The Express. — London, England, 1859-09-15 00:00:00

that our men were slaaghtered helplessly as they floundered with their dripping ammunitirminditehes, or fell oa their teem la the mod. The at& was came, no reiafoecements ooald be spared, . Asi g a wn was no chance but to fall back and take Vs the beats. The retreat under cover of the few r;ouboura that re. utilised afloat was itself an °pent .on fall of difficulty ea that treacherous ground, and under the gathering darkness, but it was scoomplist•d with payout cedar sad discipline. Hardly • .gunboat," says the re port, "was sot disabled," tad the most disabled bad fought until they were stranded or sunk. The disaster was ornapleto ; and the retreat we may be rare was bitter. But we at home know well that never was an action more desperately fought, or more splendidly sustained. At the same time we are bound of course to cast about for whom to blame. The trea:hery of the Chinese can hare taken no one by surprise, for Lord Etztx himself had distinctly foreseen its probability when he recommended that an imposing squadron EPEES". 1 rES DAY, SEPT. 15 should attend the Ambassadors. The somewhat HARMONIUMS -NNW MODICL. RSA IA ma 0... mi. SIMMOOSIBL :bt erimetsfc• TO COILLISPONDINTS. &rigorous taturled "The Nryper." Leader d 'rare rarer rem hs m n. Oft% lig Mia toderinil. Of Iwo 1 sr dr lola Pabilmisa. lIMU LE PAT . OF UT LITIL-TIM L a et? ° Aiwa . I, :t Trout- AM far.. -OCT Or SA RAMA/MILL BRITALLIA Too invvvv, LALVLA._ Lf. W. CON•AIo * . L —A V OCA L T , lO. MIX LINT. lb. J. adv.A.,—TOl tyr Mmes. LoyalliL Lim Ma lb wag ; aftLY —*NJ TM A 17101111 DIAZ'S& 1101 oasts aT UM= 111141D01 Vagaise: confused stories of a message from the Imps &l Government haring been sent too late, desiring the Aube: sadors to take another channel which was afterwards found to be inaccessible to ships; of the four having been cee riveted without the sanction of the Government by a Sfongol chief to whom the EMPEIWE was ander obligations ; of a friendly letter being despatched the wrong way, and purposely delayed on the passage; of the stakes and booms having been thrown across the river by the local population against pirates; all these Mirerable contradictory invention. are mere Chinese moonshine, imbecile frauds, not worth a mourn'. credit. But whether the reconnaissance Mart of our linden must Man a lively reoollec. I lion of that greet Review at Spitbead, at the close of the Heenan wee, whoa every tree Briton woe unable to disguise • feeling (which, indeed, was pretty loudly expensed by many afloat end ashore) of die appetenseat at the fact that all this magnificent dis play was nothing more this the rehearsal of • grand nastiest drama what was not to be performed. Still, the exprietice wu worth all the petty miseries of passing a sight in the streets of • seepert town, aad the impossibility of getting ear thing to tat. For Mere was the array of frst•rates end frigates covering four leagues of sea ; there was the procession of steam line•or battle ships led out to tea by Her MAJESTY ; there was the sham fight, making pleasure boats jump out of the water re'les away ; there tires the feet of Gann steamers ; and above all there was the gunboat squadron, which for weeks pest had buzzed about the placid Solent, and made the anchorage at Hyde a raging wasps' nest. These gunboats were the terror, the wonder, the delight of the British public, who took to the water with ell the hereditary enthusiasm of an Island-people on that memorable day of the Review. The figurative vocabulary of Cockneydom was exhausted in epithets of admiration and affection, as the excursionist stand from sunrise to sunset at those rough-and ready, dare-devil, "varmint" secants of the waves, with their long low bodies, their grinning eye-teeth, their eager, restless look of mischief. One spectator from the neighbourhood of Charing-arose compared them to Hansoms for their reckless driving and neck or-nothing steering, backing, and turning sharp on their keels, and ready to run over anybody or any. thing without pealing to pick rip the pieces. A sporting gentleman from a midland county declared they were more like • pack of dwarf foxhounds than anything in natur', and capitally whipped, too ; but all agreed that they were " precious awk ward customers," and that 'twos a thousand pities the game was up. The question was, not what could they do, bat what could they not do ; handled by men who could almost make them speak, sad pat them through all the tricks of the "inside and outside edge." But there were others who shook heir heads, and declared that the gunboats could never make a purge, and that they were only fit for service on a lake. Well, by this time we know what those little imps of mischief—with their tuned up notes, and their hissing, snorting, kicking, and plangiag satire= do, wh and wherever they are wanted, all the world over. No muter °orrice has ever been performed, even by British hips, than by the pick of that gunboat 'qua drou, near and dear to the residents of Hyde in 1Q38; and whose very names spoke wooden for the inventive genius of the Admiralty. There are not wanting tolerable judges who believe that naval warfare will become more and more an affair of gunboats 111 the science of gunnery le developed, and the: big slips will do racy little more than represent their nation with dignity. However this may be, the Chinni waters have suf ficiently attested during the last three years the vigour tad efficiency of British gunboats, com manded by men in the prime and flower of manhood, who never beard of such • word u difficulty, except as something to be overcome, or of danger but as something to be sought for, and u a prize of the hap piest fortune. Lord ELGIN'S Blue-book tells us here, there, and everywhere, what these gunboats and the pliant fellows who man them are made of. There is literally nothing—from going through the eye of a needle to engaging a line of forts single-handed— which • gunboat will not perform. Will anybody pretend that it is unseasonable to talk of gunboats, jest when the disastrous tidings from the mouth of the Pei-ho hive struck as with a sad surprise, and indignation ? If there be any objector so churlish, all we sea say to— w@ pity him. For never was the pluck and mettle of this particular service, in which the most briniest of oar losing officers are trained up in the way of glorious traditions more conspicuous than is this terrible disaster at the mouth of the Pei-ho. We will venture to say that neither our gallant allies nor our cheery and helpful cousins are inclined to hold British sailors cheap, attire witnessing the exploits of the " Plover," the "Lee„"the"Opooram," the "Cormorant," and the rest. Gunboat service in active operations, is nothing less than • service of forlorn hopes, though to the gallant men engaged it is nothing more than • game of skill tad dung, with a pleasant dash of luck. We coolers we ere an ',ions to insist on the high quality of this , pert:ens service at • time when • signal calamity has thrown a momentary shadow on our Rag. The attack oa the forts of Take, and the toning of the booms and stakes, the bars and chains, across the river, by Admiral Hottr: squadroo, appears from all amounts to have been one of the most desperate actions on record. From daylight of Saturday, the 2.l'h of June, to the &neer hoar of the ship,' mini panic', the gunboats were clearing a passage through these formidable barriers, and working, it should be noticed, in • narrow channel with a strong ebb tide. Some were aground, others towing off—all of these booms and staker, of these mud forts, and ' above all of the banks of the stream, had been suffi sent to enable our forces to act with discretion and decision ii another question which at this moment, we confess, we are not prepared to answer. Lit us rather for the moment, while the wounds of this lamentable though not inglorious night are still fresh and bleeding, and while the re tribution that must come is still far off, do justice to the brave old Admiral, who, twice wounded, and with two gunboats in ancosseloa all but sunk under him, still gave his orders as he lay upon the deck ; let is do homage to the old undying heroism of our darling service; let us avenge the fallen, reward the survivor., and pay a tribute of recognitioa and respect to our brilliant souirades under the tri-colour, and to the hearty goodwill of our American kinsmen. Wa are glad to be able to report to-day the first steps that have been taken for forming • Com •ittee to serve as a centre and medium of that active end warm sympathy which Englishmen feel in the cause of Italian freedom, and in particular in that of Central Italy, lammed from so =soy points at this moment. The offers of generous insistence on , the part of individual Englishmen which we end oar contemporaries have recently published would have justified the Italian patriots who have taken the business in hand in moving in it before ; bat they have been restrained by en honourable deli cacy. Every one of the gentlemen whose names are subscribed to the letter to the Ea'! of Stisrres- SUIT has established a title to represent his country's cause. Signor AVCSANT, we may mention, received the capitulation of the Austrians at Venios in 1848. The noble letter in which Lord SHAFTESBURY approves their proposals will fled an echo throughout England His lordship was among the first io this country to recognise the immense importance of the emancipation of Italy and was the steadfast friend of her cause et a @Asia when, owing to an unfortunate combination of circumstance*, her real friends were few. In the attitude and demeanour of its people In the actual possession of freedom, sack es he hes drawn them, he and all who 'toed by Italy now find theirjestification and reward. We hope to be able to publish imme diately a list of the proposed Committee, so that no time may be lost in utilising the resources which await its appeal. sot bat stud; no to Ito ant jammed up, as it were, into a eciener,and ocaroely able to turn. Meantime on shore the mud forts,all screened and silent, made no sign of threat or warning, until the Ai,NittiAt. himself in the Plover was close within the second line of stakes; and than, in a twinkling, the mats fell from the embrasures and a tremendous fire hegan. These mud forts were constructed and tbees eurtaieed batteries worked with a skill and rapidity, a weight and precision unexampled, and we cannot be surprised at the sodden exclamation of the sailors that these Chinese guns were served by foreign adventurer', " Ronehiana,"er Yankee out laws. It was not until more than half our squadron was ashore, or sunk, or disabled, that the enemy's fire siarkvned, and the order was given wind and storm the forts. But hers it was that so many of oar brave min were dawned to fall. Whether the 'wend had beta fairly reconnoitred, or so', vihather no securer landing plane was avail able. it appears that oar forces bladed on • beach of *huh they seek knee-deep under a mur &mu. bter it ;plicate !hit.t neither the Detain IftWara MO t h e !attire weld be got to the frost, TIM 'IMPRESS, THURSDAY EVEN* ; SEPTEMBER rat 3212781 H ASSOCIATION AT 4J .......... THE panicz comenrs SPEECH. ABERDEEN, WinNnewr 'Mum. The twenty-she* annual Iseedog of this %Welt associstka yes mammal this maw In Ow Vow Maio Hell--e Am we Balm of mbisli this tuella pews a brlllisat 'al stupsoises orabg. The halt, whilt la opp;lits ;11 hottlfag tally 2,0 W, wet reprial la every prt by ridlesteeily the mien ilielierdeliel art rod laahlosable terysety ere arambled is the sorb . Irked, so peat tree the darred dr asessiatat tithed of ristreloa that tier WWI we rend shoat rid ley. The bedroom et dr reeties antral at half-pert 8 dark, rhea Palmas' Ow lug, the reline or the arerier dor dr the bet battiest, haregresau by rematta, va cated that rhos. His &opal Klemm the Pantos CONSORT trek the ober