The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

IaRCANTILZ ntemuyass NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. itatabibbect Buslam of the Mace h 870,000,000 Duty ty Data lu ISSI 88,076 Du The BONUS SYSTEM of the aloe Is peculiarly advan o3B,7ol tageous for ME RC THREE-FIFTHS of the ANTILE PROFITS of the C ES, OMPANY hemp parlodithlly dietributed sa a BONUS among must Insuring. who have thus received sums amounting In the aggregate to E 440.000. The NORWICH UNION Is the LARGEST OFFICE gimvvilnagg a BONUS to its Menem and In order of magnitude is the THIRD OFFICE la the UNITED KINGDOM. For RATES and PROSPECTUSES apply at the Society's Norwich. Oakes. ft, Crescent, New Bridgeutreet, LC., sad Surrey-street, T,NTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The famous " MAIZENA" CREAMS, Puddlna i s he., are daily served In the Refreshment Rooms. " Malsona ' s the only prise medal corn Sour, and was also reported by Jury, " RsteedatlitlY Remnant rood." Try It. Grocers, de. sell 222 REGENT -STREET, LONDON. 9 MAPPIN BROTHERs (by special appointment to his Imperial Majesty Napoleon III.), SILVERSMITHS and CUTLERS. QUEEN% PLATE aad CUTLERY WORKS, SHEFFIELD, and friand ak KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY. OW. SMITH AND CIDI4. PURE EXTRACT of CALVES' FEET, Foe Invalids and Culinary Use. gold In Bd., Is., ts., and 40. packets, by all chemists. grocers, he. MANI - FACTORY, SS, LITTLE PORTLAND-ST., Regent-rt., W. OEFICCS. 225, BUSILLAN Y., Cannon-street, B.C. N.B.—Prim Medal awarded for excellence of quality. QECOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. 11.77 CSAII3III. BEATA sad WOOD Dave a large meortmeat Ito cored-haul Pianofortes, by the moat esteemed makers, at greetly reduced pricee.-201. Regeatetreet. IN FUN THIS WEEK, One Penny, Ron. Mr. Callow and R. IL. Osborne. Almanack and Nary. Prize Eiaays. Comte Earyelopardia. A Young Married Lady. Songs for the Throng, Ac., Ac. Now matly, haadaornely bound inaid Magenta cloth, gilt, price 411. dd.: p. to_ TB SECOND lIALF-YMICLY VOLUME of FUN, with nu clowns Engravings by talented artists, and articles by lis t Anguished writers. the First Volume, uniform with the Second Volume, on sale. Olin, de. Fleet-street. Za':lte erpreox4• TO 0011LRASPONDILNTS. dvertiewnente Intended for " - The Piprees" London Evening Paper, most be at the office, 10, bouverlastreek, by Two o clock on the day of publication. COVENT OARDRN. THIS EVIVIDIO. HAT Mines Loafs* and Susan Pyne, Aynsley Cook , Mews. W. H. Weiss, J. Rouse, A. St. Albyn, H. Cord, C. Lyall, W. H. Payne, and George Ferrell.— %Conductor, Yr. Alfred Mellon.—Commence at & !lAYMABKICT, TEIIII ETINCIIO. A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Mho E. Rower. —OIIR eMICRICAN COUMIN. Mews. Soebern. Backetune ; Mss. Z. Pitmenliam —DUCK HUNTING. Mrs, Wilkluz.—And JACK'S SZTURN FROM CANTOS. The Leelereqe. PRI NITPAIRA. Tins Elnan,., WHERE THERES A WILL THERITS A WAY. Mr. George Vining awl Mies 11. Oliver.—And THE lIAOVE CHASE. Meeera. rat:pram Shore, and G. Yining Mimes C. Aylmer and Amy Sedgwick, llre. K. Manion, BRITANYIA ETiznia, CAST OX THEMERCY OF THE WORLD. Mn. S. Jane.—Singing by Mara Randall and Plumpton ; Miss M. Cm/rm.—Dancing by Mr. C. Burton and MdDe. C. stephan. —And HEARTS 01 OAR. Mr. J. C. Bird and Mina IL Lacey. HUM NATIO AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tns DAT-;lice4mijits7 oia.T.T:iiteil;Ocrik. 61. Ma. Tailoaaoll—Xondag, Ts. Ou.....Attarsoas. 304 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29. LONDON is a large city, but it is not a handsome one. Mr. DISRAELI may think tho Strand the finest thoroughfare in Europe, but he probably stands alone in this opinion. We shine in many arts and sciences, we are great engineers, circumnavigators, and getters-up of joint-stock companies, but we are not happy as builders. If we design a gothic temple for our Houses of Parliament, with towers and pin nacles which ought to soar into the clouds, we place it low down in a dismal swamp, with its feet constantly dabbling in cold water. If we possess a square in a part of the town where an open breathing place is most needed, we give it up for ten or twelve years to encroaching showmen, and allow it to be turned into an exhibition lumber-yard. Leicester square is only just being relieved from an incubus which has weighed heavily on it for many years, and is crying out aloud for the restoration of a statue which was buried to make room for maps and stuffed monsters. That the leaden represen tation of old Gr.oauE I. will ever be restored to its pedestal is more than we can hope, as we have heard that it has been dug up piecemeal by unknown hands, and sold for pots of beer and tobacco. The shrubs and flowers, however, may struggle to grow again for a brief season, overshaded as they will be by French cafga, Cockney-Moor;sh porticoes, and British stucco. Our prevailing style of architecture is nothing but a dull imitation of the antique, with a coating of soot which we may claim as an original additior. We take no heed of climate or local colouring, and import our architectural ornaments as we do our kings and our cocoa-nuts. We inlay our shop fronts with columns looking like constables' staves, and think we have made an excellent investment in Corinthian capitals. We raise pillars under porticoes which look like the legs of shaved poodles, and think we have snatched a grace almost beyond the reach of art. We adopt any deformity or foreign peculiarity, if it is only warranted to be "classic." A line of Doric four-post bedsteads, made of stone or stucco, is considered a neat finish for the doorways of a Belgravian crescent. They shelter the footman, the potboy, and the greengrocer, and that is the beat we can say for them. The moat splendid designs exist for the architectural improvement of the metropo'ia, but only in the shape of water-colour pictures. One gallery of the International Exhibition is full of such designs— the dreams of men whose imagination is not limited by any vulgar questions of cost. There we may see what the Thames Embankment will never be, and the new Babylon which will never be erected on the ruins of Holborn-hill. In the ugliest building in the world we may revel in the visions of architectural