The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

“ MAPPIN BROTHERS.—Established A.D. 1810 healthy quarters when the first person was attacked ' 1 they would have escaped the calamity which has I fallen upon them. Here is a point, then, to which attention should be directed without loos of time. By a powerful concentrated effort in visitation, by the establishment of places of refuge for those . in danger, and the timely provision of ample hospLal accommodation for the sick, a check may -yet be given to the future progress of the disorder. It is not surprising that just now the helpless con dition of the bereaved orphans and persons con valescent from cholera should almost monopolise public attention. The need of help in these quarters is very palpable, and the diffi culty of supplying it adequately by other means than public subscription cannot be doubted. It is, indeed, much to be desired that, by timely assistance at the hands of private charity, large numbers of convalescent and bereaved persona should be tided over their present difficulty, and thereby saved from the necessity of coming upon the parish rates. To many pauperism would be a sharper blow than cholera itself. But whilst pri vate benevolence may usefully occupy itself in this path, the duty of prevention, not the less surely, belongs to the local authorities. By the diligent application of the powers given to them by enact ment cholera may be disarmed. The successive attacks of members of a family, such as we have described, show that the local authorities are not doing their work. It should not be forgotten that whilst the Sanitary Act of 1866 enlarges and con firms their powers of action, it also provides for the contingency of official apathy and neglect of precautions in which the public safety is vitally concerned. CHESTS of SILVERPLATE for thoOOLONIES, OUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for FURNISHING. 'WPM BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN - BROTHER T S, 222, REGENT - . entze Jand G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters, . 1 and 2, Prbioesatreet, Leicester-square, W. keep an *seriatim Stock of BOY'S CLOTLIING ready made. Des it niokerbocker Suits lbes and Dress Sults KA to W. Somme Overcoats les. to s. Suitable for all times GO AND SEE THE SHOW of lb. Od TROUSERS In the shop whadow, wad bled therefrom, at J. and G. SAMPSON'S, Tailors sad OusAtterz, 1 and Prime street, Leicester-square, W. ONE of the institutions of London is EVANS'S. ftnpers and a charndurr MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVERY IVESIINO. After the theatres and Mellon's Concerts be stir* to sap there. the ervresso. TO CORKp3PONDIEIIII averthwasata Wended for "The borer." London iwordag Yam moot be al the Oblce, 10, Boeverfeegreet, by Two o'clock so the day of publication. MUNCHEN& IMINIEL TIM HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Mears. Vining, and O. UMW MINS Neilson, Augusts Thcauso, sad Mn. QUART LODGING& BRITANNIA. Tins EvREFO, TUE WIFE, A TALE OF MANTUA. Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Bell ; Mrs. S. Mlles.—Mr. W. G. Ross; The Marvellous Ilartlnettes: Master E. Senders. And THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. NIGH WATZB. AT LONDON MUM Twee DAT —Morning, llt. 17m Attersoon, 3h. Mt. TO-MautolF—lfortang, lb. 6On Marmot, 4k. ft. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. Taz present lull in the severity of Cholera at the East-end of London will not be an unalloyed source of congratulation if it should terd, as it very likely may, to indolence on the part of local authorities. There are already signs of such a dispdsition. 'We read that `; in Mile•end the " severity of the attack has been so mitigated that " some of the medical staff have been dispensed " with." If this be true, we venture to say that the stop is ill-advised, and certainly premature. Although the deaths front cholera have lately de clined with considerable steadiness, the number of attacks is still very considerable. It is a well known fact in the history of epidemics, that the later oases, although presenting the sual signs of severity, are much less fatal than those which occur at the outset. We may there fore have, as we have reason to believe is now the case, a widespread cholera influence with a comparatively slight mortality. But these less severe cases are equally powerful with the more fatal examples in spreading a form of the disease which under favouring circumstances may be attended with all the usual mortality. To jump to the conclusion, therefore, that because the death-rate is comparatively small the disease is rapidly dying out, is an imprudence which may easily lead to very baneful results. We are as yet ignorant as to the precise circumstances which favour the development of the cholera poison. It seems probable, however, from the I istory of the _ . disease in this country, and especially from its course in India, that hot, dry weather has a powerful influence in fostering the poison. Although the season is somewhat advanced, it is not too late for this country to be visited with weather which would ripen into a fatal harvest the seed now plentifully scattered. Such weather as we had during the first two or three weeks of September last year could hardly visit us now with the impunity which then accom panied it. The opportunity is now offered of striking a powerful blow against the spread of the disease. When cholera is raging in a district there is so much to be done, and so little time in which to do it, that the prevailing feeling is one of regret for missed opportunities as the hopelessness of dealing with the gigantic difficulty becomes hourly more apparent. The present is the time for energetic house-to-house visitation, for seeking out sources of disease, and for relieving the distress which prevails in the infected districts, the extent of which we have good reason to believe is far beyond anything of which the public have an idea. Brt it is especially just now that the nests of cholera should be