The Express. — London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

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A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," iseateining the results of the day's Races, is pub. fished every evening during the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. The railway world has of late been vexed with an unquiet spirit, emanating from the (heat Northern Company's Board Room. Alioni appetens, . . miprojusus, this Company, sung the Manchester and Sheffield Company as a cat's-paw, has invaded a portion of the territory of its great neighbour, the Landon and North Western. A desperate competi tion, at absurdly low rates, bar been the result ; and the dietarbance of the general traffic of the kingdom has been so great as to form a subject of remark in the half-yearly reports not merely of the Leedom sad North Western, Great Northern and Manchester and Sheffield, but also of the Great Western, Midland, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and other undertakings, which might be supposed but little affected by the internecine struggle. Having regard to the permanent interests of the public, which cannot possibly be promoted by the bitter dissensions of three great companies. whose opera tions extend over a large and most important motion of the kingdom, it is not altogether unlade factory to find that neither of the three parties to dm war escapes unscathed. To compare great things with small, lovers of peace and order may be rather pleased than otherwise when they see all the par ticipate's is a disgraceful street broil emerge from it with obvious signs of punishment. The London and North Western Company have notoriously seared severely; the Manchester and Sheffield pay ao dividend at all ; and the Great Northern, who mast be regarded ea the original aggreseors, make a financial ezpose of so unsatisfactory a character as to excite loud remoo.trance on the part of the shareholders. Until recently, many persons entertained the most sanguine expectations of the future of this young and vigorous Company ; and in this they wore quite warranted by the steady development of traffic in the rich and important districts which it serves, coupled with the great advantage powered by the Great Northern Railway in the comparatively moderate cost of its contraction. The gigantic REDPATII frauds, and, above all, the evidences of a lax system of management which the subsequent investiga tions diacloeed, gave the first shock to Confidence. The recent conduct of the management has tended still farther to lower the undertaking in public estimation. The results of the warfare of the last six months are now before as. The Company have em ceed/id in grasping a gnaw revenue larger by 9,3961. than that of the corresponding period of last year; but so heavy has been the cost of getting it that the expenditure has increased no leas than 30,2381. The increase in the working expenses of this line is, indeed, so rapid as to demand the earnest attention of the proprietors. In the lut six months of 1863 the proportion of working expenses to earnings was 43.93 per ant. ; for the first six months of 1838 it is no less than 66.73 per cent. Comparing the figures kr the last half-year with those for the corresponding period of 1837, we find an increase of 4011. in the expandible* foe _ _ " maintenance and renews]," as increase of 8.7821. for "locomotive power,' an Increase of 3,0381. for " repair and renewal of carriages and waggons," and an increase of 8,4331. for coaching, merchandise, and mineral traffic expenses. In other words, the competition tells adversely upon every branch of the Company's expenditure. The Chairman, with a characteristically defiant candour, admitted that "the " expenditure had been increased by the eompeti " don, and by fast trains, which knocked fks " rood to pieces." Are the shareholders content tb have their road "knocked to pieees"P We shrewdly moped that they will yet suffer severely in pocket /Or the deterioration to which their peoperty is now being so recklessly subjected. There are other blots not difficult to hit. Of the balance of 81,3201. remaining for dividend on the uegueraatsed stooks, out of which the ordinary stock gets a dividend at the rate of 31 per amt. par =BUM, 4,2184 is the " balance of the REDPA-711 " Account," sod does not beloog to the half year's revenue at all. The mode hi which the Directors provide the 25,0001. " advanced" to the Manchester and Sheffield Company is com pletely indefensible. The Report rtates that " The " Proprietors will remember that ander the now " meat with, the Manchester and Sheffield Copy " that Company is entitled to receive, out of the " earnings avian from through traffic, each a arm " as wont& with their other receipts, make up the " gross sum of 10,0001. per week, subject to being " repaid when their gram receipts exceed 11,0001. "per week. The Oreat Northern have so " eordingly advanced 25,0001. on account to the Man " chaster and Sheffield Company, in respect of the "earnings for the year 1858." Now there is no doubt that thin 25,0001. ought to have been fornish;d out of the Great Northern revenue, this Company having deliberately undertaken to apply a per tion of its revenue towards making up the deficiency in that of its new ally. To haws charged it to the capital account would have been monstrous. Had the sum been paid sat of revenue, the Great Northern dividend would have beets greatly reduced, am the available balance, Instead of being 81,3201, would have beat eoly 56,3101. This was to be avoided at all hazards, and the 150001. is therefore hung up, as the Chairman admitted, in a " suspense account "—i.e , union the receipts of the Manohester and Sheffield Company arced 11,0001, per week—the prospect of which seems to be regarded as very doubtful—this 25,0001. remains a charge upon the future profits of the Great H THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, ATTGUST 26, 1858. Northern. To this exten t the bitter Company's _ . _ is evidently fictitious. The