opium -eaters, and wonder why so mush beauty is not given us in a more solid shape. Even here, however, there are no aspirations after a national layle of architecture, and we are still tied to the tail of Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. In our wildest flights upon paper with the draughtsman's pencil, we are still only a nation of miserable copyists. That individual liberty which we very properly regard as our birthright is another great obstacle to the architectural improvement of London. What TONIKINS think, sublime, JONES and J zwzissox may think ridiculous, and each gentleman backs his opinions in the most substantial manner. OM builds a cottage like a Swiss chAlet, another builds a mansion like a penitentiary, and the third thinks a touch of the Elizabethan an ornament to a dwelling. All these three styles, and a dozen more, may stand together in the same street, or face each other in the same square, looking more like samples in a fancy general warehouse than a harmonious settlement. One owrer of house property may think stucco a good facing for a dwelling-house, another, living nett door, may paint his bricks red in the style of the last century, and a third may allow his tenement to go into " Chancery," and become the prey of ravenous bill-stickers. The patchwork effect produced by this liberty of action is only endured in a free country for the sake of a principle, and is deplored —..isthiu THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1862. even by those who are enemies to dl offload , meddling. While content to live Without all tit harmony of street architecture which - lannot be produced without the intervention of an arbitrary surveyor-general and his subordinates, we may be pardoned for wishing that a few more neighbourly consultations had been held before the earth was loaded with such • weight of horrors. An instance has just been brought to our notice, where a little timely counsel and co-operation may save us from another metropolitan eyesore. We are now spending three millions sterling to purify our noble river, as it is called, and are looking forward to the time when a few homely quays will line the northern bank in a style half-way be tween that of Paris and Dublin. The bridges across this river are not all they ought to be as free thoroughfares, but two of them, at least, have great architectural merit, and we are about to add another to these two in the New Bridge at Blackfriars. The City authorities seem to have found some difficulty in choosing an architect, and for some time it was thought that Mr. Pao was the successful candidate, but at last the choice has fallen upon Mr. Cusirr, whose design is now given to the world in the illustrated journals. Without passing an opinion upon a structure which, like many other buildings, may not come up to its promise upon paper, we may assume that it will be a work of considerable pretension, great cost, and not without • certain share of beauty. If Mr. Cuetrr would take one-half the contract price to construct one half of his design this agreement might be judiciously entered into, for the south front of the bridge, however elaborate and impos ing, will be obscured by the viaduct of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. The railway bridge, we are credibly informed, is to run parallel within one hundred feet of Mr. Ct•atrr's bridge. Here are two separate interests—working close to each other—spoiling each other's designs, to say nothing of the river, and spending money which might be saved by a little co-operation. One broad bridge might surely do for the railway and the thoroughfare, and Mr. Custrr might save hie east front from the total eclipse which threatens it. We can hardly expect to hear that such a suggestion has been acted upon, but in the into rests of the public, trying to save an ugly city from more ugliness, we still feel bound to make it. DITELLIGENOL - AUSTRIA. r The Oat Deutsche Post of Vienna c4nmenrs is a thoroughly liberal tone upon the dispute between the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Peers relative to the reinsertion in the budget by the latter of a sum which had been struck out by the lower house. The Vienna journal observes that the test which this question applies to the cabinet will be decisive, as the point to be ascertained is whethio, in the opinion of the ministry, the parliament is but a piece of machinery invented to delude foreigners into the belief that Austria possesses a true parliamentary government, or whether the government considers a vote of the national representation serious and obligatory. " The question is not as to the 60,000 florins, it relates to the most definite law inscribed in the constithtion—namely, the right of the' elective chamber to reject an expense which does not seem to i.t sufficiently justified." Replying to an objection that the dignity of the government is concerned in the matter, the same journal quotes the example of the Emperor Napoleon, who knows how to take care of his political dignity, but who nevertheless withdrew, without hesitation, the grant proposed in favour of General Montauban, when it was opposed by the Legislative Corps. ITALY. A letter from Rome, in the Presse, says Reports are current of the retirement of Cardinal Auto nelli and Mgr. de Mi•rode. The removal of the letter would be a satisfaztion given to France. That of Canlinal Anto nelli would be one of the necessities of the present state of things. I feel no personal affection for the cardinal, but I must declare that, of the two, he has been the less hostile to the acceptance of the propositions made by the French ambassador. Two cardinals are talked of to replace Cardinal Antonelli—Cardinals Pietro and Bo fondi. Cardinal Pietro, of the order of priests, is 56 years of age ; he belongs to one of the beet families in Rome, and pubes for being a liberal. He some yearn ago filled the post of Apostolic Nuncio at Madrid. He is President of the Council of State, a post which was filled in 1856 by Cardinal Antonelli, Candidly speaking, I think that Cardinal Pietro has but little chance, but I can not say the same of Cardinal BotoixF, only a short time ago a simple petty advocate, then an auditor of the Rota, and