The Express. — London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

110CCID-HAND PLLNOFORTEB.-CMIII2, gibt erVre:sl" TO 001 ollesetleseaset• lesemasd kr “The Express," Undoes Uremia( Pepe; Two o'CI ea y d woe be es die Olies, 10, besverie-seseek by Taw Ty :us DAM EN? DAT OF MT L IFE.—TBI CONTI:IUD U.SMOD. N,. M. C. theimr.—Elll WOULD BD AN ACTuIL r.. C. Nwhen...—Ded DALLOWIMI. ”1111.01/114. Ton 1'm..., THE INCSADIABIBK—A VOCAL SNITS. ?Al MINT. Mr. .1. IltmA.—Asst TRIAD CLASS All nu? CLADS, Rion WAITS AT LONDON RILTDOS. Too o•lrWelat.l. ah. Toolowoo-410nt0.. SOI SAL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31. WE should be sorry to let a single irritating word escape us on a subject so critical and momentous as the international relations of Prance and England. In a country where a public writer has his own con. science for a tribunal, and the common sense of his readers for a censorship, the responsibilities of the press are not less acutely, though lees uncomfortably, felt, than in u country where public opinion is pre scribed for by a bureau of State doctors, who feel its pulse with admonitory nicety, let blood when symp toms of fever appear, sometimes even amputate • limb or two for the relief of the system ; and by a constant administration of precautionary medica ments, arrest the disorders attendant upon easy living and rude health. There are obvious advantages to a government in regulating the movements of the public mind like a clock, making it go a little fester or a little slower, and winding it up every eight days or so with a wrench that tells of the crispness of the spring and the slight vigour of the " works." But the advantages axe not without inconveniences; the " works" will get out of order, and when you have made yourself responsible for the perfect regularity of • mechanism so complicated and so easily deranged, you are apt to cause unnecessary offence by striking fourteen instead of twelve, by • sudden stoppage of the minute-hand when all the world are taking out their watches to eat them by your face, by going too slow for idlers, or too fast for men of business. In abort, dull Englishmen as we are, we prefer a Government that neither doctors nor regulates opinion, because we know that wherever opinion is most free, it is most responsible and most safe. Among our neighbours we have for some time been constrained to look to all sorts of semi-official indicators for information which on our own sidecar the water we should naturally seek in what we call the ordinary channels of intelligence." Jost now we are particularly anxious to know on what terms we are with our old Allies of the Queen and the Congress. Heavy thonder•dreps have fallen intermittently daring the dog days from the sul phurous pen of M. GRANDER DE CASSAGNAC, who, we cannot forget, not only sits astride two journals, like a Colossus, but signs himself " Deputy to the Corps Legislatif.“ fhe organ of the ultra •Catholic party which is protected at Rome and caressed in Paris: summons all the Furies of • holy war to the standards of the Climb, and denounces them here- Beal islands to the religious wrath of the Zooms. But we are reminded that the Nominee alone is the organ of the Government ; the rest is mare sound and fury, signifying nothing. Presently the session of the Councils-General swine. Then provincial partiaments are presided over by eminent men, selec ted by the Government as the depositaries of its confi dence and the partaken of its purposes. Here again let usbeware of aboard analogies. County sessions, is an F.oglsh sense, do not precisely imply the place or the people best fitted to discuss questions of Imperial policy; they are supposed to be concerned with bugloss., of • mon local though not lees useful character; but over the water the distribution of parts is reversed. The Corps Legislatif transacts local business, and the " County Sessions " converse as Imperial affairs. When we say "converse," perhaps we employ too strong an expression; they are addressed as Imperial affairs by their President for the time being, who may be a •ictorious general estarnieg from the wars, or a dawdler of the press, or, es in M. Di MORNI'S case, the President of the Corps Legislatif himself. \{ - hen M. Di MOILNY rises to address the Council-General of the Pay-de-Dorno in the cha racter of its President, he is listened to by his colleagues, and by Europe, as something more than a country gentleman of our homely type inspired by the Muse of mangold-wursel. He is almost the alter ego of the EMPEIOII. The earliest and meet intimate of the adherents of the throne, his audience may be sure that every word he utters bears a double weight of meaning and as. thority. Accordingly, when M. ere MOHNT taker for his text the English alliance, we are at liberty to suppose that he speaks, to ase a French idiom, as one " inspired." M. DE MORNT comes out as a warm, though disinterested, friend to the English alliance. \Vs say "comes out,' because since his embassy to St. Petersburg, and indeed before that oeleasioo, he was not generally regarded as one of the warmest advocates of a good understanding with England. Must we accept the reproof which the tone of M. DE MORNT'S amiable candour suggests? Am we really the cap tions, quarrelsome, exacting, and sulky friends with whom it is so difficult for the most simple natured and true-hearted of human beings to get on without Ices of dignity and self. respect Are our Leeds and Commons, our public men and our newspapers, so inexplicably suspicious and unjost as M. De Moitn describes? Really it is important to consider from whom this accusation proceeds. We know the rank, position, and influence of the speaker; but how does he ar range contemporary hi.tory for the magnates of the Puy do UOnse ? M. DE MOINE begins by se cribing English armaments to newspaper articles and Parliamentary speeches, and the latter to the dissatisfaction of England at the manifest desire of the Euretti,it to avoid • European conflagration He goes on to assert that there are no means in Francs of preventing a newspaper from publishiog what it likes, and that in fact the