The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-12 00:00:00

➢ARIS EXHIBITION FIR.ST-CLAvi SILVER MEDAL, 1667. JOHN BROCIDEN. nRIGINAL GOLD MAIN MANUFACTORY, IL , I. HANIUSITA-8111.11311, covirer4AßDEN. JOHN' BROOMS'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDSN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDENB GOLD ALBERT CHAIN& JOHN BROODER'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. B RB AK JP AST.-EPPB'I3 COCOA. BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR foe CHILDREN'S DIRT. To obtain extra profit by ths sale other kinds are sometimes; offered instead of BROWN and POISON'S. "John Brown," "Jolla Poison," is signed by the makers on each picket. ghe entreoo* TO COBRESPONTOLITS. 6dvelmenanta Infonaut too " The Boma," London Evening dagmust be at Ow Moe, 10, Boovodoottook by Two i OD the day of pablicalion. gAYMARKST. THH Emma, THE Jai CHASE. Howe, Rogers, Kendal, Clarke, Weathershy, de.! bi re endale sdiunei Sedgwielt, Chippendale Burke &e.—TO PAIN AND 'RACE FOR RB .— And THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. ranicasvm THIS EVENING, THE DAYAFIE7R THE WIDDINCL—THE MAN 0' AI RLI E. James Harebell, Mr. Herman Peals; Messrs. E. Pries Forrunter, Gresham. Maclean, and Elerten ; Mimes E. Stuart, Nell, Moore, Ac.—And AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE. Isis Evamad, REVERSES. Messrs Emery, Parsons, Rob• eon, and Seanborough: Mesdames Ads Swanborough and John stone.—And TUTS LATEST EDITION OF IRA DLAVOLO. Messrs. Thorns It James ; Mesdames Holt, Newton, Qs. DIUTANNIA. Tlifl EVINTIN. MY POLL AND YY PARTNER JOE—The Brothers Hanlon: Mr. C. Woodman; Mr. J. Plumpton ; Little UMW ; Jessie Nam: the Champion Skaters.—AM JACK O . LANTERN. Mr. Reynolds end Mir S. Miles. HIGH WATEZ AT LONDOE BUDGE MO DAY —Monde& Oh. 05.... —Aitorsoon, O. 17m To-Hozhow—Mornlnig. Oh. 4:Wk..— ..Atkesooa. Ih. ha. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12. THE extraordinary ease which has for some time prevailed in the money market shows no symptom of ceasing. The bullion at the Bank continues to increase, and by the last return amounted to 23,255,564/. In Paris the lemur mutation is still larger, the total held last week being 36,119,0001. The accounts to be nad e ip on Wednesday next will probably show e two Banks of England and France possess be tween them the enormous sum of about sixty millions in actual specie. Nor is the amount likely to stop there. The long-looked-for revival of trade and enterprise appears as distant as ever. For several weeks the rate in the general discount market has never been higher than I per cent., and more often as low as 1 or 1,7,. But even these almost nominal terms have failed to give any stimulus to business. The public seem utterly incapable, at least for the time, of getting over their long-enduring distrust. An in direct proof of this is shown by the complete failure of the Russian Loan, although under any circumstances there were strong reasons why the operation in qu es tion would not succeed. It is absolutely hopeless to attempt to place a joint-stock company. The old hypothesis that cheap money is invariably at tended by speculation is for once at fault. An experienced "promoter" would be obliged to admit that has prospects are no better now with money at 1 per cent. than this time last year, when the price was 10. It is to be hoped that in the au tumn commerce will recover from the present dul neas, but it is difficult to see in what direction. The comparatively deficient harvests in the South of Europe will naturally diminish the purchasing power of those countries, while our own plenty will, to a great extent, lessen the external demand for British manufactures. Exporters of corn to England have usually laid out a considerable por tion of the value of their cargoes in our goods. If, however, we do not require to buy fromthem, they will equally lack the means or the inclination to buy from us. If we were dealing with highly civilized countries the case would be different, but at pre sent, excluding the United States, the chief sup plies that will be sent to France, Spain ; and perhaps Italy, will be derived from the Danubian Principalities, Southern Russia, and other Eastern States. A Roumanian corn-grower who sells his grain at Marseilles or Genoa is almost certain to lay out a considerable portion of the proceeds in France or Italy, as the case may be. As regards the former country this is the more certain, since a considerable trade, much greater than is generally known, exists between Paris and Bucharest, chiefly in articles of luxury. The Boyards will be espe cially inclined to increase their imports this yelr, since after several bad seasons they are at last enabled by an exceptionally good harvest to in dulge their taste for the worst extravagances of Western civilization. In the meantime the flow of gold from America to England proceeds upon a steady, if not aug menting, scale. Fresh arrivals are reported almost every day, and the Atlantic Telegraph brings constant news that further sums are coming forward. As the foreign exchanges remain firm, the greater part of this influx may be expected to go into the Bank of England and to add to the already redundant means at the dis posal of that establishment. Even the require ments of coin for the harvest fail to diminish the stock of bullion. It is a singular circumstance that in the past week the increase shown in the latter item was actually somewhat more than the foreign gold announced to have been sent in. It is to be feared that the explanation will be found in the inactivity of our internal trade. There is the same kind of demand for sovereigns when manufacturers are prosperous as prevails at this exceptional period of the year for agricultural purposes. Apparently the one influence is now neutralised by the other. At a time when more coin is wanted by the farmer the manufacturer re quires less. But, as it is well understood, the specie which is temporarily put into circulation for the harvest during the autumn within a short interval returns to the Bank. Hence, presuming that the shipments from America con tinue, and that trade remains upon its present footing, we may look in the course of the next month for an accumulation of bullion far be yond even the unprecedentedly high sum now held. It is frequently argued that it is as dangerous for a bank to have too much money as too little. Under certain conditions this is undoubtedly true, but the maxim does not apply in this instance. Where the practice is followed of allowing interest on balances there is always a temptation to incur a certain amount of risk rather than have money lying idle. The Bank of England, however, is safe on this score. No matter how large