The Express. — London, England, 1858-09-01 00:00:00

lbs. TO 00a11111,011rDINT8. Advonanwooolo Wends' tho ths "TY l irc a l; b l . ..on s L ases livosian to m. moo Is in OM 0 1 by Two o'Clook on oho do, of pehikwilon. Tole Ryan's. LIVING raw. -AM T U 1111110111 O? Or TWIG/ Mr. awl liss. O. ILas.—Gove 81 balsa __9)111711. Ti. Ir. swim It_ l4 arm. r MTh= j Aa4 [MID UNIUML MoNia llia daso. arresl.—Comrsaset. HIGH Wallin AT LONDON II AIDINL Two Oar —Maim Oh. 41a---......Yerais. IL Ws& alh. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A SPECIAL IiDMON of the "WRNS," containing the results of the day'e Reese, is pub balled every evening daring the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. ON this day the Court of Directors of the Rest India Company holds its last solemn assembly. To morrow, before the shops and the counting-hoeses of our great metropolis shall have received their aseustomed inmate., the greatest corporate body the world has ever men will have shrivelled into an association of receivers of diridends. The great holm in Leadenhall-street will stand as it has stood for long years, and well-nigh the same business will be dons; by well-nigh the same per sons ; but the government of the But India Company will have passed into a tradition. Thousands and tens of thousands, including many of the greatest and wiwist of the land, intent upon pleases'', at this pleasure-seeking period of the year, will, in all human probability, not eve the great *hangs a thought. Perhaps a stray member of Parliament, striding across some lucky ternip-fleld, may pass off an irreverent jest at the expense of thei bagged Company, and straightway forget what manner of day it ie. But the first and second days of Sopteinher, 1868, which witness the exam:4km of the old and the inauguration of the new mesa of Indian government, constitute an epoch in oar na tional history —nay, in the world's history, daeond in importance to few in the universal annals of mankind. On this day the East India Company, which hitherto, through varied changes and gradations, has directed the relations of Chest Britain with the vast anti. rent of India, issues its last instructions to its tor rants in the East. On this day the last despatches written by the authoritative " We," to our Governor- General, or Governors, in Council, will be signed by their " affectioame friends." To-morrow the vomit of her Nlateart's Secretary of State will be supreme in the official coneepoodence of the lodate Bureau. It may or way not be for the good , of India—it may or may not be for the good of Bug land—that the Government of the East India Com pany should on this day cease to exist ; but we ma fees that we do not envy the feelings of the man who can contemplate without seastioo this great and pregnant political dear. The officiate el Use Company may have beset great; its ahortoominp may have been still greater ; its government may have been an anomaly—its very existence • sere; but the verdict of History upon the Company will be that whiek Parliament,after a long and memorable debate, passed upon the conduct of the greatest of the Company's servants—that it "did at the same time " render great and meritorious servises to this omen " try." No argument, no declamation, no legisla tive enactment, con vitiate the great troth which Ends outward expressioo in the Map of India. Tke Company has given to the Crown two hundred mil lima of subjects. The cescpseste may bars been fairly or foully made; the country may have been wisely or unwisely governed ; but the Anglo-Indian Empire is a great fact, patent to the whole world; and if, after two more centuries of British connexion with the East, it is still permitted to Englishmen to exalt in the same great fact, there will be abundant cause for national gratitude and national wonder. For when we consider the immense difficulties which beset the Government of each a country es India, our astonishment is not that, after a century of empire, we should have been compelled to fns the formidable danger of a great military revolt, but that we should and ourselves still masters of the eountry. It may not be to the wisdom of the Com pany, or to.the energy of its servants, that we owe the continuance of our rule over such • diversity of races ; bat it is hard to say how much of our national soccer is to be attributed to the accidents of the Company, and, indeed, to some of the very constitutional defects which it has recently been the fashion to deplore, and which we are now attempting to remedy. The Government of the East India Company has been cha racterised, and not untruly, as a gigantic anomaly. If it had been lees anomalous it would have been lees eaccessful. It was an anomaly, because it owed teething to the favour of sovereigns and was not stirred by the breath of party. It was so anomaly, because, bola of circumstances, grafted upon the remains of a mercantile Corporatism it was indepem dent of oar Parliamentary influences, and, representing the very sinews of the middle classes, was never tainted or enfeebled by the poison of aristocratic jobbery. Hut the exceptional circumstances, whieh placed it out of the category of regular "respon sible governmests," were the very sources of its stabi,:ry —the well-spring of its 'rut success. People might talk disdainfally of a number of holder, of India Stock, includiag sonic mores of ancient ladies , ivakiog choice of some Loudon banker of some retired Indian solmel, to occupy a room in Leadenliall.stree, to dispense writosehipe and oadet skips, and to govern millions of people in • reesete grand service as a cape-goat. Tha Compaq was vilified--rightly or wrongly-snd there was, gene rally, an end of the matter. It was said to be slow, obstructive—clinging with inordinate tenacity to certain tratietioury theorise, for the mast part of an unpopular kind. Parliament had no