Propeistare will have a clearer perception of the delusion practised upon theta should the Manchester and Sheffield, indeed of repaying the money, ckim farther " advances" under the agreement. Unless their receipts increase considerably they will sasuredly do so; and they can enforce the agreement, now that it has received Parliamentary sanction, through the exertions of the Great Northern Director. themselves. The plain truth is that the Great Northern Company have bribed the Manchester and Sheffield to abandon their allegiance to the London and North Western, yet now shrink from paying the stipulated sum from From this general review of the position of the Greet Northern Company it is certainly difficult to see what they have gained by their competitive policy. They have saddled themselves with a large conditional annuity to the Manchester and Sheffield ; their immediate expenses have been so enormously swollen as to occasion a serious diminution of their profits; they have been subjected to a monstrous amount of Parliamentary and legal expenditure; and, u the road and stock, by the Chairman's ad minion, trebling "knocked to pieces," fresh liabilities are in store for them. And all this the shereholdera permit—for what? Ia order th►t the Board may gratify an ambitious and pugnacious spirit. It is easy to recognise in Mr. Datitsori severed of the els recteriatice which distinguished Messrs. WADDING TON and HUDSON, and which undoubtedly precipi tated their fall. There are limits to everything. Shareholders do not like to be openly defied and browbeaten by their own officers. We confess to having remarked with much satisfaction the protean uttered at the recent meeting against the Directors' arbitrary and unjust treatment of Mr. MOWATT, the late Secretary. Had the proprietors permitted the matter to peas without remark, they would not have deserved, es one of the speakers emphatically re marked, "to have an officer worth a snuff." The fact that Mr. Mowerr, immediately before his abrupt dismissal, had actually received a vote of thanks from the Board for his energy in unra velling the ramifications of RIDPATH'S frauds at tests the futility of the charge made against him. And one of the most monstrous features of the affair is, that the heavy expenses incurred by the Directors in the unsuccessful defence of their position in a court of justice, are to be defrayed, not by them, but by the proprietors, who utterly disapprove of the injustice committed. Injustice towards a valua ble servant ; pugnacity towards other Companies ; imperiousness towards their constituents—such is the " platform " upon which the Great Northern Chairman and Board take their stand. Their posi tion presents this additional feature, that their pugnacity proves a losing game, and is drawing them into heavy pecuniary embarrassments, to say nothing of financial irregularities. And this is the position of the Great Northern Railway Company, whose prospects, under sound and temperate management, would excel thine of almost any other Company in the kingdom. ME principle of Unlimited Competition may be attended with some practical inconvenience in the selection of designs for great public works ; it may be altogether less unquestionably sound and 11000tle fal in its operation with respect to Art than it is with respect to the professions which appertain to the public service. For Art is a plant of fine and tender growth, and will not bear " forcing" in official conservatories. Nevertheless, it is becoming the fashion to submit the execution of public works to competition, either because the Minister is un willing or unable to engage his own responsibility in the selection, or because no individual superiority is sufficiently established to justify an authoritative preference. It concert= the interesto of Art and of artists that the terms of c3mpetition should be dis tinct and definite, and that the time, labour, and ex penditure of artists should be considered, as well as the security of the Minister from hostile criticism. At present, neither the principle of Limited, nor that of Unlimited Competition, nor that of Arbitrary Patronage, seems to prevail, and the result of this uncertainty is a want of confidence and of emulation among artists who would, under favouring auspices, be proud to stake their reputation upon designs for a national work. Now, it may surely be mistimed that any form or degree of Competition is preferable to Patronage, wherever genius and caprice are brought into collision, and a minister whose special aptitudes are purely titular and official happens to be the representative of the national taste. It would be difficult to point out to an intelligent foreigner a single example in this metropolis of official patronage wisely examined in the department of public works. Instances to the contrary are glaringly offensive, and' it is not to Competition that we can lay the charge of millions wasted in monumental constructions of which we are helplessly ashamed. The public are at length beginning to perceive that if the Treasury or the " Woods and Forests" were permitted without I restriction or control to employ Crown architects, Crown surveyors, or Crown sculptors, in the execu tion of great public works, in defiance of all the recognised or latent genius, which only Competition brings forth, we should be continually at the mercy of any farm surveyor or fancy gardener who had ever designed a model pigsty or built an ornamental bridge. Every assertion of the principle of Competition is a blow to Patronage ; and it is under this impression that we were glad to find that the Select Committee appointed to consider and report on the reconstrne tion of the Foreign-office had recommended that a preference should be given to the successful competi. torn Many of our readers will remember the exhi bition of two hundred sad eighteza arehitestural designs in Westminster Hall. These designs were as remarkable for their varied excel ence as the designs for the Wellington Monument for their varied imbecility. Some of the competitors, it is