The Express. — London, England, 1858-08-05 00:00:00

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SPORTING A SPECIAL EDITION of the *EXPRESS," containing the malts of the day's Rens, is pub lished every evening daring the Sporting Saloon, at six o'clock. Aucoer as mash virtuous indigestion has been wasted upon the Jades at Cherbourg as upon the _fete at Creisoene. Our only Adoption to the vitupera tive eloquence 'speeded epee both mossicas is, that it attributes too meth importance to its object. The Cretonne gala was a freak of the fashionable world ; and assuredly the English public might have learned by this time to be astonished at nothing the fashion able world will do when in high spirits. And the inauguration of the Cherbourg docks and railway is, on both aides the Channel, a mere excuse for a junketing country excursion. The Members of the House of Commies on board the Pere have entered into the true spirit of the festival. They laid in an ample store of the best wines, and commenced operations with a jolly dioser, at which, we are told, "some capital " soap were sung." We wonder wbo were the vocalists. Was it Mr. Rosters, or Mr. W. Wtt.- limes, or Lord ASULIT, or Mr. 8. Wawa, who attained to this pitch of exhilaration ? And if all tales of that joyous evening be true, France is no leaser the only country in which indomitable spirits— skilled le gusto lore, Have *tapped beneesh the harshen at these-eons. Whoever the singers and dancers m►y have been, they have shown a most just appreciation of theoces sion upon which they were met. It is a frolic after the hard work of the Sessioo. If regarded from one point of view, we admit that a degree of political interest does attach to the Cherbourg Jets.. That the completion of that great naval station should be thus cele brated implies a marked decrease of the un natural suspicion with which Franco. and England used to watch each other's movements. Notwith standing the incessant croaking of sone forebodes of evil, the people and the Government of England will not see any menace to themselves in the works at Cherbourg. This is not the result of any excess of confidence in the extraordinary man who for the moment wields the destinies of France. His character is, perhaps, better understood in England than anywhere else. lie is bent upon being great. If greatness I. compatible with goodness be would prefer the association; but if he cannot be both good and great, he will prefer to be the latter. He has, on the whole, rather a friendly feeling towards England. If an alliance with England is likely to consolidate his power in France it will be agreeable to him; bat however reluctant to quarrel with England, he would not hesitate to do so if he saw anything to be gained thereby. The people of England know this, sad consequently place no reliance on his good will, though they do not doubt its existence. Bat they know that, all-powerful though he ap pears to be, there are some things be cannot do ; and they know that among these things is to make a war with England permanently popular with the maul of the French nation. We do not mean to say that the French like the English. JOHN BULL is a meet uulikeable person to all but his own countrymen. But the French people know that there is nothing to be gained by a war with England, while it would expose them to much annoyance and inconvenience. The time has gone past when a French Monarch could make a warlike establishment at Cherbourg available to damage England. France and England will under any regime* cantina, to be good business connexion% though, perhaps, for some generations to cola's there may not be mush cordiality between them. And this being the case, it is well that le paltry jealousy should prevent the people of England and their rulers from taking a part in the jubilant' celebration of the completion of the works at Cher_ bourg. So long as we have an efficient Channel fleet there is no danger for us in these works. French fortifications are more a menace to Frenchmen than to foreigners. The fortifications of Paris had foreign invasion lees in view than Parisian imertes. The forts at Havre could do little harm to as enemy's fleet, but they efi'ectually command the town. Some of our contemporaries seem determined at this dead season to make the most of the Cherbourg festivities. Taking time by the forelock, they are cramming their columns with historical reminiscences of Cherbourg. They have actually favoured the public with amounts of its condition its the time of Jutrus Ceilsa, or earlier. It is needless to go so far back for illustrations of this world's mutability. In so far as England is concerned, we need only go back to the days of Omani 111. to find start ling contrasts with the present. A Mend, whose contribution appears in this day's isms, has, at an, instigatims, kindly evoked the memorise of the pot s and farmed as with an &caveat of a visit to a French Isaperee at Chsehenrg in an early year of the present sentery. Thee, as now, there wee • NAroteoe bearing the Imperial title at Cher bourg, bent upon completing the work eons menced under the 13otraeoss. Then, se reesstly, the monetary condition of Frame esquised large importations of bullion from Enobild, Bat then the Emperor of Foatrc• sod An king of ENOLAND were scowling at each other across the Channel, whereas now the Queen of ENOLAND is making • friendly forenoon sell at Cirebourg. Then the bearers of the bullion had to smuggle it to the potentate who had alrea,?! isemed (or who soon after issued) the Milan