French press is just as reepossible for what it writes as the English, and oo more. By the light of this singular inter pretation of facts we are enabled to judge Moart's appeal against the prejudices and perilous of public opinion is this country. For the rear, we are perfectly ready to appreciate the fairness and frankness with which he singles out the prevail ing causes of alarm and doubt which hays undoubt edly existed of late, whilst to the general terms in which he discusses and disposes of them we are as far as possible from objecting. "Nobody," says M. DE MOINT, with reasonable emphasis, "can aid. "mate so well as myself the loyal faith of the " EMPEROR ;" and we fully accept the worsen; but we must be permitted to whisper very gently into the ear of the Preeident of the Corps Legislatif that nu cue knows better than those t wo distinguished persons the advantages of silence, secrecy, and soddenness in grand political operations ; and perhaps it le beam people in England have been disposed to pay a compliment to political at the expense of weal qualifications that t►ey hesitate to attribute to the same persons and the same policy the head that plots and the hand that strikes on a sudden with the heart of the injured philanthropist. alive to every honest impulse, and the 'mil of an apostle of peace awake to every generous emotion. At say rate, we heartily echo M. DE MORNS'S etirriag appeal to the good feeling and good sense et the two great nation, of the West. By all mesas let ~future rivalry (if rivalry there must be) be a rivalry of industrial and commercial enter prise. We have had enough of glory long ago, and enough of conquest. We know no battle by land or sea in which France had not her full share of honour. Surely France may be content to fight the future battles of civilisation (if battles there must be) side by side with the honourable foes of old time, and the comrades in arms of ►ater and happier years. We believe that in spite of evil omens, the intellect, the enterprise, the best feelings, and the dearest interests of France respond to the intellect, the enterprise, the best feelings, and the dearest interests of England, and that both cry Peace. But there is one thing needful to make the desire of all good people on either side of the water a reasonable certainty, and that kb—Liberty. With an equal, we do not say a similar, liberty en joyed by oar neighbours and by ourselves, every cloud that intercepts a better future would clear away before the light, and every mist of prejudice and passion be dispersed. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, .1869. in its detinit ionsomen full of the power of apprehend_ ing the truth of things and bringing before the under standing of the reader the distinction betweenwhatia ensatial and what is extraneous, than that which is poetized to the volume entitled "Imagination and Fancy" (1814). His own poems have not yet taken in this country as high a stand as they will assuredly take, though they have gone through several editions in England and America, and in the latter country are standard favourites. They combine much of the sensuous and sometimes fantastic richness of the Elizabethan writers with the more spiritual aspira tions of a time leg robust in its physique than the era of Shakespeare, and more hauntingly alive to the mystery of things. But, though imbued with a proper sense of the outer world stretching mightily beyond us, the poems of Leigh Hunt are entirely free, as the man himself was, from that morbid mysticism which gives an unpleasant tone to so much of the poetry of the last five-and-twenty years. His natural rath was too strong for the blighting doubt of some—too cheerful for the un worthy gloom of others. But we are not to consider the subject of this me moir simply u a poet and • literary critic. For many years he held a conspie4ons position as an editor and newspaper writer. It wu in January, 1808, that Leigh Hunt and his brother set up the ' Examiner, the conduct of which remained for thir teen or fourteen years in the hands of him who has just departed. All know the services rendered to the cause of free speech in those days of corruption and tyranny by the paper of which John and Leigh Hunt, but principally the latter, were the animating spirits. We, who carry on the journalism of 1839 with the same views, should never forget that we are the more free to do so for the self-sacrificing nature of those two brothers. The Prince Regent in vain endeavoured to crush the Examiner : and the failure was a triumph and an encouragement to the whole English press. Leigh Hunt set up a higher standard of honesty and faculty in I the newspaper world than had been generally known before. His boldness of thought was expressed with a gentlemanly decorum of lan guage, such as we now find in most papers, but which, in the early days of the present century, was not common. Into theatrical criticism, moreover, he introduced au element of independence and lite rary appreciation which surprised the town by its sheer novelty. Later in his career, Leigh Hata became intimately associated with Shelley; and, though he never agreed with all the opinions of that extraordinary genius, he was made answerable for them, and for several years was °bemired by a cloud of calumnies, some of them of the most ludicrously false description. But, long before his death, he had risen out of that petty cloud, and many of his former enemies have expressed their sorrow at having tra duced him. The range of Leigh Hunt'. compositions was so extensive that it, would be impossible within the compass of the present article to criticise all even of the general divisions of literature to which he con tributed. We must therefore be content with simply mentioning, in addition to what we have already noted, his translations (especially those from the Italian, which are held to be full of the glow and thrilling tenderness of the South), his prose stories and his dramas. Two of his plays have appeared on the stage,—the Legend of Florence, produced in 1840 at Covent Garden by Madame Vestris ; and Lovers' Amazement:, brought out at