next, a cardinal of the order of deacons. He is a man of about 67, full of energy, veif acute, sceptical enough to see the real position of the Holy Sm as regards Europe ; and bold enough to lead the Pope and make him depart from his immobility. His Holiness is very partial to him, and will ingly gives him his confidence. He was made a cardinal at the same time as Antonelli. Cardinal Bofoodi is now simply President of the Census or Land-tax Committee. It must not be forgotten that he was at the heed of Pius IL's min istry at the time of the first reforms, and was replaced by Cardinal Antonelli after the 24th Feb., 1818. Those a amours, as you may well imagine, cane great agitation in Rome, where every house holds for its cardinal. Poor An tonelli, who has been lately thrown much into the back ground, and who is considered as rather too proud of hie position, will not be much regretted, should he go. Opera. I believe there is no truth in the golf. t The police does many absurd things, but iv not I yet so demented as to incur the odium of excluding a chef d'ceurre of Auber from the French stage. The Opera is making extraord;nary preparatious for the revival, and Mario is to be the Massan'iello. At the Bourse the bulls were greatly disoonraged by the serious affair of the (freak revolution, and it is now apprehended that all the efforts to keep up the market between this and the settlement will fail. The Rents fell 35c. for cash and 50c. for account, clueing at 70fr. 95c. and 70fr. 85c. Mobilier was severely affected, and closed with a fall of 50fr. The Italian Loan fell 20c. Railways were gene 'rally from 2f r. 50e. to 51r. lower. 6,897 1,062 62,917 Total 39,306 SANITARY CONDITION OF THE CITY. At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers, which was held yesterday in the Sewers' Court room, at Guildhall, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health, reported on the state of 184 houses that had been inspected during the week, and he likewise submitted a list of 64 places for sanitary improvement. He also submitted a list of 37 places that required further proceedings on ac count of orders already issued not having been complied with. He stated that the markets and slaughter-houaes hail been duly inspected during the week, and that the officers bad seized 4,5251b5. of meat and 73 head of game she and try poul, as unfit for human food. It consisted of 16 ep, 10 pip, 32 quarters of beef, and about 50 joints of meat. Three-fourths of it was from dis cued animals, and he advised that legal prose cutions should be instituted. He informed the court that much of the diseased meat finds its way to the sausage-makers of Cow-cross, and he stated that last week the inspector seized the carcases of a dist aped sheep and a pig which were being conveyed to a sausage maker in that locality. The sheep bad died from rot, and the pig wu covered with small abcesees like boils, many of which had burst through the skin, and the rest were still full of matter. Both of the animals were in • shockingly diseased state, and but for the interference of the inspec or would have been converted into sausages. Dr. Letheby in ormed the court that the slaughter-houses of Cow-crcrs, which are just outside the boundary of the City, are a source of great anxiety to the inspectors, from the circumstance that diseased animals are frequently slaughtered there and brought into the City. Last week there were two such cases, where diseased bullocks had been killed in the slaughter-houses of a Mr. Cruse, and carried to Newgate Market. In like manner, at Whitechapel it is a very common practice with some of the butchers who are outride the City to traffic in diseased meat, and the City butchers and salesmen complain that they have not the same chance as their neighbours for the disposal of inferior meat. Onl last week the carcases of a dozen or so bullocks that b ail died on shipboard were sold in White chapel. Dead andliecased meat of this description is sold to the public at night, when it passes for wholesome meat, and it realises from ld. to lid. a pound. Dr. Letheby advised that the local authorities of Whitechapel and Holborn dis tricts should be informed of this, to order that there should be uniformity of action among the local boards. The mortality returns for the week were a little above the average. There were 58 deaths instead of 46, which is the average number for the correponding period of the last seven years : 26 of the deaths were among children of leas than five years of age, and 13 among old persons of 60 and upwards. Only nine of the diseases were of the zymotic clan. THE IIiTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. , OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. - - (THIS DAY./ j The attendance yesterday was something better An extraordinary general meeting of th e than that of the previous day, although nothing holders was held at One 0.40ek, at the London T iier approaching to the mob" which was expected, Mr. CATCR in the chair, "for the purpose of comiderim , , so near the closing of the Exhibition. All hope of propriety of registering the company under The Coliiim ae , , u * hundred thousand muster seems now to be given Act IW2. as •compaoy limited by shares ;and if &m d up, unless a rumour which has got into circulation proper, of hiving the necessary assent to its being so rely ,. respecting the arrangements of the commissioners ...O.KOILCTARY read a report of the directors, from which should receive confirmation. We do not place it appear( f that some years ago the directors entered lute much reliance on it ourselves, but have heard it communications with the Board of Trade with a new to toe board of directors had . now come to the conclusion Mit no from so many quarters that we feel justified in advantage tw altera w t o io ul n d &a be d gu tbe nad repo b : w ooo op c u lui n l g ed the by s p ts n i . i c o: pi t t h: mentioning it. It is, that there is some idea of keeping the Exhibition open for another li m i te d li a bili ty. week at a charge of sixpence each person, for the The CuIdIIMAN stated that six of the directors differtii purpose of giving even the poorest of our fellow- from the majority by whom the report just read w., ‘ which limited d