decrees ; wheresi ea the l•te oeessioa the Bank of France and the House of ROTHSCHILD carried on their operations in the fees of day. Oar friend's trip to Cherbourg in 1 a emeggling lugger would make a better figure in a aovel, such as no one can pen since we lost MA/- HYATT, than a comfortable trip in the crack steam -1 11111116L' THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1558. ship of the Peninsular and Oriental; but for real enjoyment the balance is decidedly in favour of the latter. Both nations feel this, and, though factious politicians and eloquent journalist. may maintain the contrary, both are resolute to keep the peace. It is beyond the power either of newspapers or statesmen to met the two countries together by the ears for any length of time. But, say some of our liberal friends, this excessive cordiality between your QUEEN and LOUIS NAPO LEON tends to confirm his despotic rule in France. Fudge! dear gentlemen; unmitigated fudge. The first NAPOLEON was on the most cordial terms with the Emperor of Runts and the King of PRUSSIA at Tilsit:. The Emperor of AOSTILIA gave him • daughter to wife. There was more of a domestic intimacy in the visits of Louts Pniurra to Windsor, and of our Qua= to Eu, than there has been in her intercourse with Loris NAPOLEON. Yet when the power of the great European conqueror, and of the plausible sagacity whom throne was erected on the barricades, malted from their grasp, of what avail were thew royal and imperial friendships ? There is, there can be, no personal friendship between monarch'. There can only be, at the most, a kindly and social spirit so long as circumstances bring them together on a footing of equality. When a people have re solved that a man shall no longer rule over them, no royal allies can procrastinate his falL So long as a people acquiesce in a man's dominion, it would be impertinence and folly in any royal neighbours to object to it. For all foreign Nations and foreign Oovernments the Sovereign de facto is and ought to be treated as the Sovereign de jure. This at least is the view we Englishmen take of the matter. Whatever our private opinions of LOOM NAPOLEON may be, so long as the people of France tolerate him we hold it to be our duty by our civil de portment towards him to express the respect we en tertain few the great nation he represents for the time. Of Louts NAPOLEON we Englishmen have as Englishmen no cause to complain. True, we think his domestic policy most detrimental to France; but that is the business of the French people, not ours. If they were to send him back to 1111V111V8 marrow, we would say they did right. We would say the same of any private friend who divorced an r unfaithful wife ; and yet we would abstain from mixing ourselves up, before that extreme step was taken, in a family quarrel. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE. THE CHERBOURG FETES. ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY. CST SURNARINI ♦ND MUT= 1111.1101 LATE.) (THON Ora OWN 00111SPONDRVIT.) CHERBOURG, THURSDAY MORNING. The Emperor arrived at five o'clock lut evening, and was received by an immense crowd with accla mations. At seven o'clock her Majesty the Queen arrived with her escort, and was saluted by the French feet. At eight o'clock the Emperor visited her Majesty, amidst remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm. The illtiminations were magnificent. An altar had been erected at the railway terminus, and a To Deism was performed by the Bishop of Contanees, on the Emperor's arrival. His Majesty, addreesing the Mayor, said:—" I am happy to have finished the work of Louis XIV., and to inaugurate, in a time of peace, the port which wee so actively commenced in a time of war." A telegram, received by a ootemporary, also dated this morning, says ;—" The Queen and Prince Con sort are expected to breakfast at the Prefecture with the Emperor at twelve. To-day their Imperial aid Royal Majesties dine together on board the line-of. battle ship La Bretagne. The weather is cloudy. The town is crowded with visitors, and in all quar ters the greatest excitement and animation prevail., THE TOWN AND MILITARY PORT. (PION Ova /PAULL 002211OPO1DZINS4 CHERBOURG, TIIZIDAY, Aro. 3. The ancient town of Cherbourg is by name as familiar to English ears as either Calais or Boulogne ; but, judging from the peculiarly French aspect of the whole place, and the extreme scarcity of the insular physiognomy, I should say that there is hardly a place in France about which so little was known in England, until the completion of the mili tary port, and the flourish of trumpets, both hostile and friendly, with which the hot was announced, aroused curiosity and concentrated attention on the hitherto little heeded French seaport. The beet point from which to look over the town and port is a rock thatbeetles over the commercial port, and which rock is situated within the territory of the British Consul, and it will be therefore some consolation to that portion of the English community who believe in and tremble at the imminency of French inva sion, to know that if their warder watches vigi 'sally on his tower it will be impossible for any preparations hostile to England being ever com menced in the military port without his at once becoming aware of what is going on. I have further comfort for the alarmists, and that is, the assurances I receive from the beet informed quarters of the excellent feeling that prevails in Cherbourg and Norman society generally towards England and the English. Indeed, all well-informed