amidst sathewisatio applause,. Tbs chin bash( subsided, his royal blihusis bens his address as follows : Gentiorsea,—Your kind Invitation to DM to undertake the allot of year presidoot for the enlea'ag year owl(' - The Wei Faiths mishit wham occupies—this mot aumber of a - tbireilheli MN who labour in the sacred win rid whom sthieveamis, while spreading inamorata* Imendts, justly attract the admiral/a of mankind, ocednatri grengty fa my mind with the conscious*s of my own ktedgnificesees In this respect. A simple admirer of science to asks the piece of the chief spokesman of the eaientillo men of the day, assembled in (urbanism of their important objects—the thing appeared to um Impossible; yet, on raise tics, I came to the conclusion that, if not as a enntributor to or director of your labour., I might still be useful to you, useful to science, by aceeiting your oiler, remembering that this 'emaciation is not a secret co-fintwalty of men j,atously guarding the mysteries of their potashes, but inviting the uninitiated--the p ublic at lar ge --to join them, having as one of Its obj:cts to !Teeth dews those imaginary and hurtful barriers which mist be tween man of science and so-celled sees el preetice; I felt that I could, from the peculiar position In which Provi dence has pieced me la tide country, appear ea the rape 'mutative of that large public which prodta by end admires your exertions, but is unable actively to join le them, that my election waa an act of hineity on your part which to reject would have looked like fold humility—orat Is, like prlds—on mine. (Warm apple's's.) But I maenad further, end saw in my acceptance the met, of which neeseserliy so dm are offered to her Majesty, of testifying to you through the instrumentality of her husband that your labours ere sot unappreciated by your eon—(lised appkase)— and that she wishes her people to know this se wall es yew-- salve'. Guided by thee, redsolione, my shako wee speedily made, fur the path of duty Lye straight before me. (Cheers.) His royal rgheaes then geld a high compliment to Professor Owen, dialling to the was field for study, more particularly to the geologist, the north of Scotland afforded, remarking on the beseticiel and ha portant induances of science, end the consequent good a meeting like the present conferred on human kind. Alts pointing out In eloquent language, which drew forth fre quent applause, the objects end advantages of science, the prince noticed the gratifying fact that the arsociation bad met with the liberal patrcnage of the public, and 'expressed hie satisfaction that these should exist bodies of men who brought the wants and claims of science before the public sad the government, who will even hand round the begging box, and expose themselves to refusals and rebuff. to which all beggars are Uable—(Lughter)—wah the mull-ay, be , ales, of thing coasidered great bores. Please to recoiled (said his royal highness, amid renewed laughter) that this specie" of bore le a mod useful unreal, well adapted for the ends for which nature intended him. Having noticed the great genius and labours of the great Humboldt (the anniversary of whose birth, by a dopier col-tcidencs, happened that day) his royal highness thus concluded : Philosophers see not vain theorists, but essentially men Of practice; not osnceited pedants, wrapped up In their own mysterious Importance, but !ramble Inquirers after truth, proud only of what they may have achieved or won fur the general use of man. Neither are they daring end presumptuous utthelievers—a character which ignore ice has LeT: INTELLIGENC] ITALY. THE ROMAGNA. The following letter ham been received in Paris from Bologna, dated the 9th inst. : "The illuminations the day before yesterday re sembled those which took place the day of the opening of the assembly of the Romeo States, but the programme of the ftte was more complete. Twelve musical bands were placed in the public squares or at the gates of the town. They were surrounded by the population bearing torches, and they played till midnight. They subsequently united on the grand square and formed a monster con cert. Yesterday, seeing tome hundred persons rush into the oonrt-yard of the government palace, I placed myself at the tail of the crowd. Shortly after wards a post-carriage, which had arrived a few minutes previously, drove away amidst enthusiastic cries of Viva Garibaldi r It was, in fact, Garibaldi. Signor Valerio, the Sardinian deputy, who has been for some time here, took his seat beside him, and the carrage took the direction of Ferrara. Garibaldi goes to inspect the troops at Ferrara, and will probably remain there some time. The coincidence of the ge neral's departure with the despatch of the Chasseurs, of which I lately told you, and with the return of the Marquis Migliorati before the closing of the Assembly of Bologna, had given rise to unpleasant suppositious.. My information enables me to say that nothing has taken place at Ferraro, and that the Aettrians do not appear to meditate an attack. Gen. Fend arrived taday; he has been definitively appointed to the command of the Central Italian league. He will sleep here to-night and will start to-morrow for Catholics, also on a tour of inspection. He was cheered like Garibaldi, and a great many persons remained for several hours in the court of the palace in order to see him. The government here Plods on the defensive, but I know that at the first movement of the Papal troops on the territory of the Legations it would sesame the offensive. Garibaldi would then throw himself towards Perugia, and he believes him self able to make his way to Rome. On the other hand, we have learnt that the Court of Rome hu made choice of Cardinal della Gangs to go to Bologna as representative of the Holy See, in case its troops should be victorious. Cardinal della Gongs formed part of the commission of three cardinals after the capture of Rome." The following telegrams have been received at Mr, Renter's office this morning : somehmas offered to them, who would, like the Titans, storm heaves by placing mountain upon mountain, till hurled dows from the height attained by the terrible thunders of outraged Jove ; but rather the pilgrims to the Holy Lend, who toll on In search of the accred shrine, In search of truth, God's troth, God's laws, as manifested In his works in his creation. (Loud and continued applause.) BtrßveaAwtN Booms thee Ina few words moved, and the LORD PROVOST briedy seconded, a vote of thanks to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, wbioh wee beattily gives, the whole company rising and cheering. The address =spied an hour in delivery. PARMA, PARKA, fiErr. 