the Lyceum in January, 1848. His dramas, however, though ful of grace and feeling, were not calculated for pope. laxity, and have little chance of being revived. The death of such a man leaves a painful sense of loss among his friends. To them no after-acquaint ance can suffice to fill the void. For no man ever yet had a greater power than Leigh Hunt of attract ing to himself the affectionate veneration of all who once came within the influence of his warm and truthful heart, his cultivated intellect, and his cap tivating manners. FEARFUL 8714.11 ACCIDENT. PLYMOUTH, Ti MOAT 'VINING. - - An accident of a very alarming character occurred at owe o'clock this afternoon in the Sound, on board her Majesty's screw steam-sloop Pioneer, Commander Reilly, seder orders for the west coast of Africa. She hod some alight defectst o make good, sod IVY getting up steam for the purpose of proceeding into liaresara, when the main steam. pipe burst doe* to the oommuniestion. John Dunn, Seeding stoker, was on the point of opening the ammonia.- tion-valve, and be suffered severely; William Bone, engi neer in charge, Charles Piller, third engineer, John Oliver, third engineer, John Duon, leading stoker, Cherie' Devine, stok , r, James Murphy, stoker, and James Rennitmon, second-claes boy, unfortunately rushed aft, when the Ilk= was most dense, and were of course, much melded, especially in their feces. Mr. Oliver's sight is affected. Mr. J. A. Leicester, seemed-class engineer, prudently shut off the ; be escaped uninjured: The ship was speedily enve!oped in steam, brt as there was a smart south-west tweeze, its effects were most detri mental aft. The looking gla•see in the c cabin were shivered, sod the boots shrivelled. Reels from the ships of war, with their surgeons and eminent surgeons, were moon alongside, and the steam tender Confiance conveyed the Wald CAM (seven) to the Royal William Victualling-yard, wise's* they were takes in Gets to the naval hoepil. The Pireisr was alto...re:de sent into Hincoaze. By inquiries et the Royal Navel Hospital it bee been aleeelalned that Dens i• In a very precarious state, and that Mr. Bone ls .offering severely. The othan are not in greet 4agv ?JAWS FROM JAPAN. " The last China mail," says the Debats," brings us news front 'spat to the sth of Jane. The in , erconne of Europeans with the country was daily beam:slog more ex tensive, and is likely in a few years to effect s complete change in its aspect. The Emperor, after the first experi ments with the elecerie telegraph, oedema the construction of lines oessecting together the towns of Yeddo, Nangesski, Sienuds, end liekodadi. He lass also decided on transform. leg his feet, end already poesesees six stem war-junks. Ow of them, the Mahon, has started an s voyage of ear cuninavigatice. Hee creme is of 340-horse power, end of Am.tioss manufacture. The crew coastal. entirely of Japanese seulors,who show great aptitude in the reanagment of e'esm-segtnea. A diekulty whit h arose be tween the American consul and the Japanese government by been amic►bly settled. An American, who had dis covered s rich copper wise, laid minim to the mine and to the soil, contrury to the laws of the country. The government 'related, and the ►ffair was assuming an unpleasant aspect, when the Emperor, to prevent all further dispute, proposed that a third power should be rob died as umpire, sad desig nated first Prance, sad then Rotolo. The American consul had not sent It hie answer who the ta•her of the discovery, who eras morally ceetein of the result, gave up hie claim on the soil, and solicited authorisation to work the mine end sire the profit with the Japans.* government. The offer was at once accepted. Everyone 'peaks highly of the Em panels moderation in this case." AN AWKWARD FIR.-0o the evening of Allow summer fair a person, whew* name it is nnseceesary to give, had occasion to eater a gardre adjoining one of the hotels. While them, end Favoring tomtits to epend the evening with some jolly companion.. the mon toned hirmelf grreatils proximity to a maatiff, which threatened to attack him. To get out of hares way, the man hmtily ameaded a I tree, in the confident tap +-taffeta that some ohs woald by and-bye come to his aid. Bat the totem dog kept watch at the ' tart of the Ire., and the utter ought man, mond of enjoy- Mg himself In the 'groom, as be e=rected, found himself parched uts a branch of a tree. and there he remained cold and cherrlese &Wu, the •' Ms•lsne" night. It was only whew daylight did appear that the state of matters war dienkawd 6. some of the neighbame, end arrangements were reeds by which man and dog "each took ag his several way," the meeting \eying been anything but an agree able sae to either the prisoner or hta keeper, 4110 e THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Tusszat Mawr. Her Majesty, the Prince Cousort, sad several of the youthful members of the royal fondly, arrived at St. Margaret's station here this morning. The station, which is only need by her Msjaity, wee fitted up end decorated in the usual manner. Shortly before 8 o'clock, the Prince of Weise, attended by the Hon. R. Bruce and Colonel Koppel, arrived at the station front Holyrood Palace, where his royal high ness has been residing for seven or eight weeks. Among other noblemen and gentlemen on the platform waiting her Majeatv's arrival wore the Duke of Buoclench„ Colonel of the Edinburgh County Militia, Viscount Melville, CJOI. minding the forces in I%Letti Britain, several officer, of the staff and in command, the Lord Provost, the Sheriff, the. The royal train reached the station at molly 8 o'clock, being ten minutes Mathew. of the time specilied. On her Majesty and the Priem Consort alighting, the Prince of Wales stepped forward to give hie royal parents a welcome, sad the latter gave cordial reepon.ses to the salu.ations of those around, Having ascended the staircase, the royal party were accommodated In open carriages and four, the morning bsing bright and clear, with a fresh wind blowing from the west. The drat carriage waa occupied by the Queen, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Walla, and the