taste for inter- ferenoe in its affairs, and the aristocracy had ao desire to eater the service of a govern mrnt of tea-dealers. And so, from year to year—nay from century to osntury--the East India Company steered right on, undisturbed by popular clamours, swayed to and fro by no gusts of party. And the Empire of the East India Company grew and grew, in defiance of mai constitutional maxims and theories of government, whilst Perlis, meet, in a more regular way of business, was cutting asunder the bonds which united the country to its other great dependency in the Western World. Anomalous, informal, as was the Company's Govern• meat, it was suited to the circurnstanoes out of which it grew, and because it had little of human, znechan- Ism about it, it was a great, though irregular, emcees. Whilst the absence of Parliamentary interference has thus enabled the Company to commit to the direct rule of the Sovssztom an Empire of two hundred millions of Asiatics, it is to its freedom from Asiatic influence that it owes the great privi lege of transferring to the service of her MAJESTY such a body of civil and military officers as the world he. never seen before. A Government cannot be hese, cannot be feeble, cannot be wanting in wisdom, that has reared two such services as the Civil and Military services of the East India Com pany. To those servants the Company has always been just—has always been generous. In those services lowly merit has never been neglected. The best men have risen to the highest place. They may have come from obscure farm-houses or dingy places of business ; they may have been roughly nurtured and rudely schooled ; they may have landed in the country without sixpences in their pockets or a single letter of recommendation in their trunks; but if they have had the right stuff in them they have made their way to eminence, and distanced men of the highest connexiona and the most flattering antecedents. The great Jagger plinth of " Dowb " has never been dragged over the Indian servioes ; and therefore have they ever been the nurseries of heroes. To-morrow morning the East India Company will be without a servant; hot nothing can deprive it of the honour of having reared these heroic men. Let her MAJESTY appre ciate the gift—let her take the vast country and the teemieg millions of people under her direct rule t but let her not forget the great Corporation how which she has received them, or the lessons to be learnt from its success. Tax half-yearly Report and Financial Statement, recently issued by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, harmonise with the hopes already in spired by the present management. The accounts of other railway undertakings teem with financial illusions and irregularities ; the capital outlay is incessantly and vastly swelled upon all sorts of pre texts ; and revenue is thus enabled to shirk many a burden properly chargeable to it. la the Eaateru Counties Company a different rystem has been loan guested, and has already achieved a degree of mo ons which cannot tail to stimulate public oonfideoce. During the last Mx months the Eastern Counties, like all other Railways, has been prejudiced by the depression of trade. The traffic on its hoes has experienced a decrease of 8,6201. I but there is this favourable feature, that the Directors have at the same time reduced the expenditure by 4,4581. Taking also into account, however, the diminution of trier on the East Anglian Company's lines, the total decrees of revenue is 9,151 M. ; and it is prin cipally owing to this fact that the dividend on Eastern Counties Railway stock is 2s. 64. per cent. less than for the corresponding period at last year. In face of the serious reduction In the dividend' declared by most of the other great Railwayeerepanies, the Reefers' Counties proprietors have every reason to be satisfied with the result of their operations during a period of exceptional diffi culty, the more especially as they have also sustained detriment from the railway war now raging. In their method of dealing with the Capital Ars count the Eastern Counties Board are honourably distinguished. During the whole year 1&57, the total net amount added to capital was only 4,2641.—a fact unfortunately without parallel in railway accounts. Daring the last half-year the sum added u only 6,3161. ; " and of this," the Report observes, " 2,8781. 2e. 4d. was authorised 0 in the Report made the 314 December, 1837, foe " new works at Brick-Lane, and shops at Bishops " gate-Station; by that outlay • considerable yearly " rental will be obtained." The Directcws most cor reedy remark :—" The stability of railway property " is affected by the manner in whit& the capital of Company to dealt with. If additions be made to • it. except for purposes of increasing the revenue, ," future years have to bear a burden in the charge "of increased interest, which must diminish the '" seat applicable for dividend." At the same dm*, they obeerve that " there are occasions " when Directors should not hesitate to make o an addition to capital, if for objects which pr •' take of the nature of first cost, and for the purpose "of carrying on a new undertaking." They then proceed to point out that hitherto the traffic of the new Woodford and Loughton Line has been worked by same the general plant of the company, and that the time has arrived when, for the amommod•- dem et this new traffic, six engines and sixty new carriages may legitimately be provided out of capi tal. Now, we confess that, as a matter of policy, we would rather ere the Capital Account of a rail way closed altogether, principally because the power of making additi•ws is ever of en to abuse, and because there is no other Railway Board in the kingdom equally vigilant in this respect. We are aniseed, too, that sharebeidera wield Bed it to their interest - . In anion; no to act capon this