explored. It has been observed repeat edly during the present as in past epidemics, that cases of the disease are continually being fur nished from the same houses. A member of a family is attacked with cholera and taken to a hospital ; in a few days a wife, son, or daughter follows ; then another member perhaps, after a short interval, is attacked in turn, and so on, until probably the family circle is demolished. A brief reference to what has lately been noticed in the Commercial-street Temporary Hospital will illustrate this. There was a certain family living in Peter-street, Bethnal-green. One of the chil dren was attacked with cholera or a Saturday and died. The mother, at that time unaffected, was taken with the disease on the following Wed nesday, and brought to the hospital, where she died. At the same time also another child was brought in. About a week afterwards an infant belonging to the pane family was received into the hospital. In a very small room of a miserable house in Mile-end a man was taken with cholera on a Wed nesday, and died on Friday. His daughter, a young woman, was attacked on the Thursday even ing. She was found by one of the hospital sisters, in her visiting round, lying prostrate with the disease not far from her father's body, and was re moved to the hospital, where she still remains. Here is the history of a family of six persons. In the first week of August two children were attacked and died. The day afterwards another child met with a similar fate. A few days passed and the mother was taken with cholera, but re covered. About a week after her attack another child was taken and died. About the same time the father was attacked, and was removed into the hospital, where he now lies. In one ward of this hospital there are two fathers with their two sons. In another two mothers are patients, along with their two daughters. It cannot be too prominently noted that in these painful histories of family affliction there is almost always an interval between the attacks of the different members. If this were not so—if cholera struck down simultaneously a whole family circle—we might indeed survey the scene with horror, but feel ourselves unable to cope with so dire an enemy. But this interval speaks so significantly of an opportunity for assist ance which in such cases as these has been utterly thrown away that we cannot disregard it. The inmances we have described are but samples of hundreds which have already occurred, and are still happening. The health arrangements of a district which allow of these oc currences are terribly imperfect. There can be no reasonable doubt that had the unaffected members of these families been removed to THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1866. reception of English volunteers this month at Brussels ; the other enumerating, without com ment, the additions to the Prussic* population to be made in oonsequence of recent or projected annexation. The corollary of all this we maypresume to be that "'Prussia has acquired some four and a half millions by °request, it is incumbent upon France to reduce the balance by pro ceedings of a like character in another direction. The Iskrnatiosal anathematises the liberty of the press as practised in Belgium, and states, not only that France sympothise* with Prussia on this subject, but that France, Prussia, Auer* end Russia am agreed in their resolve to put an immediate atop, " by efficacious measures, to an outbreak of revolutionary passions which the Belgian government is powerless to repress or control." The absurdity of this language, says the Herald, is only equalled by its arrogance. PARIS. (ram OUR owe oolararoarmrr.) PARIS, MONDAY Emma. The news telegraphed from Madrid, and pub lished without question by all the Paris journals, that the Queen of Spain, accompanied by Narvaez, had paid a visit to the Empress Eugenie at Biarritz, was false news. Every preparation for the exoursion had been made at Zarauz on Wednesday last, and M. Mon, the Spanish ambassador, now at Biarritz, lately sounded the Empress on the subject, and said that his Sovereign would have the utmost satisfaction in passing a few hours with her as she had done in 1865. Whether there was in her Majesty's answer any reflection of the coolness manifested the other day by the Pays, when it is said that although a visit of "neighbourly courtesy" had been talked of, nothing was decided on the sub ject, is not likely to be known. But what is said at Zarauz is that the InfantsEulalia's whoopingeough, which she had had for some time, had suddenly got so much worse that it was thought necessary to send the Prince of Asturias and the Princesses Isabella and Pilar to Vittoria for fear of contagion, and that the Queen did not like to quit her daughter Eulalia. These are the reasons given why the proposed visit to Biarritz is " given up, or at least postponed." The Emperor, it is reported, went to shoot at Rambouillet to-day, accompanied by a very large Party. The Prince de Furstenberg, one of the most im portant personages at the court of Vienna, is in Paris, and breakfasted with the Emperor the other day at St. Cloud. Baron Talleyrand, French ambassador to St. Pe- tersburg, is expected in Paris to-morrow. It is untrue that the Marquis de Lavalette has hitherto sent a diplomatic circular explaining the reasons for the retirement of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, but it is very generally thought that he will send one without waiting for the return to France of the Marquis do Mousaer. The Prince de Crouy-Chanel has gained his law suit in Italy against the Duke de Modena, but still remains a defendant to an indictment shortly to be tried in Paris, charging him and other directors of the Sous Comptoir des Chemins de Fer with escroverie. The prince has written a long letter to the Procureur-Imperial, protesting against the accusation as far as he is concerned. He simply (he says) gave his bills to the cashier of the com pany to get discounted, and did not know where the latter got the money from. This