Princess Alice; and the ee:rnd by the younger branches of the royal family, the members of the royal suite following. As bar liajeety's carriage left the station a royal salute was Grad frog the Castle, and the band of the 16th Lancers out side the elation performed the National Anthem. The =ening being so inviting, there were, notwitbatand- Mg the early hour, probably from 8,000 to 10,000 spectators in the park, wailing to give a loyal reosption to her Majesty. The way to Holyrood was lined by the 16:h Lenore' from Piershill, a detachment of Royal Artillery, with a field train, from Leith Fort, the Royal Sussex Militia from Glasgow, and the West Yorkshire Rifles from Edinburgh Castle, the last-named regiment furnishing the guard of honour at Holyrood. Along the whole way to the palace, above. mile, the royal party were followed by enthusiastic cheering, which received the nasal (radon' response, As her Maisety approached Holyrood the beautiful new fountain there was pot into play, though the wind somewhat disturbed the low of water. This elegant ornament to the palace is now completed, and is seen to fine effect in the now opened and extended outer quadrangle. The Queen left holyrood at 4 o'clock this afternoon for Dalkeith Palace, the seat of the Duke and Duchees of Bac clench. Upon her return at half-past six o'clock her Ma jesty drove to the west end of Priscatianst, and shortly simmer& returned to Holyrood. The royal journey is to be resumed to-morrow (Wednes day) morning at nine o'clock. PRINCE ALFRID.—HiI Royal Highness Prince I Alfred arrived at Dover by South Eastern Railway M a quarter to 11 on Monday night, accompanied by Major Cowell, sad embarked immediately on board the Admiralty steam yacht Vivid, Commender Allen, which had ban brought them from Woolwich forth. pupae of oraysylag hie Royal Highness to Caleb, whence he proceeds, by way of Parts, to Manailles, to join the Haryana in the Mediter raussa, his Royal Highneee's "have of absence" having expbed. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town yesterdey f r Shrobland Park, near Ipswich, on a vied to Sir Ws. end the Hon. Lady Middleton. The Duke of Newcastle left town for (lumber yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town far Hawaden Castle, Cheater, poladq• Earl Granville left town yesterday for Aldenham, Ithropahira. His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the Baroness de Cato leave the legation in Hill-street, Berkeley-equate, to-day, for Munich, on a brief Ism of absence. The Duke and Duchene of Northumberland came to Northumberlsnd House on Monday, from Siou House, Isionorth, end yesterday lett for Alns Lk Castle, Northum terteued, for the wagon. The Duchess of Sutherland ha, left Stafford Howe, St. Janata's, for Trentham, Staffordshire. Viscount and Viecountele Stratford de Redeliffe and the Hon. Wows Canning hem left Grosvanovisitems within the last few days for Sondem!. The Lord Chancellor left Strathedea House, Knightsbridge, last evening, to join BitORMIN Strathaden and family et Hartrigge, near Jedburgh, N.B. The noble and learned lordearne up to Linda to attend the Cabinet Counvit. Mr. Laurence Oliphant is expected shortly to de liver • lecture on Chins and Japan in Dunfermline—a sub ject on which, from his opportunities as private secretary to Lord Elgin, he is peculiarly pull:lel to instruct his Doreen. THE QUEEN AND THE LIEOTENANT.—One day lately, when her Majesty was at Aklerettott inspectieg the camp, she bestow fa 'fluid, and expressed a wish for a cup of tea. bite accordingly, mad without say ceremony, entered the heareet Cheer's tent, which chanced to be that of Lientenehe Dryelele, eon of our respected town-clerk, Mr. Dryedele of Mitts, and to Sine the desire of bid gotten was made known. As was to be txtected, the lieutenant found bioutlf at fleet a little &ekes/lily situated fit the recces:ion of to distiogui-bed a vlaitat, bat the ease end bowelittem, so to ereak, of her Majesty quickly put ell feeling of that hied to flight, and he proceeded to corer his humble table with the beat cloth be bad; and having handed out a soldier'. tea things," he retired, lcavleg the august lady whit her attendants to njoy her mg.—life:Airs ddvertiaer. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT EDINIIOIOII.-0a Sathrday morning, the Priam of Wales wee pretest at a regi tarataldrill or renew of the 16th Lancer., wheat have bees out for exercise for some mornings past. The prince wore the uniform of a colonel in the army, and while the regiment was being put through lie evolutions, hie royal highness touttatod a trooper's horse, end shared the different soars CIIMIS with the rook and ale. including a treuteudou cterge of cavalry, in which be acquitted himself ae a skilled and !cubes huntsmen. In the evening his royal highness vetted Mainteleturgh (a• he had done on a previous occasion), and on the Links had a little furriest in the newest garage( golf. The ponce was to have visited I Dunfermline on Friday, but, from the very unfavoarabla weather, the visit was postponed. The peace and suite, after inspecting the Abbey sad Palace rums, were to bees vi.iteri toe power-loom factory of St. Leonarde, the prcprr.y of E. Bevendp, Peg. They were else to have proceeded to Broomball, on a visit to the Merl sod Coasters of Elgin. the royal highness and suite attended Divise service yreter• day at HolyrOod Palace, Where the Rev. Mr. Terver, chaplain to rde royal highness, offliated.—Edinburgh Courant. THs AtitHORSHIP OF " ADAM BETlE."—Witit re ferees to the authorship of this recently published book, • kick a• we have already mated, has been attributed to Mies Marian Bear, of Coventry, the Steffordsidre .ddetr fieer rye :—" We have the mere of imowtrig that the work is question was written by Mies Erna, and it will be inte resting to teeny Of our readers to barn Chet the scene of the book is hid In this clingy and the adjoining county of Derby, .Lotunahire representing the former. and Stoney- Alm/ the latter. 