principle, for, even If it led to a little sacrifice or revenue, the closing of the Capital Accorrit would further increase the confi dence of the !moneyed public, and redound to tho THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY honesty and sound principles. Apart from a very trifling expenditure, referring to a portion of the udder taking of recent construction, the Cspital Amount has been virtually elosed—i. a., no edditioo has boss made to it—during the last two years. Sow people have been known to declare sweep-. ingly that there is not a single Railway Company of magnitude to the kingdom which could maintain even a moderate rats of dividend were the power of making illegitimate additions to capital taken away. The Directors of the Rutera Counties have the satisfaction of conclusively proving the osntrary,and the shareholders the main faction of knowing tbit, whilst the dividends of certain other Companies are partly derived from earnings and partly from a .disguised misapplication of capital, theirs, although it may be sosallse than they could wish, represents nothing but fair and honest profits. A railway dividend can only be strained at the rust of capital, or through starving, i. e., neglecting to maintain in proper order, the permanent way, plant, and works. The Eastern Counties Company's dividend is cer tainly not obnoxious to reproach on the former some. As regards the latter, we find that the expenditure on maintenance and renewal of the way and works daring the last half-year has been no lees than 62,7301., charged entirely to revenue, against 61,9271. fr the same period of last year ; 48,4131. in 1856, 119,9621. in 1865 ; and 29,6891. in 1864. There has eiseciy been no " starring " in this department; and we bets the explicit declaration of the Board, con ihneed by the Reports of the proper officers, that emery other claim chargeable to revenue has bees rigidly exacted from it. The chief obstacles to the improvement of this undertaking, considered ea a property, rest evidently with the large expenditure on the permanent way which former neglect has rendered necessary, and with the company's debt to the " Deferred Perms " cent Way Renewal Aeocuot." It is unnecessary to recapitulate the history of this " Amount," which forms a legacy from the WADDINGTON review. The Directors deserve credit for *wieldy adhering to the understanding that a sum of 8,0001 shall be pro vided every half-year from Revenue until the whole debt la paid eft The total amount now outstanding is 70,6651., and almost exactly equals the sum distributed as dividend on the coli nary stock for the last half-year. But for this terminable annuity with which the company are saddled, the dividend would be larger by per cent. per annum. There is room to believe that at no distant date the expenditure required from revenue for maintenance and renewal will press lees heavily upon the shareholders. These various details indicate, on the part of the Managers of the Eastern Counties Railway Com pany, a degree of financial oonicientionsnem which we vainly look for elsewhere. Compare the jealousy shown by the Jinni, as regards additions to capital, with the megailiceat but ruinous reck lessness of other Companies. The Chairman was justifltwi in Inminiiner dub •ttawbolAwra at the meant ' meeting that, whilst the Eastern Counties Company ' have added 5,3171. to their capital for the last half year, the London and North Western bays added the enormous sum of 454,1861. (besides transferring to capital a further sum of 258,6851., being the amount of the Company's debt to the "Renewal and 0 Improvement of Road Account 1; the London and South Western have added 225,1681. ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, 83,8641. ; the Great Northern, 61,7891. ; the Brighton, 34,7201.; with further heavy additions in prospect ; and the Memehrater end Sheffield, 34,9441. The Miters oesteties Company tarnish in this respect a bright example to the railway world, and deserve, as a matter of simple justice, to have the facts pointed out. With an almost sta tionary capital account, with no prospective liabili ties of importance, lasi with a steady or growing revenue, this company's debentare debt is placed in a position of peculiar security. We can stag* with =Wanes that NO halligiell respecting the diplomat's is the meth of China km yet mates‘ tia maw Irk (Court. RETURN OF THE QUEEN FROM THE CONTINENT. OSBORNE, AVOCIIT 31. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort arrived at (Mores at halt-past foar o'clock this afternoon, from the Continent. PORTSMOUTH, Tuasn►v. Ha Modesty and the Priam Consort sad Royal YamHy enivedall the Dockyard, Portsmouth, this afternoon by rail, sit nests to Osborn.. Her Majesty moberked as hood the Ella Ms= yacht, Meter Cononestier Aland Belliehm, et ten selatttee pest 3 o'dock is the afternoon from the Lag's Blebs. Admiral Sir Oeo. P. Seymour, Item Adadrel Km O. Orey, Malor•Ooeral Scarlett sea staff, the minims of the ships in port, end a guard of leaser tree the 4th way was at the King's Stain in renames to receive hoe We* when she arrived. On the Elfin having the Whew with tits Hoye/ Standerd, it via saluted by the Velem, garrison, mad the squadron at Spithred, which con sisted due Victor Emmanuel, Reeyelne, Dtedwo, and three Itemise corvettes. WOOLWICH, Avower 11. The Baaahee Admiralty steam vessel strived in barbeer at three o'clock thin afternoon, banes WI Anvils. ea Monday might, with the royal nanros, wine seamed leer lffejeety sad saltation the Continent. Tin Ilassahes bed oa bond a large quakily of lam" white wee torweeded to Lomb= this seams, ears the sharp et oat of the Queues seessagen. The Prtaesse AUG* elnarnesei wesonisred to have Woolwich at bar **stock this nanda& sod pearl he Chaveseed, ae a oasaintaltatioa bed bees reesini to the ant the! has Majesty eroaid proceed direst from the Confuse to Graveand, mad disinherit st the Royal Terme Pier. livery ansaseniat had bra made dor this wpm*, sad She when of the crew were ea beast the vend ta he la minas ler de part," nem, Iliaffill eon& net night, the Ceaneedare fillfelkindoli nedved a latestaphle mem" seat* that the royal rata would praised boat th• Costliest through the Channel to 0.11011111. The coder br tie deporting of the Maar Alice was, thenfore, onateranaded. Wannzus, Amon 30.