thi t s l lia e liability of th e r oe . citizens a sight of the Exhibition. Our only fear adopted. Their business was transacted by mem' of is that the news is too good to be true, as there is 11 " . " 4. up e g atmel " good • chim er of basili c :se ° as other pinks had et'i!Thl no doubt but that such an arrangement would be hailed with delight by thousands whose means will a t ha di eg . H e b e li eve d th e s h are h o ld er , h a d t h e g ixit not afford even the present minimum. Besides, as I protection for their own interests, while as regarded the the attendance would probably reach 100,000 a day, public there was capital to the amount of a 110,00 0 ,. that supplementary week would go far to work off i miled . u a li . h . T . h e ocCittly having hitherto been P". the deficiency which is at present considered pro- rous, wh v i n there should L" alteration. none, he DO table. Mr. VALINTINC KNIGHT thought the company you'd Prince Napoleon and Princess Clothilde visited the stiffer in comparison with the Indemnity and others by the adoption ae ofillimite van liability. Exhibition yesterday, spending their whole time in then adopted unanimously. the French court, where the exhibitors were sue- lo re r ity ° to a shareholder cessively presented to their imperial highnesses. The HAIHMAN said the; badness of the year had {,e re Their imperial highnesses were escorted round the satisfactory, and the losses did not exceed those of the pr e . building by Sir W. Dilke and Mr. Sandford. ceding year. He thou g ht th e p r i c e o f th e shares had bees too high, Rad the late fall natural The schools and parties visiting the Exhibition WU only the !maim He believed that the company had a v a lu a ble p ro p er t y , an d , were :—Agriculturista from the estates of Lord holding 503 shares himself, he saw no rearm to bell them. Pembroke in Wiltshire, 430, brought by their The meeting then separated. masters, Messrs. gawlence, Woodcock, Taber, Ford, Mingo, and Bennett, refreshments at the Exhibition and travelling expenses being provided by their employers ; ticket examiners, Great Eastern Railway, 20, by G. Fewin, Esq. ; Hull police, 28, by the Watch Committee ; privates 18th Hussara, Alder shott, 17, bf Comet Yeldham ' • choir boys 2nd bat talion Grenadier Guard s , 11, by Captain P. Smith ; children from Boreham, Sussex, 70, by Mr. T. Fairbairn ; Night School, Duneton, Sussex, 40, by Mr. W. Fairbairn • Catholic School, Duneton, Sussex, 11, by Mr. Reardon ; St. Margaret's, West minster, Girls' School, 42, by subscription ; All Saints Choir, 12, by Rev. A. Myers ; Bedford Chapel Sunday School, 26, by G. Knox St. John's, Horselydown, School, 34, by the Revs. J. Tacher and I. Rowon ; St. George's Cathedral Catholic School, 25, by Rev. W. Dowell ; Manor house School, Wandsworth, 24, own espouse ; scholars at Hoxton Ragged School, 20, by Lady Charlotte Sturt, Wimbourne, Dorset • Notting hill Shoe-black Brigade, 26, by J. Erch, Esq. Tne highest temperature attained in the building yesterday up to 3.45 o'clock, p.m., at which time the readings were taken, by Negretti and Zambra's patent thenrometers, was : In the nave, 58 deg. ; in the galleries, 58.8 ; in the western annex, 63.2. The temperature of the dew point, 45.1. The number of visitors at the Exhibition yester day waa : By season tickets By ditto for one shilling days . By payment LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MARINE INSURANCE.-(THIS DAP.) This afternoon an extraordinary general meetib of shsreholders wu held at the London Tavern ; Admiral Sir H. Luez in the chair; for the purpose of couiderog whether the company should be registered under the Coo. minim Act of 1852, which is to come into operation on the 2nd of November, as a company limited by shares or other. wise, and to peas areveutio,thert:on: The Casrai.la said that although this company was not bound to cell • meeting for the purpose of taking the optoion of the shareholders as to whether they would register them. eaves under the new Companies Act, which was to come into operation on the 2nd of November, still the &rec. tone thought it would be discourteous in them if Um did not do so. There were two ways of regiatenog—.oa. as • company limited by shares or by guarantee, and the other as an ordinary company without altering their constitution —that was to say, to remain as they were. As • young, and he might add a flourishing company, the directors had given their best attention tow ' subject, end had come to the unanimous opinion that they ought not to recommend any alteration in the connivance of the company. He begged leave therefore to move, •That the oom piny be registered under the Companies Add 1862 on or before the 2nd November next under its prey at constitution." He need say nothing more than that them was a clause in the constitution of the company which male them a perfectly limited company. Mr. Hamm, the deputy chairman, seconded the 'viola tion, and remarked that they would be in a better poeitioe by proceeding under the new act with their present comb. tution. He did not behove they would improve the me, dition of the company by putting the wood " limited " et the end of their name. _ _ . 37.1 7— approved of the proposition, which waa put and adopted, and thin terminated the promedinp. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.; WIDNISDAL OCTOBTI ta, 8 A.N. E. LID. W. I_ll7. I. C. L H. E. L Nene ... 29.829 6, 1 W. 4 4223D10 19.84 38 V N.W. 4 132 - LOTH 29.28 42. 3 W. 2 Baawtec . 2987 42.2 W. 2 £9l9oesti 29.E8 42 1 B.E. 2 I 4 921 POsisoie — 47 4 &W. 1 Ci4iw22 29.99 40 2 Z. 0 b 1 6.11 V 99 214 30.0s 43 4 B.S. - b - QUIZRSTOWN 30.03 42 1 W.N.W. 2 MOLsBRAD 29.92 49, 3 W.B.W. 2 LIVER.ToOL 29.91 44, 2 8.8. W. 2 e 1 0.42 1 E99920Es 29.91 44 1 N.W. 4 b - i PIMI4IOI 20.02 46 4 N. 1 0 - - 1 PLYMOVIN WAN 46. 4 Z. 0 2 6 0.1 8 , Jou= 29.93 60 3 E.N.E. 4 es 13 , 0.761 W2221 , 7729_ 29. 471 2 N. N.W. 3 161 6 '9ll PORTSMOUTH 29.93 Mt 3 N.N.E. 3 0 2 o.ll' Davaa 29.29 49 2 E. 6 0 12 491 LOIDO9 29.911 47 . 2 N.N.W. 1 is 4 OZI - Y 212200272 - —I SCARIDOROUSH 29.87 42' 2 W. 2 b - 2 Swaim . - i HRLIGOLARD SO. 47' 1 N.N.W. 3 TariumAY. PEDAY. W. N. W. toN.N.S. 6001LiNW N.N.W. to EN E., strong • to fresh. fresh to moderate. Variable to N., fresh to ISCLAID. W.N.W. to N.N.E, light. moderate. N.N.E. to W.N.W., W. Curran.. N.W. to N.E., mode• fresh to moderate. rate, tar. As neat above. 