the ba lances in its possession, they can be kept in hand with no greater detriment than that of foregoing, perhaps, a hazardous and uncertain profit. The Rank has, in fact, the advantage of not bein g obliged to use its customers' money as fast as it THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENIXG, comes in, and by a ateady refusal to allow interest on deposits acts up to the .true principles of banking. The commercial prospect before ns does not exhibit any indications of amendment. The last fifteen months of stagnation in trade appear likely to be supplemented by at least six months more. It is worthy of remark that the managers of the joint stock banks, who are quick to discern the signs of the times, have latterly been investing large sums in the public funds. The reason is obvious. Consols at the present price yield about 3i per oent., while money in the discount market realises about half that rate. The most valuable proof afforded is, however, that the persona best qualified to judge as to the future course of trade anticipate a continuance of the existing depres sion. Bankers invariably prefer to keep their funds employed as much as possible in the dis count of commercial bills, since by the exercise of ordinary care they can count upon receiving back their money in full within a specified period. On the Other hand, although Government securities are considered as especially appropriate for the investment of " reserve funds," they are not gene rally thought suitable for the use of work ing balances. If, therefore, it appears that stock is being bought on banking account, only one inference can be drawn. The most qualified practical financiers anticipate that 2 or 11 per cent. is pretty certain to last some time longer, and that it is useless for the present to await an advance. If the latter movement could be calculated upon—if 3} or 4 per cent. were likely to be adopted before the close of the year— the banks would, according to former experience, have kept their money in hand to take advantage of the oppoity. As it is, finding they have more than 61. know what to do with, either now or in prospect, they purchase Consols as the beat means of investment open. There seems nothing to be done but to wait patiently for the sure reaction from the existing le*ura. That it will be speedy we cannot ven ttA to hope. If financial considerations did not retard it, there is at least the constant alarm of an European war. The maxim that confidence is a plant of slow growth has never been more fully exemplified than by the events of the past year and-a-half, and bids fair to be equally proved by the experience of the immediate future. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) the mart: OSBORNE, Moon 10. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, visited the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty crossed over from Osborne pier in the royal yacht Alberta,Captain the Prince of Leiningen, and was re ceived on landing by Major-General Wilbraham, C. 8., and the officers of the establishment, by whom her Majesty was conducted through the hospitaL In passing through many of the wards her Majesty addressed a few words to the sick, and inquired into their cases. Before leaving the establishment tho Queen visited the quarters of the married men. Her Majesty returned to Osborne at eight o'clock. The suite in attendance consisted of the Countess of Gainsborough, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Major-General F. H. Seymour, and Major Elphin stone. Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. The other members of the royal family also went out. The Dean of Westminster and Mr. Odo Russell arrived at Osborne yesterday and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. AUGUST 11. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon attended by the Countess of Gainsborough and Lady Augusta Stanley. The Hon. Mortimer BecketHe West was in attendant upon horseback. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice also went out. Her Majesty and Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting attended divine service at Whippingham church this morning. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. Prince Arthur, attended i by Major Elphinidone, left Osborne yesterday for Greenwich-park. The Right Hon. John Wilson Patten, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey bad also the honour of being invited. Mr. Odo Russell has left Osborne. The Princess of Wales drove out on Saturday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Harding°. The Mince of Wales, with Captain Ellis in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Communion service was read by the Rev. the Sub dean and the Rev. J. C. Haden. Anthem, "Praise the Lord," Goss. Solo, Mr. Lawler. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. Francis E. C. Byng, from St. Matthew, ch. 21, v. 30. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the of residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Dukeof Marlborough, the Earl of Mahneebury, the Right Lion. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Do Buckingham and Chandoa, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northoote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, Lord Naaa, and the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole. Sir Victor Honlton had an interview with the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoc at the Colonial-office on Sa turday. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Newfoundland, New Bruns- wick, Prince Edward Island, and the Bahamas. De spatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, and to the Governor-General of Canada. ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT.-(THIS DAY.) (aT TELEGRAPH.) cairn, MONDAY. The King of the Belgians arrived here this morning, on a visit to the Queen. His Maje►ty was re- ceived by Prince Leopold, and proceeded at once to Osborne. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, attended the Princess's Theatre on Saturday evening. The Prince of Wales will leave Marlborough House to-day for S►ndringham, in order to personally in spect the iruprovementa going on there before his royal highness leaves for Wiesbaden. The Prince and Princess of Wales leave for Wies baden on Friday or Saturday. They will cross in the Victoria and Albert to Rotterdam, and thence proceed to the Rhine. His Excellency the Marquis of Abercorn, accom panied by Lord Claud J. Hamilton, H.P., left Chesterfield House on Friday evening for Dublin, to resume him official duties am Lord Lieutenant. The Earl and Countess; Grey loft their residence cm Carlton loose-terrace on Saturday for Bellwood Park, Notts, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, on their way to Hord& Hall, Northumberland. The Earl and Countess of Dudley left Dudley House, Park-lane, on Friday, for Vichy. Lady Loudesborough gave birth to a daughter yesterday. Her ladyship and infant are both doing well. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinskos, landed in the Southampton docks this afternoon from her Majesty's yacht Alberta, Staff-Com- mander Welch, en route from Osborne to London. The Empress and the Prince Imperial will leave Paris on the 14th to join the Emperor at the camp at Chalons, which their Majesties will leave on the 17th for Salzburg. The journey of the Emperor and Empress will occupy a week, during which time the Prince Imperial will remain at the camp. On the 26th their Majesties are to arrive at Lille, and afterwards visit Dunkerque, Roubaix, and Turcoing. On the Ist of September the imperial family goes to Biarritz. The Prince Imperial's education is now going to enter a new phase. The Emperor having decided that he should henceforth, as was the case with the sons of Louis Philippe, follow the lectures that are delivered at the dif ferent lyceums in Paris, the lad will have to live in minion with boys appertaining to every class and rank, and if he is not obedient or attentive to his lessons, he will be punished just like any other collegian. On Thursday evening Madame Rattazzi gave a dinner at her hotel in the Rue d'Antin, Paris, during which one of the guests called the entertainment the " Italian loan dinner." Polities, in fact, seemed by no means to be excluded on this occasion. The number of the Onsets was 24, amongst whom were Prinoe Napoleon and the directors of the Credit Fonder of France. The accounts from the watering-places of France this year are pretty nearly uniform in declaring that there are fewer visitors than usual. Dieppe. Boulogne, rrou villa, Biarritz, Havre, all complain. The Parisians have got to like Homburg, Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, and Mo naco more than the sea-side. In these hot months a great slaughter is made at New York of dogs, much to the indignation of feeling citizens. The city used to pay tOe. (a sum equal to about is. likl. at this moment) for every dog taken to the pound, but they found that it led to • sort of trade in curs. persons bringing them from the country districts for the sake of the reward, and so the price of • dog's head was lowered to 250. Even this is a great tempts. tion to the street boys, or even to men who have nothing to do, and they go about watching for dogs and seising any they chance to meet, and carrying them off to tho pound. A ease of some interest to minors and their friends was tried on Friday in the Commission Court, Dublin. Samuel and Harriet Richards, two persona in a respectable class of life, were indicted for assaulting Miss Clarellingle ton, who, along with her bother, both being wards of Chancery, had been placed under their guardianship. Evidence was given that the prosecutrix was repeatedly welted by the female traverser and kept at menial drudgery, dressed " like a Cinderella," as one of the wit nesses described. The jury found a verdict of " Guilty," and the parties await the sentence of the court ArGUST n LATEST •IfiITELLIGENO2I. 4 It' • (LEUTZeti TILEORMIS.) COUNT BISMARCK. BERLIN, Amer 12. Count von Bismarck will preside at the first meeting of the Federal Council, on Thursday next. His wounded hand is progressing favourably. ITALY. FLORENCE, Al3Olllll 12. The Senate has adopted the first 17 clauses of the Church Property Liquidation Bill. The first and most important clause was passed by a large majority. PORTUGAL LISBON, AUGUST 12. A decree has been issued appointing a royal commission to examine the financial state of the country and devise the best means for its erne lioration. OPORTO, Acucar 12. Prince Augustin of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Princess Leopoldine of Brazil have arrived here. BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Aucusr 12. The Benarea, from Bombay July 24, anchored at 1 a.m. to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF JULY 27—AUGUST 3. The Oriaaa left for Bombay at 5 a.m. to-day clean off all cargo. THE REFORM BILL IN THB HOUSE OF PEERS. There can be little doubt, in the opinion of the Daily News, that Lord Derby tonight will urge the Peers to exhibit one. more those moral virtues and that " ade quate intelligence" on which Mr. Disraeli has passed a discriminating eulogium, and to be content with their triumph upon the single question of the limited vote in large constituenqjon This latter triumph is unique in parliamentary history, for it is a victory over the solemnly expressed convictions of the government, and of a large majority in the House of Commons itself,and of the minis terial, the opposition, and the radical leaders. It is notori ous that nine out of ten of the supporters of the restricted vote in the House of Lords, including Lord Russell, were actuated by the same reactionary feeling as Lord Cairns and the other tory peers. Mr. Mill and a handful of younger members who rank themselves his political pupils have alone been influenced by pure reason and a regard for a perfect system of representation in the votes which they have given. Mr. Mill believes that he can use the reac tionary prejudices of Mr. Lowe as a means towards the establishment of a true democracy. Mr. Lowe flatters himself that he can turn what he thinks the philosophical crotchets of Mr. Mill to account in the support of oligar chical privilege. Both cannot be right ; and prudent men, conservative or Liberal, would have hesitated before they risked the futon good government of England on the unionism turn ot fortune which may give the victory to either. The Post Olds It impossible that the Lords can underrate the extent of the concession which has been made to them in the Commons, and, rich being the awe, they cannot in their torn refuse to yield &cradling to the wishes of the Commons. Apparently oblivious of Mr. Disraeli and all the leaders of the conservative party, the Herald says "it is only in tolerant bigots like the member for Birmingham—politi cians who find their account in trading upon the ignorance and passions of the lower classes—who would wish that, under the new circumstances of our representative system, the minority should be politically annihilated, and that the roll of the House of Commons should record the mo notonous expression of the will of a half-educated majo ray. It has been the task of the Peers to enforce this consideration upon the attention of the Lower House, and the sense of the latter has emphatically acknowledged its justice. We trust that the House of Lords will rest satis fied with achieving this measure