tree, had been led sassy, by the force of their etmeeptimis, from the strict limit' of the Competition ; bat if they failed, it was not in power, or grandeur of design. The story Cl this Competition for the re.eoostntstioa of the Public Offices is an instructive example of the adminiitration of Public Works. In 1853 Mr. PEurrentoatts, the architect and surveyor attached to the Office of Works, was instructed by the then first Commissioner, to prepare plans and designs for a new Foreign-office, in connexion with a proposed rebuilding of other offices. In January, 1855, Mr. PiNNZTHO/111/1 submitted his plain and designs, which, however, were subsequently set aside by the Hones of Commons. On the accession of Sir BINJANIX HALL to office, Mr. PilflfllllloENE submitted to him an enlarged plan for the rebuilding of the Public Oillose ; bat this pl►n was incontinently consigned to the limbo of designs on which the liobt of the official conntenanee has not fallen. ' ln 18 , 58 the subject' again came before the House of Commons, and • Select Committee recommended the concentration of the Public Offices, and that the design should be, submitted to public Competition. A caucus of dis tinguished architects was convened by Sir BENJAMIN Halt, and the terms of competition were agreed upon. Three deigns was to be competed ler, of all viz.:-1. A block-plait for th► the public offices. 2. A new Foreign-office, 111. • maw War-orlce. For the fret of thaws designs esyse premiums were offered; for the seamed and third respectively, seven. " The First Commissioner," says the Report, " distinctly guarded himself against "may obligation to employ any architect to whom a , 0 yebe should be awarded; but at the same time it appears by the evidence that the architects ex " petted that, circumstances permitting, the compe " tition would have an important bearing on the " selection of the design to be adopted, and the " architect to be employed." To these terms u many as two hundred and *Ms= competitors responded. Yet so late es last Ostober we find the Treasury reqaesting the First Commissioner of Works to examine and report on Mr. PENNETHOIINE'S plans and designs of 1855, which had been set aside by the House of Commons, =recognised by the First Commissioner, and super seded by a competition open to all the world. This posthumous report on Mr. PIiNNETHOILNIfiI designs gave rise to a correspondent* on which we felt it our duty to comment with some severity ; the correspond ence led to a new Select Committee, and the Select Committee has latelrreported, as we think with sound judgment, in favour of the successful competitors. It is, we regret to say, abundantly evident that but for the Select Committee another huge job would have been perpetrated ; and it is certain that were the vigilance of Parliament and the Press relaxed for a moment we should be continually exposed to such edifying abuses of patronage as we have re cently witnessed in the arbitrary removal of the Wellington Monument from the original site, and the supersession of the successful by an unknown competitor for its execution ; or, in the equally arbitrary removal of the lions of the Nelson Monu ment from the free competition of Sculptors to the selected atelier of an eminent Painter. • rieleign Floras; the ameselnation of How 111. ant, 1 the home of France; and that of Henry IV. di rt= bows of Bourbon more powerfg than ear. Tilk Wee, of the Ital4n prhscipslitise of the middle ego resishes many examples of a like natter'. I cite one at random. One day a prince of Bologna wee eras minuted with his whole family; the conspirator= who took Nommen of Ids pekoe thought that they , were reantere of the state. Bat soon the cry of "Down with the am en=" was heard in the town. The people rose, meowed the murderers, burnt their honer, and formed a government composed of the beet treads of the murdered prince; afterwards one of the members of the new govern meat announced to the people that the fatally of the pinoe was not entirely extinct, and that he had left a natural son, of tender age, who bad been brought up in Florence under a teatime name. At this news the Joy of the people knew no bounds. A deputation was sent to Florence to find the child; it was brought teak in triumph, it was proclaimed with enthusiasms, and a mote-y afterwards the posterity of that child still reigned in Bolom,an Gentleman, the secret of this historical phenomenon lies in the human heart; whenever the news of • political easessinatica is spread among • population the same results are invariably produced. After e at of stupor the heart of man abandons half to he nerinomiespessions. Horror of msessiaation, detestation of the maisimers, pity for the vie ties, and sympathy for his NM= sad friends—ends are the amtkosette whisk naturally Atli hisseedietely show them selves. Yen, warm and °WM the eel and the young, all are animated by a temmet Wag; sad then,ss the saws of dr dm monk ehl seeimmedem sad subjegeted by the ineeirible ewer et wit* Whin the my of " Dews with the Germaine!" Is said, tie terrified sear dense hide UlllloolliVold or fly; factiega w hating that they may be amused of complicity, either lola in the seem of public Indignation or seek to sham themesivei hem its fury. Finally, the worst th at issisty, In whom the secret hopes of Grime always gime Mak min reliance, are paralysed by the attilede ei him isminelemejority ; and the the come which the um* *gig to ride in the Wok of en illssizions victim nip end privells mere powedel and resplendeat then ever. flesh, psalms. le the Inva riable tea gives by the neeseel Isellege of Om hems bent to events of this kind. Er bees samis mire mime& than in en orrery oess wail he them iliffinge. ft Oki& Gad forbid!) the victim shield be the that 1111 as Fresh people; if the assamsin's polgsard, In serflike the Empower, were to pierce the heart of so many millions of men. Cer- Witty, at lash a moment, all would do their duty. Our noble end 811101001 Empress, with that chivalrous seems which distergeishes her, would twee bar (lief sad present her me to the