people ' laugh heartily at the apprehensions so loudly ex pressed in a portion of the English press. I should not mind that much, as some people are most dan gerous when they laugh ; but when I fully ascer tain that interest strengthens sentiment, I begin to have more faith in it ; and ffom all I can learn, the Cherbourg people believe that they have the strongest interest in the maintenance of a friendly alliance with England, and that before long they may hope to divide with Boulogne the profits of that Saxon emigration which is annually stimu lated by sanitary and other motives nearly as powerful. Besides, Cherbourg is a sort of k much Galway, and is always dreaming of a line of steamers to America. The railway, it is expected, will powerfully favour that project, and some people are even so sacrilegious as to observe that the Bassin Napoleon would suit admirably for reception of the Leviathans which belong to ocean steam navi gation. The first thing that you see, looking down from the arch before mentioned, is the railway station close at year feet, and which by the way is upwards of two miles from the military port, while from Mantes there is only a single line cif rail, with little prospect of a second being laid down for a long time to come. Your first impression on looking down here would be that the military preparations had already com menced, for the whole of the enclosure is covered with neat little white tents, intended as the tem porary lodgings of the guests of the railway directors. Row the retired oozy citizens of Paris, the renting notaries, avocets, &c., will like this bivouac, I cannot tell, but I would forewarn them that although the days are very hot here the nights are often bitter cold, and that the proverb runs that in Cherbourg it rains every day, and in Brest all the day. There will be, however, some balm in Gilead, as I understand the directors have arranged with an eminent Paris boon for a table d'hote of 200 coven daily, and that good cheer is to be the leading feature in the approaching ceremony. The trains discharge immense crowds of visitors nightly, and the streets are always popalons with many travellers searching for shelter. The Maine lately published a notice io the Mniateur to the effect that apartments were to be had in abundance and at very moderate rates ; but, on *loser inquiry, it is soon found that Cherbourg moderation is a very different sort of moderation from that which is found in other places. The town is like nearly all French towns, tall, white, and dirty, at once new and ruinous, and redolent of a variety of perfumes, of which fried mines may be ranked as the otto of roam. It is of considerable extent, and has some good streets, but, judging from the appearance of the shops and the circulation, I should say that its commercial import ance is very moderate indeed. In short, it looks in this respect very much like many English towns before they have got their railway. Let us hope that the great renovator may now prove as effectual here as it has been found to be in all other places where it has once been introduced. The com mercial port is situated furthest inland, but, tutus a won lueendo, there is hardly a merchant ship in it, the vessels with which it is crowded being nearly all gunboats which have helm mead up there to be out of the way as the day of the grand ceremony. The number of naval Ahem and einem to be seen about is quite as great as in Portsmouth, and if is with some difficulty you recognise either as French men. The officers ere evidently a mast superior elms of men, polite, intelligent, and manly ; probably the beet specimen of any of the French organised services, and yet it is strange that while every shop window is filled with military prints and pictures of the various uniforms in the army, you never see one of the gal lant tar, either officer or A. 8., although both would 'look quite as well on paper as the members of the other branch of the public service. They are all perfectly jolly at the present moment, the elders smoking and laughing about the cafes, and the young middies kicking up shindies that would de bows to any ship in her Majesty's service. The 11110111011 sailors are equally jovial, and—tell it not in Oath !--the real, genuine, undoubted college' hornpipe, delivered in the purest style, may be heard nightly streaming through the doers of the cabarets, while within, a young sailor, evidently a pupil of Tom Cooke's, is performing that immut able dance with immense vigour and moons. One favourable peculiarity of all the merrymaking is that there is little or no drunkenness, and another is that nearly all the soldiers and sailors wear Vic toria medals, of which they seem very proud, and which they take care you shall see whenever you come near enough to observe them. I have now brought you down to the quay, from which you can see the roads, with Its seven or eight men-of-war lying at anchor; and the Digue, with its much-dreaded forts and batteries at either end. The men-of-war are about eight in num ber, the most conspicuous being the splen did three-decker Bretagne, with the flag of the Admiral at the main. It is on board this ship, as you are aware, that the meeting of the Queen and Emperor is to take place, and here her Majesty is to be entertained in grand state. Covers are to be laid for fifty-two in the great cabin, forty at an outer table, and twelve (including the Queen and Emperor, the English Ambassador, and, I believe, the French Minister of Marine) at an inner one. An English frigate, the