of good, ant will not pro voke a contest with the Commons upon minor points, in which they can scarcely hope to effect a satisfactory issue.' There can be little doubt, says the Star, that Lord Derby will recommend the Lords to pass the bill in its present shape without any further delay, and just se little doubt that the house will adopt the recommendation. CNIVERAITT EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Observing that the system of mixed education in Ireland was all but subverted by the unjustifiable conduct of the late government, the Times observes that the dispute haa now spread to primary education. Had the Roman catholic hierarchy been really set on giving good instruction to the people, or the catholic laity been sufficiently independent, the systenz in Ireland would have been acquiesced in. Un happily the priesthood are intent on getting the whole in struction of the country into their own hands, and on preventing that cordial union of catholic and protestant, which, though harmless as regards matters of faith, is full of peril for ideas of ultramontane supremacy. The question is, whether we shall continue the system or capi tulate. In England, though the system is denominational, the state is secular. Why should the state take up any but a secular position in Ireland? Again, if we compare England with Ireland, we shall see that the system of Ireland with all its failures is in these very important respects superior to the system in England. Its inspection is undenominational, its training colleges are undenomi national. It must also be remembered that every school in Ireland has really a conscience clause, that there is not one of them in which it is not compulsory that the right of the minority should be respected. What is asked is that all these enlightened principles should be abandoned, and we are offered as an equivalent for this great sacrifice the prospect of conciliating the Roman catholic clergy, who are clearly fighting, not for toleration, but supremacy. According to the parliamentary order-book, the Park* Regulation Bill will be continued to-morrow after noon in committee. Sir Stafford Northcote will make a financial statement in committee on Eut India Revenue Aooonnts to-night. CLOSE OF THE SESSION.—Lord Redesdale, as chairman of the committees of the Rouse of Lords, signal ized the ►pproaching close of the present session of par liament on Saturday last, by the usual fish dinner at the Trafalgar. Coma were laid for 30 guests. The ministe rial whitebait dinner has been fixed for Wednesday next, at the Ship Tavern. BOROUGH or RACRNRY.—On Thursday evening there was a large meeting of inhabitants at Hackney to hear an address from Mr. Charles Reed. F.S.A., who had received a requisition signed by upwards of 1,200 electors, inviting him to become a candidate to represent the new borough in parliament. Meet of the leading liberals of the locality were on the platform; and after the address it was unanimously reeolsei—" That Mr. Reed's address was highly satisfactory, and that he was a fit and proper per son to represent the constituency." The first name affixed to the requisition was that of Mr. Samuel Morley. The return of Mr. Reed is considered as placed beyond doubt. Mr. Reed has now addressed eight public meetings in dif ferent parts of the new borough, and in all es,nly one hand was held up against him. Mr. Charles Gilpin, the ap pointed chairman, was unable to attend, his presence being required in the House of Commons. TEE CHOLERA AND_THE KLEWA JESSE OF HASSBLT. The Journai de Liege publishes the following communication from the town of Hammett, dated Aug. 8: " Our town is going to have • strange ;spectacle. The Ricollets Fathers are preparing for Thursday next a great religious ceremony—the solemn crowning of the miraculous statue of the Virga Jesse. The crowning of this statue, which is in the church of the Recollets, will take place in the Grand Place, on an altar raised specially for this occasion, in the presence of M. de Merode and several prelate& According to the Cunstitictionael de Limburg which receives its information from the rev. fathers, the occasion of this crowningis as follows:—` First—Last year the cholera was approaching Hasselt, when, thanks to a procession through the town, in which the miraculous statue was carried, the terrible disease disappeared, and God did not permit it to make • single victim amongst the people. Second—This year the cattle disease has caused great destruction amongst the animals of the distillers. The inhabitants in their despair had recourse to the Vi-ga Jesse, and the same day, at the same hour that the statue of Virga Jesse was transferred to the middle of the church, the fearful ravages of the cattle plague ceased.' Is not this sufficient to have the Virgo Jesse crowned twice instead of once?' (asks the Journal de Liege). It is con ceivable that the Recollets, who have an interest in the spreading of error and superstition in order the more securely to establish their influence, should be of this opinion ; but what is inconceivable is that our communal council should publicly and offi cially countenance the rev. fathers. They have in fact unanimously granted a subscription of 700 francs towards the expenses of the fete, thereby giving a sanc tion to the pretensions put forward on behalf of the statue." The Journal de LiOe then proceeds to prove that the statue could claim no such merit, as the register of the Town-house shows that 26 persons died of cholera after the procession of the statue, and that the cattle plague only ceased when 1,400 animals were destroyed, for which the government bad to pay 800,000 fr. compensation. A largo number of delegates from tho working classes have, during the last few days, come up to Paris from the provinces to visit the Exhibition. They stay longer in Paris than those who preceded them. They take their meals at the Restaurant Omnibus, according to a fixed scale of charges previously determined upon. As these prices are moderate, this establishment has the mono poly of the whole of the delegated workmen, several hundreds of whom may be seen dining at the same time. DEATH OF May. ArSTlN.