people and the army. Prince Jerome, the venerate brother of the great Emperor, would be by her side to assist her with his cooneris. The Prince Napoleon, who now gives such hopes to the tocustsy—(applasse)— would net fall to prover the government, V mess eery, , to take the memo requisite le son the throne to his nephew; sad, indeed, the Coen ell of Regency and the en tire government add be equal to the emergency—but all the nernos of human prudes.. would Ind themselves surpassed by the abets of while indimation. Cries of A. he lee assamfas P• Niel of " inn Napoleon IV. I" wool mound from me end of Prove to the other-would be mote edicsoious then all the arresgements of tact—and the shade of the great Emperor then, as is-day, from the depths of the tomb of the Invelides, would continue to peace:ally reign oar Freers. (Enthusiastic sheeting.) Thus, messieurs, the Napoleon d)nasty enjoys fa reality the best conditions of power sad permanence; ▪ :tong in the sympathies of the masses, it has nothing to bar for itself from popular convulsions • defended by our Instlet tions against the coalitions of inte rval parties, it is teetered from those parliamentary intrigues which have awed so many catastrophes ; finally, not reethsg ca ens bred alone, but being able, if needed, to recruit itself from all the male descendants of the brothers of the Emperor Napoleon—it esnnot be imperilled by the success of an attempt at mesesinatioe, and we may may of it consequently that, in all that regards Its into .al prospects, it pre sents eery rendition of strength and duration. And, messisme, the ems may be aid of its a:tenet relationa. Los* habituated to dread the least !movement of France, In turn revolutionary and conquering, Europe at first did not view without inquietude the re-establlahment upon the throne of France of the family proscribed by the treaties of 1815. But whatever may have been the true sentiments of the greet powers at the moment of the acknowledgement of the empire, it Is certain that all congratulate themselves sow epos seeing in Preece a strong, posse:el, respeeted, and wise government, which, after • glorious wee hes boo able to make an equally glories; pros. Each la the r”‘versel entisection, that the re-establishment of the empire has strengthened throughout Europe the principles of order and monarchial ideas, rod elfar:d the impression which the rivalry of the Pow= primps led them to receive from the first great Ulan from France. And we may say to-day that never sire 1815 have the relations at France with Europe been at once so honourable and friendly. Nevertheless, a cloud which might have proved dangerure, lately obscured oar rela tions wish • country whoa alliance with ourselves had beat so happily cemented end so fruitful, and it has required nothing lees than the wisdom and reciprocal friendship of the two sovereigns to prevent a coolness between the two powers. Happily, as the Emperor said at Otterboorg, if it was wished to revive the rancour, end pastime of 'mother epoch, the attempt would be defeated by Osgood ow of the public. In fact, mmelears, the interests et the two peoples ere now so closely interwoven that it well be dills& for we the most farina prime te bring to we an entire t apttire. Sack is this NNW* of rimer, that if tomorrow London or Path on burnt, we should each trier imams sonsera! lows, end while • catastrophe Mktg upon Bab, Visor, or St. Petersburg, would mite only onr stool of pity, were it Lanka se should be wounded fa ow lamb almost as seriously as at Park !MIL Now whim two peo ples hese alined et this point, they are evidently &ern i to draw imether more closely every day their present rules. (" Tree hies 1 tres bin I") Let as iirst cretin the Jarred to Frame of the English alliance. With England we are masters el the eau, sad oessequently have nothing to tare apes Mr frontiers. No cealition against us is palls; gasseal place is assured. Our country ors I,:n fedi up to all the developments of Its eollytiy without any pre-occupation, and complete the mirk of establlahlag Its institrioes without Morning any NM. Eisewher, we have no materiel rivalry with Ragland, doe abs has opened to our commerce as to bar one the acmes to her honamos colonies ; it Is not her fault if, con fining our mean of reduction at high prices, we do ad know how to pelt by it. La be *WA her barer he the French thin es whips, ma more market. She succeeded in 1814 and Me la cosunerbg the as ea alma nepressey which elk the Misr of he dares, rad to which she was in sae ma. sums *Oka both by her insular position sad the male vit. her Madan & singled enjoys this 811 1 181181 17 11 , 411811 01 1 &pa Is this ley : end abs says is bend: that if eke wale again to have • doggie with Freon --empeeleg (whisk God ibrhid I) that the fate el brass should Mkt nap dinars apes urea woad gala an ether rent% then the smielemmelif what she has abiedy, memly, serried sod Wad vorsiesay. • • • Row than, week al the raprood dimpeaka of the two nukes, say we to our emit Ow what followed the emen of Jamey 14f By Op esouran of all eqinolino—by a area et okindo• dollop dilettantism boa silo of the Chatted." Also* doe tie pen% rabbis epkisa is England had am tent Wags at some Oplsoallo Issldents, but at the news attengt of Use 14th, ingpssel wee smainsons is i z ; o the Moo orlon At that period the tree English that public whisk, In realm directs net gm" the state--whisk Ia sisobetcred to me order two the Podoet 081111/0 1 , to diodas all the arum ef Ibis pros, to take as heed of any of the exaggeations d Eberly—Or .Ina* lade, I say, know dhow of Or puerime dna& ergenhad be Reglad sepia On Ilksoser, lee d the fieserlas pre load bye pls if ths awes ;It wae, Idi ale. , salty, as ignored if lino,lnOoden as it linetert et thaw It was then ANON ad pdeldnotrildninne that it Mond (ory saintly' Is ht . wink E 'sad cep as adenine which wen spoken at Pads a algal= os the pad of From to reader England resmasibie far tie attempt of the 14th, and to hold beat awspealen. /Pros that moment, public opinioa hßegird, tunahries In stigmatising