 151. we nghter.) lined to re 'kenos I was on 1 theedon Ci Yarmouth, MI liberals on th voters mine Jones. Re te maim no v gentleman w (Laughter.) The 'ritual for and reoei inquiry wu On the Henry Free be Toted at &avowed t on. He tea and spent it It anyhow. there. He after they b that to he spent promises t He offered vote, but ti rooks. (Ls treated peo James Al tingale Coy ploughing, away inqui stL ea tf but Cordoroy, ' ride up an' (Laughter. money fin If he had them. (14 Mr. Willis a farthing John Al or three m of time. Some In goners ad Robert and reoog borough, anti aaw several na Kr. Rem If he wer bis Who' was to be In Tonle' Dome a on of integri obtain. had • ma , the mane In 1863 • Colonel I down. 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