'lteddbodune, the place at which Ade= Bede and it. brother Beth (ramed maces, of course) are rid to have resided, la a ploy on Ellesteate, where the real chancier in the book lived, sad whets the grandson cif Maui Bede and Drab Morris. the ferment methodkt preacher, is now Ilving, and, though not following enkily the employment of hie grandfather, is 'tamed in • kindred breach of i rode, and in pore-.ton of many of the eterling TIMMee of hie pro • genitor. Our reader wilt remember—at bast those of them who have hod the pleesure of reading the book—that the vicar was also vier of Birth and rector of Broxton (Crofton), both in the neighbourhood. The character. in the book are drawn from life. The manor-house is will in the heighbourhood of Elliman', and a young seapeo grace, suet se young Denote borne it represeuted to hove been, lived there, and woe c maimed with a snag girl in the neigh tererleoutl, sauce below Moir station, end of le hcee death be was suppoesd to bar been the cause; and the church oleo fa e awing. and the statue In front of it, mentioned in the book. ato be seen at Eliarmse at the premmt time. Surely, Ellaatime end its vicinity will beware factor, and many a tourist pa...tog down the beautiful valley of the Churned s searnh of the pictureeque, will doubtless, turn aside to re the old church in which Mr. Imre preached— to meditate hi the locality where Adam and Seth Bede were bags, end teed, sod did—when Dinah Morris preached free a cot en the Green—where Mr. sad Mr.. Poyeer ilved—the Donnlathornee and Betty —Bartle Merry, the aboolmester, and Chad Crane, the blacksmith, and how Slaty mote, taking the volumes with them, will re-person the incident. that. naersted, on the spot whore they mourned, with increased test and pleasure." CURIOUS FACT.— S ome months ago a son of Mr. Willies* Taylor, of Northyoute Ferro, near this lows, robbed a thrust's nest enatennag 'ones bird.. One of them wee mend by the boy, ad this bird he. never been subject to reetrams, but bee bean adhered free Merry to to where ft pleased. It now lames its cage regularly, and associates with the wild birds woe ad the preemies, In (rawly 'atonal's' borne several tines in the day for food. It slwgs repairs to ft. place of pato s• In Ow memo toiling miasmal care to reach home before dusk. If is las coarse of the day the oagescions menhirs observe' Nte. Taylor in the garden crimes it liaison to her, spreader t o loot op to ter es a Mad ed peotwoing Mead.— If averhaseptee Chronic& LEIGH HUNT. The reading public have been so long accustomed to what may be called the literary presence of Leigh Hunt—have been so habituated to the sight of his name among the books of the day, and even in the columns of newspapers—that the announcement on Monday morning of his death was at first even more a surprise them a grief. It seemed like the sudden withdrawal of part of one's own identity; the ces sation of one of the kindly habitudes of life. We did not consider that, while his exquisite contribu tions to literature were accumulating year by year, the grey-headed worker in the canoe of humanity had long been old. We did not sufficiently reflect that, at seventy-five year@ of age, life becomes a thing of daily doubt, and death a constant proba bility. The admirers of the genius of Leigh Hunt saw his name at the head of frequent articles in the Spectator, and almost forgot that these were the supplements of mars than hail a century of toil. It was in the year 1800, when Leigh Hunt was a youth of sixteen, that his first raw volume of poems was put forth by his father, under the title of " Invisailb&" The verses were as poor as verses written at that time of life usually are; and one can not help being astonished, on looking them over, to think that the writer should afterwards have deve loped so thoroughly original and beautiful a vein. Ills youthful tastes, however, were formed at a time when poetry was at its very worst ; but, as his genius expanded with maturer years. he saw the mistake in which he had been brought up, and, going to the strenuous old Elizabethan school, assimilated a great deal of the spirit which animated it, without, as in the case of Lamb, absolutely imitating the phraseology and external manner. For Leigh Hunt was always emphatically • man of the present and of the future; and, much as he loved to wander and dream in the old visioo-haunted regions of the past— now straying with Spenser through the forests of Ferric, in the company of knights and nymphs—now mounting on the winged horse of Ariosto, and riding deep into the enchantments of Italian romance—at other times ►istening to the statelier utterances of Homer, or rioting in the splen dour and magic of the "Arabian Nightie—it was to him still more natural to interest himself in anything which affected the happiness of his fellow-creatures, and the progress of humanity out of the mists of cruelty and ignorance into the light of love and knowledge. He would at any time lay aside the pen of a poet, to take up that of a journalist, if he saw that • service was needed to the cause of liberal ad vancement, or a cheek required to ►ny form of ram pant toryine. He would quit even Spenser for the daily or weekly paper, th►t tells of the sorrows and the aspirations of the human race. He kept up with the time in a way that was perfectly wonderful in a person of his years. Many a younger man, who had flattered himself he had run through his morn ing newspaper sufficiently for all ordinary purposes of conversation, would find himself in the evening a good deal bebindhand with the journalist who bad fought the battle of liberal opinion in the days of the Itegeney. And it was the same with literature se with politics and social events. If any new work of mark appeared, it was not long before Leigh Hunt lod read it and could discourse • critical account of its nature sad style, with that delicacy of apprehen sion and exquisite freshness of language which made his conversation renowned not only in England but in Arneri.a. Only the very day before his death he requested a friend to read to him, as he lay in his sick bed, • review which had appeared in a weekly contemporary of Mr. John Stuart Mill's new work. Another of his predi lee: ion'. showed itself even nearer still to the close of all. Ile