The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-14 00:00:00

14 1 2 JAAPPIN BROTHERS. —Established A. a.lBlO CHESTSof SILVERPLATE for theCOLONIES, CUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for FURNISHING. MAPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHERS, 222, RSGENT STREET. BENSON'S WATCHES, 6S and al, Ludote-hill , 26, Old Bond-street. ONE of tho institutions of London is EVANS'S. Suppers and a charming MIJAICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVERY EVEN: NU. Atter the theatres and liellon'a Concerts be rare to aup there. ROYAL PRINCESS'S T ITEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Menovr, Mr. VIMNO.—BUMMER BEASON.— Dears open at half-prat T ; perform:mom contreenoe at B o'clock precisely. EVERY EVENING during the week, a new and Drama. In Three Acta, by With Phillips, Req., entitled Or il l IUGUESOT CAPTAIN. Principal characters:—Mrs. Bik ini& Miss Neilson, Mlts Aumista Thoccpson, Mr. George lime), end Mr. Vining. Grand Ballet of Bohemians, in which Messieurs lilageolet Clodoche, Corinne, and Normand' will appear. New liessery by Mr. Y. ',lords. Ehe erpreos. TO CORRESPOYDENTS. Avertileetsents intended for "The Express," London Womb* Paper, must be at the ( - hike, 10, Bouverientreet, by Two W on the day of publication. PRINCESS'S. Tm Ernmee, THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Meson. nub& sad 0. Hones- Iltsses Nsitsen, Augusta Thomson, atul the 811elbst—And 41TICT LODGING BRITANNIA. .... =ls Erionrio. THE WIFE, A .... OF MANTUA. Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Hell ; lira. S. Mlles.—Mr. W. O. loss; 'Tee Marvellous Martiovttes; Master IL Sanders. And MI DIMINK.4.IIIY3 CHILDEFS. RIMY WATER AT LONDON MD= TM DAY —Nfornlna, 41i. 51m Aftersonn, Bh. TO•KoasOw—Monthig, bh. 24ra Afternoon, 6h. Mlea. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. As the temporal power of the POPE draw' towards its close the reasons urged in its support seem to sympathise with its declining fortunes, and to share the hopeless decrepitude and confu sion that has fallen on the Roman State. In its latest and moat authoritative form the argument for the Temporal Power is developed in a series of propositions, each of which is, if possible, more erroneous, inconsequent, and historically incorrect than the other. We are told that the spiritual office of the Head of the Church requires for its free and full exercise the perfect independence of his person, that this cannot be secured without ex emption from all temporal superiors, that this exemption requires a space of its own, and that to meet this requirement, the providence of GOD has given to the HOLY FATHER, as the space of his independence, the City of Rome and its provinces. In other words, tho argument, or rather asser tion, in its condensed form is, that the temporal possessions of the POPE are essential to the exer cise of his spiritual functions. We fail to see the inseparable connection between the two kinds of power, and cannot understand the grounds on which the possession of the one is said to be essen tial to the exercise of the other. Nor does the history of the Church at all help to clear up the point. Assuming the truth of the state ment, it is certain, for example, that ST. Pyres never exercised, never could have exer cised, the power which, according to the Romish theory, he transmitted to his successors. In the Apostolic age, when Christianity went forth in the plenitude of its spiritual power, and covered the Mediterranean frontier of the Roman empire with its triumphs, neither Sr. Prrea nor any of his as sociates enjoyed that exemption from temporal superiors and that independent temporal sphere which is now represented as indispensable to the exercise of the highest spiritual functions. And for centuries afterwards, during the purest ages of the Church, while it still retained its missionary character, the Bishops of Rome bad no temporal power. Imperial patronage first checked the free exercise of the Church's highest spiritual functions, and in proportion as the Bishops of Rome became ambitious of temporal dominion, and intrigued to secure it, the exercise of their spiritual office was corrupted and depraved, until the vices and pro fligacy of the Roman Court became a European scandal, and the Reformation an ecclestisatical ne cessity. To those, indeed, who remember the sinister means by which the Papal dominions were obtained under successive Pontiffs, and the way in which the Roman Court has used its tem poral power, the assertion that the providence of Goa actually gave these provinces to the Holy See for spiritual purposes, will appear not unlike blasphemy. Again, if the Head of the Church requires for the free exercise of his spiritual office, exemption front all temporal superiors, it is equally certain that no Pope in re cent times has exercised this office, since none has been exempt from external protection and control. If the temporal power of the Pops had not been upheld by a secular arm stronger than his own, it would have disappeared long ago. And the European Power that upheld the Port has always more or less controlled its liberty of action, destroying altogether that sphere of perfect temporal independence which is now declared to be indispensable to the exercise of his spiritual functions, but which, in fact, exists only in the imagination of enthusiastic and simple-minded ecclesiastics. During the past oenturythe Court of Rome has alternately furnished the spectacle of a Pontiff supported by Austrian bayonets, and obliged to negotiate with their Im perial master on behalf of the Romish Church, and sign concordats regulating its position in the Em pire • or supported by French bayonets, and obliged to acquiesce in the loss of his territories and the diminution of his power at the will of his temporal superior. The history of the Papacy thus seems to show that the temporal power, so far from being any help, is a most serious hindrance to the free exer cise of the POPE'S spiritual power. And if we re flect on the elements of spiritual power this is pre cisely what we should be led to expect. The spiritual power