11.W.Exotateb. Aa isem. above . Easterly to N.N.W., KNAILAID. Easterly, variable, toe. moderate. tine. N.& to N. W., fresh to IL CALM N.E. to 8.E., light, fine. light, tine. Ga/ignani says :—" Considerable agitation hat been caused at Heidelberg (Palatinate of the Rhine) is consequence of the effects which have been caused to it. castle by the construction of the tunnel cut under it for th. new railway of the Neckar. In consequence of the cot. tional shaking of the foundations of the building from 22 passing of the trains, the castle is threatened with &sera. tiou. The froot, facing the town, has already cracked 2 several places, and it has been found necessary to twertmg iron cramps to prevent the enlargement of the isms. Should the castle, or even a part of it, be thrown down from this cause, the loss would be irreparable, as it is one of de most curious monuments of the Renaissance." The firemen of St. Amand, near Amiens, hare established an exerise which they call the " tir hydraulic,' in which the tube of a fire-engine replaces the rifia ga iron target is erected, in which a hole is pierced. The target is raised 15 feet from the ground by means of a pole. TM .. water, driven by a fire-engine placed at a distance of 23 feet from the target, is received into the central opeoiug , and falls by mein of a funnel into& cask capable of hold* 25 gallons. The prise is adjudged to the fireman who shall fill the venial iu the sborteet time. This period varied ea the first trial from 1 minute 43 seconds to 3 minutes 30 seconds. The firemen are delighted with this new practice, and they have returned thanks to their captain, who ceigi• noted the idea. The American papers make great sport of Mr. Train. The National Irsielligeneer of Washington (AY , ' — "We dismiss this harlequin, to whom we have pedistu devoted too much space. But not so England. The depth of hate to which the heart of that medal must have pi before it could let loose this fellow on our shores amid air present distresses is absolutely unimaginable. The llama and Slidell affair we can forgive. The TinteA anal the /1 ,0 we can forgive ; but to permit Train to come here "Is I s i m ply diabolical and unpardonable. Perfidious Albios! You bad Train ; you might have held him ; we should ha" waived all questions of international law if you had ea o in ty y na ct b.eal loni. hi o m pet u to t seat you ;hbuimt, todeliteraustratellyi.a.,...Vidoe thrla come here to this afflicted people. Is this what we In! from the grain sent to Ireland in her famine! Is this IT those who petted your Prime had a right to expect Albion, how mold von!" DEATH OF • NOTED MISER IN SCOTLAISO. —lO week there died in the Fever Hospital, Doofermhoe, asS fifty-five years of age, named Andrew Hutton : lf known io the western district of Fife as the ' Chief." For a number of yeses he loss lived in the mast --- TO THIS EDITOR OF THE ZXPRESB. to miserly manner, hardly allowing himself enough of_ , , ! fo 4 .b. sustain life, and the little he did take was ... 04 SlE,—Having read in your impression of a ni g ht or two since that " The Female p it 1, has •ht coarsest description. Many amusing stories an , n of parsimonio us habits. The i hate case discharged front Bartholomew's Hospital, a ar i pp l a na f t o ,7 ... life death was eating the leaves of ash trees. He bud wee walking along the edge of a field bordered by these wean (result of the frightful accident which happened to her some the fallen leaves of which the cows were feeding gr'eaY' two months ago at the Highbury Barn)." the ides naturally struck me that something should be done for this poor li we e ee th geed ou g h t ee ih th e eamnimastheyllTidd not " be d bad thai fo il , L i tt : m e Is victim to the morbid theta of the present age for perilous adventures. In this east metropolis charity need only be and, after boiling them, fed on them far ," e ai accordingly gathered a quantity and took them bou . required, and muniticent dosations are immediately received. d s The mince was that be . 10 "- Ignny thousands of persons exist, however, equally benevo- a y d • • du: lently inclined , but whose means will not allow them to ea removed to the hospital, where he die. swell the lists of contributions towards any dew"- some days great suffering' On re - caching house after death the relatives came upon an teakettle ing undertaking started by their wealthier neighbour', and who are nevertheless always ready to give thew mite fora good purpose. It is to this portion of the coin- which ha d been nocumulatiog u for seventeen year, sad 1 in which was found • chest e for 701., the merest insanity that my appeal is now made. Let me also suggest to the "sight-smog public "to debar themselves of onegre"' Security Savinp Bank. Several 11 . notes and a . ..I book aboiriog a balance of 611. at his credit in the Nation , quantity of loose money in half-crowns, ollitlinPh evening's amusement, mid devote the amount they would also feu" in the meet aut .a.the.m. otherwise have spent to a subscription for the benefit of sm aller . coins "'"' one, who, whilst a ff ord* gratification to ao many, P u f e L,_ aU g_P °• "" ed WiMid i er ert wa bie WV P6:: He WY gresi was in an instant deprived of the use of her 11"_'''Y severalTe"`'"'' .""' limbs for life. She might thus be enabled to be languages. —Edireberrph rad. placed in some way of business where bodily ex- ORRYINO SHESP. —Within the past fortmgol . ertious would not be required, as, unfortunately, prior to dog, which it is thought must have eacapel_fro f tn „ s Te t i ta p° her accident she was the sole support of an aged pram, the harbour, has worried no lees than 40 aneep sad au invalid sister, towards the alleviation of whose Inf. th . e m ightier . lota belongiog to butchera l trasing in fields in 1 . tering", in her present position, she is quite unable to con- hard f N nrr Shields- dangerous brute vofT7, l e tc:a b r ., . iLd l e ha in ve ni e i v n e , ry . rero tha n t h h o e pe no t b ra ie t bes th rtid is appealEnglwisihil sheep belon ging to one butcher in two nighta. 0 1. 