resernatkes, suddenly reeked the durmetratime which ware being mole in every port if t the onatry. Then when the cane Is the regime : oaf pasgarts. good or bad, but as unjustly ripmenlett en ea est of dams against the Eng lish thaseiree—sad the address from the army temeisily, 'hick wrought the Intatioi to the highest site)~ .e asp plat thd happened which always does leap- Pa he COW constry wbast.the WOW eatheant is in play --On 'make pastas he. no bounds, end tie paged dialed doldgeot to theme passions. So, while en thought . . that we had to complain of the arrangements of our allies, the English people, on emir part, believing that they had been profoundly Injured by France, obeyed nothing but their leritation. This irritation naturally provoked in France a similar feeling, squally strong, and wkich would, perhaps, have been dangerous without the lofty intelligence and the spirit of justice of the Emperor, to appreciate the true cause , of the attitude of our neighbor-6. But, messieurs, whatever may have been the nature of those deplorable misunderstandings, and of wic;eh it I, at least easy to prevent the return, the situation of the two peoples has undergone no change. That which undeniably remains is that the new instincts of England carry her as naturally to • union with France se formerly they promoted a separation; that oars follow a similar direction.; that in spite of the minenderstandings and the little reciprocal distrusts, and in spite of the Intrigues of the parties which take advantage of them, the great EreglWb public sincerely desire the friendship of the Emperor and of Femme —(applause) ; that, in fact, there is really no interest, no seriotn question between the two countries upon which the simplest good sense cannot put the two governments in accord ; and thus that it only depends upon as to maintain an &Blanes which is so advantageous to both. (General signs of adhesion.) I repeat then, messieurs, the Napoleon dynasty is in the interior, as it is abroad, in the happiest °auditions of streng►h, and grandeur, and prosperity. That which Napoleon 111, has added In this respect to the work of Napoleon I. is enormous, and when France, one day completely settled, shall enjoy all the bless ings of a government definitively established in the minds, in the consciences, and in the time, it will feel that It cannot have enough veneration, respect, and gratitude for his memory. (Repeated bravos.) Such, mount" is what I wished to my to my fellow citizens—not, assuredly, that I flatter myself with having done something in this great work, but because for more than 20 yeses I have not owed to pray with all my prayers for the happiness and grandeur of our =mu,. The above speech,which produced the profoundest sensation upon the select auditory to whom it was addressed, was followed by unanimous and prolonged applause, and cries of " Vive l'Emperenr The Count de Morny has made an important speech at the Council General of Clermont, bat we have not yet received a report of it. FRANCE. (mow ova owx oolutasroxourr.) PARIS, WIDNISDAY EVII1(1110. The Bourse continues to be extremely firm. The Rents roes 250. for cash and 150. for account, clos ing at 70fr. 10c. and 70fr. 15c. Mobilier rose 10fr. The Orleans railway rose Mr. ; Western fell iffr. 50c. ; and the other principal l'nee left off at yesterday's prices. - Lord Palmerston had an interview with the Emperor to-day at fit. Goad. SPEECH OF COUNT DE PERSIGNY, THE ENGLISH ALLIANCE. At the opening meeting on Monday of the Council General of the Loire, of which Count de Persigny is the President, the ex-ambassador to London made a speech which is destined to become celebrated. Coming from one who is probably higher in the confidence of the Emperor of the French than any one else, this address has great political import ance. After some preliminary observations, in which M. de Persigny reminded his audience that from his schoolboy days he had sought the nephew of the great Emperor in exile, and saluted him as the future Emperor of the Frensh, at a time when, to all appearances, the Napoleon tradition was br•ied in the tomb of the Date de Reichstadt, he said : Par be it from mete detract from the personal merit due to the Emperor for the grand work of pacification which be has socomplished. Like Augustus, the nephew of Cedar, the nephew of Napoleon I. must have had great and rare faculties to triumph over so many obstacles. Bat it mud be said for the honour of the nation, that if Napoleon 111. so easily outmoded In an enterprise In which so many het filled, it was because his talent was aided by the noble and touching confilence of the people in the name of ?depo ts= ; and that is the most conclusive justification of the dynastic) klieg of which I ern about to speak to you. lam not ignorant, gentlemen, of the reproaches addressed by some parties to the imperial government. They cannot deny the great services which it has rendered to social order —the calm which it bas rei-establiahed in men's mind.— and the security which it has rendered to all Interests. But they some it of • tendency to disinherit the country of It, legitimate Influence in the conduct of public affable by founding, es at Rome, a sort of Cimmerian diendership, aided by the prestige of the name of Napoleon. Allow me to repudiate this ...logy, between Comer and Nepal...en there la nothing in common except the glory which founded the prestige of the two names. But the situations are totally different. At Rome the problem was to treader • society corrupted and disorganised by dell war from • republic to a dictatorship by the destruction of its indent liberties—while in France, on the contrary, the task of the Napoleons is no other than to continue our old monarchical state by a fourth dynasty—not to destroy ancient liberties, but to consolidate new ones. Thus, gentlemen, the government of Napo leon 111. is organised in accordance with the prin. olples end ideas of the revolution of 1789—popular suffrage, the free vote of the taxes, and the Irre movability of the judges, are the findaniental bases