of the Head of the Church resides in the loyalty of his ecclesias tical subjects, in the spirit of reverence, devotion, and obedience prevailing amongst the clergy and the laity. If this spirit pervades the Church the Pox-•rirr may exercise his supreme ecclesiastical power without possessing a rood of land or enjoying the coveted but absolutely un attainable exemption from temporal superiors. Dr. MANNINO, for example, is not independent of temporal superiors and secular control. He is subject to the laws of the land in which he lives hut does this subjection at all in terfere with the full exercise of his spiritual office 1 On the contrary, is he not at perfect liberty to discharge in his own way all his eccle siastical functions ? In a Protestant country, surrounded by heretics, he enjoys the most com plete spiritual freedom. There is no reason whatever why the POP; as supreme Head of the Church, should not do the same in a Catholic country. While subject to its laws in temporal THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1866. matters, he would still be ecclesiastically supreme, and might exercise his sovereign power not only to the greatest extent, but all the more freely for his exemption from the secular cares of State. The recent history of the Papacy confirms this view. During the last five years the Pops has lost a con siderable apace of his territory, and his temporal power has been proportionately reduced. But has this diminution at all affected his position or re duced his influence as Head of the Church ? On the contrary, we are assured by Dr. barium; that the striking fact of the last four years is the growing unity of the Church with the Holy See, this unity being at the present mo ment greater than at any previous period since the day of Pentecost. The partial loss of temporal power has thus proved a decided spiritual gain, and it may be assumed as certain that the abolition of the temporal power would still further consolidate and strengthen the purely spiritual influence of the Holy See. It would at once remove the Head of the Romish Church from a false, dangerous, and really intolerable position, and destroy the serious conflict of duties and interests that now tends to alienate from Rome so many good Catholics, including almost the whole laity, and a considerable section of the clergy in Northern Italy. The remnant of temporal power still belonging to the Holy See, while radically incapable of protecting the POPE'S independence, and absolutely useless for all prac tical purposes, is at the same time a chronic source of European disturbance and irritation. At open war with the best tendencies of the time, and a flagrant example of domestic anarchy, the tem poral administration of the Roman State is simply an obstacle in the path of civilization and progress. Every wise and enlightened Roman Catholic will surely desire to see his Church finally delivered from the opprobrium of such a position as speedily as possible ; and no such friend of the Church will seriously identify the spiritual powers of its Head with the petty intrigues and abject depend ence of a tenth-rate temporal power. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Urging that the prosecution of reproductive public works in India ought not to be dependent on the anneal fluctuations of the Indian budget, the Daily Nene pro ceeds to insist that the government of that country should welcome the application of imported capital, and then goes on to protest against the course which the Governor- General has pursued to the East India Irrigation and Canal Company, in whose case onerous and restrictive terms, fatal to all applications of British Joint Stook capital in India, have been imposed. The Tima is very severe upon a Welsh correspondent who complains of its remarks respecting the Eisteddfod- Wales is described by our contemporary as a small country' unfavourably situated for commercial purposes, with an indifferent soil, and inhabited by an unenterprising people. A bare existence on the most primitive food of a moon ts'notus race is all that the Welsh could enjoy if left to themselves. Under such circumstances, what can be more out of place than an exhibition designed to foster satisfaction with Welsh productions and Welsh virtues? All the progress and civilisation of Wales has come from England, and a sensible Welshman would direct all his endeavours towards inducing his countrymen to appre ci%te their neighbours instead of themselves. The Star, on the other hand, thinks that the strong and almost passionate nationality of the Welsh is at least worthy of something better than derision. At all events whether we deride it or not, it will still exist ; nay, the more ostentatiously it is contenmed the stronger and hotter it will grow. The rude contempt of the stronger race for all the peculiar habits and feelings of weaker races bound up with it has raised up at all times some of the worst difficulties in the way of the harmonious operation of political organisations like ours, which are framed out of several different nationalities. We ought all of us to have learned by this time to treat each other's national peculiarities with toleration, if not with respect. Even if we think our brother unwise, we ought to know that calling him a fool will never convince him of his folly, although it may painfully demonstrate our own. the Court. BALMORAL, SErr. 12. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, rode on ponies yesterday morning, in the neighbourhood of the Castle. I❑ the afternoon, her Majesty, with the Princess of Wales and Princess Christian, drove to Caatleton and round the Lion's Face. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Islands, New Zen land, Bermuda, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. Mr. John Bright, M.P., and his son, who have been for a few days past at Glen Tulchan, by Grantown, the residence of Mr. Bass, M.P., are now the guests of Mr. T. B. Potter, ILP., at Pitnamee, Strathtay, Perthshire.