—Tb• Queen bee been Owed to &set Were patent to be peeled Oder the Greet Sea, greatteit the dignity of a Knight of the I:Talts4 /tar deat of Gnat Bekaa sad Inked oats Freida lisibra, peg.. Mee s depilate la the Ith Regiment of M. LIB Cevetry.—Oes.tte. Prises Louis Ludes Boattparte left the Union Rotel, lalwases, as Saturday arerataa. It is now stated that the Bishop of Ox ford has ladaeseed to Mr. Greeley, that an inquiry will take pier lottathe Bayne Hal otairellosal ore. " The faquiry le to be Itaited to the elopie.qesetion es to whether the it name mode revoods. Mr. Ciresiey's curate, in coenction whit the MIMI 041110 MOM has so ohms of late apposed is die palate joss* Is at be sot ilelliC4." 41UNiimo. pr nfig D*LL a gwa , w h im,' mogignago country, ea though the clnotnis of ava empire advantage of the company, both as th a eo ii. 1 602==i• ° a 1.... mid were of no more consequent:4l*os, ifela_ f en .... - nos company Or a jor ban ' t th . 'l' bly, . . ear 'isis ' ch of rtheeelosind Aldesse 112 .... - i lio .i r imi l.- aura . n in :to w a 2 pro ,in in a l=Vratep ee .==inf Aleillising whatever may have been 1. his ~ nt •salig - • 'ti cannot MON /MIA 11l A/1 to Oa duel members of the 00artlaholOtors, olownly oats To o ... .Fgas mar ....mmd . b " ..1 T1111 ONLT a tTIL ill LIM *rm. as a body, stood up, firm and balky, between . income can icirtely be ~ , front the ilib ita i rrone ALL omission AIMS • . • India and Partz t _ and rescued the patron- Eastern Counties shareholders, who have not " - a" "Niti'rrisa - si - o = ian ---- 6 ---- or - sc - ixis- yet Teit4;elthoMettlies,fte)*the heavy rtoio gi , • - - -------- — PVISI allidialt • i ... guimike, isaboy. It was.y Use *latency' of tbr4illit bimbeathalY 161611.-usekomiii ofikapinket •. - i-so. .. - . Altitouskii . tomes Jtot_quitstsciart - tattorldeal en sr ammo= la the IdadluisAL ~ , ~ pl,........ l l A L,saa L _Ta i r w - lAI = l c 90t imu lWM a l lig4 - 61- — Part Then --- 71irec — in - Zt ministerial responsibility , bid it or tan ixa da4 e of w ti a ie l estarn b"ti t tin , dilikti nss • Co n t r t li ty "" is e c mi , 11. 3 awn. NM. lira a PirTreingt.Pitid ta remose Almo _ _ , , ~ i WIPA_ , 7Ot understood. The !ast ..L lndia!nniry did untiy,Aitheto ty, and bears the impress of honesty JitigPTING, SEPTEM WO f op ESS FttolllgAttit-A ,002 OWN PARIS, Tr 0011174 Eviooi r .4 •Up teterse, this evening, states ths liglpear and Empress " and the Imperial Prince" will litre Bt. Cloud for Biarritz to-morrow morning, aid thabso resiessir isok=tonr _ thor . rnligrny line ; Tel "AMP - 4 J °I MO! Ranked, she sas-it have left Paris -1 0, 15- 7 1 ° 4 47) k ►f 4 Y5P r ?WIMP,. O r nailer pct... psbdnis aepartnre.„, god it is announced that he will remain hare arts dipp Wier. The end of Beptember is still f treks* of , as the period of his It is reported AA ilitrots Circa is to be made senator, in consideration of his eminent service e in China. It is also said that one of the new streets it Pain is to be mina La Rue Tian-Bin. The Bourse * been altogether brilliant. The Rente rose 360. for omit, and 00c. for amount, closint o :t 71fr . 25g., and 71fr. 40c. Mobi li er rase 17fr. The settlement is going altogether against the " bears." The railways were all higher, but the rise seemly exceeded in any instance 2fr. 600. The Press. says, in in weekly commercial re- Time Comewskialfsha lugs sow remold their regular move ment. TM astirity whieh begs* to develop hest shout s nee* since saes farther progress every week. The shop are laying la err &mongrels, ht the elpsolation of a good winter mass* ; and tgom amentsotarars who, 'meteor sold off this old stooks, an short of goods In mt/ohms: Ind theologw obliged to pat on extra hands, to ardor to meg ohs harm sad foreign Essasod. Than Is a good deg of bps*, kr *Maio ergots. foe sapodilla', and In mess imam assay brimless of industry whioh have long boa gsgasat sex now oho** coaddavale sotivity. Advkes tan flea grogaoss are ralidsetery. Important orders for the United Stales sad the Brazils have ban ghee at Lyons and ec Bliseas. Saw are Wish at Mulhomem and Room ; some the meankstarsee are 'Mang somewhat higher rates for gawky dims, bat prises are still not eery remaasmang on acoaant of the soatinowl rise In the prim of the =mann- Motored siege. TM qmoilioll' of credit I. now the only dillooky r the way of • thorough revival of Mathew Neanteeturers very generally prefer to decline orders rather then mode them, if long credit is proposed ; and in mars oases they require part payment in cash. Even in this re. sprit, however, theirs is a decided improvement within the list two mouths. The lest crisis swept sway many week houses, and tarnished the means of judging of the solidity of those width rudeled the shook. There Is great activity is our serports. This is proved by the 11110110110 Or goods trek on the runways. Peas are rising In all the comer dal towns; It was shown by the last custom-hoses retinue that stocks in the entry6ta have greatly diminished. Cereals are again lower in all the markets. It is now an ascertained fact that the harvest of 1858 Is {SW Of In point of quentil7 to that of 1857, but them is still a best deal of ol d oath in hand. Although we receive coullicting opinion' tram like wine countries, and although the vines have staked in curtain localities, the vintage will certainly be very abun dant. The grapes will be gathered from a fortnlebt to three weeks