was a passionat lever of music, especially of that which belongs to what may be called the land of music; and only three or four hours before his death, was listen ing with great delight to some Italian airs which his daughter was singing in an adjoining room. He signified his approval of these in a tone of voice so firm and loud that any apprehensions which had been previously felt were in some degree removed but, shortly afterwards, he fainted. On recovering: be said to one of his sons, who was seated by hie bedside, " I don't think I shall get over Oder sad almost immediately peered away. In the union, which we have just pointed out, of an equally balanced love of old poetry and modern principle', we may find the secret of Leigh Hunt's peculiar genius—a genius so fresh and novel, so warm with human sympathy, so various in its range, and so affluent in natural and acquired riches, that it may be said to have added a new piece of territory to English literature. Few writers are more thoroughly original. In his prose essays he began by a singular union of the quiet grace and humour of Goldsmith with the stinging, epigrams Nettie point of Voltaire ; but be soon got beyond these characteristics, and produced, in the Indicator, the Companion, the London Journal, and other periodical worke, • series of essays, quite mutat i ideated in their style, and forming &perfect model for that class of compositions. Though always retain mg his first admiration of the flee-natured Irishman and greater Frenchman who had helped to form his mind, he ceased to be • follower of either, because he possessed a larger range of perception than the first, and a more sympathetic and trusting nature than the second. Asa critic of works of fancy and imagination he has never been surpassed ; and wed* not know where is to be found an essay on pasty more subtle in its analy►is, more clear sad satisfying LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CONFERENCES. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office this morning : ZURICH, Arc'. sr 31, 1869. Private conferences still continue to take place between the plenipotentiaries. For the last three days the representatives of France and Austria have daily conferred together. Yesterday there was a meeting of the French and Sardinian plenipotentiaries. ROME. MARSEILLES, Arover 30. Advicea have been received from Rome to the 27th inst. The Duke de Orammont had held a conference with Cardinal Antonelli on the subject of the re organisation of the Legations. It is asserted that the government of Bologna had dissolved a regiment in which some Mazzini volun teers had attempted to cause an excitement. One French division only will remain in Rome. The garrison of the Pope is on march to Primo, where the troops are being concentrated. An earthquake hid taken place at Norcia; 200 persons were killed and a large number injured; 9,000 of the population are encamped in the neigh bourhood of the town. The Pope has despatched aseistance. CENTRAL ITALY. BOLOGNA, Auousr 30. The elections are over; the greatest order pre vailed. The Aasmbly is to meet on the let of September. The troops of General Mezziozipo have made a movement in advanoe in the direction of Cattolica, and have been replaced at Bologna by Tuscan troops. Count Reiset and other representatives of foreign states have arrived here and were present at the sitting of the Assembly. Fresh arrests have taken place here. NAPLES, Avocrer SO. SWEDEN. Accounts from Sweden state that the government is preparing a bill relative to the extension of reli gious liberty, to be presented to the Diet of the king dom, which is to meet in ►utumn. A somewhat similar measure had been brought before the last Diet, but was rejected by the privileged order of the nobility and clergy. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. (3T ILICTIIO TILIORLPI3 CYNOM 001 OWN 00INZGIPONDINT1 !SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNWIDAY. Arrived the Veotis, with Peninsular mail, from Lisbon on the 27th. She but brought specie amounting to about 7,6001. Her Majesty's ship Dover was at Lisbon. The Cartes will open on November 4. Scarcely any wine will be made in Portugal this year. Exchange on London, 30 days, 52&; 90 dap, dn. NAPLES. A Naples letter, of the 23rd, gives some account of the departure of the Swiss troops : At en early hone In the morning 1,729 Swim soldiers and 48 officer', ell belonging to the 4th regiment, marched through the city to the areeoal. They had their DI MS and baggage, with the Swim Sag displayed, and were headed by their band. Pour companies of Neapolitan merinos were drawn up at the sireersal, to whom the Swiss delivered up their &roe in the mast perfect order. By way of prudence, or rather from mistrust, other troop., all with their musket. Ideated, were kept concealed In the enamel, but the pnatieutiou war muse. cowry. Each SIISIS soldier, after having delivered up his arum, received by way of indemnity • veer's pay entermffing to SS ducats (2460 The Olken who scald sot claim a pension (after 20 'ears' service) received three months' pay end their travelling expense". Three midiers received their money in full before embarking in two =teems% vowels, which were taken in tow by the stains frigate Vele& Other departures will take place at Intervals, In order sot to cause too many to be at Mar seilles at the tame time, as the railway can only convey 540 a day. The same letter says : Much excitement Is canoed among the people by the high price of corn, and the government has just given ars for the purchase ahroad of 190,000,000 &mate' worth. Several Tenets laden with Latex t have arrived from Sicily. This winter these will be again the rad spectacle of bread bele, distributed to the people. Would it not be • better policy, instead of allowing them to remain in ignorance and Win net, to give them employment which they stand in need of, and which might be supplied by the creation of great public worke, which are everywhere called for in the country t PRUSSIA AND POLAND. A Berlin letter of the 2Gth nye : The opening of the new railway, oonstrueed by the men =se of the Warsaw to