— Dundee Adrentser. The Duke of Leinster is expected to leave his residence on Cariton•house-terraoe early in the ensuing week for Carton House, Maynooth. The Earl and Countess Spencer, who are on a tour of visits in Scotland, have arrived at the Earl Cow per's shooting-box in the Highlands. Lord and Lady Alfred Paget are making a aeries of visits in Ireland. The mortal remains of the Prince de Cond4, eldest son of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, were on Wednesday afternoon placed in Miss Taylor's Roman catholic chapel at Weybridge. The chapel was hung and carpeted with black 0-apery, and ;-1 the centre a bier was erected for the reception of the coffin. On the lid was placed a small casket containing the heart of the young prince. Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands has made a tour through part of the Canada provinces. After stay. ing for a day or two on the Canada aide of the Niagara Falls, her Majesty proceeded eastward ; and at Montreal distressing intelligence awaited her. The Montreal Geratte says :—" It was the intention of the Queen to have re mained for some days, but in consequence of the receipt of intelligence of the death of her mother, she had to leave by the afternoon train for New York. "We regret, , adds the Gazette, " that her Majesty was by this affliction prevented from receiving the attention which her distinc tion entitled her to, and which our city would have afforded her." An American paper says :—" The Emperor Ma7M,;lian's European despatch on Tuesday, for the At. lantic cable, to bis wife's France, cost 15,364 dole. in gold, and was nearly 700 words ;n cypher." "We learn," says the Liberti, "that King Victor Emmanuel has just Instituted a new order of ktighthood, to be called the Order of the Lion of St. Mark, according to some—that of the Italian Lion according to others. It is to take rank immediately after the Order of the Annonoiade, which last is only given to crowned beads, members of reigning houses, and generalissimos. The riband is to be red with a peen border." "A vague rumour is current on the Bourse," says a Paris letter in the Independanee," to the effect that the syndic of agents-dc-change contemplates resigning his office, in consequence of the opinions submitted to M. Fould concerning the liberty of the money market, which views the minister is believed to have taken into serious consideration. While, however, transmitting to you this rumour, I must add that I consider it at least extremely premature." Strauss has given 1,500,000 fr. (60,0001.) for the right of giving monster concerts in the Palais d'lndustrie, Champs Elysies, during the Universal Exhibition of May, 1867. He offered Verdi 100,000 fr. (4,0001.) if he would undertake to direct them, but has not succeeded in per suading him to accept the office, which Rossini rejected with infinite scorn at double Coat sun.. M. Thiess is at present staying at the chideau of Franconville, on a visit to M. Roger (du Nord), pre paring notes for a grand discourse on the affairs of Germany. The Sultan has received, vi& Trebizond, a con signment of thirty mwsnificent Arab horses of the purest breed, which he intends, it is said, to present to the Em peror Napoleon and King Victor Emmanuel. The Porte has decided on accrediting a minister to the President of the United States. The new representa tive, whose name has not yet been announced, will leave for Washington probably during the present month. A sum of from 3,000 to 4,000 liras will be allowed for the gross annual expenses of the new legation. VISIT Or THE VOLUNTEERS TO BELOIUM.—The English entries for the TirNational in Belgium are being made at 79, !lasi oghall-street, where Lieutenant Furley, of the 29th Kent Rifle Volunteers, one of the hon. secretaries, attends daily. From the applications already received it is ex pected that at least 400 of our riflemen will enter the lists. Each volunteer must be provided with a ticket which is to be signed by his commanding officer. These tickets will be issued at Basinghall-street up to the 20th inst. One of the hon. secretaries will be in Brussels from the begin ning of next week to give volunteers any local information they may require. The official reception of the British volunteers is to take place at the railway station in the Belgian capital on the evening of the 22nd. On the morning of Sunday, the 23rd, the volunteers will attend Divine Service at the chapel of the English Embassy. This service will have concluded at hall-past 10 o'clock. At 11, there will be a grand Mass for the dead in the Cathedral of St. Gudule, in memory of the Belgians who fell in the revolution of 1830. This is an annual com memoration at which the Belgian riflemen attend. After the ceremony in the Cathedral, the riflemen will moored to the Tin M. Rogier, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Marine, is handsomely supplying the boats for [the transit of the volunteers between Dover and Ostend, so that the land journey is all they have to pay for. On the journey op from Ostend our riflemen will be met at Ghent and Most by the Gard Civique of each of these towns, who will offer them refreshment. SOUTHERN PLowarts. —Mr. S. Parker Coon, at a recent democratic meeting in Milwaukee, de c l are d Mr. Johnson's conduct " greater than that of Washington— it was worthy of our Saviour. By his con duct, Andrew Johnson had placed himself above all other human beings—he was greater than Crew greater than Washington. Bat one per son—find he God—had been tempted as he was and re sisted." In a similarspirittbe Wilanagton(N. C.)Dorg' ruck thus curses Mr. Stanton :—" When his mortal eerier ends, he will hasten below to receive the avenging tortures which have been prepared for him in the infuriated hell to which he w surely destined, where the crack ling blazes are leaping and licking their tongues in joyous anticipation of his arrival. May • just God hasten his departure hence, hasten his approach there, where at last in some small degree the evil he has don* may be properly punished." The Levant Herald also has the following : If the latest Porte rumour is to be believed, the Cretan difficulty is on the eve of receiving a solution which we confess not to have foreseen last week. The Viceroy of Egypt has, it is