earlier than uausl, and that is a great meson for hoping that the wine of 1868 will be of supertor quality. The reports which the Prefects make annually to the oounoils general concerning the state of their , departments give very various accounts of the result of the harvest (recoils) using the word as' applicable, not to the corn crop only, but to agri cultural produce of all kinds. The Prefect of the Rhone says that although the crops "may not have realised all the hopes which were at one moment conceived, yet they promise sufficient and even in some respects satisfactory malts." The Prefect of the Hants Vienne affirms that "the crops of every kind are magnificent, they realise every hope, and richly reward the labours of the agriculual populations." He promises that bread this year shall be cheap everywhere. A violent contrast to this sanguine view is to be found in the address of the Prefect of the Lot, who thus I had hoped to have been able to congratulate myseur without reserve apon the &ban dana of the crops. Cereals are, indeed, plentiful, but the incredible pestilence of the drought com pletely destroyed a great part of those second growths which are so precious that they may be called the poor man's harvest; and even the brilliant hopes which the rich promise of our vines justified us in entertaining are dashed from the same cause." The Prefect of the Boucher-do-Rhone announces that the harvest is not so good as last year, but that it is nevertheless " satisfactory." The Prefect of the Oise observes that the farmers have suf fered both from the dry weather and from the want of hands. He states, however, that oereais have not been so much injured by the drought as the green Grope. It must be remembers& that in a great country like Franco, eamp re risen p . e t many climates and latitudes, agricultural ar from different departments could not possibly ble calved if they were alt alike. Ido not, howeyeei, think that this consideration sufficiently accounts for the very great discrepancy in the opinions of the Prefects. Probably some of them coetinise to act upon the rule established at the foundation of the empire, that everything was to be represented couleur de rose, without reference to facts ; while others think the time has come when truths net immediately bearing upon dynastic points may safely be told. _ . _ _ The Petrie, notwithstanding the caution which, I believe, it has received, protests against that part of the Count de Persigny's speech which advocates the maintenance of the present laws on the press; it particularly objects to the system of warnings, with all its oppressive useertainty. The Utsiois gives the following version of the affair of the protestant, arrested at Matabenge In the town fa questicm them was a military sot-intendant, • embus protereast. This functionary, being desirous to open • plead worship In the town, where there never had existed any protestant ampegatioe, anooseded in collecting • certain number of signalmen, •tad wag to the mayor is order le obtain the requisite perrelmion to amemble with the perms who had even their signatures sad a protestant =Water. The mayor granted the authorisation ; but the Praha of the Nord, Wog informed of all the circumstances of the roes, revoked the mayor's decree Notwithstanding this, the military eats-Intandent and the protestant minister persisted is bolding meetings for the purposes of worship with wee weelheee. The prefer* caused the house of meeting to be semoteedid by the polioe,said the persona wi.hiu to he arreSed. larlorNeg the rob-Wadded and the minister. It le pro bable they will be promoted for holding illegal meetings. A Paris correspondent of the Ind4pendance of Brussel, thus alludes to the same subject : " " I can inform you that order, have base gives to reheat the four meow hwarawated, but that thew pelage, awe of whose le the raiskter, refire to leave the prime. ead Nur ptleally feast that a judield deoldes es the .s shradd be glum The tessoisree team elites. the pools& teats vomit affairs, adopted by cadge of the enivyeetest et Amass, who weet 7 te Kallboodll her lbws sweented. The assuming*/ the division hut ewes Is Peale ca the sodded. The queen**, after all, is way staple: skim the protestant. had obwrved the tersellthe imposed es reilitous iweelage, sad is that ease the Dona *nary who send spinet than seseeded Ids duty, est should be pwebhed ; or they bad stet observed these Ise sends; and la that owe their roceplehtts ere uwhwelai, So far u regards the dry law of the case, the sew chiding observation of the above letter is perfectly jug. But the for were important question sug gested is—in what spirit are the laws of Priam which are supposed to gtuinuttee the free exercise of religious worship to be administered in &tars ? The military °Meer who got up the congregation is spoken of in an odious Genie as a " se dons pro testant." Well, I suppose none but aealoves protes tant. are likely to take the initiative of founding a chapel, and yet the zeal of this gentleman is ths !Oily aplt reapon why the Prefect of A vesnes went out his lay to revoke the authorisation granted by the 4payor. This event is the first fruits of the Bator's declaration to the priests in Brittany o *ltifis "accepted" the principle of tolera tion. The matter will doubtless be explained away to the satisfaction of superficial obssyypen,_ blit it kt 'ay important: -: ----: • - - Maezini's journal, the Italia del Perdi t ion owed to appear, being at length 'rushed stodurjhoweight -1 il lielAV l A9i4 lll ,l4,Mfft4KradegOlkinDurt•- • A *tura& in yesterday's! Gehlessissi Molise to Lord Lunen has tolled forth the following letter from his lordship, who is now in Paris, to the editor of that journal : It is amt tree, as oared into your paper of Koedip, that I Ist* bed the opportan4 el making the acqueinamee of him* Gertabakoe at &via, and of oceiversing With hint ca the allots of the late wet, Had it been so, It meld sourely, I think, be fairly Brestuasd, es you presume, that I should have explained She repediemoy of the light cavalry charge at Balakiirea, when it is so weli-inisers that I objected to and remonstrated against it previous to Its execution, and have expired my strongest disappro bation of it on every occasion dam I cannot doubt that whilst that very diciagnished and aide general Prince Gortchskoff world equally dieapprove of the expedisaci of that movement, he would not the lees omen, In the opinion held by all the highest military authorities everywhem, that for me, a divisional sod subordinate general, thee was no optics, but an imperative obligati's' to obey, sad terry out the positive sad written instruotices of Lord Raglan, who was my commander-in- &Wahl litho was preaset.