V..ena and the Upper Silesia lines Kattowtts on the Upper Silesian Hoe and &rub- Kowice on that from Warsaw to Vienna, tcok place the day before yesterday, In presence of General Gortschakoff, the Governor of Poland, mod M. Von der Heydt, Premien Minister of Commerce. This new line will establish a direct annumnimit too which hes tong bran want-d between Pm's,. and Poland. At Zomb-tiooice the Prussiut minister was received by the General-Governor, and a col lation was served up in the waiting-room of the station, handsomely fitted up for the occasion. At the dessert Genenil Gorh•chrikoff prvpoesd the health of the Ring and of the Prince Regent, which wee replied to by the Prussian Minieter proposing that of the Emperor of RIIRRia. After the collation, the distingulehrd company entered ihe carriages and proceeded oree the line to the station of &movie', on the frontier of Poland, where the clergy gave the solemn benediction to the new Her. The journey and ceremony on- espied savers, hours, after 'Mott a grand dinner took place, when the usual toasts were interchanged, and the afternoon was pawed in the greatest conviviality. At night Noma Ilertschaltuff returned to Warsaw, and K. Von der Heydt to Hata. RUSSIA. The Russian government (says a Warsaw letter) has given orders to demobilise the first three corps d'armee placed under the orders of Prince Gorts chakoff. This return to a peace footing has not been effected by a ukase, bat by special orders from the Minister at War, and it seems to be the present in tention only to reduce the number of horses in the artillery and waggon train, which ',revery numerous in the Russian army, and so far as present informa tion goes, that reduction is to affect only the three corps d'armee in Poland. The Constardioiseel, at rather a late date, pub lishes the letter. of M. Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo on the amnesty. It also gives place to the following extract of • letter addressed by Y. Proudhon to the Obsertestaor Belie. M. Proodhon, it will be remilecled, was oondeumed to fits and Imprisonment for the publication of Die book, "De la Jnotice dams l'Eglire et dens Is Revolution," but be fled, and took refuge in Belgium. "Shall I now exi.reee my views of this tamesty, %Rh regard to which so many suppwitiona and protests have been expressed f Everything is known by what it contains and what it omits. That the conqueror of Solfetino and Magenta should amnesty the enemies of his power is easily understood ; he now considers himself too firmly established to hey. says thing to feet , from those near him or from those who me far of Boa that the Pacificator of Villefranca should not have atnewthd those who km been condemned as the enemies of the church, Is will more easily understood. Tetuguil as to the tutus* of hi. own dynsety. Napoloon 111. is for from helot eqsalls metals ea to the wearity of the Holy Bee, and the Perpetuity of the church. This Is the reason why Y. Erdaa, M. de loceitse, myself, and so many others, have been excluded fmm the emeesty. Perhaps I stu wrong; perhaps the letentinns of the Emperor have not been underamod, and that the learner of the decree, through stupidity or male...teem, has thought proper to do Minos only by helmet. I should minim t find it I should like to haw whether Napnb on 111. 'imaginee that he has cosi gners:l for both—for the chord. and for himself. I roams I should like M visit France, to see whether It is so jimuitirieed aid coaled es it is supposed. Yee. I should go even at the risk of Wig onnamoned again f v an outrage upon public OfientiOyes—P. J. PIOODZON." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. mow ova owx coaalaroxpaxr3 PARIS, TOIESDAT Evawixe. Although the Zurich Conferences progress " like a fly through a glue-pot," the prospects of the Italian canoe seem brightening. I am 'aimed its well informed quarters that the restoration of the original dukes is looked upon here as utterly hopeless. As to new candidates, we learn that the cabinet of St. Petersburg repudiates the ides of putting forward the young Duke of Leuchtenberg ; and the sup. porters of Prince Napoleon appear to have been so snubbed, that all uneasiness may cease on that score. The Constitidionnel says : The government of the Emperor, faithful to its promisee, has aildnused words of reconciliation to the three duals,. It has not yet abandoned all hopes of moms ; it will not weary of its efforts; and to the last will labour at its disinterested mission. But if it fails in the end, what will it do ?—is the question eeked with strange per sistence. Do not the services just rendered by France to Italy entitle her to offer something more than advice? Older., perhaps, and soon threats, followed up by action? No. Prance is not a gendarme in the service of prism against peoples. Shs seeks to re-unite them for their mutual benefit; she has no thought of using violates to one or the other. If at Rome an army of occupation fulfils the mission of protecting the Sovereign Pont f, it is that at Rome wo find not merely an Italian prince in presence of his subjects, but it is the Pope, the father of all the faithful, whose tran quillity and security we have to secure In the interest of France as of Italy herself, and of all catholicity. • • • In a weed, Italy owes se her independence, and we will not take away to-morrow what we gave her yesterday. A deputation from Modena is expected in Paris. The Marquis Fontanelli, well known here, is one of the members. I hear on good authority that a relaxation of the pram system is under serious consideration , one change spoken of is an extension of the right of pub lishing a journal, by either greatly reducing or alto- gether dispensing with the caution money nowexasted. The fact is, the Imperial government can have no great reason to dread a moderately free press, so long as there exists not contemporaneously with it a free representative assembly; whereas there was some danger, lest the too great tension of the situation, provoked by the system of warnings and suspen sions, might have resulted in the snapping of the cord. A village core, M. Combe-Dalmas, has