14. The National Assembly in its sitting of to-day unanimously veld the conetmation of Signor Parini as Dictator. The Aresably further resolved to take into con sideration a proposal to authorise the Dictator to contract a loan, the amount of which remelts 0 be fixed. SARDINIA. TURIN, Sirr. 14. The deputations from Parma and Modena are expected here to•morrow. The members of the Modenese deputation ere : Advocate Muratori, Count Ancini, Professor Zini, Advocate Brizzolari, Doctor Sacerdoti, and Professor Belmi ; and the Parmesan members arc—the Marquis Muachi, Count Banvitale, Maestro Verdi, Professor Fiorrozi, and Marquis The National Guard will be under arms to welcome the above deputations. The Ifunicipality of Como haring informed General Garibaldi of thei- intention of erecting a nonument in of the battle of Ben Fermo, the General het replied at follows, from Modena: The engsgementt which took place in May last in your town and neighbourhood are worthy of being recorded. Greet, indeed, wee the bravery of the riflemen of the Alps, most of whom belonged to your population. now ma I 'apnea my gratitude towards you ? For the little I have done you hays held me op to the edema of Italy and eves of distant nation. Ten years ago, when I had the honour of fighting on the soil of Lombenly, I covered the national banner sub crape, became it had bcen forced to yield to the memoir of the foreigner. That act weighed out my heart for ten years, while I homed to return and fight again on your fields. May God, who hoe fulfilled these hopes, bless the thankful and religions people that has suffered so much. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Tim FISDAY. The Imperial Law Gazette of Tuesday announced that the premium on the interest of the National Loan falling due in the months of October, Novem ber, and December, 1839, has been fixed at 15 per cent. BASK OP EPOLAND.-(TE18 DAY.) This day a general court of the Governors and Company of the Beak of Ragland, and also one of the ge neral courteappointed by the charter, was held at the Bank parlour, Mr. BONANY Donate, Governor of the Bonk, presidiag. The minutes of the last general meeting were confirmed. The Goons/ma-1 have to acquaint the Court that this Is one of the quarterly general courts appoiated by the charter, and also one of the half-yearly meetings appointed to be held by the 12th bye-law fur the making of a dividend. The net profits for the half-year eliding the Met of August, are 638,1891., making the amount of the teat at that date 3,689,0191, and after paying the dividendof 11.10 e. per cent., making the amount of rest 3,034,1341. The court of directors therefore declare that a half-yearly dividend on interest and profits be toads on the sth of Oct. next. of 4L 10e. per cent. Istbout deduction an account of income tax. In answer to a Paorairroa, The Govan:tot said that the additional 41. income to would make a difference to the proprietors, as nearly u possible, of 18,0001.—that is to say, if the additional km penny tax was not imposed the met would be 18,0001. more du% tt was maw. (Hear, hear.) Ths GOVILIVIOI—As the dividend for the present half year ennead* that of the las*, it will be necessary, in con formity with the set of perliarnest, that the same be con firms/ by ballot. I hare therefore to more that this court be adjourned till the 201 h inst., for the put pan of taking the determination of the prop, ietors on the question. The resolution wag agreed to, and the court broke up. The Red Sea telegraph proved of the utmost 'm aim in the unfortunate affeir a( the Northern. But kt its ready aid wash might here elapsed before the disaster amid have been made known either at Seer or Aden, and numbers might have perished in the interim. The 'gents at the several stations have been most assiduous in transmitting messages along tie line. A telegram received at Gibraltar, dated Sept. 9, from a British *maul, safe :-" All Chriatiatts has* asesped from Rabat (Mrroess)." The Bangalore kerald describes the late festivities I. Mysore, when the Maharajah Khrimn i Rajah Wayne completed a Ilindoo cycle, or sixty years of his reign. He was pieced on the tuninud in 1799, after the fall of Strings patent. The old man is etill bete, and able to eft for hoer. at a time on his riles and j-welled throne in pewees et the crowds (estimated at 50,000) who throng his palace. Three pe . .este wee, in their idtlatroas ceremonies, water brought from the Genre, Remeangum, and Ranmsweram. Thouaande of the poor are feasted daily. While itch gift. see bestowed on the Brat:antes, donations of Re. 100 hays be .n met to the prote.tast thumb, 14•. 