0 eight last it worried six sheep belonging to _ and on Sunday night four sheep, the property ladies, who are ever ready to lessen the misfortunes of the afflicted, will not be backward in subscribing to as On Sunday night It varied its repeat by fow s g b wit object so well deserving their sympathy.—l am, lac., a fowlbouse sod devouring several hens. Tnobg VELLX JOSEPH. rably sharp look-out has been kept this dangennn 92, New Bond-street, London, Oct. 28.` bra not been captured. Or Court. OSBORNE, Oar. 28. The Queen and royal family walkrl and drove in the grounds yesterday. Pl:nce Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat and Major Elphinstone, atrived at Osborne at three o'clock. The Chanc-llor of the Exchequer has left tow.' for Hawarden Castle, Chester. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the governors of the North American Provinces and Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Cora- Mmioner of the lonian Islands. Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess Kot chombey and family have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.street, from the Isle of Wight. His Excellency the Bavaria; Minister and Br.- roses, de Cetto have returned to the Legation in Hi"-street, Berkeley-square, from Brighton. The Duke of Newcastle has quite recovered from his recent indisposition. The noble duke returns the latter end of next week from Clamber Park, Notts, in order to dine with the Lord Mayor at the Guilehall. The Duchess of St. Albans and lady Diane Beauclerk have left 4, Prince's-gate, for Paris. Viscount Falkland is detained in Eastland by the serious illness of a near relative. The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Victoria Rummell return to Chesham-place the week after next, from Woburn Abbey, Beds, in order to be present at the wedding of the Hon. Elizabeth Thereat Lister, youngest end pos thumous daughter of the late Lord Ribblesdale, with Mr. Melville, son of the late Sir Henry Melville. The earl sod countess give the wedding breakfast, the fair fiancee being step-daughter to the noble earl. The Earl of Eglinton attains his majority on the 3rd of Dec., when there will be great festivities on the earl's estates in Scotland, more particularly on his lordship's large estates in Ayrshire. The marriage long arranged to take place between the noble earl and Lady Sophia Pelhan•, only daughter of the late Earl of Yarborough, will be !solemnised shortly after the coming of age of the earl. Colonel T. E. Taylor, M.P. for the county Dublin, is, we understand, about to marry Min Louisa H. Tollemache, second daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Hugh Francis Tollemache, rector of Harrington, Northampton shire, and cousin of the Eal of Dysart. The marriage is to take place the second week in the ensuing month. (PEON LAST NIGHT'S GAZIRTE.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCr. 25.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George Frets, Et.q., to be her Majesty's judge, Edgar Leopold Layard. Esq., to be her Majesty's arbitrator, and William Tasker Smith, Esq., to be secretary or registrar, in the mixed court established at the Cape of Good Hope, under the treaty of the 7th of April, lit 2, between Great Britain and the United States, for the suppression of the African slave trade. _ Foitrio r n-oveice., ot - r. 25.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George Skelton, Esq., to be her Majesty's judge, and William Smith, Esq., to be 11(=vtary or registrar, in the mixed court established at Sierra Lame, under the treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, between Great Britain and the United States, for the sup prasiou of the African slave trade. FOREIGN-OFFICE, (k, - r. 28.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C. 8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pledi. potentiary to the King of the Netherlands, to be her Majesty's Amhasaador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia. CHAPEL ROYAL, Si. JAME:N.—n*BE6On for November:—god, Archdeacon Tattam, D.D.; 9th, Rey. Henry Howarth, B.D. ; 16th, Rev. Thomas Protheroe, M.A.; Card, Rer. Charles Kingsley, M.A.; 30th, Rev. Charles Kingsley, M.A. Elvis COLLWOE. His Royal Highness the late Prince Consort's prize.' for Modern Languages have been taken as follows : German—Mc Merrell, prixeman ; Martyn mooood prizeinan. Arranged in order of merit,-1 Linsley, Middleton, Butler, Bentinck, Divett, Allen, Mr. de Grey, Jones, soli Cotes. Examiner—The Rev. Dr. Altnrt Wiotzer. King's College, London. Muter— Frederick Schonerstedt, Esq. French—Puller, prizetnan ; Pollock, stoond prizeman. Arranged in order of merit— Fitzmaurice, Spearman, Iluirbead, 1)5 Grey, Talbot, LS., Moncton, Lovell, Norecote, Lord La:zones Lord Dalineor, Giles. K.S. Examiner—Monsieur A. J Marzials, B. 1) blaster. Motisieu r Terror. THE LATE SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE, BART.—The funeral of this distinguished surteno took place yesterday in the village churchyard of Betchworth, where the remains of Lady Brodie were interred about eighteeu irootbs ago, and in accordance with the wishes of the deceased in a strictly private manner; the only public representatives being General Sabine, Dr. Watson, and Mr. James Luke, Presidents respectimly of the Royal Society, the Royal College of Ph • and the Royal College of Surgeons. The friends o Benjamin Brodie will be glad to know that Mr. WeeLcs, the eminent sculptor, succeeded in taking an admirable oast of the deceased for a boat commiasioned some months since fur the Royal College of Surgeons of England. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL —The Court of the Governors of St. Thomas's fimpital met yesterday after noon, Sir John Musgrove, the president, in the chair, when the report of the deputation of four of the goveruors recently appointed to examine the hospitals of Frame, B e l g i um , a nd Holland, wee received with great satisfactioo. A motion was then made to leave the whole question of choice and purchase of site to the grand committee, subject to the provisions of the act of parliament, upon which an amendment was moved, very much, it was understood, with the view of continuing the hospital at the Surrey Gardena. In the debate that followed, the treasurer (Mr. R. Baggallay) and the leading members of the grand com mittee stated that no site had been chosen, or even discussed; ' and that 30 to 50 acres ought to be obtained as near es possible to London. Finally, the motion was carried by a considerable majority ; as also another directing the archi. tect of the hospital to prepare plans to be submitted to a future court and to the medical men ; and, after votes of thanks to the deputation and president, the meeting adjourned. VENICE. A letter from Venice of the 23rd, in the Press of Vienna, announces the discovery in the former city of a conspiracy, comprising the members of the revolutionary committee, who organised all the demonstrations against the government. All the persons arrested belong to the wealthy classes, and among them is one of the principal advocates of Venice, who was minister of police under the pro visional government in 1848 and 1849. There are also two government functionaries among the pri soners, who are 18 in aIL EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Cis= cloa OWN 004111WTONDZIFT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EviNnqc. The Patric states that the three protecting powers of Greece—namely, Russia, France, and England— have already agreed upon the principle of non intervention, and that the English government is about to issue a diplomatic circular informing its representatives abroad of that fact. I cannot sup pose, however, that the principle of non-interven tion—highly laudable as it is under the circum stances—can, as yet, have been so absolutely adopted as to do away with the stipulations of the treaty of 1832, which exclude any prince of the families of the three protecting powers from the throne of Greece. This consideration removes out of the field several candidates whose names have been put forward. There would be uo objection, however, on this score, at least, to Victor Emmanuel's second son, the Prince Amadeus, to whom, according to some letters from Turin, the Greeks may probably offer the vacant monarchy. It is agreed on all hands that the news of Otho having abdicated was false. He is not only a pretender to the crown he has lost, but, if we may believe the France, a clamour outs one. According to that journal he declares that the violence of which he is the victim was not provoked by any unconstitutional act on his part, that he maintains his rights, and that the "Greek question" is a European one, which Europe must settle. The Pays gives the exiled monarch little en couragement. It says : The revolution may be considered u consummated so far as regards Otho and his dynasty. It is always regrettable to see a straggle between a King and his people lead to such a dinoarment, but in the present instance the importance of the event is singularly diminished by the particular situa tion of the country in which the revolution has broken out. None of the great interests now in question in Europe can be affected by the fall of Otho. The eastern question will not be troubled by new complications in consequence of this movement. It will be remembered that neither France nor England had any reason to be pleased with the attitude of the Greek government during the war in the Crimea. England cherishes a deep resentment against the King for his conduct on that occasion. The Phare de la Loire, of Nantes, has received an intimation from the prefect that the newspapers are prohibited from repeating any rumours about ministerial changes or dissensions between the members of the cabinet. Any allusion to such reports will be treated as an infraction of the decree against false news, and punished accordingly. It is not from the French press, therefore, that you can expect any assistance in forming an opinion as to whether and how soon any of M. Thouvenel's late colleagues are likely to follow him in his retirement. " All serene !" is the official order of the day until a crash comes. The necessity of conciliating for a moment a prominent minister, who notoriously did not ac cept M. Drouyn de Lhuys as a coadjutor with any good will, is shown by the announcement in the France that on Thursday the Emperor and Em press will do the Count and Countess de Persigny the honour to dine with them at their Chateau of Chamarande. Yesterday the Empress made a morning call on the Duchess de Morny at the Palace of the Corps LegisLtd. M. de Bismark arrived at the Berlin legation at 11 this morning. M. Thouvenel has been appointed chairman of the Eastern Railway, vice Drouyn de Lhuys. This is a curious chasms croisa. A report has been circulated, perhaps by way of advertisement, that the censure had, for political reasons, prohibited the revival of Maseastiello at the AMERICA. (SCOTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per City of Wellington.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 17, Evarmic. A Federal foraging expedition has been sent up the Mississippi on transports. The expedition captured a quantity of cattle, but 18 men were killed on board the transports by the Confederate batteries erected ou the levees. General Butler has loft New Orleans to inspect the condition of affairs at Pensacola. The Federal steamer Mahaska was fired at off Wilmington, North Carolina, killing two men and wounding seven. The Irish residents of Luzern county, in the mining districts of Pennsylvania, endeavoured to resist the draft. The military were called out, and fired upon the insurgents, killing four or five. Further opposition ceased. A public meeting will be held at New York for the adoption of measures to check privateering. The Federal sloop of war Ticonderoga has been successfully launched at Brooklyn. CULL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Ocr. 18, Evmrixo. The Saxonia and the City of Washington, which sailed to-day for Europe, took 1,370,000 dole. in specie. Money easy. Gold declining, present price 294 prem. Exchange tending downwards. Bankers' bills, 1431, 144. Stocks heavy; New York Cen tral, 106 i ; Illinois, soi ; Erie, 591. Cotton dull ; middling, 60 to 60k. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat dull, and 3c. lower. Corn inactive, and 2c. lower. Provisions dull. Sugar advancing. Coffee and molasses very firm. (Per City of Washington via Cape Bate.