The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

gfte eV/Pre/SO* TO 00B.LBSPONDINTS. orferthemeate intended foe "The Ixpr•sa," Leedom livening =DMA be at the 001oe, 10, loavedeetrest, by Two ic on the day of publication. tillteEtall Ivoini& THE nictulicyr . 6APTAIII. Maim Vining, and G. Now ; Vises Nellsos, Augusts Thorson, and Mn. Ildrlbm,—Lod Qvlxr LODGING& BRITANNLL Tea Emma THE JOLLY DOOR OF LONDON; OR, TWO ROADS OF urr—lfiss ljdia Wiener. Hear Saamal u s i lr u mn, and Master I Sandera—And TEI DUSTMAN'S OE, WEGG AND THE BMW& HIGH WATER AT LONDON =MGR TRW DAY —llloentng, lb. Tin Attasom, ea. elm. TO4l.ol3oW—Morniag, 7b. Um Aftersoos, 7b. Om LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. IN the seven days which ended on Saturday, July 28, 1,253 persons of all ages died in London of choleraic disease. Three-fourths of this morta lity, the Registrar-General tells us, took place in what is essentially the port of London, the part which is inhabited by its maritime population. The area of this mortality extends all along the north side of the Thames, from the River Lea and the Isle of Dogs to the Tower of London. Lime house-basin and the Regent's-canal form the cen tral line of the region of attack, which stretches as far north as Victoria Park. The district thus included embraces about one-fourteenth part of the area of the metropolis, and, owing to the excessive crowding which prevails, one-seventh part of its population. The cholera field draws its supply of water from the East London Water works. We have indicated here the essential facts con nected with this outbreak—a crowded district, with a neceasarily poor population ; a water sup ply, intermittent as are all water supplies in Lon don, and derived from the open river Lea. The connexion of sudden and severe outbreaks of cholera with a poisoned water supply has been placed by scientific investigation beyond the region of conjecture. The association is an established fact. The Registrar-General, in his significant allusion to the subject, has drawn down upon him self an indignant reply from the Engineer of the East London Waterworks Company, who, while'. endeavouring to disprove the possibility of river pollution, makes this statement, " That although " taken from the Lea at Lea-bridge the " waters of that river have been . . . protected " from impurity by intercepting drains and other " wise, as high as Enfield, which is several miles " above Lea-bridge ; and the water, although " locally taken by the company from the river " some two or three miles above Lea-bridge, has, " in fact, the purity of Enfield, where the river "is running in a purely rural district." We have no doubt whatever of the bond fide character of this statement ; but at the same time it is an expression of opinion, not of fact, and we do not concur in it. We do not believe that it is pos sible by any scheme of " intercepting drains " and otherwise " to protect an open river from the danger of pollution. As regards the water at Lea-bridge possessing the purity of Enfield, that may or may not be an advantage. Enfield lies some seven or eight miles above Lea bridge, but the river Lea rises many miles above Enfield, and is constantly bringing down to it any accidental impurity that may have found its way into the stream. Lea-bridge looks to Enfield for its safety. Quin eustodiet ipso. cusfodes J The strength of a rope is the strength of its weakest part, and who will guarantee the purity of the Lea above Enfield What cholera may be in other climates is not much to our purpose. In England, at least, sudden and malignant outbreaks, affecting simul taneously whole families and entire streets, have been traced most surely to polluted water supply. The disease once acquired can be propagated in various methods, but there seems the strongest reason to believe that the poison, however con veyed, is always swallowed. People who go amongst dying cholera patients, breathing the same air day after day, but being careful to receive upon themselves no accidental impurity from the sick, do not take cholera. Small-pox, scarlatina, measles, rinderpest, there is equally strong reason to suppose, may pervade the air about a patient, and, by being inhaled, may convey, through the medium of the lungs, the infection to a healthy person. There is literally no evidence to support such a mode of propagation in cholera. There is very considerable evidence to show that cholera discharges, soaking into a drinking well or polluting I any water supply, will, under circumstances the ; exact bearingof which is not equally determined, pro- I duce the disease in a person who swallows the water. And there is also strong evidence to show that the poison contained in such discharges, by soiling the hands of those engaged about patients, may be accidentally swallowed with the food, which, under these circumstances, is hurriedly swallowed, and but too often without care in using the necessary precautions of excessive cleanliness. In September last year we described an out break of cholera at Theydon-Bois, near Epping. Within a fortnight, with no cholera previously in the neighbourhood, eleven persons became in rapid succession attacked by the disorder. We ventured at the time, before any investigation was made, to predict with confidence that a communication would befound between the drainageof the houseand the well whence water was obtained. In the eighth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council quite recently published the details of the investi gation of that outbreak are described. Mr. J. N. Rancurre was deputed by Mr. &sow to inquire into the circumstances, and this was the result of his in qu iry . A gentleman who spent a /reek in Weymouth early in Await, awl visited loth Portland and Dorchester, contracted during that week a diarrhea, which on his return home de veloped into cholera. The disease, therefore, must have existed in August at one or other of those places. Mr. G. and his wife, inhabitants of Theydon-Bois, lodged at Weymouth for seventeen days from the Bth September, visited Portland on the 22nd, and Dorchester on the 23rd, returning home on the 25th. On the evening of the 23rd