70 to the Room cathoHc chapel, end Its. 20 to each of the Mehocoodau IIIOOQUOP, Tile Parma Gazette has followed the example°, the Moderns odd., jultroal—it has teklaoed the arms of Savoy over ita title. Pri nos Richard de Metternich is expected in Paris from hie tilt to \lease. Doing hie ebonite the Princess de listnestrh has Len on a shit to the Count and Costars Wslewaki at Etiollea. Prince Stitt:my, son ef the ex-Hospodar of Wal. Licata, has Jug attired at Ham. A Florence letter says There exists in this city a small com'c journal called the dritqvin. For some time post it bee been publiohing asticles, pieces of poetry, and caricatured against the Grand Ducal fatuity. This pub lication sppesred to most persons to to withotti any import ance, bat the govrrnwext has thought otherwise. After a preliminary notioe given by the council of minister', the drle quits has been suspended for a fortnight by the Prefect of Florence. The soothe of the suspension is ibat a lb. journal, In grossly insulting the misfortune, even whoa well merited, of persons who hero fallen from • high mist padti.n, Is oduriwirs t, the civillasikm of the couob7, sad My coutreols• pahiio THE EAST. MARSEILLES, Sem 14. Advice. have been received from Constantinople to the 7th instant. The Sultan nearly lost his life last Saturday. An lonian captain, commanding an English steam tug, drove his vessel twice against the imperial caique, and the Sultan was saved with great difficulty. The captain has been arrested, and Sir Henry Bitlwer has assured the government that the most searching inquiry shall be made in this affair. The Governor of Candia hu sent in hie resigna tion. The smuggling of arms c mtinues there, and • seizure of • bpmb vessel charged with powder has been made. The political agitation in Berrie. 'son the increase. The National Assembly (Skuptschina) has been convoked. THE BARBARY STATES. MARSEILLES, flirt. 14. A menage received from Tunis states that the Bey of Tunis has been snacked with serious illness, and the French physician had been summoned to hie aid. A second message received from the above city states that he had been attacked with erysipelas in the left side, and that hopes were entertained of his recovery. _ - GIBRALTAR, SIPT. 12. Adrian received from Tangiers state that no seri ous disturbances had taken place in any part of the territory of Morocco, and that Sidi Mohammed was on ;march from Morocco to Fez. Sidi Mohammed I had been proclaimed Emperor at Fez, Mequinez, Tstouio, and Arabs, and ha was about to be pro- claimed Emperor at Tangiers. THE UNITED STATES. (DT ZLECTRIC 17.1..Z01APH.) 901:111AUPTON, THVISDAT 31011.R1N0. The screw steamer Bremer, from New York a the 3rd lost-, pawed Horst Castle at 9.55 a.m. SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNESDAT NTOUT. The Saxon* from New Yotk to Hamburg, has wind, with ISO passengers, 267,600 dole. for England ; 126,600 dole. for Fnue ; and 1,000 dolt. for Hamburg. Het advice. an satleipstrl. gOt Court. BALMORAL, Sm. 13. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort rode out yeelseday afternoon, Msjeatra &seer party Mauled the Prises of Wales, the Trimmes Alice, the Rul of Bleu, Sir Owego Orey, sad the ladles end gentleman in welting. Her Majesty end the Prince Consort, the Prfece of Wales, the Prbeceeme Alter, Holies, and Lluirl, and Prince Arthur,. were pretest eta bell given by her 11 ojeety and the Prince Consort to the sillies, keepers, Icc , of the Balmoral and nrighboating primmer. Deepeoebee vele nerved yrrerclay at the Cofoetal-office rem*, Lord Hi CasualsDieser of the loafsa !shade sad the Gomm of Mats. Hie linelimey the Marti:lie d'Azeglio, who erritrod la ham ea Tnaday from 'frit ng Varmint and Vaeoeateas Pasant e Brattlanda, sear limier. tat the %Mai= Lepaina bet 'maim fyr Tar:a, on leave of shame ice a .math or Oa mete. The Doke aed Dutton of Boceleuch have ar rived in tows from rattail the llerquis and 31arati name of Abvaora at Breast Ball, Herta The Duke sad Drachm of Manchester have left Twinges Cagle, *nutty Arta•gb, oa a tour of visit., ea noir to lllmbaltaa Castle, Haatiariaa. The Earl aad Countess of Jersey arrived yesterday Da games In the Lle of Wight, sad will shortly haw lii Kidtneass Park, war Diameter. T►a Bart of Kowa% and Lady Emily St. Lawrence Mee whist at Clariip's Nola, frock Preekkrt. Viscogatess Dowinland family have left Claridgt'd Halal for Baldarrby Park. Viscount and Viscountess 1 ionerails h►ss kft Cterides's Hotel fix Rotberbaco, Ywkstira. Lard and Lady Gardner are passing the season at Rarriedr, Bar baby. The Earl of Elgin left Broom Hall, Donfermline, Moadaysootaieg for &loon% on • ILA to bey 36,041. Mr. Cobden, M.P., pawed through Chester on ►ie Way t., Haws:des Coale, on a vWt to Sr &rphes brotther•lwlry to the Cltexceilor of the Exchequer, 14r. \V. E. Glechkete. At a private meeting of the Edinburgh Town Coursed, bold on Tuesday, It was resolved, with only one dissenting voice, that Sir David Brewster, Prisons! of St. Andrew'. College, s►ould be appointed to the cake of Pile cipal to Edishargli University. Sir David le well ►noes to he a free eherelpms, and it may be recollected that great coatroversy task place m to Ws continuum In the °Mc* of principal attar he bad waded from the established &tech in 1843; list k was Irsind that, haring once takes the test, he could not be ejected. in tbeornfidest belief the, boking to Ide preent occapancy of $ similar akar, the tart would not be applied Amid he accept the sew office, the council km resolved, as thsk lest set of patronage, to innate% ►im. In a letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Yale, 'secretary of lb* Palate Works Department in India, Majw Cremese- Sa aaye the newest Sir H. Havelock objected to the ereeks of a tomb over the remains of his father at the public em mime. Ho himself Ls to have a de,idn papered fa kaglead sad emit out fa execution by Major Croramelis, who lee the maw sad wattle reedy for it. At present the cilia is en cased in en arched vault, and a solid brick &Omen k com pleted op to the posed keel. On Tuesday morning the wife of Dr. Vanes, an spottweery, exiientally 611 frms one of the top windows of • bouts in Soff .Ik•etreit, Data°, :red wee kdl.d. She tuts left a young family to deplore her preitMuro Icer. S!ronft sympathy k felt for Dr, Vance, who le much Winnted and esteemed is this city. A 1; , . .0 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 01011 017 a vu PARIS, WIDMISDAT EVENINO. All men here agree to assign to the Chinese qua,. tion an immense importance, whether it be viewed as to its ultimate