of the Imperial system. It is true that the liberty of the press—a modern institution—which either vivifies or kills all other liberties, is very materially modified by the system of warnings. But this reserve in our institutions is evidently but an act of prudence—a safety-valve fa • deme snes& True liberty remains notwithstanding, and will remain esgrafted in our habits and our laws, and will aria all the more vigorously became it is cultivated in a prepared sad temperate atmosphere. I know very wan that certain party mia cannot forgive the Emperor's grimmest for net repel leg the mistakes of the Restoration and the house of Odessa: these men would see the parliamentary Ines throw* open again with all the parliamentary (*digs of passions ' and prejudices, at the risk of producing a third catastrophe. But the example of those two governments will mot be lost upon Franca. In point of feet, gentleness, them splendid parliamentary struggles which some people now look back to with so much regret were most perilous thine: for in a country whore people were not agreed as to the principle of government, where there were four or live nations in a nation—a Wanda nation, an Orleanist nation, a Bona. parthat nallemomd • Republican nation—that is to say factions sad sot peaks the etatpkte enjoyment of public liberty amid only lave to the formation of militias, and opal- Uwe treadiag set to Ma ishiflution of one at of principles, or one set of awn toe ear saes and earr piasipke, bat to the overthrow of the Itself, to the . katerte peril jof society, At this , psalm" the most emlisay pr Wotan Naas to pet as ea ear pied spiel Nab big. Deka pOgog la nodes the rariksary el IllhatHeekie NW* . IRO Min I. Wig as first land • goarlassit ; pet r ealehila • dpaiip idiot —like that in Englaidrakei he some foam petty attacks, and elevated above the ail= el pails discaska. All dynasties require, the misestalia eat tam Tiros alone can complete the recatelltedea of the pram which have so long divided Francs. Tie k alp he ask I trust, far distant, on which this grant result *Of lie Wawa —was there will be but only pis . spates a the nada under the throne of the Napolawst—es dot der the Babe readmits will be terminated, and bear of disireadia Wag no kapr a peril or • threat for any ass, vEI Wl* • treeit far all. TI l then, gentlemen, Ist as maintain la ear larditatioaa thaw elements which rt id = he imprudent to discard—Le us not disks any asap k the Lew. which regulate the puss—Lt as hap Ike War valve, whatever present lationvadanco we may lad k Assuredly so one Can admit more thin I do Wag that owing to the present system the badman of the pram apes public opinion in insaboisat either to alight= the governmiat or to pram* private interests, under the mask at public interests, from taking the name of the Emperor in vain. But we rand admit that hums things are human things. Good cannot be absolutely 'operated from evil. The essential thing is that we should not eaceifioe great to little things. Above all, I repeat, let as band a dynasty a Indispensable to the liber its ato the grandeur sad security of oar country ; and, for tip aim of as haresass Mare good, lotus learn to support some mesa taimavadesita. This dynasty, gentlemen, like all Oka, has its perils—real or imaglaary. It wee orally tried at the beginning of this year by one peril, which threw mass naiads late sea • sate of perturbation that swat eminent ladirkinak altered words of dieconreensent.• But all those dangers must be looked in the ram, and I think it the are useful to Maass with you the particular danger to which 1 .Dade, becalm It is my profound conviction that political assassinatiou, with the view to overthrow a dpurity, dekata its own object. Thus, gestlatiso, the murder of Coma Duly saved to destroy the republic and found the empire; the murder of the Malicia rendered that family • ilia alJodes probably to M. Bowies epoch cat,behalf of tha Publio Safety 1301, is which he said that than vaasot a town, Wigs, or Daaakt ilk Franco has lona dataffecOop.. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (sr amnia° TautoßArs.) (11031 001 OWN 0011ISPOND2 PLYMOUTH, The 1111 DAY. The monthly mail from the Cape of Good Hope arrived at Plymouth this morning. The Royal Mail steamer Phcobe, Captain Clark, left Table Bay on July 21; St. Helena, 30; and Ascension, August 2. She brings twelve passengers and a cargo, veined at 3,6331. 7a., consisting of wine, horns, ostrich feathers, wool, oil, safflower, and skins. Numerous movements and requisitions to members where afoot in the colony, and various candidates coming forward for the Council and Assembly elections coming off in September, and colonial politico coteeqnently very active. Responsible goverament, religious state grants, education, fede ration, public works, emigration, and treatment of the aborigines, were among the questions disc-nosed. The Orange River question was still open, bat the governor was to proceed immediately after the sail ing of the Phesbe to the scene of his mediation. Great suffering and distress had been caused by those disturbances, end liberal subscriptions were being raised in the colony to relieve the sufferers. The Hermes had returned, with nem of the Livingstone expedition, the members of wbieh were all well July 2. They had safely reached the Zam besi, and were about to proceed to Zeta in the small steam launch. The Pearl has gone on her voyage to Ceylon. The death of Captain Pilkington, the Colonial Civil Engineer, had somewhat impeded the progress of the public works. An active competition for government assistants to these undertakings was being kept up by the different &striate. Prison accommodation Named to be in mach request. A fine arts exhibition, under the patronage of the Governor, and a cattle show, organised by the Agricultural Treaty Society, were to take place at Cape Town, in October. Rear-Admiral Sir F. Grey was shoat to proceed in the Bacawen on a voyage of inspection to Mauritius and the east coast. H.M.B. Boemwen, Hermes, and Lynx, are in Bimon's Bay. The Lyra had