advanced guard of the squadron, arrived early this morning, and her Majesty is expected to-morrow evening, but of course nothing public will take place until the fol lowing day. AB a proof that the morbid state of the public mind which was so assiduously culti vated in England, has proved slightly contagious here, I may mention that when the official pro gramme appeared, busybodies ran about exclaiming, " See, the Queen gets only a single line," alluding to the brief way in which the day of her Majesty's visit was announced. Now, it so happens, that the original programme, when submitted to the Em peror, had no place for the majesty of England at all, and that his Imperial Majesty altered it alto gether, inserting the announcement with his own hand. The officials, when subsequently putting it into form, did not dare to alter the Emperor's words; and so this curt announcement remains—an evi dence, not of slight, but of extraordinary courtesy and cordiality on the part of our august ally. The French squadron looks by no means formid able, but, nevertheless, the rade is well furnished, being thickly studded over with English yachts, Iwhich will, no doubt, on the occasion of the royal visit, all sail out in a flotilla to welcome and escort their sovereign into French waters. The French men-of-war are all anchored close to the Digue, it being the only portion of the rade which is at I once roomy enough, and having a sufficient draught of water. The Digue is certainly an immense work, but to my eye it appears loose of construction, and likely to suffer in the storms which so frequently lash this coast. The stone of which it is formed is of considerably less specific gravity, and is also softer than English granite. The three forts with which it is furnished, but which are as yet all unarmed, have settled considerably, and are at this moment filled with stones, in order that they may gradually find a firm foundation. Every one in England is by this time familiar with the plan of the military port, and will remember that besides the three forte in the Digue, there are at each end, and insulated, two other forts set down in the map. The one at the east end, Fort Imperial, is finished, but unfortunately the passage which it guards is so shallow as to be useless for men-of-war, while the one at the west, Fort Chavagnac, has not been begun yet, although the passage over which it dominates would permit of a fleet of three-deckers passing in in safety. I went round the new basin this morn ing along with a numerous crowd, all of whom seemed to look at it with pride and admiration. In the oaten time—when the hard stone, as well as the soft clay, had to be worked with pick and shovel—it would have been u wonderful a work as the Pyra mids, with which it is so often compared; bat in the present day, when the galvanic wire and a few barrels of gunpowder surpass the labour of whole nations and generations, and with the recollection of how speedily the accumulations of stone on oar various railways and at Sebastopol were blown into the air, we need not hold up our hands in such speechless wonder at an excavation of about the extent of Kennington-common, and in which the stone to be removed is the soft CORD, into which our English masons have such pleasure in thrusting their chisels. The basin itself is com plete, the sides being " dressed," and the quays coped all round. But the works in stone are all in a meat unfinished state,' lthough I was informed that 2,000 men have been working here for some time. The preparations for the opening ceremonial are very modest indeed, consisting of a small central altar for the mass, and two small tribunes for the ladies. There being no special accommodation provided for any . _ other person ; bat the public will be admitted all round, and there will be room enough for a hundred thousand persons. The arrangements for the inun dation are to be novel and scientific, the particular feature being an artificial mound of sand placed at ' the entrance into which the water is at first to flow in a cascade. Subsequently this mound, which is mined, is to be blown up, and the whole body of water is to be permitted to flow in in a torrent. The Ville de Nantes stands proudly in her cradle ready for launching, and there is another large ship (the Beaumanoir), but disarmed, in the outer basin. Oae or two vessels also are on the stocks, but altogether the immense place has an unfurnished look, and it will take mouths of the most energetic labour to put it in a condition calculated to give the slightest reasonable uneasiness to friend or foe. It is very difficult to write truly on this subject with out seeming to depreciate • work which is entitled to every respect, bat the point originally raised that the ceremonial opening of the military basin was intended to hold out a covert messes to England. A single glance at the place was sufficient to coo vines me that such an assertion was as unfounded as it was injudicious. Another of the bugbears was the facility with which an army could be shipped here in a few hours. Let us remember that, in the first phase, there is only one railway into the town, and that it is a single lire; that it is • large train that takes a thousand passengers,and that with sash a train the jemmy is tea hours. The three Inaba errtainly present an immerse extent of quay, and perhaps fifty steamers might be taking in troops at the one time, but then they would all have ultimately to get to sea through the same narrow pass, and thus ano ther, and I think a