written to the Sièc le in defence of the temporal power of the Pope. His line of defence is, that there are other countries besides Rome in which the temporal and spiritual powers are united in one person. He in stances first and foremost Queen Victoria, whose authority, according to him, is exercised in a much more dangerous manner for English consciences, than that of Pitts IX. He of oonne omits to state, that while the Queen of England claims to be Defender of the Faith in her own do- minions alone, the Pope of Rome exacts the spiri tual submission of the temporal subjects of other monarchs. It is perfectly notorions—to speak only of France—that the French clergy, in pursuance of the maxim " divide et imperil," regard their spiritual allegiance to Rome u the great source of their power and their comparative independence of tie head of the French government. The unpardon able offence committed in their eyes by the firebrand author of the "Question Romaine" was that he hinted at the propriety of a transfer of the head quarters of the Galilean church from Rome to Paris. " In other words," said Louis Veuillot, reviewing the book, "M. About offers the papacy of the Gal ilean church to the Emperor Napoleon 111., in which hierarchal system he would probably himself become a cardinal," &c. The customs receipts for the first sevea months of the year are published. TAO result is an increase of 387,813 fr. for the same period upon 1857, and a diminution of 498,220 fr. on 1838. Owing to the re establishment of the sliding scale, the foreign trans- actions in cereals for the month of July have con siderably fallen off. The movement of the month of July gives a gene- I sal increase of the metallic circulation to the amount of 41,947,060 fr. The stock of goods in the depots is generally below that which it was at the COMM. ponding period of last year. Scarcely any business doing to-day at the Bourse. Arrangements are said to be pending for the intro duction of the system of assessors to the agents de change. Sone business was done for cash in Aus trians and Stobilier. At the cloys Renter left off heavily, at 35fr. 80c. for the account said 691 r. cash, being afa of 30c. for the latter and 10c. for the former. relit Moteher, 822 fr. 50c. THE AMWAY FRIGATE N0T4124. The nierehants of Trieste are about to give a grand banquet to the tiMeees and members of the scientific commis sion on board the Novara. A number of foreign savants are to to invited. The Press of Vienna makes the fallowing remark. on the voyage of circumnavigation just completed by the frigate:—" We now know the sorry results of this commercial expedition. Such great things were expected from it that the report now before our eyes produces quite a comic impression. We can only admire the frankness with which M. rebel gime an account of his proceedings, and we are unable to resist tee desire of giving a summary of his report. It was in the spring of 1847 that M. Fabel, then accredited in the tropical regions of South America sa the agent of the Austrian nousescturing and commercial in terests, embarked en board the brig Caroline (returned a year einca), accompanied by the Novara frigate. The enterprising sect, who had token with him considerable collections of patterns end sampler, Worms ua how, on striving at Gib miter, he did not even attempt to show them, because he had too little time, and the Austrian consul (an Eogliehman) was too much engaged in other business to help him. At Ma deira, as at Gibraltar, the patterns were not even landed. The tome thing again occurred at Pernambuco. At last, when he got to Bahia, M. Fabel organised an exhibition of his patterns, but he was informed that many of the articles which he had brought were already well known in that =rats, and so be continued his voyage. He next went to Rio Janeiro. wherethe President of the Council of Ministers plead mercer& at his disposal for the exhibition of hie geode, but he had to wait six ws eke before the carpenters had made the necessary steeds; at lost, when everything was randy, and matters seemed to be in good train, the commercial mike cams on and spoiled all. M. Fabel accotclingly took his departure for Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. leers, too, he found himself in the very same predicament, for the commercial crisis patalyeed everything lite businers. After all these enhadventorea M. Fabel tell dangerously ill and narrowly camped with hie fife. On hi. reeovery he came home, and as the result of the expedition he brings os the mat magni ficent fiasco Imaginable, as our readers must have sem by what precedes. We really sympathies with him In Ida eafferiegs, but we Mom that at some (stare time the Aso. Was export trade atll find room fortunate representatives than M. Fabel. We have beard nothing yet about the cost of this luckless expedition." The Journal des Debate is the only Paris newspaper that km been (lever enough to avoid a warning, notwith standing its known adherence to the House of Orleans. The Siècle has been warned three Unite; the Ccnititiaioneil twice La Ficus twice; the Patric twice; the Uniceri twice; and the reinsinhag papers at least once. Even the railway paper has not escaped. . -• The Nome, the Punch of Florence, hem exhibited Prince Poui►tosnki lolling on an armchair, whilst the Gr►nd Duke of Tuscany, the Duke of Modena, and the Duchess of Parma are all ornployed in removing the nails from his shoes. In the Fiorentino dialect, debts ars familiarly called Mai 4 sails We learn from Rome the death of Cardinal Fal co:3er', Arobbiebop of Ravenna. The deceased wee born in Rome In 1794, sea; was consequently nearly slaty-aro years of age. Ile was invested withthe purple by Gregory XVI., in 1838. Loss or THE HERON.—The second tauter and toter sutvivors of the crew of her Sfeirsty's steam sloop Heron, in accordance with Instruction• received from tho Admir.liy, left Woolwich docky.rd yesterdsy, sod proceeded by railway to Portsmouth, to be lounined u witnesses at an official iaveselgatiou wh.ch is ordered to take place on board the Victory Hapship, before the Admiral in commend at that station and ether officers.