sailed from N►tala for Mauritius. Hydrographical surveys of the river adjacent Cope Town were about to be made by government, with a via, to navigation and irrigation. The Lord Bishop of Graham's Town was about to make a visitation tour to Bing William's Town and the mission stations in Raffaria. The Phwbe was six days before her time,but had experienced strong head wine, and a heavy head sea c.rota Lt. 14, north. The outward bound mail steamer Athens mived in Table Bay on July 14. TEE New COMMISSIONER OP INLAND RETKNITE. —We have reason to believe that the vacant Cousibithusr- Sep of Imbed liesvass will be US ep by the appointeunt of Mr. Janes Diesel', who bet meat tresawor of the Amtrak' County Court districts, Mr. Disraeli bee per the dads of this office with great advantage to the midis during the but is yam. He ie known to be agoutie s's of pest thislligence end Sarni= Was of busies. and Is is liltsfy to bs • vallable segthithai ir the Board of Lithad Rases at a Ilse when thathlithist and all the limaohas of moans apportableg tIS Mareabottt to form the sage* al easekaallea mad with a view to tits mike al AB ithithallange. taxes. New blood, freedom has the vane leassele ef eatkestet regulations, sad isargederand tilhadridee EwlMlat it the Pepe Parma at Me impritese berth% Nei we Mete Met d& wiltierive great etteelese from the speektateat of Mr. home Diereen.—Merrtiker Korea ------------.. Tam Ilea or Paortowra IN A Dun..—At Nantes, a few days Sri two firstwats maws of he" awe warm Meads, sabosystsdip Prism riin and assay deadly morals% :ICUs WO, their treaose by a AVOW d l'ootronca. • _ avail with as elate:eats mai Sawa , salute on Ass lbat Wild wow tat zabialwa The maim feet ei tke beim thee Wpm. fie* Weever, we IliriddliaMmUm Wapiti* *Kit ware* lifter a glad loillossat *et liMillMwtha hi iiiiiistr IBM& Uppt0:71111 antititireilitabged WI& ehtena- 0 A iiisai." •um his witimmey, ewthrOmw with • lowa &mit, iptie Mut howsailaw , Imia ta abhor Mr. la a m e:: taw pewit twos.% • apaiNeerit witpived to take the , wide* Ma, VW aseeisi kit Wok by pew tic hie sweat . saiagatia's right arm. l awn The Memos psi wow !educed the two msa to shake aad e m e s t. " Now ire ell ever. 7 *Ma ault liftlioatlio sat " tall on what at tkidual yes Imltit me two r " simply beams yap . WI , 11 as timewebA d mitam qua de se pas me Intim"' Oa* eowkorT. " Ur other, " I mid. ' Qua ad je :XII pas 1" The party with hie arat la a ass erelelasod, “Ah I eartsti I yenta ample is is as 411sambie pas seism 1" • 1 LUNACY COMMISSION ON MR. RUCH. FOURTH DAY. The inquiry in this ease was resumed at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. B. James addressed the court in opposition to is petition. The learned counsel commenced with som e marks on the attention which the /subject of private lonati3 asylums in general now commanded in the public mind, and in the course of them observed that he b e lieved etch establishments were that day on their tilt de regarded the ground ou which the case of the petitioner rested, there was so much inoongruouoness in the medial testimony, that it was impossible to tell what was the per. Vatter form of insanity which they ascribed to Mr. Rath. They were bound to make out that at that moment this gentleman was of unsound mind, and incapable of managin g his affairs, and to define the cause of the alleged insanity. It was clear that in the origin of the cam, the parties who sought to have Mr. Ruck confined were of opinion that the insanity was mental aberration, arising f l a n the use of intoxicating lignors. Bat the medical witnesses in support of the petition were perfectly aware that the aberration or excitement produced by the use of bite:lca- Ong liquors was a very curable form of madness. Dr. Forbes Winslow, Dr. Sutherland, - and Dr. Conolly all admitted that that kind of mental disease was curable, and curable rapidly. The statistics of insanity showed that It was generally cured in about two months—a fact which had a very close bearing on the present case, inasmuch as, with the Wearable excep tion of the keeper of the asylum, who spoke in a mod absurd manner of a conversation last Sunday, not a single human being had deposed to any delusions which he had found existing in Mr. Rack's mind since June. To show how common this form of insanity was, he would refer to • statistical work, published by Dr. Hood, physician of Bethlehem Hospital. In that work it was stated that among the patients in that hospital, the instances in which insanity arose from intemperance were 90 out of 212 among the men, and 40 out of 369 among the women. A comparison between England and France in that respect was, he regretted to say, very unfavourable to this country, A French writer, Regaled, stated that among 336 lunatics in his own establishment, there were only three whose insanity was attributable to intemperance. Dr. Stillwell and Dr. Forbes Winslow both admitted that in the majority of oases insanity arising from intemperance was cured within two months, and, he re peated, no one pretended to say that the delusions of Mr. Rork had existed since June. Now what was the position of this gentleman preview to his confinement in the asylum P He was a person of pod ropey, living on his estate in Wales. He hoped one result of this inquiry would be to restore mutual confidence between him and Ns wife. He should lee the last person to at tempt to widen any breach between them; bat when Dr. Stillwell went so far as to say that one of the grounds on which he mouldered him insane was that he thought he had not lived on affectionate terms with his wife, while several witnesses had deposed to the contrary, he could not help thinking that in very many cases there might be the greatest unhappiness un der the mask of apparent affection. Some cause of difference, some variance of temper or disposition, often, it was to be feared, marred the whole connubial life, although both parties had sufficient good sense to prevail the truth from becoming known. It was very painful to be obliged to lift the veil from private life, but