substantial objection arises to the theory of sudden descent. But I shall not pur ees a disagreeable subject farther, nor could I have gone so far but from my consciousness that alarmist writing had made a mischievous impression in both countries. Even if we take it at the worst we have no right to quarrel with France for doing what she likes on her own coasts, any more than she could object to our getting up g good Channel fleet ; in presence of which, floating tranquilly, but proudly in the narrow waters, the most timid of our English alarmists might enjoy their natural rest in perfect I nearby. I The Mayor of the town has issued the following exhlrees to the inhabitants : Fellow-citirens,—ln 1852 we requested the Emperor to grant a railroad to oar district. Oar reqeset was granted, and now his Majesty comes to inaugurate this great road, which unites our town to the metropolis. ;The third dock of our military port is finished. The Emperor will pre side at its opening, and thus crown the completion of this Magnifforat arsenal, which excites the admiration of the whole world. His Majesty will also inaugurate the monument you have naiad to Napoleon 1., and, by his presence at this imposing solemnity, add to the splendour of the homage you have paid to the powerful founder of the Napo leon dynasty. The Empress, his noble partner, the august mother of the prince on whom rest the dearest hopes of the country, deigns also to visit us. If the eyes of Franoe are at this moment fixed ca Cherbourg, it is because every town wishes, like our own, to enjoy the happiness of possessing the Sovereign who has raised so high the glory dourarms, and secured the prosperity of the country; it is because Cherbourg is now the town privileged above all others. Need I excite your authorisers f No ; I know your pa. triotic sentiments, and I know, in anticipation, that every. where on their passage their Majesties will be received with fervent acclamation; the sincere proofs of your devotion to the empire. Your houses will be deoorated with dogs and illuminated during the whole sojourn of our auguot guests. We all know what we owe to the Government of the Emperor and we shall feel happy to be able on this great occasion to offer him abundant proof of our affection and gratitude. Vivo l'Empereur I Vies rlmpiratrice Viva le Prince Im perial I LODE, Maim DEPARTURES FROM SOUTHAMPTON. (THIS DAY.) ("sow owl owx oosawrowourr.) SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Balsette and Betimes, with the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company end their friends ; the Bina, with the directors of the Cunard's Mail Packet Company and their friends ; and the Havre, with the direc tors of the South Western Steam Navigation Company and others, left here early this morning for Cherbourg. There have been refreshing showers daring the night, and the wind is round to the north-west. There is every prospect of a very beautiful day. The French steamer has arrived Mrs, and brings news that quite a fleet of steamers and ships have been employed in conveying exeursionista to Cherbourg from Havre. Nantes, Dunkirk, and Bordeaux, and the excitement to wit nem the Cherbourg fetes is without parallel. The company of Maritime Carriers alone have put on six steamers to convey excursionists to Cherbourg. AU the merchant vessels in Cherbourg harbour are moored together, and fitted up to provide sleeping accommodation for excureionists. lbfr. and 20(r. a night are charged. _ A regatta is to take place at Cherbourg to-day, in presesoe of the whale fleet of nun-of-war, mail and passenger stammer and yachts, amembled there. tau Court. OS BORNE, Arorst 4. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort rode on horse beak yestseday 'Ammon. The Priaoeof Wales attended by Vircount Vaßetel end Mr. Gibbs; and the Mired Cambridge, attended by Colonel Tyrwith* end Colonel Chapman, arrived at Geborns yes terday. EWA Delaware also 'wired on a vint. Her Ilulanyiusel the Priam Consort embarked at 12 o'elock Ads" in the re* 3racht Victoria and Albert, and got under weigh hasediately for Cherbourg. Tbe Prime of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge sceom- Noy ba► lbjeety. The Marl of Malmesbery sad Sir John Pariarort have deo embarked Is the royal yacht. The malts in attendanoe amid of the Counties of Desert, the Hos. Mary keel, Earl Delawarr, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Ildpite, and Mr. Gibbs. Colonel the Hos. A Hood, Captain Du Plat, Viscount Vallctort, Colonel Tyrwhitt, sad Camel Chapman, are em barked m the Black /Lanka The Chancellor of the %chequer and Mrs. Disraeli left errs yesterday for liughanden Manor, Buckinghamshire. Unpaid:tee were remind yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governer et the Falkland Islands, and the Lord m o o me.....5..,,..~ of aim 1..t.•6 1.1.ad0. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Dimon loft tows yesterday for Hogbendes Manor, Buck **whirs. The Right Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Peel left town, yesterday, oe a tour in Germany. The Right Hon. Bic George Cornwall Lewis, M.P., and Lady Thema Leiria and Muss Lester have left Rout Hoods, for their seat, Harpton Court, Radnorshire. His Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands has returned to town, from visiting the Marquis and )1...r -akers of ttestminster at &toe Hall, Cheshire. His Excellency the Bavarian Minister has left Men, oe a visit to Mr. H. T. Hope, a% Deepdene, near Dorking, gurney. The Duke of Cleveland leaves town early in the essalsor week toe his shooting quarters in the sortL The duchies sad Laiy Augusts Poulin go to Brighton. Ix a dew weeks helm making to Raby Castle kw the swam& The Duke and Duchess of Manchester left town youtetday fix Erachingtwohe, near Huatingdon, on a visit to the leel sod Countess of Sandwich. Tha Daateas of Bancleach and Lord Charles Scott ere atayiag in town. The duke and the Ladies Sant are at lisselise, war Southampton. 