said, opened a direct negotiation with the Sultan's government for the transfer of the island to himself under conditions somewhat simi lar to those on which be recently obtained the lied Sea provinces of Sonakim and Maasowah. lie offers, our information states, to pay for it an extra taut* of 80,000/. for the first year, no,ootx. for the second, and a successive increase on this sum of 5 per cent. per annum for 15 years afterwards—consenting at the same time to name whomsoever the Porte may recommend to the go. vernorship of the island, its military control being of course in his own hands. This proposal has been so far entertained as to be under the serious consideration of the Divan, and the impression in official quarters is that in substance it is already more than half asoepted. In the meantime, the Viceroy has recalled Chain Pacha, the commander of his own contingent in the island, and replaces the latter by Yahia Pacha, the new Turkish commander. The mission of old Kiritly Mustspha Pacha is nevertheless still to be carried out, and he will accordingly leave to morrow for Canes by the Medjidieh frigate, accompanied by his two eons respectively as counsellor and private secretary. (HIUTZIIII TELLGILLYB.) FRANCE. PARIS, Sam 14. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The Emperor of Mexico had entrusted the Portfolio for War to General Osmond, and that of Finance to M. Friand, Chief Superintendent of the French Army in Mexico. The military duties of these two superior functionaries attached to the army being incompatible with their new functions they have not been authorised to accept them." THE AIISTRO-ITALIAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. FLORENCE, Barr. 13, EVENING. Intelligence received here from Vienna of to-day's date announces that the Italian and Austrian plenipotentiaries are agreed upon all points except the question of the debt. It is believed that Austria will accept the precedent afforded by the treaty of Zurich without restriction, in accordance with the treaties concluded by Austria with Russia and France. The special debt of Venetia will thus alone pass to the charge of Italy, as that of Lom bardy in 1859. The signature of the Austro-Italian treaty of peace is expected to take place in a very few days. THE HEALTH OF KING VICTOR EMIL-0/13EL. FLORENCE, SErt. 14. The King of Italy has left for the Cantle o: Sonimariwa, in Piedmont, for the benefit of his health. His Majesty will retv-n to Padua at the end of the month. DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, SzPr. 13. Intelligence received here from Syria states that the tribe of the Bedouins which had been expelled from Haurar on the 3rd inst., has effected a junc tion with the Di uses. The combined !arms have defeated the troops of the government, inflicting upon them a loss of 10 killed. The Druae chief Ismail Atrach has invaded the Lebanon. 15 Maronites were killed in the attack, and Joseph Karam has been wounded. THE BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, Sam 12. The Masailia and Syria left at 11.30 a.m. to day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 18th, and the latter at Southampton about the 25th inst. The Mamas has 8,0001. and the Syria 91,0001. in specie. GREAT FIRE AT THE DARDANELLES. A letter from Dardanelles of the 28th ult., gives en account of a dreadful fire on the prev:ons night, by which a third of the town was destroyed. The quarter where it originated was built of wood, a strong northerly gale was blowing. Some futile attempts were made to pull down houses that lay in the pathway of the fire, but the extraordinary rapidity of its progress had not been calculated upon, and before the work was done the labourers were driven back, to make a fresh at tempt further to leeward, and ever with the same result. One prompt effort only was crowned with success ; and this was effected by a small band of volunteers under the direction of Messrs. Wrench and Calvert, who arrested the progress of the conflagration at a point where it bid fair to devour every house in the Greek quarter. At midnight the scene was terrible. " The fire had spread in all direc tions, flying before the gale on one side, creeping up to iton the other; great tongues of flame leaping forward, and lick.. ing up the higher dwellings before their time, then swaying right or left as the wind lulled or veered, swerving out of their true path and parenthetically devouring a street till the storm again hounded them on to work of fiercer havoc- At 2 in the morning the fire had burnt itself out east and west ; on the north it had been cut off, and only to the south was there further cause for apprehension. A nar row double line of wooden buildings near the Armenian Church, leading to the Turkish quarter,was blazing fiercely and to cut off the fire before it reached that crowded district appeared impossible. An attempt was made to pull down a house, but the fire came up to the spot, and the firemen were driven to renew their labou•s four houses on, and had made some progress in their work of de struction when it became evident that the fury of the fire was spent, the buildings would not burn. Back then they went to the house they had abandoned half an hour be fore, now in flames, but burning slowly ; relays of men came to the spot, chain ropes and poleaxes were brought into active use, and in a few minutes the burning pile came to the ground, and the train being cut off, the con flagration was at an end. " 441 houses and 139 shops are destroyed, and 2,500 people are homeless. Many of them have lost everything, for those who were in time to empty their own houses conveyed their chattels to some supposed place of safety in the neighbourhood, only to find, an hour later, the sanctuary they had chosen sharing the fate of the dwellings from which they bad fled. Most of these poor people had made their winter provisions of grain and charcoal, and it will be impossible for them to replace their store before the cold weather comes upon them. Very many of them have lost their wine -vats, and the vint age is at hand, so that their hopes from that source are destroyed. Above all, comes the important question of shelter ; for even admitting that some will migrate to neighbouring villages, there will still remain a vast number of houseless folk who cannot leave the place, and for whom there is literally not stowage room, far less dwelling spites. The following is the official return:— Turkish houses 71, shops 12 ; American houses GB, shops 47; Jewish houses 192, shops 72 ; Greek houses 112, shops 8: total houses 441, total shops Ll 9, besides 3 mosques, 1 khan, and 1 public bath. The Jews are the heaviest losers ; in fact, the Jewish quarter is now reduced to 15 houses. Hallovaituu LOYALTY.