Mr. G. was seized with choleraic diarrhoea. His wife, during the journey, suffered from similar symptoms, increasing to cholera, of which she even tually died at home on October 11. In succession, beginning on September 30, a daughter died of cholera, a page in the house had a narrow escape, the doctor died after ten hours' illness, another daughter was attacked, and recovered. On October 5, a maid-servant was attacked, and even tually died, and a labourer who worked on the premises fell a victim also. On the 6th, Mr. G., who had rallied from his first attack, was again seized with symptoms, and died in fifteen hours. On the same day his son was attacked, but recovered, and the grandmother died of the disease. On the 10th, a woman who lived near, and had laid out the body of the labourer, was I attacked, and soon died. In this short but event ful history circumstances surely pointed to the _ . rich master of the household and his wife as the )us originators of the destruction. examination was made i t was found that " all the " drinking water of the house came from a well " beneath the floor of the scullery ; and isgo that " well there was habitual soakage from the water " closet." In such a case as this lies the key, if it be only calmly considered, not only to the cause of outbreaks of cholera, but to their prevention. The pollution of the well, be it remarked, had long gone on. It was only when the specific cho lera poison was introduced into it by the invalid master and mistress on their return from an in fected district that the disease became rife. Then those who drank of the water became affected ; and others, like the doctor and the woman who laid out the corpse, swallowed, in all human pro bability, impurities which they had acquired in the pursuit of their duties. It is customary to view the approach of cholera with more than ordinary rpprehension, and to imagine that more than ordinary mystery attends the phenomena of its invasion. In reality, we be lieve that, passing over the difficulty of explaining why its attacks upon a country should be periodical instead of persistent, the remaining circumstances are clearer than those belonging to most other , diseases. A poison, invisible and organic, is intro duced into the country. Thanks to the crowd ing, destitution, miserable water supply, and ignorance of a population which is always seek ing to remedy rather than prevent disease, the remainder is all easy to explain. We beleve most confidently that by acting rpon a knowledge of these well-ascertained facts, and with a careful ness on the part of nurses such as would be em ployed if they were meddling with a known poison like strychnine, for example, the risk of acquiring cholera may be reduced to something exceedingly small. Let no one drink water which has not been boiled and filtered, and let those employed in the care of the sick remember that cleanlines is to them another term for life. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) BENSON, J. W., by SPECIAL APPOINT mom to H.Y.H. tie Prism ot WALT& BENSON, J. W., PRIZE MEDAL, LONDON, Clue Si. B EM"' PEIZI =DAL, DUBLIN, iiNl WAtCHES CHRONOGRAPH, 'snail. IENSON'3 WATCHES, CHRONOKETICA, Dunu. B ENSON'S WATCHES, LEVER, REPILTIM. B ENS WATCHES, Sent Site by Post, BENSON'S WATCH PAMPHLET, . M. BENSON, OLD BOND-STREET, and WESTBOVENVOROVL BMaON'S STEAM FACTORY, Ludgate-ML MAPPIN BROTHERS. —Eitabliahed A.D. 1810. CHICSTSof SILVERPLATE for theCOIDNEES, CUTLIE.Y and SILVER PLATE for 717151811DiG. WPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT STRUT. Tl - 18- , EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT scremanow. Referring to the state of Ireland when the late government introduced the Lill fur the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, the Times remarks that the object of the present government in asking for a con- , tinuation of its suspension is not so much to give the government the power to make new arrests as to enable it to keep in prison • number of persons who have been already apprehended. Since the act came into operation 756 persons have been arrested, of whom about 320 still remain, upwards of 400 having been already released. Although the conspiracy has been crushed, it cannot be I seriously contended that Ireland is in a state when ex traordinary powers for dealing with the agents of treason can be denied to the executive. The con sequent, of allowing the present act to expire at the beginning of the recess, and of giving the Fenian six months for the uncontrolled practice of their schemes, might be serious enough. No sooner would the let of September arrive than the maahinations of last winter would begin again. The three hund-ed incorrigible treason-mongers who are now in gaol would be circulating I throughout the country before • month was over ; they would be joined by scores of delegates of Stephens and Roberts from America, and all the trouble of last year would be renewed. After recommending the government to prepare remedial measures during the recess, the Times says that by next session we shall be able to see whether Ireland is fit to return to the normal state of a oonstitu tionally governed country. Three or four years ago, observes the Daily News, we were exceedingly sensitive to the least abridgment of the securities which the law provides for the liberty of the subject, and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act was regarded as one of the gravest of public evils. But that was during the American war ; and our interest in the question was speculative or sympathetic. Last February we consented to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland with so much eagerness that those members of parliament who ventured to delay the passage of the ministerial bill for an hour to speak of the state of Ireland were spoken of as if they had proved themselves sympathisers with Fenianism. Th e circumstances under which the suspension of the act was asked for in last February differ from those under which the continuance of that suspension was demanded last night, because during the last six months Ireland was administered under the eye of parliament. A very strong case should be