'rh. Dachas (Dowager) of Norfolk has arrived ea a visit to the Marquis and Marekionrsi of Weetraiaaten, at 'Caton Ball, near Chester. The Earl I)elawarr left town on Tuesday in order to socompsny the Queen se Lord Chamberlain to Cfserboarg. Led, Arabella 8. West la also gone to Cherbourg. The Earl and Counter of Clarendon left town yeeterday for the Grove, war Watford. The Spanish journals narrate some curious inci dents in ccsemales with the royal tear. It to related Nat at Lae the Gwen appeared ea a baleoay to show the tittle Prfaee at as Astarlos to the people; but that as it wee dash they weld net see him well, sad ntoordlogly her Ma jesty had a Ughted candle brought sad held up before hie ken At Oviedo, vitae the Cinema was to go after leaviag Mierea, a triumphal arab was to be aided in loaves of Weed, and alter the Qom 'hold,' ►ave paned through It the breed tat to be gives to the poor. The imagine MO nitro,. sancesee that the King elli rocker kb nelson at Ticiecon barer Ikas he Lately eiicided, de mfr of the akocabico haver e Ileculable Mo llie, on him belth. SAD TSIIIIINATION or A PIC-NIC PA/tTY.-00 Meakg lea Kra. Richard Mejer, d Wero-arest, Bridycer, had bead • et Mai to a Meads at gyps. Amongst the samase ai Ilse heart wee bor huebead's satin, Mr. lam Maar whir sterud eras Ib ss the nit et the pray, aiesearrile tithe • brae end 'Oohs the rest a the appelatel sweanvons. miteenesa paned hat he did add jar ales ; they lea les mmi were ecamensing • dace whoa twe of the pretty pen • tat the yang seem wee had. Ala] he wee deed. Ile led lathed, mud preakip Y law area Ms had aping sue et the ream and weeded • wan blew le the Iseepie bo w as ida rtakeed hat esesebe., and he wee thee areerumi. be bed els tee taw is the water. Irnd led eta rLw is. sad wee aimed with • it, a that la mantas be receired the New In hie temple. Pram* there is ea a yeses pare la Bridpart wits wee mere Weald sad via. pad. —Sarierws Jeerer& MILANCMOLT OCCIMILINCE.-A melancholy a.- eareses le reported frees the bourhood of orbli Ili too eased Ewa emeitenent neigh awl i s Hitle sympathy swan the mamma d the beaky. It mars that a gem amen amid Wahasid, the et we at the Baits Thatiem, was amerced a the War pima on Thursday weeks awl eller the ememsay proceeded with his will, to Darter, *here they 4smaed at the hotel known a the WWI gime. Os Friag awning the goatisarea west dews tereere the bra le babe, sod es site tine led eisped wed he al met relanSe Marl tad sate et the trailly went le esereit Ida tandlis ha ea the heeds bat maid net lad the liody • at one deka, when the Yds needed, the ,M ea t s gentherse wee read oa the beak. ties kle kteat, bat with his aht sad trams It It were that there is • part or the bond ratestines mad by bears midi le very dangsrow, by num ad the Ws mimic hi wry rapidly and esereadleg the person Whim a he siren of it ; and IS Is Mr. Wahalail must haw Mat Ms life 112 this way wNfi a= M K ' teals& Only the day beforr, a petty cf peaty Nat it the mei•hboueboad were bathing at 16 Wq sane epee, all Sere eaddZiy warreaaded Iry the by eal bed he halketeg sueseftly for mass, by wile liar wee anted aremtt asi ge wean, they mast lea =litAs ntsty mall be , the newly-madded payed hele the nest te sate at aged at law maitien itenevesesar--idesuw Journal. SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. The following despatch wan received this morning by the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Com -140/ "TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. VALENTIA, Au°. 6. "The Agamemnon has arrived at Valencia, and we are abcut to land the end of the Gable. " The Niagara is in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. There are good signals between the ships. " We reached the rendezvous on the night of the 28th, and the splice with the Niagara cable was made on board the Agamemnon the following morning. • By ion on the 30th 263 nautical miles were laid between the two ships ; on the 31st, 540 ; on the Ist of August, 884.; on the 2nd, 1,256 ; on the 4th, 1,834; on anchoring at 6 in the morning, in Doubts Bay, 2,022. "The rate of the Niagara during the whole time has been nearly the same WI ours, the length of Gable paid out from the two ships being generally within 10 miles of each other. " With the exception of yesterday, the weather has been very unfavourable." BELGIUM THE ANTWERP FORTIFICATION SCHEME REJECTED. mow ova owx ooxxxsPowsiorra (HY siacritic TILIKIZAPIL) BRUSSELS, WZDNISDAT EVININO, B:ar.r•rur Flys. The Chamber of Deputise, by a Tote of 63 mem bers against 39, has rejected the government mea sure for the fortification of Antwerp. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (or OUNKAILINI AND samos (PlOll 001 OWN C0133/1 MALTA, TIRTAIDAT. The Australian mails leave to day with intelli gence from Sydney, June 11; Melbourne, 16; Gall., July 10 ; Aden, 24. • The Australasian experienced very heavy weather on the Australian coast. She brought to Suez 74 passengers, and 73,0001. in gold. The Emeu reached Sydney on the 11th of June. In Melbourne the rejection of the Reform Bill by the Legislative Council had caused a great agitation, which, however, was soon quelled., The parliament was prorogued on the 4th of Jane. Arrangements for the railway loan have been completed. The yield of gold for the past month shows a fair average. Commercial credit continued good, and trade is better, though the stock is still heavy. Money market easy. Wool remains unchanged i freights to Liverpool, 141. per lb. Exchange : Private bills at 1 per cent. discount ; Bank bills at par. SYWlET.