—l am, ITALY. TEE TWO SICILIES. (rum ov* °wit NAPLICS, AUGUST 24. The correspondents of the daily press are discuss. log the probabilities of the return of tag British and French Legation to 'N I NA .10. 00 1 are those probabilities founded? On the yielding of th e Western Powers, or of the Neapolitan Government ? Neither the honour of the former Powers permits it, nor do their Lettuces require it. Will the latter power yield? I doubt It; but if eke does, to what extent will it be P That is an important snbjest for eossidaration, for I foresee that the time will come when she will be driven to make some concessions, end that then every opportunity will be taken. to satisfy the expectations of England and Frans at the least possible 'mace. An someety has been meek talked of. • Now an amnesty with out political changes and guarantees is worth nothing ; it would give freedom from imprisonment to certain suffering individuals, but would confer no good on the nation. The power of the government to commit the lame abaus and cruelties would re. main the same, and the same motives to discon ' tent, exuparation, and coespirsey wield exist SI strong as ever. Do not imagine that the Neapolitans will be intimidated by past sufferings from renew ing their efforts to gain their liberties, for such a supposition would be bistirricaUy erroneous; and the probabilities , ere that an amnesty would soon be followed by fresh deadest:se dons and fresh arrests.. Another view of the case is this—that an enlarged amnesty with. out political change would expose the country to the chances of commotion, and perhaps the life of the sovereign to danger. Men smarting under such injuries ae do many who are now in prison would be neither very prudent nor very moral, and if they found themselves and their country in the same poli tical position as when they were at the commence ment of their arrest they would strike a blow for liberty be assured. An amnesty without great poli tical changes, therefore, would be se dangerous that I regard it u an impossibility ; and as his Majesty, in the true spirit of the Bourbons, will never concede the latter, depend on it he will never grant the former—that is to up, on a very enlarged basis. As to a change of men, whilst the same power pulls the wires it hi drivelling to speak of it as • change for the better. , ; Almost my last letter informed you that dump manta were being made for the marriage of the here. ditary prince, and that directions were even given to urge forward the preparations for the royal palace. Now again they have been suspended, or a esnaiderable, relaxation is manifested in the eitecu. tile at the orders, and the inference is that some other obstacle has arisen to the completion of those long talked-of espousals.. Indeed, amongst certain members of the royal family it is said that the mar riage will not now take place until January; perhaps this is a gentle way of letting down the whole matter. I believe that throughout the negotiations such extraordinary conditions have been insisted upon, that, taken in conjunction with the singularly unpromising aspect of affairs in the country, some considerable hesitation is felt in pur suing them any further. The Piedmontese papers assert that the whole affair is abandoned. I am not in a position to speak so decidedly, but from the facts I mention you can draw some probable con clusion. As straws show which way the wind blows, so the following incident declares plainly enough what is the spirit which animates the Government of the Two Sicilia.. In 1848 there was one journal in Salerno, the second city in the continental part of the Two Sicilia'. It was suppressed, of come, when the reaction took place. Recently an attempt has been made to get op another. The editorship was placed in the hands of two or three priests and an advocate. What objection could be made if Holy Mother Church had a finger in the pie ? Expectation was all alive, but the In tendente was iIL At last his excellency, by royal permission, got well, and license was demanded to start a literary journal. The license was, however, refined I and the youth of Salerno may go on u usual, smoking, and trifling, and lounging in the cafes. That is the life of a young man in this country. He may not think nor read, but he may do everything eke which tends to sink the indivi dual and national character. It is saoh a country that the Neapolitan government and the Holy Church can govern with the least difficulty, and therefore the cry here will always be, " Evil, be thou my good." From a report of the statistics of mortality in the capital, I find that from January Ist to August 15th, in • settled population of 460,000, or, reckoning provincials and foreigners, 600,000, SAS deaths have occurred. In the same interval of time, 1,600 infants have been received at the Foundling Hos pital (the Annunciate), of whom 200 have died. What the causes of this great morality may Writ would be difficult to specify; but doubtless the low state of medical