made out to justify the suspension whilst parliament is not sitting. Arrests on the information of spies, followel by " careful inquiries " with closed doors, may vindicate power, but they cannot exalt the law in the eye of the subject. Lord Naas declared that nothing but the most absolute necessity for the continuance of the powers granted at the beginning of the session would have induced the government to ask for theirrenewaL But he admits that a great improvement has taken place in the state of Ireland. " Fenienism," he says, " is to a great extent dying away." The Daily News regrets that Mr. Gladstone lent his great influence to the government for the purpose of this mea sure, and regards the tendency manifested in the speeches of some of the members of government last night, to look upon the constitution as • peace constitution, to be thrown I overboard, with all its guarantees, on the Ann alarm, as • real danger of these times. The Post looked but looked in vain for something in the statement of Lord Nan to justify the continuance of the suspension. Fenianism in Ireland, Lord Naas assures us, has almost died out ; there is little or no political excite ment ; and the Irish Secretary is gratified at being able to inform parliament and the country that there is no pro f spect of an Irish rebellion. Crime also, be is happy to say, is at its minimum, and the nation, considered collectively, is orderly and well disposed. But, nevertheless, Ireland cannot yet be trusted with a constitutional government. Mr. Gladstene's argument practically amounted to this— that the Irish people had endured an arbitrary govern. meat so lung, it would be • matter of indifference to them if compelled to endure it • little lesser. The bill of last eight was the second purely Irish measure to which the House of Commons has given its assent during the present session. It is needless to remind the public that the first measure was that act of suspension of which the mooed is the counterpart. If the English nation should hays for gotten this eneszeshanor, it is not probable that the Irish people will be equally oblivions. Such has been the sans totals! invests& • legislation for Ireland during the year 1866. The prolongation el the suspeesion of the Habeas Carpus Act in biked, moved for by Lied Naas last night, is, in the opinion of the druid, en soknowledgmens c the wisdom of the policy of the late government in resor ting to' n extraordinary measure in the presence of a seditious agitation which compromised the safety of the mister country and threatened the security of the lives and pro perty of loyal subjects. What has taken place in Canada, and what is still going on in America, shows that Fenian ism is not dead, and the government wars therefore justi fied in proposing the bill of last night. OZZILINT AND ITALY. Commenting on the results of the recent war and the preliminaries of peace, the Times observes so far as Austria can have anything to say to the contrary, or so far as any porter wed of the Rhine or east of the Vistula has any means to gainsay it, Prussia can from this moment, and relying on the terms of these prelims- nicks, annex every inch of German territory, and she makes, indeed, no mystery of her power to do so. The work of Count Bismarck, so much more colossal and momentous than that of the Italian statesman Carper, may show that the unification of Germany will produce results even more beneficial to the world. The alternative lies between the " Divine rights " of Princes and the vital interests of their people ; be tween thirty-six reigning Houses, whose sove reign rank was at the best of times nominal, and a nation of thirty-six millions which is anxious to take its place in the European concert, and has all the will and power to maintain it. Bismarck sees the horizon widen ing before him as he advances ; he feels the ground more solid beneath his feet at every step. Crisping as Prussian policy may appear to us, it is eminently patriotic in Ger ms& eyes, and German opinion is fast setting in Count Elsmarck's favour, whether he carries everything before him by his sole absolute will, or whether he deems it ex pedient to seek the sanction of a national parliament. Mae important addendum to the statement of the pesos preliminaries previously furnished is, the Tat- MA remarks, that whereas Prussia was at fast said to have been guaranteed a specific annexation of territory detached from various States, she now appears free to absorb, ►t her own discretion, the whole territory of the States in question. The importance of this dis tinction may be inferred from the fact, that those which she now oocupies—Hanover, the Hawes, Nassau, and Brunswick embrace an area of about 23,000 square miles, and a population of nearly four mil lions. Add to those possessions the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, the free city of Frankfort, and the reversion of some smaller principalities, and some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the altered kingdom, which will extend from the Niemen to the Ems and the Rhine, and without a break, except the little Duchies of Meck lenburg, from Jutland to Gelicia. The war, observes the Star, is closed by the imposition upon Austria of probably the sternest terms ever imposed during modern history by one great belligerent upon another. Another Seven Years' War, even were Austria doomed throughout to a perfect monotony of defeat, could not have brought upon her conditions of peace more nearly approaching to abject submission. She has to give up everything for which she could possibly have had to con tend, and to pay heavily for the privilege of being beaten. She goes out of Germany and consents to recognise the new sovereignty made by the young rival which has con quered and expelled her. The people of Italy, the Daily News says, are in a state of extreme irritation. The acquisition of Venetia, the object for so many years of sacrifice and effort, seems sa nothing while the army and navy lack that lustre of achievement which it was eonfidently expected would illustrate their entrance upon the war. This suscep tibility is highly honourable to the Italians, and is a pledge that the shortcomings now manifest will be repaired. The Daily News, however, trusts its Italian contempo raries will not remind it of the case of Admiral Byng. They may depend on it that the shortcomings of their navy are not to be set down to say one, or two, or half a dozen persons. Those deficiencies denote something wrong in the administrative system of the Italian navy, the cure of which is to be sought, in a free country, in the forma tion of a habit of publicity, and if the defeat at Lissa should lead the Italians to take an interest in their army and navy as intelligent as it is enthusiastic, it may prove to be not the worst thing that could have happened to young and hopeful nation. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF 001010N8—Atiotnre 2. HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND) ACT Wire Court. 'sip • • , • 4 , - .. • osßoitetz, Atrair2. The Queen and Princess Louise drove °Ars terdsy afternoon, and the Princess Leiningen visited bar Majesty. The Earl of Carnarvon arrived et Osborne, and, with Lieutenant-General Hon. Charles Grey and Mrs. and Miss Grey, had the honour of dining with the Queen. Major... General F. Hugh Seymour and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat have succeeded Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey and Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge as Equerries in Waiting. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of cholera. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northoote' the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and the Right Han H. T. L. Corry. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Lumley, attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Scott have left Montagu House, Whitehall, for Bowhill. _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercom and the Ladies Hamilton leave Chesterfield Houma at the close of the ensuing or early in the following week, for Ireland. The Earl of Romney leaves town to-morrow for Mote Park, near Maidstone, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Lord idhaven have left the Clarendon Hotel for Scotland. Lady Emily Peel has arrived at her residence in Switzerland. _ _ The Hon. Henry and Mrs. Walpole have left town for Italy. Sir F. Bathurst and Lady Bathurst have arrived at the Queen', Hotel, tipper Norwood. _ _ . . . , . .. Sir Richard and Lady Buxton have arrived at Foresees's Hotel, from the Continent. . . Mr. and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn have arrived at Pencarrow from their residence in Grosvenor-sire* Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard have left Farrance's Hotel for Aahe High Home, Wickham Market. THE LABOUR PRNSION FUND IN FRANCE. The project recommended in the Emperor's let ter on this subject is favourably regarded by several of the Paris journals. The France expresses itself in these terms :—" The Social Institution, founded by the liberal initiative of the Emperor for the profit of wounded workmen, responds to a great moral interest and a grand principle of public assistance. It continues the series of numerous institutions of forethought and charity which con stitute one of the noblest creations of the present reign, It is a fresh testimonial of sympathy for the working populations. The Emperor invites the workmen them selves to endow this institution, and to honour themselves by mutually contributing to ensure their future pros. perity ; also the State, the departments, and communes, that occupy so many hands in works of public utility ; and the railway companies who employ a whole army of func tionaries so often exposed to terrible accidents. It is a vast system of mutual insurers°e against the perils of labour. Might it not be extended and generalised still more Might not a contribution, similar to that obtained from the railway companies, be demanded from all the chiefs of manufactories and foundries, in proportion to the number of workmen they employ r . The Opinion Nationale also expresses great regret that the utility of the plan has not been more widely ex tended. " The only thing," it says, " that could leave any regret is, that the benefit of the new assurance is not carried further, that it does not include all the wounded— all the sick whose invalid state is caused by labour. Their number would surely surpses eight hundred a year for all France and for all manual trades, including agriculture. Society owes this compensation to those who support it, since it already accords it to whoever is wounded in de fending it. The workman also is a soldier, a soldier of the great army of producers." WILLS kI.ID BEQtrurrs. —Probate of the will of the Right Hon. Charles Rodolph Trefusis, Baron Clinton, was granted, on July 24, to Lord Henry Francis Charles Kerr and the Rev. Charles!). M. Drake, rector of Hunt sh..w, Devonshire, two of the surviving executors and trust es ; Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart , also an executor and trustee, having renounced. The personalty was sworn under 25,0J01. His lordship executed his will February 12, 1862, and died at his seat, Heanton Satchville, near Exeter, April last, at the age of 75. His lordship com mences his will by bequeathing to his wife, Lady Elizabeth Georgians Baroness Clinton, the residue of his personal estate for her own absolute use, and also cnarges his estate with an annuity of 1,00 W., to be paid to her lady ship during her life, and leaves to each of his daughters 3,00 W. The remainder of his property he bequeaths to his eldest son, the present baron, and directs that the books, pictures, furniture, said articles of ornament at his man sion at Heanton Satchville, and all the plate, be held with the said mansion. He leaves to his butler, Charles Wright, • legacy of 1001 . free of duty. In pursuance of the will of his uncle, the Rev. John Trefnuis, his lordship appoints the reversion of all his freeholds in Lenbingey, St. Columbo Major,Cornwall, to his third son,the Hon. Walter Rodolph Trefusis.