—Business during the month of May has been quiet. Frrliglaup, V. tv Id. pc. lb. An. Le ..1.... Exchange, from par to i per cent. preen. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oua OWN ratan.) PARA WIDXIIDAT The Pays states positively that the Queen will land at Cherbourg to-morrow, and will breakfast with the Emperor and Empress, at the maritime prefecture. Their Imperial Majesties will then see the Queen on board her yacht, and she will after wards dine with the Emperor and Empress on board the Bretagne. According to the Pays, it is yet doubtful whether her Majesty will leave Cherbourg after dinner to-morrow evening, or on the morning of the 6th. The Patric of this evening says : There an be no solid alliance - between Metes maid does not satisfy their mutual intemets without wounding Asir d.gnlty. The Emperor and the Qom& In mesas( at Cher bourn. show to the world the »Opined confidsnes that they ►are in each other's greatness, they attest by this solemn rotation that the power of Gook of the peat maritime Mates of Europe is not a memos for the oder, bat rather the in vincible guarantee of the moss of right and civilisation. The Bourse has been even duller than usual, a great many opsraton being absent at Cherbourg ; the Rents closed without change both for cash and account at 68fr. 20c. and 68fr. 40c. Mobilier also re mains unaltered. The little business transacted in railways was done at lower quotations. Orleans fell 6fr. 25c. and the other lines from lfr. to 2fr. 50c. A French correspondent, writing from Rome on July 31, says: A gasman of great interest to France is now negotiating hers. I mean that of the oencosdat with Portugal. The seissinee in India and China, now directed by Frew* prkwts, will be esrieuely eaeaproneleed if the Portuguese Protean: ale should be tesintalsted. Thus will, In that one, be an end of ear Meson in thews countries. Our mleabanaries and bishops haws node representations to the Propaganda, but I do not yet knew windier their snorts will be actively sup ported by be Panill 10.6111111116116. Another gnesatts„ •theft our toilsome in the Rest, In this. lien an swam that ths Order of Yalta is about t• be rerastddYehed at Jerusalem. All CH existing knights of that order or. either Austrians or Indira. Tilde is, there. tom • foondaties altogether ascanissall with Frame, the natural protector of Me holy piss& flack a lists of things may possibly lead to futon meepacatiess. Aastria always parser her projects with dogpi pertinacity, and wherevir the situ her foot she takes root. In my °pinks it would ad be who la Wader ths ealabileharst of the foo♦datlon, bat weld it sat bo pmeible to participate is It, and or prevent the Amid= hilessos floor being substituted for owe la lansaleen ? The wring of the Marquis d'Antonini in Paris— an easumed fact, upon which was built the opinion (which, by the way, Mr. Disraeli's reply to Mr.Dun combe tends to confirm) that diplomatic relations are likely to be resumed between Naples and France and England—is contradicted. A despatch from Munich, dated Monday, says : "To-day, for th• Arai tlay • Bavarian loomed's passed the Austrian frontier; by the red of the week the railway will be opened as far as Hawtei•, a little fortress at the et tawrolty of the valley of Inn." A Turin letter of the 26th, in the Augsburg °saws, says :—" The drat pleasure train °masked between Milan end Verde, wee lately converted by the Its Satiate tato a political manifestation. Several hundreds of the Maleness were emolved sAVanice by a large crowd with cries of Vim Malls; Viva 1 Intent Lomberdi l' At a grand pmeemeade of gondola, gives in honour of the Milanese, those he which Austrian editors and functionaries were mated wart ma *plait with great violence. Several of th e gm . deign gee Wood tri•coloured 64p. To the dies of Viva Mak' Rimy of the crowd oided, ' A basso l'Anstris l' Austrian pollee took no notice of what occurred, bat this HIM phones Orals will be the last." THE QUEEN'S DEPARTURE FOR CHER. BOURO. (PROM OVA OWR REPORTER.) COWES, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Wonderful u the present age proverbially is, pro. lino as it is in manta of which past generations never dreamt, there is, perhapr, hardly anything more astonishing than the almost total lack of public intermit observable in this locality in so important an event as her Majesty's departure ex Cherbourg. An occtirranoe the prediction of which half • century ago would have excited derision and contempt hag been viewed here quite as a matter of course, and aroused as little curiosity as would a royal trip to the coast of Cornwall or to the &silly Islands. There is, indeed, one mode of so oounting for this which ought not to to overlooked ; I refer to the fact that it was absolutely imposeible to ascertain with anything like an approach to certainty the precise period when her Majesty would quit the English coast. This was to the last Lept a profound secret to all who were not in confidential communiostion with the (lama, as if for the expense purpose of preventing anything like a demonstration; and