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 20, Evama. All the reconnoitring parties from General BlTlellan's army have now returned to Harper's Ferry, where the Federal head-quarters are esta blished. The reconnPissance showed that the Con federates were massed in heavy force between Charlestown and Martinsburg. Rumours are current, but are not generally cre dited, that the Federal army will go into winter quarters. The Confederates, with 1,500 men, dashed into Lexington, Kentucky, on the 18th, capturing the town and 1C) prisoners. General Morgan afterwards evacuated Lexington, and met the Federal forces under General Dumont between Versailles and Frankfort. It is reported that, after a short engagement, General Morgan's forces were routed and scattered. Doubtful reports have been received of an appre hended negro insurrection in Culpepper county, Virginia. Seventeen free negroes, in whose poem...- Bien Mr. Lincoln's proclamation was found, are reported to have been hung. The captures effected by the steamer Alabama have injuriously affected the freights for American shipping. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold and exchange declining. The former is now quoted 271, and bankers' bills, 141. Stocks dull. New York Central, 1051 ; Illinois, 79i ; Erie, Mg. Cotton quiet ; middling upland, 59. Flour heavy, and 15c. lower. Wheat dull, and lc. lower. Corn declined 2e. Provisions declining. Sugar steady. Coffee and molasses very firm. NEW YORK, Ocr. 21, EVKIffING. The Federal General Dumont is closely pursuing the Confederate General Morgan since his evacua tion of Lexington, Kentucky. Morgan has cap. tured a train of 80 Federal waggons near Bardstown. The Southern accounts of the battle at Perrys ville, Kentucky, differ from the Northern reports, in claiming the victory and the capture of 9,000 Federal prisoners during the battle. It is reported that General M'Clellan's army is unable to advance on account of short supplies of clothing and shoes for the troops. The New York Chamber of Commerce has passed resolutions stating that the destruction of the ship Brilliant by the Confederate steamer Alabama is a crime against humanity. The Chamber of Com merce has not failed to notice the change in British sentiments, transforming a friendly nation into a Power the nature of whose neutrality is shown by its permitting ships to go forth, and armaments to ' follow them, for the work of plundering and de stroying American vessels, thus encouraging upon the high seas an offence against neutral rights, upon the plea of which, in the case of the Trent, England threatened to plunge the American govern ment into war. The Chamber has heard with amazement that other vessels are fitting out in British ports to continue the work of destruction begun by the Alabama. It is the duty of the Chamber of Commerce to warn British merchants that a repetition of such acts as burning the Brilliant by vessels fitted out in England, and manned by British seamen, cannot fail to produce wide spread exasperation in America. The Chamber therefore invokes the influence of all men who value peace and goodwill among all nations, to pre vent the departure of other vessels of the same character from their ports, and thus avoid the calamity of war. The resolutions close by declaring that it is the desire and interest of Americans to cherish and maintain sentiments of amity with England. Copies of the resolutions are to be forwarded to the Board of Trade in London. CO24MERCLAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Ocr. 21, Eninlio. Money easy. Gold 34 premium. Exchange slightly firmer. Bankers bills 1414 to 143. Stocks advancing. Erie 614. Cotton quiet. Middling upland, 590. Flour dull. Corn slightly firmer. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 29. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxonia, from New York on the 18th inst., passed the Needles at 12.10 p.m. to-day. Some of the Pennsylvanian Quakers and New York Shakers have pleaded exemption from the draught in both states oa the ground of their religious scruples against war. The plea has been allowed in both imitation. At a meeting of the Town Council of Doncaster on Monday, the sum of one handed guineas was voted for the relief of the distressed operatives in Loseeshire ; and at a meeting in Edinburgh on the same day, sub.:Moth* lists were passed round, when the sum of 3501. was sub. I outbid on the spot. i HEALTH OP LONDON. The weekly return issued by authority of the Registrar-General states that in the week that ended on Saturday the deaths registered in London were 1,224, and showed an increase on those of the two previous weeks. The average number of deaths obtained from the weeks (in 185261) corresponding with that to which the present return relates, is, after correction for population. 1,173. Therefore a rate of mortality prevailed last week that pro duced an excess of 51 deaths above the estimated number. The deaths in the last three weeks were 1,121, 1.181, and 1,224. The mean weekly temperature of the air has been falling within the same period. It was successively 56.3 deg., 53.9 deg., and 47.4 deg. The births exceeded the deaths in the same time by 666. The main feature to be noticed in the returns is the in crease of scarlatina. An increase was apparent in the be ginning of September. since which time the weekly number of deaths from scarlatina has not been lower than 75. It rose last week to 104. The disease appears to be common in moat puts of the metropolis. The sub-districts may be specified in which it was moot fatal. St. Mary Paddington returned 5 deaths from it ; Long-acre, 5 ; Somers-town, 5 ; Christchurch. Southwark, 4 ; St. James, Bermondsey, 4 ; and Kennington, fir part, 5. There were also 17 deaths in the week from diphtheria, which is stated to have been fatal in four cases in a family in Salisbury-street, Maryle bone, in the course of a month. A spinster, aged 52 years, died of catalepsy. A labourer, aged 20 years, died in the London Hospital under chloro form, donor amputation of the leg. Last week the births of 990 boys and 900 girls, in all 1,890 children, were registered in Loudon. In the ten cone sponding weeks of the yeah 1832-61 the avenge number (corrected) was 1,835. THE FEMALE BLONDIN. I