oonsequenoes, or its immediate effect of dispelling any cloud which may still have hung over the horizon of the Anglo-French alliance. And, indeed, in the very occurrence now recorded we have the strongest evidence of the importance to the civilised world of this alliance. Let us suppose for a moment that the Pent° outrage had been offered either to one or the other power at a time when the respective governments had come to a rupture. In that cue it might have passed over comparatively uaavenged, in consequence of the in ability of either power to spare a force sufficient for the exigencies of the undertaking. Toe cause of civilisation would then have received a cheek, perhaps never to be repaired. Let these barbarians once imagine that they are able to hold their own against Europeans, and none can foresee the consequences. Again, it is not whispered, bat openly stated here that this infamous treachery is connived at by Russians—mark, I do not say by the Russian government, but by Russians. Thie is a grave charge to publish, so I back my statement by an extract from a letter written from Canton on the 21st July to the Mawr :—" The fortifications were directed by European .engineering. The English even state that they saw Russians on the ramparts. But to admit so serious an accusation there must be further proofs. What appears to be more certain is that the cannon came from Russian foundries. This will not sur prise you, if you receive for truth a report spread universally here that the Remises have just bought an immense territory on the Amoor, which was paid for with munitions of war, 700 cannon forming part of the same." And while these things are occur ring at distant points of the globe, we find nearer home that the symptoms of oriental dissolution are daily becoming more manifest. The governmental incapacity of the Ottoman has been, if possible, brought into stronger relief since the Crimean war. A shock seems imminent between Massulman fana ticism and Christian enlightenment. Everywhere we see the upheavings which foret2ll the overthrow of Mahometan domination. The site, of Russia touching the sick man's heritage are matter of notoriety. Austria has even the audacity, in treating with Napoleon 111., to allude casually to her claim for a legacy tinder the forthcoming will. Who can outsider all these things and not tremble to think what would be the east to humanity of a rupture of the alliance between France and Eng land? I find the same sentiment forming the burden of M. Dupin'e speech to the Council•Genetrl of Carbigny. After giving England some pret.y hard rubs on the score of her apprehensions of invasion— most flattering, he admits, to France—and in spite of her many admirable qualities, and her tetchiness and sensitiveness, he says with much humour : Verily, worthy turners, it may Le said—to borrow a figure of speech from our own miNages—iint in order to lire on good terms with a wife of this dispnition a husband must lave a very good temper. (General and prolonr i laughter among the =sties.) And yet when we have relieved =r eevee of what was on oar harts, we have no halt►tion in decisriog that it is necessary for the good of the entire human race that Fracas ant England should live in her mony. All =lightened men desire to see the elitism's ln teeerilthese two rest nations drawls more and more closely; but let it be pointed out at the same time that this aim.* can only be luting so long as no sacrifice of honour is es motel from one to the other. The evergreen Procureur-General gives much good practical advice to his bucolic audience, and concludes with describing the spectacle presented to the world by France of "a great nation restored to -- - . tranquillity, formidable only to those who shall venture to trouble her, satisfied as she is to enjoy her glory in the lap of peace and libertv." The last word is remarkable, considering the r e gime under which it is uttered, and who utters it. The article in the Itt , Gats concerning the liberty of the press has been naturally mach discussed. Some persons attribute a semi-official character to it, and argue well from its appearance. Others say " it is too good to be true." The plain-spoken Gazette de France admits that although 'tis well to avenge the treachery of the Peiho slaughter, 'tia ill to be obliged to do it in company with England. We are without news of the least importance from Italy. No news is, let as hope, good news. If there were any hesitation on the part of the Emperor Napoleon the new events in China will probably have decided him to see the Italian situation from the English point of view. In a former letter I alluded more in jest than in earnest to the idea of a subscription to redeem Venice from Austria. The &Cele has taken it up seriously, and says to-day : The solution of the redemption of Venice, attacked with such virulence by the ultramonteses, is taken so =oh In earnest that several persons have assured us they an reedy to place their afiings, great or small, at the service of the unfortunate people of Venetia; and thar, If a public sub icription la organised, poor and rich win subscribe In behalf of Venice. Two ladle. have offered a considerable sum. We thank them la the name of humaatty. CIA will take account of the merino, they desired to make. In common with the old Italian difficulty and the new Chinese war, the new singer Madame Vestvali now occupies the public attention. Artistic criticism is here an important function. Men of European reputation are retained for it, their services are highly remunerated, and the elaboration of their work is carried to an extent un known in sober, practical England. The necessary consequence is that, in order to supply the stipulated quantity of weekly " copy," a bushel c f chaff is not nnfrequently employed to surround a single grain of corn, and the real meaning of the critic difficult to divine. This sometimes contributes to a desirable end. French artists and litteraleurs