skill is not an inooneiderable one, and the little value which is attached to human life, as may be attested by the negligence which is shown often by medical attendants. Bad sewerage, too, mast produce the worst effects, for there are certain quarters which in the summer are perfectly uninha bitable, and they are generally those quartets to which the English throng in order to have a file view. In some degree the last evil is caries* enough a police question, for last year last bete* the fête of Pit di Grotta, certain of the sewers in Chiatamon were blocked up, under the impression that evil-minded men might have concealed thesi selves in order to lay violent hands on the King. Nature, however, avenged herself, and at the begin ning of winter the whole street was broken up by the accumulation of the sewage, and considerable damage done to public and private property. Since writing the above I have been warned against trusting too much to the reports that the royal marriage will not take place. This is ems tray to the fact, say some, who affirm that they an in the secret. Perhaps, say they, the report is spread about by the police of a court which tumbles at every novelty. The apartments of the late Queen-Mother are being decorated; but, as they will not be ready until the commencement of the new year, the loyal pair will occupy the Palace a the Favorite, it is said, near Portici. Her Mejek has asked for a separate apartment for her ded son also. Her ambition, or maternal affeetfila seeks to place him on a par with the hereditary Primo., and some months have elapsed sines I eanoemeed to you th it the young Prince had boat, permitted to be present at the Councils of Stets. YILLOW FITZ' AT FICRILOL—BOAILD Or nal; WEITIZ ALL. AI7OOIIT 80.—Tbe tir mi neeemeble al• Lade of the Committee of Privy kft Poi* sid. _ liumestices tome readval, tie gemormip d Sidi lie Podia Albin, • espy el a fram hr Illejelifil fifer. et Wow empeellos Iltelleen lel Boma 11/ ar bend ea wiat deelsilig lb port el Teel le le via pile* Mier, eel roes the o4reie i i olf Commes me weaer" oe Mr • Illawar a Wes Swim smillot Ila - Tailigilleilaldelliegie tie port ot ill* memidimod %Amble/IS the pima, mad Ile pat gl le los emorsossi.-4asift FRENCH SISTERS OF CHARITY IN PORTUGAL. Our cast &comb from Lisbon described some dia• graceful manifestations which had taken place in that capital against some French Sisters of Charity who had settled there in order to educate children. A letter, addressed to the Courrier du Dimastche, has the following particulars on the subject : The French govenunsat has demanded explanations from • the cabinet of Lisboa, and the latter, after having replied to the French minister at that capital in a manner which appeared to him eatlefeotory, addressed to the Porta-. geese ChargE d'Affaires to Paris a dispatch of which the following to an analysis:—The minister heights by summing up the original causes of the disturb sacs, which lie attributes to the tons in which the jour nals have treated the question of admitting Sisters of Cheeky in Portugal, a tone calculated to irritate public feel leg sad to give rime to criminal manifestations. The govern ment expresses (kelt deeply afflicted at these attempts, awl declares that It immediately took the necessary measures for their-repression ; bat that, notwithstanding the greatest seal, tiles Yes yenteea impossible to diecover the parties who, on the list of July, threw Maw at two nun► coming out of the church of I. Loel. dee Freassle. Another nun having sabesquently ban the object of similar video," the persons who sommitted it had beret Immediately arrested end deli vered over to Justice. In ecaolndon, the dispatch moon-- made the &wird traffairei to do everything in hispower tts' j moue the French government of the deep regret the We toper government hale at whet hes tam place; and of its breed intention to punish the guilty, end to take prima tine esloskted to prevent the repetition of mob moms. SPAIN. The Madrid newspapers of the 26th state that the Queen, who had returned to Gijon, was expected in the &curial on the 17th September. The Diario, an organ of the existing cabinet, formally accusal the Nocedal and Narvaez Cabinets of having been guilty of gross irregularities in the purchase of breadstuff. on acoount of the scarcity, in the grant of the Mirds loan, and in other matters. The postal treaty with Ragland is to come into effect in October. Orders had been sent to Cadiz to • prepare two corvettes and some smaller vessels for Cuba, and to collect large quantities of rations. A letter says : " " ' It has bentStatid that the government 1, about to ;sad from 2,000 to 3,000 men to Cuba to 011 up the vaceardes is the garrison mused by death or sickness. The troops will Nehmen among the healthiest and most robust. Tbsmestiets depots of volunteers for coloatel service is the barge tellels. They 'apply a oessidereble isobar of mentits to spooks of distress, or when there is say rumour of war; thus at the time when there was some probability of a war with Mexico the applications at the recruiting-aloe were amorous. But now that than is little likelihood of • Spanish expedition against that country, and that distress is not great, the re cruiting bee become slack. Another lance says One of the morning riots, in the coarse of an article en the iseaadty of some reform in the Mattel system, mhos to the !appointment of Prince Napoleon to the retialetry of the micelles bekaging to the French empire., sad seggette that a Spanish prince should be =trusted with the adaillstration of the colonies which Spain still preemie: The pettboo allsded to is Dan Henry, became to the Kit* Consort. His Royal Highness belongs to the naval proleadon, and own, as talialisihr et • ear& frigate, aoinitted himself to the satia• heti= of the marine department. At the epoch of the rears palm, 41'1354, he