—During the discussion in the Prussian House of Lords on the incorporation of the states occupied by Prussia, Baron von Biesche-fgreithorst, who is chamberlain to the King of Hanover, made the following declaration :—" I wish to make the following declaration : I cannot admit the right of conquest which pretends to give to one prince the right of turning another out of his country and seizing his throne. I cannot admit the right of the representatives of Prussia and of this chamber to decide on the fate of these states. By my territorial property, I am at once a subject of his Majesty the King of Hanover and of his Majesty the King of Prussia. I have taken an oath of fidelity to the one en d to the other ; and I therefore solemnly protest before God and tkis high chamber against the incorporation of Hanover. Zven should Hanover now yield to force, it well always remain faithful to the reigning family, and will place its. hopes in Gol, who always helps when He thinks right." This pretest, says the Natiowed Zeitung, was listaseid to In profound silence. MR. LYRE AND HIS ADMIRERS. The Times would find a via media in the contra versy respecting the character and conduct of Mr. Eyre. Putting aside the general classification of characters into good and bad as unphilesophical, it comes to the conclusion that while there is much to admire in Mr. Eyre, there is, on the other hand, much that is difficult to palliate and impossible altogether to condone. The two greatest thinkers of the present day, Mr. Mill and Mr. Carlyle, the two men who, in their gatoration, have probably exer cised the most permanent if not the most immediate in fluence upon the national mind—have rushed into op posite and equally unphilosophiml extremes. There is no atrocity which might not be justified if Mr. Carlyle's rhetoric was sound, and the suppression of revolt had only to be vigorous and prompt without its being necessary to consider whether the punishment was proportioned to the offence. The Times feels sure that the common sense of the general body of the English people will prevent their either looking upon Mr. Eyre as a criminal, or hold ing him up to future ages as a model for" wise imitation." The Daily Nem has the following :—General Mouravieff —a name at which humanity shudders—is dead. The journals of Europe are doing justice to his sanguinary memory, and passing the sentence of history on his terrible cruelties. We thank them. There was a time, not long since, when British journalism was free to join its voice with theirs in reprobation of crimes against humanity, wherever committed. But we have now our owe Mount' vieff, who in Jamaica, without the excuse of a formidable Insurrection like that of Poland, far surpassed in the wisdom's's of bloodshed and torture anything that was ever alleged against the Russian governor. And our English Mouravieff is at large, not only unpunished, but honoured with fetes and testimonials ; the nobility of the land seek his company, and sages come forth from their retirement to crown him with praise, and hold hint up for imitation. In these circumstances we have no denuncia tions for General Mouravieff. Tho Herald is delighted with Mr. Carlyle's exposure of " the imposture personified by the Jamaica committee," and repasts the various paragraphs of his letter with sym pathetic comments between. AosicuLTras. The Times, in the present lamentable aspect of our fields, asks whether mechanical genius cannot aid us in the diffi culty. Grain, it appears, b now extensively dried, and brought from bad condition into good by currents of air forced through it by steam power. The Austrians have adopted the plan in their Italian fortresses, and it has been lately introduced into our oorn warehouses in this city, at Liverpool, and elsewhere. Surely the same process is applicable to grain in the ear, though it would probably require to be laid shallow and exposed to a very rapid cur rent of air from a ventilating fan. All that would be necessary would be just sufficient dryness to allow the ear to be threshed, when the grain itself might be subjected to a further process, and found to be perfectly effectual. The Post suggests that much of the anxiety is due to the readiness with which millers and bakers raise the price of ' breed on the least pretext, and to the gloomy views to which from habit agriculturists are prone. The barometer is rising, and the greatest exertions will now be used to secure the remainder of the outstanding grain. Oats and beans are hardy cereals, and so long as strong winds prevail they suffer little from rain if in stook. Mangold', turnips, and swedes look extremely well. The late rains have swelled the bulbs to unusual pro. portions, and an abundant root crop may be con. fidontly expected. Pastures are plentifully supplied with gram, and ea the cattle plague is gradually dying out, graziers and others are likely to find themselves better circumstanced at the close of the year than they had any reason to expect. It is satisfactory, moreover, to know that there is plenty of corn in Egypt as well as in Russia, and in many other countries besides; and that large quantities may be expected to arrive in England. Repeating some of the gossip of Mr. Disraeli at Hughen. den, the Telegraph adds that not one word of all this rhetorical syllabub, this whipped•eream of rural joy and repose, is natural to the statesman. He knows that the condition of the English labourers is shame ful; that their masters are good, ignorant people, whose fortunes have been