—This lady, widow of the late John Austin, well known as one of the moat eminent professors of the science of jurisprudence whom this country has produced, expired on the Bth inst., at her residence at We bridge, after an acute attack of a malady of the heart with which ' she had long been afflicted. Mr. Austin was descended from the Taylors of Norwich, • family which has in several generations produced men and women distinguished by literary and scientific ability. She was born in 1793, and she received in her father's house an education of more than common range. In 1820 she married Mr. John Austin, then a barrister on the Norfolk Chen% and came to re side nut door to Mr. Bentham and Mr. James Mill, in Queen-square, Westminster. Although that house could boast of none of the attractions of luxury, for the fortune of its owners was extremely small, it soon col lected within its walls as remarkable an assemblage of persons u ever met in a London drawing-room. There might be seen—a dim and flitting figure of the past—Mr. Bentham and his two diseiples, James and John Stuart Mill, the Grote', the rising lawyers of that day, whose success has justified the promise of their dawn, Bicker steth, Erle, Hominy, and Senior, and all this widoWand learning was enlivened in later years by the wit of Charles Buller, by the hearty sallies of Sydney Smith, by the polished eloquence of Jeffrey by the courteous amenity of Lard Lansdowne, and b y the varied resources of foreizn visitors who found a home by M . Austin' s hearth. Mrs. Austin never aspired to original literary composition. Except in some of the prefaces to her trans lations, she disclaimed all right to address the public in her own person. She, therefore, devoted the singular power of her pen to rep ro duce in Esiglish many of the best contemporary works of German and French literature, Her translations from the German, more sepealaliy, were of the highest excellence, and among these her version of Ranks's " Popes of Rome" has been commended by the beat judges as deserving to retain a place in English histo rical literature. Much of Mrs. Austin's life was spent abroad, and not a few of the moat eminent persons in con tinental society enjoyed her friendship. She had inha bited two German universities for the prosecution of her husband's studies, after he had quitted the bar for a chair of jurisprudence in she London Univenity. She had ac companied him to Maltawhen he was sentasacoinmissioner to that island. She remained for some years inParis, where her small salon had an intellectual stamp and charm not inferior to that of her London circle. The revolution of 1848 drove the Austins back to England ; they established themselves in the village of Weybndge, and calmly antici pated the day when they should rest side by side in Wey bridge churchyard. Mrs. Austin, however, survived her husband for several years, and that interva l was employed by her in accomplishing a task which to most women would have seemed hopeless. The greater part o f th e ' lectures delivered by Professor Austin on the principles of jurisprudence bad remained in manuscript. His ill-health I led him constantly to postpone the task of preparing them for the press. After his death his widow, assisted by one or two legal friends on whose judgment she could rely, succeeded in completing the imperfect edifice from the fragments of it that remained, and we owe to Mrs. Austin, already advanced in years and struggling with a painful disease, the production of a work on jurisprudence, which is unquestionably the noblest monument that could be I raised to the memory of her husband—Times. DEATH OF Miss SEDGWICK. —MISS Catharine Maria Sedgwick, whose writings years ago won for her a high reputation and attracted to her many warm personal I friends, died yesterday morning at Roxbury, Maas., in I the 79th year of her age. Forty-five years sines her first book, entitled " A New England Tale," was pub lished, and two years later appeared " Redwood," which was reprinted in England, and was almost immediately translated into French, Swedish, and Italian. Her subsequent works were " Hope Leslie, or Early Times in America ," published in 1827, Clarence" in 1830 "Le Boon" in 1832, and " The Linwood," in 1835. During the three years followiag , appeared the " Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man,' Live and Let Live," " Means and Ends," " Home," and " Love Tok e n for Children." In 1841 she published, on her return from Europe, a book of travel entitled "Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home," and in 1845 appeared " Milton Harvey and Other Tales." In 1857 these were followed by • novel of American society, under the title of " Married or Single," and in the following year she gave us a "Life of Joseph Curtis," one of our most honoured and benevolent citizens. Her successes • writer was soured at the first, and the many peen which have followed her earliest venture in literary pursuits have only tended to enlarge the circle of her admirers. Her books have been read everywhere, by almost all classes of persons, and while theyhave ever been attractive from the purity and Foe of style, they have benefited and instructed those into whose hands they came. She has written much, but in it all there has been s variety and • freshness which forbade her admirers from becoming weary of her, and there are many who will sin cereonay, regret that there can be no more.—N ew Y or k V Au 1. HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF TAX CHEST, VICTORIA PARS.—The number of patients relieved at this institution during last week was 1,177, of which 240 were new oases. 6 ' . ii,.a44t Sat • 4.1 0 .. IRE cßtaraz PALA= "`ritac alace offereE on Saturday last a two-fold to its visitors or perhaps we should rather say threefold, bemuse long before one came up with either et the two specialities of the day the eye was arrested by the fresh beauty of the gardens, ripe after the rain and radiant in the in:wahine and subsequently by the almost oppressive luxuriance of the tropiesl trees and plants and creepers within the building itwlf. Early in the afternoon the great fountains shot up their diamond spray into the air, and we doubt whether even the Vale. of Cashmere itself would at that moment have come victorious out of a comparison. In a snug and verdant nook in the far north of the gardens the invading army from German London had encamped themselves. They were not so numerous as the host which their venerated ancestors, Hengist and Horse, had once encamped a little further down on the coast, but we doubt whether they were not a deal more stalwart, for they had long cultivated their native gymnastics based on an English dietary. It was in fact the anniversary of the Turnverein, the Teu tonic equivalent for our domestic rowingand cricket club.. A. considerable number of well-formed and athletic young men twisted about bars and poles, jumped across trenches and over wooden horses, and played with foil and single stick. In the interval; they drank pale ale in a mode rate way, smoked the universally popular German haven nab, or bent their arms in friendly emulation end in order that the size of their " biceps " might be appreciated by a wondering audience. In an open gallery adjacent their fair friends' and relations " rained