—The will of Charles Beecher, Esq., of Wished', Cambridgeshire, was proved in London under 100,00 W. personsity,by the executors and trustees, the Rev. William B. Hopkins, M.A., vicar of Wiebech, and George Duppa Collins, Esq., the testator's Pon-in-law, to each of whom he leaves a legacy of 2001. His will boars date Jan. 19, 1865, and he died December last at the age of 82. He confirms the settlement on the marriage of his wife, and leaves her all property acquired by her uncle Mountagu, or otherwise, and a certain portion of his furniture. The plate which had belonged to his deceased son, Charles, he leaves to his grandson Charles, and also leaves him the sum of 5,0001. and the estate of Lambooft, at Kelstere, Lincoln, on his attaining the age of 25. To his grandson, Thomas Boucher, 32,0001., on attain ing 25. To his daughter Ellen, 18,0001. the estate of Upwell, and the rest of his plate on the decease of his wife. To his daughter Mary Ann, wife of his executor, George D. Collins, he leaves the rest of his furniture, also his estate at Weldersley and the Ferry, with several pieces of free hold land, and a legacy of 24,0001., to be held during the joint lives of herself and husband, and afterwards for their children. To his clerk, William Godwin, 150/., and a legacy to another clerk, and to his servants. The residue, real and personal, to be divided into four parts, between his grandson Charles and his (testator's) three daughters.— Illustrated London News. RESIGNATION or ALDERMAN MECHI. —Yesterday Mr. Alderman Mechi, long the representative of the ward of Lime-street in the Court of Aldermen, publicly announced his intention, at a meeting of the inhabitants of the want, convened at his own request, to resign his gown as an alder man. Many of the leading citizens of the ward were pre sent, and the announcement appeared to take them by sur prise, and gave rise to a unanimous expression of regret that he should have thought such a step unwary or de sirable. Mr. Meal assigned various reasons for it, some of them of a private nature, but especially dwelt upon what he conceived to be his inability adequately to support the dignity . of the o ffi ce of Lord Mayor, to which he was ap proaching by rotation, and stated in effect that so fine • sense had be of its honour and the importance of the office in that respect standing well in the public estimation, that he shrunk from the apprehension of its suffering, by possibility, in his hands. He has represcnted that part of the city in the Court of Aldermen since April, 1858, having succeeded to the dignity on the death of Alderman Farebroiher, and having two years before filled the office of Sheriff of London. At the meet ing yesterday a unanimous and urgent appeal was made that he would at lean reconsider his intention, but he stated that he had not taken the step without due delibe ration, that he was convinced of its propriety, and that he was inflexible in his determination to resign. In the result a committee was formed of the common councilmen for the ward end other of the principal inhabitants to consider in what way they could best mark the sense of his services as a magistrate and their regret at his severing his con nexion with them. In the ordinary rotation Mr. Mechi would have been Lord Mayor in 1869. MONUMENT TO Mn. SHERIDAN KNOWLES. —An elegant monument, which will be completed in • few der )s, has been placed over the remains of the late Sheri dan Knowles, in the Glasgow Necropolis. It has been erected by a number of friends and former pupils of Mr. Knowles, when he was a teacher of elocution in Glasgow, and some of whom are now among our leading citizens. A cenotaph is enriched with eight pilasters, two being at each comer. These are highly decorated, and contain, surrounded by floral ornaments, head' of the principal diameters in Mr. Knowles's dramas. These comprise William Tell and Emma, Virginias and his daughter Virginia, Master Walter and Julia, Caine Grseehos and his mother Cornelia. The front faring the southbears the inscription in raised letters, " James Sheridan Knowles. Bora 12th May 1784. Died 30th Nov., 1862." It is proposed to place a breeze medal lion of the deceased in the principal part of the sareo phasas.—North Ilrehieh Mail. THE CHOLERA AT Bow.—A night for human. tion and prayer has been appointed for the people of Bow, on account of the chokes , whisk has committed feerful ravages in that district. It is to be held at George-street Chapel cet Wedneellay, the lloth Wet. LA 1! INTELLIGENCE. ATTEMPTED INVASION OF HUNGARY. ' The Prase and the Wanderer of Vienna speak of an attempt at invasion made by General Klapka, at the head of some so-called Hungarian volunteers, on the side of Wagthat, on the Hungarian frontier. Klapka was speedily obliged to retire towards Oderberg, because his companions in arms—all selected from Austrian prisoners—took the oppor tunity of rejoining their respective regiments, and the population exhibited the most complete indif ference to the movement. (srom's TZLEORMIII.) ARMISTICE CONTINUANCE BILL. Order for secondr;;(ll4re&Y;mOiion made, and ques tion proposed, " That the bill be now recd a second time."—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words " the same state of things on which the late government justified their application to parliament to suspend the constitution in Ireland no longer exists ; that the supremacy of the law has been sufficiently vindicated in the ordinary tribunals of the country : that the assizes just brought to a close have in all instances displaye d a most extraordinary and gratifying diminution o crime, and, in many instances, a complete absence of serious offences, either against property or parson : that there is likewise an utter ab sence of political excitement of any kind whatever : that measures of repression, unaccompanied with mea sures of a remedial character,tend rather to aggravate than lessen those evils in which perennial discontent and periodical disaffection have their origin in Ireland, and that a wise, generous, and thoroughly liberal policy is that which is alone calculated to promote the mateilid prosperity and contentment of the Irish people, while adding to the strength and enhancing the moral digni.y ' of the empire"—(Mr. Maguire)—instead thereof :—Qu . Mon put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes 105, noes 3L Adderley, C. B. Allen, W. S. Arcbdall, Capt. Roggellay, & Bagge, W. Baring, T. }lemon, G. S. Bentinck, G. C. Beresturd, Capt. Booth, Sir R. G. Bovill, Sir W. Burghley, Lord Cairns, Sir H. Care, S. Childers, H. C. Cole, IL Cole, J. L Corry, 11. L. Courtenay, Lord Cos. W. T. Cranhorne, Visct. Cast, C. H Dickson, Major Dimsdale, R. Disraeli, B. Dodson, J. G. Earle, R. A. Egerton, L C. Pie'den, J. Yorte.cue, C. P. Galway, Viact. George, J. Gladstone, W.E. Goldney, G. Gore, J. R. Gore, W. R Grey, Sir G. AYES. Griffith, C. D. Palmer Mr R. Gurney, R. Patten, Col. Hamilton, Lord C. Peel, Gen. Hamilton, Lord C. J. Pennant, Col. Hardy, G. Pim, J. Hardy, J. Powell, F. S. Hay, sir J. Read, C. S. Halter, Capt. Re ton, O. W. Henley, J. W . Robertaon, P. F. Henley, Lord Rolt, J. Hervey, Lord A. Royston, Vise. Heygate, Sir F. Seholeleld, W. Hogg, Lieut.