are essentially " good fellows;" and it is needless to observe that troth and camaraderie are often incompatible with each other. Mine. Veetvali is at once a foreigner and a stranger in Paris, so cama raderie is out of the question. Any obscurity which may hang about the various criticisms upon her performance of Romeo mast, therefore, be set down to the excessive ornamentation of the style, and the general tendency of the critics to say too much about everything sal everybody. In pltin language, as fir as one man's opin'on can go, Mete- Vestvali is a fine woman, of unusual height and amplitude of proportions, with a small head, round face, and good•homoured expression of coun tenance. Her air and gestures are quite those of the ruder sex ; bet to assert that she looks like • man is the height of absurdity. She walks and holds the stage admirably, and of all the actors or ac•resses I ever sew, she seems the moot devoid of nervousness. Her voice it a deep contralto, won derfully fine in the lower tone, faulty in the medium and upper notes. See has immense power, but wants sympathy. I cannot imagine her stirring the heart like Malibran and Albaui. Her style is un exceptionable. She is a pupil of lercadante, and has all the best traditions of an Italian school. This is as much as to may it is not the Parisian style. Her acting of Romeo is passionate and energetic, bat she osght to be seen in other parts before she is judged definitively. Her reception does not even border on enthusiasm, though she is decidedly ac cepted by the public. I cannot but think the ad. ministration of the Rue Lepelletier has acted hutily in essolnding a three years' engagement with her, as it seems impossible, frost personal and road causes, that she can shine in female parts, and although she is a very remarkable artist, who, as a wandering star, cannot fail to win golden opinions in all countries, It seems doubtful whether an operatic Dejszet can hold permanent sway over the Parisian public. Madame Vestvart has been variously set down as a Pole and a Hungarian by birth. She is a Wallachian, and, to those whoa it may con cern, her age is twenty-six. There was little activity at the Bourse to-day, but prices were wall maintained. The complete resto ration of relations between the governments of France and England is confidently anticipated. Butes left off at 88 fr. 66a. cash, and 68 fr. 83c. account, being an improvement of 10c. on the latter. Mo bilier, 782 fr. 60e, cub, and 786 fr. swung, being a rise of 7fr. 60e. and fife. respectively. THE REPULSE AT THE PEIHO. This occurrence, and the measures which will be taken by England and Frames in consequence of it, are thus referred to in yesterday's Moniteur By the terms of the 42ed articled the treaty signed at Tien- Tele on the 27th of Jane, 1868, the ratifications of it were to be exchanged at Pekin, and the Walden of Frame and Ragland bad in oontequence left Shanghai to repair to the capital of the Criestial empire, after announcing their departure to the oom missioners of the Chinese government. Having arrived at the months of the Pea° on the 20th June, where they had bees preceded by Admiral Hope, commanding the naval forcer of her Britannia Illejeety, they eadeavoured ineffectually to pat themselves le relation with the Chinese authorities. The entrance of the river bad been barred by stockade/. Admiral Hole sad Captain Trkeult, the egetasikkg officer of the Dttchayla, ware obliged to endeavour I. faros a passage; the I forts of the Nib° immediately opened fire with all their batteries, which had been reconstructed and armed with guns of a long range; the allies, haring an insufficient force at their disposal, did not succeed in silencing it, notwithstand ing the heroic bravery displayed by the English and French seamen and by their officers. After a combat of more than 63er hours three Eceish gunboats wen mink, end 478 offi cers and seamen, 14 of whom ware French, were disabled. Admiral Hope and Captain Tricanit were themselves slightly woundrd. Unable to sustain en unequal contest with forces that had only been combined to serve es as escort to the savoys of FMK* and England, the allies were compelled to retire, and they returned to Shanghai on the 9th of July. The government of the Emperor sod that of her Britannic Majesty are devising measures Is memos for Inflicting eimatisement, end obtainieg all the reparations required for se act se dsgrantly disloyal. PROTESTANT IMMUNITIES IN AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna says that the late decree has been fa. 'curably received by the liberal portion of the population of the capital, and will, co doubt, meet with the same reception In ever y part of the Austrian dominions. llcnorfotth, the Lam millions of protestants, scattered throughout the em pire, enter upon the fall end complete enjoyment of their civil sad political rights, just the same aa the Roman ca tholic", who is many localities had assumed the exclusive permission of the said rights. This decree grants the Protestant Reformed Church the hes and public exercise of all its Miens erremmies. New churches may be erected; the roluistens will have unnstricted freedom in their preaching as wall as in the adminietration of the sacraments, baptisms, mairiagee, &c. The publication of this decree will also produce the beet effect in all the states of the Gennento Confederstion, particularly in those of the north of Germany, where Austria bad lost all her prestige shies the conclusion of the last concordat with Rome, followed by its rigorous execution. The publication of a decree destioed to regulate in a uniform manner, and according to liberal prieciples, religious worship in the Jewieh synagogues in Austria, is also expected. The Jews will also resume possession of the civil and political rights of which they have been so unjustly deprived is Austria; will cease to be excluded from the right of possessing tended pro perty ; and will be aVe to