influence and adjudged the prize," being periodically informed of the winners by the master of the ceremonies—en athlete amongst athletes, and whose English pronunciation was quite as vigorous as his gymnastic achievements. It was altogether an exhilirat ing and suggestive sight. There was the greenwood tree, es in the days of Robin Hood, and there were the." Merry men," fair, and brawny, and jolly, looking as if they were equally ready to try a bout at cudgels with their chief, to wrie with Little John, or to sit down with Friar Tuck to the discussion of malvoisie and warden pie. The scene was in fact Saxon all over—Saxon as much in I the English spectators as in the German wrestlers, each fraternized exceedingly with the other, the one doing the work and the other the cheering with strong enthusiasm. They were the only two peoples in the world who would go through the same amount of physical labour for sheer pleasure, and with the object merely of getting rid of a little of their superabundant vitality. There is this dif ference, however: the English reduce everything they do in this way to a game and a contention. There is a strife, • game, and a . There are no three-cornered constituencies in the English sporting world. Some body must win, and somebody must lose, and the losing man must good humouredly abide by the result. For this reason systematic scientific gymnastics, properly so called, have never had the same popularity in England that they rapidly attained in the land of their original adoption, and we have some doubt whether our national common sense, which beneficially decides so many things in the ultimate resort, has not had something to do with this coldness. Twisting about bar, swinging from the trapeze, he., are not practical developments of muscle, nor do they always mike men more agile out of the whom'. Their effect is to localize the sum of muscular strength rather than to increase it, in the same way that the black smith's arm is made exceptionally strong without a pro portionate increase of strength and vigour for the rest of his body. The best that can be said of these artificial gymnastics is that they are the attainable substitute for natural exercise, and boating, riding, running, or country walks to young men confined to town, and following seden tary occupations. With even these, however, some cau tion should be observed in their practice. They should remember that all are not equally strong by nature, al though put to strive and strain at the same severe exercises. Above all things they must not forget that, although the muscles may be made larger and stronger by constant work the heart and other great vis cera will not always take kindly to tho same training. We saw some slight and delicate young men straining ter ribly on Saturday in their attempta to do what was mere play to their stronger competitors, a circumstance which convinced 02 that although these gymnastics like chloro form may be very good things in their way, they require equal skill and caution in their administration. There have been gymnasia in London and other great towns of the empire for now a great many years and we know as a matter of fact that more than one professor and a great many pupils have come to sudden grief in consequence either of the weakness of the machinery or the too great strain of the exercise. However, it is to be supposed that they were all experts who figured in Saturday's games, and it must be admitted that they all did their work well, and in the great majority of cases looked as if it agreed with them. I Within the Palace, and in an exceedingly quiet corner, was an exhibition of another and more wonderful result of human strength and daring. It was the American life raft which so lately arrived in Southampton water, after • ' boisterous, but on the whole prosperous voyage across the Atlantic, over whose long waves it had been safely piloted by its brave and skilful Prusso-American captain. If we should have a few more achievements of this kind, we shall expect some day to hear of an enterprising American laying his list down on the waters of the Hudson, booking himself as the only passenger in it, and then, having spread out his pocket handkerchief for a sail, making a prosperous voyage to some favoured harbour of " the old country." The life-raft is not now for the first time ex hibited in England. In the course of the present, almost the past, summer, Mr. Parry. the inventor, exhibited his raft on the Serpentine, but it is now an object of much greater interest, having actually proved its capabilities as a lifeboat by • voyage across the Atlantic. The captain speaks highly of its performance, making seven knots an hour, sailing, when necessary, within five points of the wind, and proving in all weathers so buoyant that it did not ship • single sea throughout the whole voyage. It is a very simple contrivance, consisting merely of three pon toons securely lashed together, and covered with an open wooden platform in the centre of which • little " inland house" gave shelter to the captain and his little crew. There are easily-worked air-pumps attached to each pon toon, by which they can be inflated is eight minutes, and the whole affair, which may be stowed away in pieces in fine weather, can be put together and launched over the side very rapidly in case of necessity. The advantages claimed for the life-raft are—first, its portability when not in use ; second, the rapidity with which the pontoons may be inflated and the raft fitted for sea ; third, the facility of launching ; and fourth, the great number of people it would keep afloat. The captain informed us that it was tested in New York harbour with upwards of five hundred people either standing on it or hang ing out of its sides, and that it kept them all afloat. This would make it an invaluable article on board an emigrant ship, where all the ordinary boats would be insufficient to take off the passengers ; and this quality would also make it better than even a lifeboat, provided, as the captain states, it could be launched so much more rapidly. It is well known that there is commonly great and sometimes fatal delay in lowering boats in moments of emergency, in consequence of the excitement of the men aad the intricacy of the tackle ; but, if we recollect rightly, there was also considerable delay at the Serpen tine experiment in hoisting the raft over the bridge •, although this is certain, that once in the water it righted itself in a moment, and in another was covered with pas sengers, whom it carried safely to the landing place. Taken with all qualifications, the recent arrival at Syden ham is wail worthy a visit and careful inspection from those who take an interest in the saving of human life