made by free trade, against which he drilled them to howl, though they still believe him to be infallible. His tongue is in his cheek all the while he prepares and delivers the Doric stuff, and "babbles o' green fields ;" while if he did not despise his audience he would speak to them as Englishmen—speak to them of Ireland trembling with the passion of rebellion ; of Europe in throes of recon struction ; of " the labouring classes" not " justly appre• elated," but insulted and excluded from their rights. Very wisely, he leaves these topics alone in Bucks, and— to turn to Shakespeare again—" he hath," instead, " song s of all skies—the prettiest country songs, with such deli cate burdens of " ' dildos' and hidings.'" ICS TOPICS. The military history of New Zealand supplies, the Times thinks, a useful lesson in the reform of our military system. Our system of drill which prevented the regular troops from doing what the New Zealand volunteers were able to accomplish very speedily, while it harasses the men and renders the service unpopular is, the Tines believes, actually more damaging than advantageous to the general efficacy of the troops. Not only this example but the enlarged experience of European warfare show that high drill is by no means identical with perfect efficiency. The knowledge of a few simple movements, combined with ex pertness in the use of arras, and, above all, with that muscular training which gives the greatest amount Of activity and endurance, would form a very good qualifica tion for a modern soldier. We seem to be taking snob excessive pains in the manufacture of soldiers that the product itself actually 'niers in the process. A simple system, with more useful practice and less drill, more freedom of mind and muscle, and less complexity of exercise and routine, would probably give us at once a better army and make that army a mom popular proba tion. L &TEST INTELLIGENCE. NASSAU. About forty members of the Upper and Lower Chambers have held a meeting at Wiesbaden and published a declaration in favour of annexation to Prusais. With regard to the future provision for the ducal house they say If considerations of equity induce us to support • pro vision for the former reigning fansay,ecouotnical and politi cal reasons require that this should be made in the form of money capital, or an annual money payment from the funds. In thing the amount of this provision it should be borne in mind that the ducal house, in losing the rank of sove reigns 1;31 not have to bear the cost of representatives abroad. If the ducal house was left in possession of all the State property, the greatest inconverience would be occasioned to the population in an economical point of view, and consequently to the state in a political and financial point of view, inasmuch as this property constitutes a ninth pact of the entire landed property of the duchy. The economical interests of the countiy require that all the landed property of the State now let out in fin me should be alienated and convert i "to free soil propertiee—that the real v . Ihts attached thereto, such as fiefs, rights of bats and pasturage should be rzdeemed at an equitable price, that game rights should be abolished, and an end put to the alienation of mines, m;neral waters, And baths belonging to the state domains." It was decided that a deputation should be sent to Berlin to protect the rights of the country. THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. APPEAL TO THE UNITED STATES. The Committee of Deputies in Crete have agreed to the following address to the President of the United States : Mr. President,—The Greek island of Crete, the native country of Jupiter and Minos, glorious in the ancient times and happy, insignificant to-day and unhappy, sighs before the Christian world under the hear! yoke of the Mussulman. Taking up arms with the rest of Greece in the glorious struggle of 1821 in order to gain its liberty, it has suffered all the woes of the history of that epoch, which is only a series of tra gedies. Our fathers had whitened the plains with their bones during that nine years' struggle, and thousands of women and children captured had been sold as slaves, even the elder of whom had done their part in the pitiful drama. We had by general good fortune gained all the country of the island and one of the strongest fortresses, and wehoped that the time had come for us, like our Greek brothers, the happy hour of liberty ; but we were disappointed. Our sacrifice not being considered sufficient, we mast suffer new dispensations. Inexorable policy had delivered us anew to the Ottoman yoke, first under the viceroy of Egypt and then under the Sultan. The three great Powers, in order to soften the injustice, promised us on the 10th of February and Bth of August, 1830, in the protocols of Lon don, at least paternal government and assigned rights, but unfortunately even these little benefits the government would not grant us. Ti", action of diplomacy was unjust and against the nature of things, and showed how human work and that of wise men come to nought, for from that time the island has never been quiet to enjoy the blessings of pence, but is always in convulsion, and sometimes struggles for its only desire, its freedom, and sometimes for the perform_ ante of the promises made in the protocols. In 1833 there was • revolution, which was drowned in blood. In 1841 another had the same fate. In 1853 we ask NI the resti tution of our rights, and the putting in cescution of the Hatti Humayoun, but nothing was given except false pro mises. In 1861 part of the paople, on 110001111 i of the oppressions and injustice of the governor, and by their ignorance, fell for a moment into the traps of the catholic propaganda, believing that by that means they would gain their liberty. A long task, Mr. President, would be the relating of our sufferings, in which every right thinking observer must to mpathise. Heresy taxes, and disproportionate to our poor gains, we pay in different ways, and none of the benefits which the subjects of steely well-governed kingdom obtain do we have. Tribunals wo have only in name, and justice is