manifested volplane of political stithiticar, peteated himself at • great democratic Ws** at the Calm& theatnt, hat was net secured by the reallatienery party at In ray way avails. /Yee that epoch Y has Ts mind la sompotothe abossilly, oad It is act Shilly that the govitomos4 sobilibitosibe lien mooloososidies nod% io &rod lommoro Mit Moo it, as loom his adieu owl ioJoiligono ohosooior be wadi goolokir only odd be the ompilsolim r dfdwitb then ma Wilmot to the 'troupe georsesta in thh podia & . . Atßainslona, twenty worinieniuten been arrested and expelled for attempUog to excite workmen to create disturbances, and the men on strike had re turned to work. A letter says: It would appear that the Queen-Mother Imes set lost hops of returning to Spain ; indeed, the Wiwi whisk was se strong against her has moth subsided, though h le not ow- Min that it would not break out again U her palace were to become, as before, the rendezvous of a oonaMerabls party. The Fenix her Majesty's organ, this morning reminds the country that Queen Christina has always beau a irked to oonstitotional govarnment in Spain, and that It was as who in'yoduoad it. This attitude of the Queen-Mother Y s naga claae one in the present state of parties. . . . . Spanish journals state flit in Aragon Once have been extnsin inundations, which hays dons gnat damage to the fields and roads. EGYPT. By a despatch from Trieste of the 30th, accounts have been received that a plot, formed by some Nue 'alma= foe the purpose of overthrowing the govern ment, had been discovered at Alexandria. Four pachu and several superior officers had been ar rested. Two of the principal conspirators have been confined in the fortress of Aboukir. MOLDAVIA. A letter from Jamey of the 18th, in the Mats Oasette, says : Oar liteisiry is Dow maple& It k osrapssal as fol lows :—llialater of the interior, the Oreed Lopata*, Akio Wier de &kelt; Ramos, Psrsjod de Balsa; Jodi* Nerds Melanoma ; Haim= of the Uilit4, George Gies; Pablia Works, Alsxasidff (Mika; Pablis lastrastin, Pries Dusisidas de Osktoosaaas; eserstary of Brats, Jess Coate awoke ; Predict of Polio, Swill Meso. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OP THE EAGLE. (ft r►DIITIC TILICIRAPI.) CMOS OVA OWN 00/lAUSensmon LIVERPOOL, WIDNISDAY The E tgl• arrived is the Mersey We aboeniag. She htR lfsibeanos oa the 14th X.y, sod for bed a very keg pooloss. Rot dose are, of costes, satielpoboi by the most striffwele. She betas, 26,914 ca. of pitta the kikowtog peal.:—Bask of Auttrelosia, 104661 ca.; Beak of New Eel& Weise, 9,991 es. ; Stab of Vittoria, 5,934 as ; tad • mesa a 297 os. The loafs briap a loop I amber of perigees. • WEST IND The Orisoso, Col Liestenent lag with the West I Her dates are Vet Amides, 9 ; Denten Bhe bas breughi her oil*. is "sae 929,604 dollars of dollars in gold. f elellers agt 'meant a • HALO: ships Del ;asps were Vies Venn. the Leek Ls Gears : Ia Imam much Sian, mid it is expo *Wane* in Nora passed Orr the ford of last sesseea rend disallowed by the C matter little is doin abundant and eellin had been hot and ir sugar is likely to be At Tampico, Gene for the government troops, and unless hi bis allegiance will a and it is expected <I without mach resist+ hi. favour. Vera CI war to the govern seised the customs' British minister has and no specie can b that there are from I in Mexico ready to are safe. THE BRITISH H.M.S. Ganges e July for Callao, to / President of Peru, The Calypso leas pros provisions and store and Plumper, survey at Panama, and abo collect freight. The expects to be ordere Aril.= sou daily - e Amethyst and Pylad, India ind China. CENT] At Pumas great k Awitn!liasi mails wa United States troops; Isthmus of Panama. BRITIt The Californian ; The news is conflict everything tends to a =amit of gold. Q recently arrived at di A small screw pr Frazer River. A gentleman from River on purpose to diggings there. At at work, earning fret At Paget Sound-bar earning from eight it bar ha found 700 me to fifty dollars be found 200 min twenty dollars a de , all along the river wg At Lell2-bar, a fine log river is slowly falling, big strikes will be may worked with sluices an , with fish. A month's were on hand attidrvi SANDWI From the tilaadvrieh rumoured that a Lading at ma Nine 'mewl y :;11ttougheat the Midi CHILI _ _ From Chili we lean _ be established in the ships in passing throe, the distance from Bur government of Chili from the north of Et Magellan. The general impree tills will be elected P/ From Bolivia the no tares administration i THE CHAP PLY The Channel fleet, mantle, emulating of Braoswiek, Diadeni arrived this evening f TSB FIENCI The rot (law reps :—" The tam 111,00 t to the pompom wto dipiorpoo /or wow. Ito . dn i o e ro °taloa salsra t p t i tt o l at Mk ease Ram maated =other, sad Vale wide/took to prow Wile be peld down, the Oweet Vale, herb se he de aleald be elaweeemod, bat at t • ildtetkaad the Realm 1 WNW that \shad gam INK. hat Ran he bent arm/. Re wee shoat te a haw heat the meat 'whist Rambo - awe gift the well, %ma yaw ern Ramo. he Naiad so order. R eillakt eum 2 P0•01 & bat eatthe Re ewe the . iratre LK= b lila .`•rotreltete_ _settil aeboblize, mea ,Ilhat the eider was air% ift etlda Themile • eat he ma dy e d, so _res her ot ridiftk he mad lie I tritale %Igat:ei "" fit Oottat awl ta hhepotrate of kol of Maimed ybhll.,be ardor of the p mema =sd to be g sad whiot et the title Uwe of the Order _torah 'The wi-diese • 611 ra • Philhellene] ,reit tad et all the Ger: "'or Pawed by th e i mbhimid air dm:LT. T ht/ ap _ l te aw. rtvdi a tax Lems -- v Gr a me um e to the Emperor *" A young Tank," od a sultolio ,tia le& lo Moses*, T i . As she sh ou ld b ee 7 4 PM ha' riadieesi row, 'noel- Prah IffiPtioes i emed areM eht tim tad . h a e r ind l.,thwahwt lb. t have free sears heUe n rintf. d tral" % h./ ba r:MU hi ises tr i sr i v °it t he,_ _Pan of tts, • ui oraistry