-CoL Seourtleld, J. H. Holtord, R. S. Seymour. G. H. Hope, A. J. Simeon. Sir J. liotham, Lord Smith, A. Howes, E. Stanley, Lord Hubbard, J. G. Stirling-MaxwelLedr Hunt, G. W. W. Kennard, R. W. Sturt, H. Cl. Ker, D. S. Sturt, Lt..CoL Rittnaird, A. F. Torrens, R. Knox, Major Tracy, C. B. Lehoy, A. Tyrone, Earl of Lopes, Sir M. Villiers, C P. Lowther, J. Walcott, Adm. M'Lagaa, P. Walpole, S. IL Manners, Lord J. Wairond J. W. J Weller. Capt. Walsh, J. R. Monk, C. J. Whitmore. H. Montgomery, Sir G. Wynn, Sir W, More, IL J. Yorke, J. E. Mowbray. J. R. _____. Naas, Lo TELLEILL Northcote, Sir S. Taylor. CoL O'Neill. X Noel, G J. Paklogioe, Sir J. Antrobus. E. Barry, G. R. Bailey, T. Bowyer, Sir G. Cowen. .1. Crosland, Col. Dille. J. B. Fawcett. H. Goldsinld, Sir F. Goldanild, J. Gray. Sir J. Holden, I. NOES. Jerrofae, Sir J. Stock, 0. Leathern, W. H. Taylor, P. A. Leeman, G. Torreon, W. T. li'Kenna, J. N. Vanderhyl, P. SIPLar en, D. Watldn, E. W. Mill, J. S. White, J. Moore, C. Whitworth, B. O'Brien, Sir P. Osborne, R. B. TELLERS. Price, R. G. Maguire, J. P. Reardon, D. I. 01k.Irne, J. L. Sheridan, H. B. Mrs. Gladstone, writing yesterday from Carlton_ house-terrace to the Times, says :—" It has struck me that one of the most effectual means at this pressing moment of assisting the excellent London Hospital is to provide a temporary home for the children (many of them orphans) who arc recovering from cholera. I have already acted upon this plan, and I now appeal to you for your valuable aid. We are in want of funds, and donations, which should be described as intended for this psrticukr purpose, will be gratefully received by the Rev. Thomas Scott, London Hospital, E. I cannot speak too highly of the work which I. being done in this hospital by the chaplain, the doctors, and the mare—indeed, by all connected with it." SEIZURE 07 FENIAN Arms AND ANICONT7ION IN Laraincx.—An extensive disseves7 of Anima sonnunition was made on Wednesday in Old Francis-street, Limerick. Biz thousand rounds of ball cartridge, and a large quantity of powder, baste, and materials for making cartridges wen found. Univmearri Couman Hoerr:AL.—The number of applicants foe diarrhust mixture at this hospital during the week (day and night) ending on the 30th of July was 1,290. AUGUSk .4866. BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND WIIRTEMBURG. STUTTGARD, Avausr 2. An armistice has been concluded between Wur temburg and Prusaia. THE FEDERAL FORTRESS OF MENTZ. MENTZ, Auouer 2. An armistice has not yet been concluded between this fortress and Prussia, and the navigation of the Rhine is again interrupted. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Accost S. M. Benedetti and Count Barrel, the French and Italian Ambassadors, have returned to this city from the Prussian headquarters. The Bank of Prusaia has reduced its rate of dis count from 6 to 5 per cent. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, AUGUST 2. The Ceylon left at midnight yesterday, and the Pera leaves at 10 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter at Southampton on the 11th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rzom ova oini ooausrosinwr.) PARIS. THURSDAY Evunco. M. Taxile Delord, a veteran liberal of the French press, who, after many years of facetiousness in the Cherivari and several of serious writing in the Si&le, is now giving his valuable aid to K Peyrat in the .4 venir National, says, speaking of the pre sent tone of the democratic-imperial press : But a few months ago war was tabooed as tending to divert the public mind from the consideration of home questions. Peace alone, we were told, could favour the development of our liberties. The journals which main tained this thesis with the greatest eloquence seem to have renounced it to-day :to hear them one would say that war is no longer the natural enemy of progress. We shall I perhaps have occasion shortly to explain the reason of their present attitude. Meanwhile we beg both Paris and the departments to take note of it. They pretend that public opinion is exasperated against the Plllll6llllll, and that the French people want to march upon the Rhine. We read in several letters addressed to provincial journals that General Chsagarnier has offered his sword to government in ease it will declare war against Prawns. General Changarnier is now rather too old to command an army, and yet we do not suppose he means like General Wrangel to volunteer as a private soldier. The editor of the Belgian journal L'Espiegle, prosecuted for a libel on the French government, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and I,ooofr. fine. The French beau ideal of inter national law prevails in Belgium so far as the press is concerned. The government denies that it hindered a meeting of the Paris notables to consider the claims of a candidate for the Tribunal of Commerce, and alleges that the delay complained of by M. Candas and represented by him as tantamount to a refusal, was only a reasonable one. The result of the election, which took place yesterday, shows that government had good reason to fear that the same spirit which returns political opponents in every electoral distriot in Paris would guide com mercial men. K Louvet, a non-patronised candi date, was returned as president of the Tribunal, against K Gaillard, by 593 votes against 490. This event is unprecedented. Hitherto the can didate proposed by the Tribunal of Commerce it self has always been returned with docility. It would appear that the rise at the Bourse yes terday was attributable only to oscillations conse quent upon the settlement. To-day the market was extremely heavy. Large losses were spoken of ; and it is feared that a great many private dealers will not be able to meet their differences. Rente fell 50c. for cash and 45c. for account, closing at 69fr. 10c. and 69fr. 15c. Italian fell 950., closing at 51fr. 39c. A forced Italian loan of 350 millions in obligations, at 95, repayable in an nuities, was very seriously spoken of. Mobilier fell 23fr. 70c. Railways lost about half the rise of yesterday. THE BANK OF FRANCE. (RIOTER'S ZIERISS.) PARIS. Aucogr 2. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : August 2. July 26. nisroa. Yr. e. IT. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 0 182,100,000 0 Pronta in addition to capital (Art 8, law of June 9, 18571 Reserve of the Bank and Its - . --. branches Reserve of landed property Notts In circulation Bank notes to order and receipts payable at sight 23,919,324 47 31,710,775 56 Treasury account—current cre- ditor - Current scoounta, Parts Ditto branch banks Dividends payable Discounts and sundry interests Re-discounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distri buted 131,488,086 0 181,554,780 26 800,530,926 29 311,868,188 99 44,338,621 0 38,688,954 0 2,8K8,666 75 3,481,011 76 3,771,998 94 3,186,787 43 2,372,301 91 2,377,301 91 Sue is - - 10,308.838 84 11,873,266 88 1,729,918,941 27 1,724,688,252 98 August I. Sr. s. July 26. Fr. CRIDITOR. Cash in hand and in branch banks Commercial bills overdue Commercial bills discounted, not yet due 309,493,876 2 30,224,30 94 Ditto branch banks 369,389,40 0 880,990,60 0 Advances on deposits of bullion 13,623,800 0 12,089,000 0 Ditto branch banks Advances on French public se curities Ditto branch banks 8,2:4,200 0 8,392,200 0 Advances on railway shares sad debentures 34,321,700 0 31,085,500 0 Ditto branch banks 23,049,100 0 13,160,700 0 Advances on Credit Fonder 706,876,419 BS 6410,584,839 34 936.640 21 678,1113 67 Q 74,000 0 075,700 0 642,400 0 147,700 0 Bonds Ditto branch banks Advances to the State ;conven tion 10th June, 1857 Government stock reserve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Ditto die Beaten e bllissee (law lind June, 1857) 100,000,000 0 100,000,000 0 Hoteland huniture of the beak es 1;;;d7d PeOieirybMaTheT7:: Expenses of management Sundries 11,2169460 6 6480,460 651,113 61 491,300 60 16,633,440 63 16406T,T3S 33 1,729,918,941 27 1.724,696,262 92 Coined by the Senator Governer of the Beak of Bream (Blaud) ROVIAND. Count de Bismarck has just informed the go serenest* of Southern Germany that the States of the North alone will in future form part of the Zollverein, re constituted under the direction of Prussia on new baser The States of the South will therefore not be admitted either to the political or the customs union. This organ. eke, it is thought, will exercise an unfavourable Lammas on the commerce of the South. Letters from Rome announce the death at Velletri of the young Duke de Blew, who had entered the Pontifical Zan's*, from typhoid fever. ---.., THE PROVINCIAL THIS RANKING CORPORA ( DA The third ordinary general meet]v holders was held at noon at the London Trews ; li t in the chair. The following is the report and statement et for the half-year ending the 30th June last I " It will be seen that the grow profits, aft e for bad end donbiful d e * T 1 5501. 18 • . 2d. brought forward from have been 30,9581. 18s. 9d. ; and t h th ducting all current expenses and Pa a ( customers, a balance of 12,0331.7.. 41. eam i th ids Your directors recommend that this maim, i m h e profit, be appropriated in the following 5,650/. to the payment of dividend, free 0/ 1 = 1 ;,_ 114 the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for ' l 4 1,0001. to the reserve fund to credit of a l expenses ; 2,2121. to rebate on bills ; 2,6211. forward to new profit and loss seem! ; last meeting, no new branches have b ig The directors are glad to say that, motet monotony crisis, the business of the balk in a eatisfactery state. Sines the last from tip th th e e e di ee recti ene irt . it hi l l% intended • tha rd ttli hag e di th v re id tir eiF i d l be payable on and after the lak " Balance-sheet, June 3 0 , 1866 . - Dr.: To stow the ,3101. ;to reserve fund, 2 , 500 /. ;to nutt y bank to customers an current, drtt, Wo o scants, s balance 1a74,6421. Bs. 18. ; to st prosi,„ account, 1,600 L. 18a. 2d.; to lees amount votedby to directors and auditors, 1,05a-5501. 18a profit for half-year, after providing for bado a f " , debts, 30,4081. Os. 7d.-30,9581. 18s. 9d. ; Sal {ll(t Cr.: By cash at Seed - office and branches, " on call or short notice, and cheeks, he.. i t 140,0001. Is. 6d. • by amount due from - others on current ;mounts, bills of &elan" a m sore notes, he., 577,4771. 114 ; by Prelitatry . l9 ol 11,2151. 12a. ;by freehold and =MN at bead-cam and branches ; al p niters and fittings at head-office and at all to 6.1 28,894/. Os. 11d. ; by amount paid for purcheas7 51,3921. 16s. 3d. ,• by expellees of eshihoL; bank and branches, to., 6,506/. 13.. 3d. ; expenses, including salaries, rent, he., at had 4;1 branches, 10,8811. 4e. Bd. ; by interest paid al and deposit accounts, Ito., 8,0441. 6.. 91.-4ead 6s. 10d. "Profit and Leas Amonnt.-Dr. : To eurreetaa. as above, 10,8811.45. Bd. ; to interest paid, 8,04t1k1 to dividend, 5,8501. • to reserve fund, 1,0001. ; i s " urinary expenses, 5501. ; to rebate on bills ask 4 1 ,, ried to new account, 2,212/. • to balance °Whittle% 2,6211. 7s. 4d. Total, 30, 9681. 184. 9d. Cc, : 2 1 • profit as above, 30,9581. 