a thing unknown to us ; the government Is the arbitrary will of the governor. Our children, from the lack of schools, are reared in the darkness of ignorance ; in no public position are we accepted ; our evidence before the tribunals has not the same weight as that of the Ottomans. The evil that the Mussulmsns do to us is seldom punished, religious toleration which is so often proclaimed is per verted and made vain. We, ourselves, from the little means we have, support our clergy, and, with little excep tion, our schools. Our language, which is the language of the country with Christian and Ottoman, is not accepted at the tribunals ; the government collects only the taxes without rendering us any of the simplest benefits. Such is in • few words our condition, the bettering of which we have asked many times from our government. This yea in the month or May we asked of the Sultan in the peaceful and respectful way which is fitting, relief from the heavy loads, equal justice, the execution of some governmental reforms, of those promised us by the protocols, and the accomplishment of the published Hatti-Humayoun, which many times have been promised to the Christians, nothing being given. Unfortunately the Sublime Porte thought fit to throw contempt on our first petitions without examining them, but to insult us, and threaten our chiefs that it would im prison them in the fortresses unless they have written promises never again to make complaint to it, and sent many soldiers and ships in order to injure us. Being in such a desperate condition, we tuck up arms to sustain ourselves against violence and maintain with our blood the sacred rights which as reasonable creatures we have the right to demand. The struggle which we have entered on is great, as we are few and weak. We have before us the colossal power of one of the empires, but we have confidence in our tights, and commend the un equal struggle to the God who is the strength of the powers of the old and new world, being ready to sacrifice ourselves all for this. By origing and religion, by language and tradition we belong to the Greek race, and our proper place is a part of the kingdom of Greece. Such is the statement of the case. And what does the Ottoman empire gain by us! Being subject to it we &CCollls plish nothing except continual and periodical disturbances and collisious, while being united with our mother race, besides the bettering of ourselves we wall complete the fulness of that nation which by the absence of its members is made unsound. Mr. President, if in justice in your mother land was set sight by the sacred struggle which through the Divine blessing was conducted to triumph by the ever-to-be-remembered Washington, how is ours justified? We should be happy if we had only the shadow of the benefits which your country gained in that epoch. Being in such a condition we, the respectfully undersigned representatives of the Cretan Christian people, dare to ask, Mr. President, the intercession of the great democracy over which you happily preside, in order that our matters may obtain attention from the cabinets of the teat European powers. Blessing the Highest for the prosperity and strength of the glorious democracy of the United States of America, we take the liberty of subscribing ourselves the humble servants of your Excellency, the representatives of the Cretan people. [Here follow the Signatures]. A letter from Canes in the Levant Herald of the sth says :—" The ferment is rapidly spreading amongst all classes of the Christian population, and has already grown in extent and importance far beyond a mere fiscal quarrel between a set of unwilling tax-payers and the Pacha. It has in fact attained the proportions of an overt rebellion against the sovereignty of the Porte. It is reckoned here that about 20,000 insurgents are already under arms in the moun tains—the greater number near Apocorona—and it would, I am convinced, need only the encourage ment of a first success in any brush with the troops to double or even treble this number of rebel com batants." It is added that a "Cretan Committee" at Athens, has already smuggled large quantities of arms and ammunition into the island, and is doing its best to drag the Greek government into the quarrel. The Pacha has, in all, a miffed Turkish and Egyptian force of about 30,000 boom chiefly in the three garrison towns, into which last large numbers of the Mussulmai population are flocking for protection. AN ORPHAN INSTITND ( IN NAPLES. The Journal des Debate contains th Ina letter dated Naples, Sept. 4 : •. - . The Orphan Institution, under the directl Ladorico of Cesar* a Franciscan, who k m reputation in Naples, and the centre of tion of fervent catholic., was the f a which the cholera broke out on the 16fi last. The care of the rev. gentlemen ei devoted to young negroes and negresses boe i and brought up as monks end nuns. Aa rove made into the cause of the outbreak of choke following facts were brought to light :—Th who recognised neither the civil law nor the I health, gave no notice of the numerous dam% pupils and buried them all inside tt A roam in the centre of the e served as the cemetery. The bodies of sir fee dead were found in this room, and two dui were two skeletons, intended to he matte Esation. By the side of the cemetery cherubs well, and the infiltration from the deo OTR into it was such that the water wa g fit for use. But owing to the neglect of tl authorities the want of water in Naples was on the 15th August Father Ludovico orde damned well to be opened, and the use of I followed by terrible mortality amongst the f The boys, who make nee of the water of a d escaped. The Franciscan priest hu be and will have to appear before the tribunals the cholera is making progress. To-day th 115 eases, and 56 deaths. The China Candi efficacious remedy against the disease, the ap portrait of St. Joachimo on the stomach. 