if that ware the real object of such an unusual degree of matey, the royal wish has certainly been gratified. At Portsmouth there wee a moral impression yesterday morn ing that her Majesty would not leave Osborne till this evening; at Cowes, even so late as Bor 9 o'clock this morning, the kind of persons who are usually well informed on such matters cmjectured that she would embark about 3 o'clock in the afternoon ; and up to half-paet 11 this morning, when the Queen was just about to embark, the signalling, officer of the Royal Yacht Squadron, whose duty it would become in a few minutes to make a mooed of the passage of the Victoria end Albert, was manifestly wrong in his con jecture* to the extent of several hours. In fact, it was clear throughout that her Majesty had determined that her em barkation for Cherbourg should not be the occasion of • great public demonstration, and wished the event, memorable sa it was in itself, to be among the most quiet ones of her career as sovereign of Great Britain. At moves o'cionliyeigurday (Tuesday) evening I saw the Victoria and Albert: the Fairy, and dine other vessels of the royal squadron, lying idly at anchor in Osborne Bay, iw inediately opposite the grounds of the Queen's residence; and the moat significant fact at that period indicative of the approaching emberketion wee the shipping of a favourite row, which her Majesty is accustomed, it appears, to have on board when engaged in any long marine excursice. Shortly after this little event the Fairy steamed over to West Cowes, and having remised there a fee minutes, she returned to the anchorage near Osborne. I afterwards learnt that the same vessel wee employed during the afternoon in procuring supplies in the commissariat department, and as there included the perishable article of fruit, it wee a natural inference, and it turned out a correct one, that, In spite of many rumours to the contrary, the Queen would really leave Osborne for France on the following morning. The Fairy, I may observe in passing, appears to be the manager-yacht of the squadron, sa Offille it which her light draught ;tad general structure admirably adept her. The naval escort—for Inch K will be, at all events, into Cherbourg—left Spithead, as was anticipated, very early this morning, steering for the WARD extremity of the Wand, and has, I presume, before this, effected a jotted= with the Victoria and Albert, and her consorts. The tthoertaiaty which I have mentioned es to the precise time of her Majesty's embarkation still prevailed, as I have already intimated, at least so far as the public were concerned, this morning, and continued up to the very moment when the event occurred. Having, however, been favoured at an earls boar with some reliable teformatiou on the subject, I was ha by it to the conclusion that her Majesty would embark abed moo, sad that all the maerli, except that occupied by the QOOll, sad the Trinity yacht, would eat off about halt-pad 10. This expectation was mottled by the event. The came at the great difference In the time of departure of the emend meals was, I may remark, the superior velocity of the Queen's favourite yacht and of the Trinity boat—a supe riority so Immense that, though the four other vessels in cluded to the royal equedroo started more than an hour and a half In advance, they would probably be overtaken long be fore sighting Cherbourg. The route selected, unlike that of the men-of-war, wee westward, as being the moat favourable use as regarded tide; sad base, while the ishatattants of Ports mouth meld only derive leformetion from others, the red dest' and visitors et Cows who happened to line the shore might obtain aa emeilmt and complies view for themselves. At Cowes, however, there happened to be a yacht regatta, end as the led vessels pissed, the mirth of the Alarm ea the Iffisek, the inside, melds la the may red speenlailoas as to the lune, mimed a loge there of the pablie attendee. ' Wiest hall-pest 10 the Otherne, royal steam yacht, Math, Commooder Bawer, wee mess keen Wed Cowes, and is three or four ecleuthe the passed the Castle Paid, sad pmeeeded through the violent tweeds the Needles. Her applanass embed little Worse moss the spectators ca shore, every use Mug swam that the Queen wee not on board. She was oddly and semmathely followed by the Black lees, the Palsy, red the Banshee, which appeared to be dome equal with regard to "peed. . _ Her Ksjoat; went ea bard the Victoria and Albert a few minutes before twelve, Wag moompasied by the Prince Coneest, the Prisms of Wales, the Dale of Cambridge, the Countess of Desert, lady in waiting, the Hon. May Bulled, mall of broom, the Earl Delaware, lord obansberlain, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, Sir C. Phipps, and Mr. Gibbs. The remaining members of the royal party had preceded the royal family, having embarked on board the Black Bees, and consisted of the following : Viscount Valletort, In attend ance on the Prince of Wales; Colonel the HOG. A. Hood, equerry la waiting; Captain Du Plat, equerry to the Priam Consort; Colonel Tyerwhit and Colonel Chapman, aidee.de mop to the Doke of Cambridge. Immedletely after her Majesty embarked, the two leading reins In the regatta, the Alarm sad the Bbark (the mos watcher Ilejasty's Cup), parsed Osborne plea in rapid staassios, sad on getting abreast of the Queen's reseal they appal their legs. Thk alight and customary salut►tion was almost the Ede public demonstration attending the commencement of the ST. 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