circumstaires compelled him to do too. Hero was • gentleman of property, ho repeated, living on hie estate in Wales, his wife, on whom be had no wish to cast any imputation, passing a good deal of her time away from him. He had two eetabllahments, one at Pentlldu, the other at Aberdovey. While the former wee undergoing repairs the wife resided at Aberdovey, the bur band remaining at Pantildn, and this nemeses ily ace doped a good deal of separation between them. At the period to which the attention of the jury had bon especially directed this gentleman was living alone at Pantlldu, without his wife, without his children, and sali ent any of those safeguards which might have mended him from indulging in his excesses. Lot the jury here dial to the dates. In August Mr. and Mrs. Rook were at Manchester together, and it was admitted by Mr. Barnet, who, together with Mrs. Berne*, accompanied than, that at that period Mr. Ruck was perfectly collected and ems. The only thing which tended to support a contrary view wee what Mrs. Brunet said respecting the mince, the whole hisbory of which would be laid before the jut y. The whole events of this drama, therefore, ranged betorzen October, 1267, and the present period. As to all the nonsense which they had heard about the poisoning of dogs, the paling of a a note, Instead of 31. 104., the difference being returned the following week, it was not worthy of • moment's meddlers tion. After August this gentlemen weskit alone at Pentllda. That eetablishment certainly appeared to have been a most irregular one. Unhappily there was an acquaintance with Mies Jones, and this might fairly account fee what occurred. Mr. Ruck became restless and though there had been a Maki attempt there to keep book the fact that the delusions arose from intempersam, he would show that inch was the case. It might have been that Mils Jones, who was at Pantlldu this period, andby whom he had two children, was a ewe* of irascible temperament, and if so, that would tend to increase his mental excitement. Be that as it might, instead of being surrounded by perces whose conduce might have soothed his mind--inatud of having his wife and children with him, there he was it;th Miss Imes, whom he said he locked in because she we drunk ; and a pretty acme the hones must have proemial. What did he do under these circumstances P Embed sad mad with excess, he huddled hie things into his portmmtma sad started for Kent. Now was intemperate* the mord the delusions under which he laboured at this period ? Br red all question it was. When he got to Beading MX Bernet sent for Dr. Cottony, who, together with Mr. Erin attached hie signature to a certificate authorising his reolvel to an wham. The effect of Mr. ffeejsant Banned:ifs remedy was that if ths jury entertained any doubt whatever abed this gentleman's sanity they must give a vodka for Ms confinement lest he should hereafter be guilty of *Wes le his wife. Such a doctrine would, if carried out, be, do. *tractive of the liberty of the enbicot ; and he protesikel against it in the strongest manner. Dr. Winslow said he would not be responsible for the °otter/pressew of this rentlw ' men's liberation. Who asked him to be responding? 'Oa the principle involved in there declarations any men night* confined for life. Violence P Why, during the whole dills delirium previous to his confinement In the asylum, this pm. Boman committed nv act of violence whatever. Hie * slept with him at Birmingham, and at Readies, sad there was no pretenos that he had threatened. bar. They hold heard of the terrible effveta produced by delirium Inman in describing which the poet spoke of the era who wee under its influence as "seeing more devils then ell ma hold ;" but no witness bad deposed to say ad at violence on the pert of Mr. Back. It wee clear kin the certificate that he was seat to the mine a a person suffering from excitement cm* 'IN intemperances and there was no ground whatever be assigning an hereditary tendency to insanity as a awn lb learned counsel them contended that Mr. Banned net ken treated in the asylum as he ought to have boa; the no curative process had been adopted—treatig kin damply as • grin suffering under tempooley ffr reagenest arising from excessive drinking, sad that lai he been dealt with in that meaner • apeedy cure world ham beta effected. Pains should have been taken, he UK bit move his deledons, and that with regard to the MOO whom he supposed to have been murdered, should Ism* met by placing before him the children thiamine. Graffeensa invested large snots of money in them Newell which were, in fain, nothing but hotels in which wren went tionithed, and of courser the proprietors had a dint Wan in keeping a person there who paid 400 k • Mesa' Under mob circumstances the supervision of the nudes skews should be of the strident chereeler ; bat the VI that that on one wombs' the oommldaners visited pl.' croft without seeing Mr. Reek, simply berranse se = island a walk, showed how imps deck was the afforded. It was the system he was attacking, ad ate" asylum to which attention wee now more FAWN* fflreeted. On the 21st of June the petition VAS fologlibk tour mad donors were set at Mr. Back, net to owe make him out a lunatic. That was enough to ben sei mad. There was no one to give an important emenno l 4; mad doctors visited the puke', 4 order to " test" Medan of asind. Ogre of these gentlemen, Dr. Hatheriendilia given his evideam with a great deal of awl, end thiOdui not to be wondered at, fur all the dopier' mad Walitadl aa d the private winces were op in swam ; their abeam depended on the verdict, and they odd, "We *ma ea a verdict that Mr. Rack is mad, although we may de ell 01 01 we can to get him out directly afterwards." (Leesielm) proceedings were most gruel, and were quits moo& to a man mad who entered an asyhun labouring uaderisiet a aching out of a temporary excitement ommionid He believed that this inquiry, end others of the sent kind, would shake private asylum' to their very imallivalt As to the alleged hereditary tendency to insanity, b shmit, r