18a. 9d." The CIWZNAN, in moving the adoption ef th said that it presented an increase of profit in 74 and they had made no loss of any sort ce (Hear, Apr) The gross profits for the past y ek t 45,0001. In the last hall year they were 31,0*, 0 , 4 rate of 62,0001. a year, being an increase of 50 per a.; the profits al the previous half-year. Hanelaaajt the separate items of the last half-year with Quad, present, he said it was the intention of the dimiell resolution for writing off at cap W its Pm rmii L l y expenses and of purchases of p m a to, w i lch now appeared in the amounts es amts. Mr. Carl, M.P., strongly advocated the ph i announced by the chairman of writing off the mini ex pmnim and purchases of country business. In reply to questions put to hint, The G'liainuent said there was no intentioe et' chasing any new business at present. Die, rather develops that which they had. instalment on account of the purchase of he:, had been paid. In the amount of rebate m forward, and in the amount carried forward to profit and loss account they carried forward 5 pe to the next dividend. (Hear, hear.) They did es netsof a speculative kind and they intendedle Mai same principle. The report was adopted sad a 4eB at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of Wean was declared. The CuoinitAN then proposed a resolution for Iraq from the capital account the items of prelimimly arm of purchase of business and expenditure in the mil mont of the bank, amounting altogether to AMU and reducing the shares from 101. to 71. paid.-the slj being to miss the value of the shares in the are Ml. After some discussion the resolution was agneilti a vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated tho pa. ings. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE-MN M HOUSE OF LORDS. (Before Lord Redesdale.) LONDON, CHATBAK, AND DOVER RATLWAT OR This is an act to authorise the London, Chains, Dover Railway Company to make new strata, be improving the access to their Ludgate Station, aid confer powers and impose obligations on the Ou of the City of London with respect to the art altered streets, and for other purposes. The kit asi exception of certain clauses relating to vadat 1,01,1 was passed, debenture holders of the conquay alp the bill on those clauses. These clauses werzqd lordship observing that he saw great introduction of them, without the undies oil debenture holders. THE DOUBLE MURDER IN SOMERS TOW THE ADJOURNED INQUEST.--(THIS DAT This morning Dr. Lankester again presided a jury previously impannelled, at the Rising lash Euston-road, for the purpose of further coneedals circumstances relative to the deaths of Emus sal Butcher, the children alleged to have been taw& their mother, at 67, Wilstead-street, Somers-Mss It will be remembered that at the last sitting in adjourned with the view of having the woman bdere' This, however proved impossible, the Mlowing n certificate being handed to the coroner by inel Fraser, of the Y division : " Anima 11 " I hereby certify that Mary Butcher is this dal very weak state and quite unfit to leave her roes. "EDWARD MAHONT, BLR.C.S., 18.4 dent Aseistant-Surgeon to the St. r Workhouse Infirmary." Inspector Frazer sail he had seen the woman nurse in charge, and she appeared worse dun Were nurse said she was quite unfit to leave the room. h e rn i . fe ed. three He t exami n ed. James Butcher, the father and husband, wss f im ar e l ; e rda d y. ve S rY he il w L as v H e e ry ati quiet,s 6 d dbe 1 : 1 recognised him. She sometimes asked sitar the& and wanted to go home to them. She asked 01 1 being kept there. He had told her that he Tao work, when she replied, " You'll starve the child' we all were last winter. They'll lie, and so will ye By the Jury—On the Friday night the children" to bed at 8 o'clock. At 11 o'clock he left to pta The children were alive then. When be was r she said "The police arc all round the windows. A juror said he had seen the poor woman du week, and in his opinion she was melancholy and. The witness Brown was recalled, and in answer t Mons by the jury ; repeated his previous evident minutely described the state of the womsn's dim she was taken from the water butt. There being no further evidence, the comet% eh the jury relative to the kind of verdict they &emit After a long discussion, a verdict was given d murder against the mother, Mary Butcher, sleek* time of the committal of the acts in an mama mind." SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE NEW.= STATION, BIBJUNGEAN. A serious accident occurred at the Lod , North-Western Railway station, Newetrset, (Thursday) afternoon, which is likely to result in a of the sufferer, Mr. John H. Franks, of the firm of MI H. and W. Franke, corn merchants, of Liverpool. Franks is in the habit of attending Birminghsq and yesterday afternoon he had been detained in setion with some friends up to the time for the de of the Liverpool train at 5.10. Instead of area line by the bridge, he endeavoured to cress the a the c ossmgused by the company's *enacts for 1 "glance luggage. The unfortunate gentles jumped from the second platfarm on to the balled the permanent way, when en engine cominf teem 9 him end of the station struck bun the him some distance along the line. The engthe wth immediately, and Mr. Franks was raised by 5 friends who saw the accident and some of the c os servants. Mr. Adey, who, in the absence of Si. has been performing the duties of atitiormnsetee past week, lied the sufferer conveyed to the GISH' pital, where he was attended to by Dr. Stael th ante& nine found that Mr. Franks was video compound fracture of both legs, the left hand e pletely smashed, and there were several scalp wale Bolton and Mr. Oliver Pemberton, two of the surgeons, were in the hospital at the time, an imitation was held, and it was deemed advisable potato the hand just above the wrist. In man(' the weak and dangerous state of the sufferer it considered advisable to amputate his less, 1 04 ,_ lll expire under the operation. Mr. W. Freaks, o'. the su ff erer, arrived at the hospital shortly ether ' and remained with his brother some time. The ti ,, holies of his recovery. Mr. John Franks is wth to large numbers of gentlemen in Birmingham widower with cue child. — Birmingham Gautte. The King of Prussia has conferred the den of th. Black Pyle and the grand cross of the Bed General Steinmits for his services in the field the late battles in Bohemia. The Sing, to meat* these honours, rya that he intended s himself the order of the Black Eagle on the field but regrets that he was not able to find the en" glorious day of July the 3rd. II