31c persons, it says, attacked by the malady, ha denly cured by this simple application." STORM IN THE METROPOLIS. -(TS The anticipations of settled weather entertained yesterday by many consequent parative fineneu of the day, were suddenly d early hour this morning, by a violent storm over the metropolis about 2 o'clock, and ce out intermission till past 4. Previous named hour the night was fine, the stars !nightly than has been it :messed recent suddenly the wind changed, and some hew aged the storm which subsequently follow fell with an intensity which has suds nesaed—literally a sheet—and in the an hour the streets presented the apparao and it was almost impossible to walk throne horses on the various cab stands in the at pitiable spectable, looking as though th soused in water, and in a certain sense the, many of the policemen, who as a body al be constantly moving about when on duty, I In the early part of the storm the wind heel for some considerable time it blew with gra much damage. Many of the Bowe the various Royal Parks were in of the long continued heavy rains and washed out of form and the plants all but d numbers of young trees and shrubs have be the force of the gale. DEPLORABLE EFFECTS OF E DRINKING.-SHUCKING SUIC INQUESTS.—(THIS DIY.) This morning Mr. John Humphreys, coroner, held en inquiry at the Flint House place, Horton, relative to the death of Mai aged 39 years, who poisoned herself. The deceased was the widow of a porter in England, and she lived with her only daught Northport-street, Horton, where she let ledg be seen by the evidence, she committed an neaday last, after endeavouring to get her li to drink first of the poison which she had minate her own life. Emma Jane Dean, 2 A, Northport•street, lodged with the deceased, who latterly drag She used to drink daily quantities of rum, brandy, and laudanum. She was under med for some little time past. At 4 o'clock la afternoon witness was called by the little found deceased dead in hcr bed. Clara Lucas, an intelli,;ent little girl, 8 yet that her mother need to constantly send to the public-houses. On Wednesday las she sent witness to Mr. Norval's, the chemise of disinfecting fluid. She said she was go When witness bought the fluid she asked whether it was good for her mother to tat " No, it is only for drains." She took the mother, who said that she was going to elle, not live in agony. She asked witneat to drii fluid, and said, " Do take even a spoonful, a drink the whole bottlefulL" But witness we and then deceased said she should not tams room and sent her downstairs. The rem( asked the chemist whether the fluid was poise her mother said she wanted to drink it. Ai nese went up to ask her mother if she would she found her not dead, but with her ey dreadful way. The bottle had been openee the fluid was missing. Witness raised an a doctor was called in. Mr. H. H. Hoskins, M.S.C.S., said that el he found deceased dead. He had attended before for the effects of spirit drinking si and he had seen her at 1 o'clock on Wedliec then said suddenly, ►n.l without any refs matter in band, "I only owe 71. and your There is enough of furniture in this TOM The post-mortem examination showed no for death ; the stomach contained a qua and was of a slate colour. The bottle produce " Sir W. Burnett's patent disinfechng fluid label was a smaller one with the words "IN internally." Witness had not made • the of the °entente of either the bottle or I stomach. _ The Coroner adjourned the inquiry to Sir Pr analysis to be made. Z r Humphreys held an inquest at the with the same jury, upon the body of Ewan 40 years, who lost her life through drink. Wm. Wyatt, a cab driver, living at 1: said that on last &tut-day afternoon he and a drop of dr;nk together," and afterwards The next morning he found that deceased 1 of bed and smashed several of her ribs. She] roused • neighbour, but he was a hemy not hear it. Dr. Cockerton advised her to Pital, and he drove her there and back on Stu going to drive her there again on Tuesday, on the passage. Dr. Cockerton said that deceased died frt several ribs by a fall. The jury returned a verdict of " Accident& THE COLLISION OFF TITS SUPFOL OFFICIAL TNQUIRY.—(THIS I) The inquiry instituted by the Boa] into the circumstances attending the militia steamer Bruiser and the steam collier Hi coast of Suffolk. was resumed this Jemmies wish police-oourt. before Mr. Twill, the lee magistrate, and Captains Harris and Bake assessors. Mr. Harem., we Hamel, from the solicitors' the Customs, again appeared for the Hoard Cobs', barrister, for the General Steam Na pony, the owners of the Bruiser ; and Mr. Cs tom' Commons, for the owners of the Halve: Captain Harty, of the Bruiser, was re-el said that after going on board the Mower &rooted one of the men to take down II light, and said to wi,ness, " You see tin light," to which witness replied, " It seems but as the sun is shining, you can't see wb light it is." It was then &beat 5 o'clock in The Bruiser was not going at full speed at t collision. By Mr. Cohen—When he went on board he said it was a strange thing that the should be left in charge of a coasting stes Captain Chase, of the Haswell, said the ms tam's certificate. His mate told him that h on the starboard bow, and he starboarded his took np his night-glass, and seeing no other chided it was a ship at anchor. He sewn dim red light close to, and immediately onl , to be pat " hard a starbaird," and the stopped. He did not think it his duty to in cause of the accident until be had looked sengers, the great majority of whom were r By Mr. Cooper—He was asleep until wit or two before the accident. He was awoke b of the en/3ns. When he got on deck he m light of the Haswell, and lust sight of it ale( By Captain Harris—He did not find time on board the Haswell, to take his mate sod the cause of the accident, as he was anrro senors the moment he came on deck. By Captain Baker—lf he had been or tl board the Bruiser on the morning of the coil have seen the hull of a vessel a mile off with, Th• Inquiry was proceeding when ow - - - - DEATH OF StR ARCHIBALD IFLAF Basr.—From Glasgow we learn the death of Islsy Campbell, Berk w hich event took plan lbas• Teseday. Sir Archibald had been s tine peat, sod it was known in Glasgow • that be was in • very critical condition, hopes were entertained of his recovery. I rause of death was congestion of the lungs. [, ,~ II :