freely enter into any industrial or commercial operwions, from which they bare been hitherto Interdicted in moot of the provinces. In a word, protestants, Greek", united or non-united Jew., and, indeed, persons of all religious persuasions in the Austrian states, will be assimilated to Roman carbolic' in the free exercise of their religion, and in the exercise of their civil sad political rights. THE CONFERENCES AT ZURICH. A letter from Zurich, of the 10th, in the Nord says: 'fhe conference methane' to labour with its enstomsq downer.and without greater moons than before, in its work of pacification, if that word ma be eseploya. The dime don continues sometimes in the apartments of Chevalier Desambrols, sometimes in those of Baron de Bourget= and sometimes in those of Count de Celtoredo, on occasions between two diplorustims, at others between three, rarely between rix. The French pienipotentiary only plays here the put of intermediary or mediator between the Austrian and Sardioian plenipotentiaries. Up to the present moment no agreement has been come to either as to the frontiers, or to the 'hare of the debt to be thrown on Piedmont for the cession of Lombardy. The treaty of Villiefranea set forth the new limits of the frontier between Sardinia and the Italian province which still remains under Austrian domination. But the terms employed are not sufficiently precut to enable an under standing to be come to. Who, for example, Is meant by the " rayon" (district) of Peachier. the expression used 7 This point has been the subject of discussion in several sittings . ; and yet it le certain that the plenipotentiaries ere not yet in accord about it though it appears very imignifieent st a moment at which Europa is occupied with grave and important matters. It appears also that Austria hesitates to Mrs up certain funds and sacred de posits which she carried off from Lombardy. Same of these fonds belong to orphans, and others were deposited by order of coasts of justice I It is said that the Aver clan plenipotentiary in the conference is shoat to bring forward the difficult troblem of the restomtien of the Dukes Ferdinand IV. and k rancia V. This Is the supreme effort of the cabinet of Vienna to prevent a congress, which it dreads more and more. It appear., however, that from the turn events have taken in Italy, Austria, convinced that it Is impossible to make the restoration by force, has no other object for the moment than to cave the principle, and to insect in the treaty of Zurich a clause to the saws effect as that in the preliminaries of Villafrance. Her Wen tier, it appears, is to let things drag on, in order to mile on a favourable moment for effecting the restorieion. Fns that reason she opposes annexation, sad the maintenance of pro visional governments in Tuscany and Modena seems netts eery to her. AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, The African mail-steamer Ethiope, Captain French, has arrived from the West Coast of Africa, with the usual mails, 38 pusengere, 2,326 oz. of gold, 3 packages of specie, 227 masks of palm MI, 156 bales of cottcn, and *general cargo of ivory ! cenewcod, beeswax , Sc. Owing to the kind was of Mr. Pennock, the purser, we are enabled to give the following annenstry of news Utast date—Fermado Po, July 28; Cameron., 30th; Caleb.,, Moat 2; BMW River, 4th; Beals River, July 25; Bonny, Assail 7 ; Lagos, 10th Aecta, 12th; Cape Comet. 14th; Palmas, 14th; Sierra Leone, 22nd ; Bathurst, 26th ; Tensile, Sept. 2; Madeira, s:h. Borne.—The Regents, Illolah Pepple and Manilla, had paid a tine of 100 MIDI of oil, which they had been tined for tiring on a British vowel during the civil fettle. The oil was takes away by her Majesty's ship Antelope, end realised high prices. The Bonny chiefs had asesificed tour of their enemies, and publicly exhibited their heada, after eating the bodice. A haat belonging to the ship Man, if Liverpool, capeind on the let Angled. Fon, men were drowned, but the mate was saved. Lenos..—A boat belonging to her Majesty*. catboat Brune, while bating soundings near the bar, an the 18th July, was cops.se4 ne the high curl. Llentetant Hope, S. J. Hebrew, secundmaster, James Mack, gunnereieniate, and 10 Kamm's, were in the test at the time. AU were drowned except one Kroomen, who, tour dsye afterward', au found 70 mile* off, clinging to the boat, and early dead for want of food end water. It was reported that two Englishmen and a cob ured lady bad also been drowned while trying to reach the Ethiope. Cs anooxc—Boaay Bell, son of the late King. having etiolated four nothings to the memory of his tether, the British consul at Fernando Po, masted by • Speuish vessel of war, made him agree to abolish such an taboo= custom. Accem.—The acting governor, C..losel Bird, accompaided by the Chief Justlce of Cape Coati', and assisted by troops and her Majesty's ship Speak*, had taken the King of Acme prisoner std lodged him in the fort, for promoting the mount distarbuces. Stream Lzons.—The ship Margaret of 421 tom, Captain Smith, from Load en to Ss a, was abandoned is a fiuktig state ea the 27.11 of July, in bet. 6.46 N., los. 5.17 W., has the captain and crew was all Lived in the ship's boats, and managed to reach Sierra Leone on the 30. h July. The ar len came home as • passenger on board the Metope. The steamers Rainbow sad Sunbeam had lathed at the mouth of the River Nun on the 26th July, and were about to proceed up the river in company. Both r f these steamer' are cmneeted with the Niger Exploring Expedition—the Reis• bow being the vessel in which Dr. Livingstone left Liverpool some time ago. had had heat hash ship the the prod) Bogs to 59 695 I Ad portal the el scribe combed mad die TEM An i Vi V akley the dea death in Septeml eireuxoei Mr. J the cue AtW the dens and wbi man," had bees to mew: Septeral misbehe Mr.J Inquest, anted it the c azid gat oceam3s SOUS 111 jury Noe Tho C he :boo{ theta to Th. j, 82 1 (aril verdict o LON/ IIITED). 11,1201.1