at sea. The captain is a frank and intelligent sailor, and will give every information to visitors. THE SULTAN. TO THE EDITOR OP THE IMPRESS. SlR,—The directors of the Crystal Palace Company have received the following gratifying communication from his Excellency Nomura, Pasha, the Turkish Ambas sador in London, accompanied by cheques for 1,0001. and 2001. : Imperial Ottoman Embassy, July 18, 1867. Sir,-1 am commanded by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan to express to you and the other directors of the Crystal Palace Company his great satisfaction with the re ception and entertainment which were given to his Im perial Majesty at the palace on the 16th instant, and with all the arrangements made on that occasion. As I bad the pleasure of informing yon at the time, in the palace, his Imperial Majesty, seeing with regret that one wing of that beautiful edifice had been destroyed by fire, was pleased to grant the sum of 1,0001. as a contribution to wards its restoration. In transmitting you herewith • cheque for that amount, I enclose also, by command of his Imperial Majesty, a cheque for 2001., to be distributed among the persons employed by the Crystal Palace Com pany on the occasion of the Imperial visit.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) MUSURUS. A. C. lonides, Esq. CRYSTAL PALACE.—A display of fireworks and Illumination of fountains, as on the occasion of the Sultan's visit, takes place this evening at half-past eight. A Doo'sripm.rrY. —A gentleman belongingto the staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital, at Netley, took a long walk in the neighbourhood of Southampton last week, sc. oompoutiedbyhisclog, afine Newfoundlander. Intheevenin s he missed some letters from his coat pocket and his dog. The latter did not surprise him, as his dog often wandered from him in his walks. The next day the gentleman felt annoyed and puzzled at the loos of his letters, and he thought it possible he might have drawn them out of his pocket with his handkerchief during his previous day's walk. He resolved, therefore, to repeat the walk, for he might have dropped the letters in an unfrequented path, and they might be there still. About four m;les from the hospital he 01111111 suddenly upon his dog lying on the ground, with the letters close by. The dog must have laid by the side of the letters for 16 lours, including the whole night. The animal has been re-christened " Poet master-General." An artist has sketched the postmaster general guarding the letters. THE WOOLYERTON MURDER. The trial of George Britten, for the wilful murder of hia wife, Martha Britten, at Woolv erton, on the 18th day of July hat, took place on Saturday bekre Jaatiee Wllles, at Wells wises. Owing t o t h e frightful character of the murder—the victim harm / been burnt u well as killed—the trial produced luaus] excitement. _ _ _ The prisoner, when asked to plead, answered, " Guilty of the act, but not of malice aforethought." The counsel for the prosecution wire Mr. T. W. Su m . den and Mr. Edlin • Mr. Prideaux, Q.C., an d M e, Folkard defended the p risoner. The prisoner formerly occupied • farm, but latterly lived retired in a cottage at Woolvertom He was mama, and had one child. No servant was kept, and Mrs. Lritten did the domestic work, with the moseional assistance of a charwoman. Close to the eottage was • building used by a Mr. Hager exclusively as a maltbouae, to which the prisoner bad no occasion to have access. On Saturday morning, June 110th, • young man proceeding to his work at a very early hoar, was attracted by seeing smoke issuing from this malt-house, and judging that the building was on fire, he raised an alarm, proceeded to the cottage of the prisoner to awaken him. He knocked, but received no answer ; but on throwing some pebbles at the window the prisoner appeared. He was informed of the fire, and assistance having been procured the malt-house was ee . tered. Something attracted the notice of the people who were endeavouring to extinguish the fire. At first it was thought to be the body of some farm animal ; but it sal. sequently proved to be that of a human being ; and dn. mately it was discovered to he the body of Me,. Britten. Later in the day further investigation was made ? and the body, although greatly burnt, wag identified, and the wounds which bad caused death were probably caused by some heavy blunt instrument. I t was clear that the unfortunate woman had been foully murdered, and that an effort had been made to destroy all identity by burning. The question then arose, " Who did it ? " An of of police interrogated the prisoner, who stated that his wife had left home. Shortly after this, Mr. Deggan, the superintendent of police at Frame, CRAM upon the scene, and having viewed the body , went to th e prisoner and maid, " Where is your wife ?' The answer was, She is not here ; she has goes to Promo, and from there to West Arnaud to see her friends." Mr. Degree then asked if she bad taken anything with her, and was told that she bad taken a bundle of clothes. He then toot the prisoner to the malt-hoar, and pointing to the body which had been found, inquired if it was not that of his wife ; and upon receiving an answer in the affirm ative, be considered he was justified in taking him i s custody to Frame. The next day the prisoner's brother. in-law milled to see him. Mr. Deggan did not interfere with the conversation ; but noticing a piece of paper pug, he took possession of it, as in duty bound, and found that it was a confession. later in the day the prisoner asked for writing materials, which were supplied, and the narrative was then continued. 'Ater still be made a further statement, in consequence of which a search was made, and a large piece of lead was found. It was a formid able weapon, weighing six or seven pounds. Afterwards the prisoner made another statement, accounting for the position of the body between the time of the murder and ate discovery. Evidence was given in support of the charge, the medi. cal evidence showing that the poor woman had been terribly battered about the head by a heavy instrument. The superintendent of police produced the prisoner's confessions. In them he stated he murdered his wife " • fit of passion and jeehmey ;" that he viewed the act with abhorrence; thathehadthought of committing self-murder, but was prevented by the thought that the sight would deprive his son of mama, and that God would not forgave self-murder even if he did murder • that be had dragged the body over the pear-tree wall into the malt-home, and that " false friends " bad been his " bane through life." Borne difficulty was occasioned by the entire not having the original notes of a further confession made by the prisoner to him ; bat he was allowed to repeat the confession from memory. It was to the effect that he had struck his wife with the piece of lead; that he placed the hod on t wo sacks ; that he put a rope round her neck, and the body over the wall 6q the pear-tree into the thous& The latest code/Mae was read by the clerk of assize. In it the prisoner one. tradicta some of the witnesses in slight particulars. He then states that be does not expect or desire human mercy, begs the young to avoid tobacco, and prays for for. giveness. Mr. Prideaux, in an eloquent speech, argued that the prisoner's plea was the correct one, and called several wit nesses who gave the prisoner a good character. The jury consulted fora few minutes in their box, and then found a verdict of wilful murder. . . . The Clerk of Arraigns eked the prisoner in the usual manner whether he had any reason to aaaign why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. The Prisoner—l have nothing to say. The Judge, who spoke in a very tremulous voice, passed sentence of death, after which The prisoner, who seemed to have fully anticipated his doom, walked steadily ont of the dock. THE WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE ELECTION RIOTS. Some police proceedings took place on Saturday at Durolry in connexion with the uproar that attended the recent election of Colonel Somerset. Five persons were charged with assaulting Sir George Jenkinson and Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and Sir George Jenkinson. • leading supporter of the tory candidate, was charged and hoed for a fierce assault upon a couple of men. The five per ass first charged were Henry Woodward, Andrew Kilminster, William Dean , Rowland Hill the younger (a lad of if teen), and Richard Lacey and they were charged with riotously assembling and 'assaulting Sir George Jenne. son. Bart., the Hon. Grantley Berkeley and others on the 31st July. Mr. Tanton, solicitor, of Gloucester. appeared for the police ; and ' Mr. Gaisford, solicitor and coroner, fac ' the men. It had been anticipated that there would be ea ' attempt to rescue the prisoners, and the police of Glom caster and other places were organised under the chief ewe stable, and armed, many of them, with cutlasses. Bat the court was only comfortably filled with • quiet avidieme, and the most formidable gang outside consisted of a few women and market people. The evidence against the prisoners was comprised in the testimony of eight witnesses, chiefly policemen. It was proved that after the declaration of the poll on the 3lt of July, • mob followed Sir George and lady and Mies Jenkinson, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and others, to that break at the top of the town, pelted them with fresh eggs, stones, sticks, gran, and dirt. When they were getting into the carriage the mob shouted " Don't let then get up," " Pitch old Grantley out." Captain A. Kennedy. formerly governor of Vancouver's Island, and who was on a visit to Sir George. thus described the scene in his evidence :—" There were atone, sheep's heads, dry bones, sticks, and offal, thrown at es. I was walking • little behind, aupportiag an aged relative who was suffering from gout. Lacey was throwing dons, and I seized him, and though he escaped be WU caught again. He had a paper bag full of egg, and, in trying to get them from him, the, were smashed, and smeared over his face. I sum struck by various missiles. Lady and Miss Jenkins's& had the sides of their head and fans smeared with the bloat sf the offal ; and Lady Jenkinson's face was out. Sit George's little boy had his eye cut, and was crying bitterly. The mob surrounded me, and I should have gut • gN I thrashing if the police had not been there. I saw sums thrown which, if they had taken effect, would cerniall have fractured a skull. The sticks were broken brown handles ; one thrown at me was 35 feet long, and as thick as my umbrella." Another witness proved how a dirty sheep's had rig thrown backwards and forwards among the ladies in the carriage as fast as they thrust it out. Mr. Gaisford contended that no sufficient evidenced combination bad been given, and called witnesses to che ranter ; but the magistrates said they considerel that t I moat violent and disgraceful riot had been committed, . 11 I committed four of the prisoners to the assizes. Dean was discharged. Sir George Jenkinson was then charged with asemititt Thomas Ward, • labourer, and a militia corporal. lb° said that on the 31st he was standing with a crowd in s road outside Duraley. Presently Sir G. Jenkinson drove II with his break and four, and the crowd moved aside. lid wall standing at the side of the road, not speaking s wn u i and when the hreak came abreast of him, Sir tkor.l o doubled up the thong of his whip, and slashed him oa the back of the head with all his might. He was knocked mull senseless, and had felt the effects of the blow ever 'in:e; George Adams, an old farmer, proved that the ero were whooping, and that Sir George called them a set blackguards and aimed the blow with the doubled thong with all his force. William French, a labourer, said he took part of the bl on his own arm. John Carey, Lindloid of the Berkeley Anna, Berkeley said the blow with the whip wa s eau to have knocked forty eyes out. Mr. Taynton denied a statement that Sir G. Jenkioso n , had nailed his coat tails and insultingly defied the mob, then called Mr. W. Barry, an Irish magistrate, who ' d rid in the break, and who stated that the blow Wei aimed at a boy who ran in front of the leaders sin', butcher's basket, and that he was sure that the whip del not touch any one. The magistrates (after further evidence) said the? thought the assault had been proved, and fined Sir Otago Jenkunion 40a. and costa. The e s aulliztra lattor :e s ast hissed and groaned at when he got into his carriage return home after the magisterial proceedings. floorudeligyhthours, applauded . an d si their in dens e Two little boys, oes t in h si e onfan c cae hildren of a labourer named Baker, were wer fn are tit i i i; : i ra orng n t c w b by his pinafore before he couldwcrehardairereactoreenueled:"°. T hetjwin"''::°%";l7l.4"g•l7llo only six years old. DROWNED WHILE BATHING —A sad accident ball• petted st Bode, Cornwall, on Thursday. A fieD ilm l named W. G. Langdon, late of the firm of James and CO., Exe11.,,q",„„, whin olth son, when a b reak er was seen to strike his head. 0.1 sank. Hie body was discovered about a quarter of la afterwards. 1.... Mr tune hi easily made prism Joh am • Irma darnel 46:1 aura paring &Bruit 130Ver I JOik, /NM, V lith ia of ROIL! wont to M e : TIP sid do it khm nal aOlll the . 00 them M ht the' ea the m en the b an had told them. 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