epistle con cludes with the following paragraph : I submit my cruel case to the judgment of my friends and of all impartial persons. Let those who from politi cal motives persecute me, malign me to their heart" con tent. I shall not stand in their way. My last hours will be devoted exclusively to God and niy family. Some readers might fancy that this refers to a speedy exit from this life, but I do not take that to be the true construction. I believe it only means that the prince will not appear in France to take his trial. The masonic lodge at Saintes, of which M. Eugi3ne Pelletan is master, has been closed by authority on account of some " free thinking statutes " proposed for adoption. The following is a literal translation of a para graph in this evening's Liberti : The death is announced of Lord Northbrook', for merly Chancellor of England, at the age of 70. The real name of this personage was Sir Francis Bruins ; he was a grandson of the founder of that opulent banking dynasty. Why should a man able to call himself Marius not have been contented with the name be derived from his father I The Bourse was not quite so good to-day. Rente closed at yesterday's price, 70fr. 40c. for cash, but fell 121 c. for account, closing at 70fr. 32ic. Italian fell 30c., and Mobilier 12fr► 30c. MISCIILLAN3OI3B TOPIOR. Of the various suggestions which have been lately offered respecting an appropriate punishment for bribery, the most practical, the Daily New thinks, is the proposal to visit any one found guilty of it, whether candidate, agent, or voter, with entire and perpetual disfranchisement, de. . . priving a man not merely of the right to sit in parliament or to vote at parliamentary elections, but to disqualify him also for voting in municipal elections, shutting him out from his vestry, and excluding him entirely from public life in any of those numerous forms which exist in Ragland. The Herald tarns to the election commissions to find special evidence against the liberal party, and to show that it is to the boroughs when the electoral qualifioation is the lowest, that we must look for corruption and bribery triumphant. ' • Having dwelt on the potency of female influence in in ducing electors to accept money for their votes, the Star concludes by saying the only way to neutralise this in fluence, or to turn It from a degrading into an elevating influence, is to destroy the prevalent conceptions of the suffrage as a vested interest—a perquisite, a social pos session—to make it the simple instrument of political duty, and to infuse into electioneering generally a higher, • more intellectual, a more moral tone. Nor is it 'Utopian to propose this. A good reform bill and the ballot would all but accomplish the work, and their natural progressive results would speedily emnplete it. The Telegraph insists that the necessity of a new cholera asylum has been proved. If there be institutions which can receive the sufferers, by all means let the fact be made known. Those who have worked hardest to stem the tide of destitution in East London declare that such places do not exist ; that there are no adequate means of housing the majority of orphans whom the pestilence has rendered homeless ; and the Telegraph prefers this practical know ledge to a thousand *adieu' which are the mere coinage of the brain. The statue in Leicester-square, which it is supposed has survived more extensive mutilations than any other statue ever erected, has now, it seems, just been covered from head to foot with a glaring white paint which only seems to make its wounded and broken members the more visible. The Times has some amusing remarks upon the fact, and pro ceeds to tax the Metropolitan Board of Works, who have taken charge of the inclosure in Leicester-square, with neglecting the duties imposed upon them by the act of parliament under which they obtained posses ion of it. This miserable enclosure is, we are informed, '` a garden or ornamental ground," under the charge - _ of the Metropolitan Board, which the law has required to pat it in order within six months any time since May 4, 186i1. Its said there is some dispute as to the title ; but, even if the terms of the act do not expressly guard against this difficulty, the Board might surely have found some means to maintain the square in at least decant order while the dispute is being settled. Its condition at pre sent is a scandal to their administration. the Court. The Queen will hold a council at Balmoral on Friday next A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council-chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were :—Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hoa. H. Waddington. Mr. Helps and Colonel Harness attended the committee. _ _ . Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Malta, Gibraltar, and of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa, Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, Malta,Oeylon, Hong Kong, and Labuan. The Spanish Minister and the Marchioness de Molina have left Brighton for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Blolesworth. Baroness Charles de Rothschild and Miss Emma de Rothschild have returned to Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from &Aland. Colonel Las:ence, United States Consul, has arrived at Cateldi's Hotel from Florence. Mr. Layard, M.P., left Milan for Venice on the 7th. Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, C. 8., has been appointed second in command of the Channel Fleet. It is probable that Admiral Warden will succeed Rear-Admiral Hastings Reginald Yelverton, C. 8., in the chief com mand of the fleet. The Western Morning News mentions that among the guests at Lady Molesworth's seat in Cornwall arc, at the present time, the Right Ron. Robert Lowe and Sir Stafford Northcote. Archbishop Manning writes to a contemporary to state that his argument as to the temporal power of the Pope is as follows :—" 1. That the supreme spiritual office of the head of the church requires for its free and full ex ercise the perfect independence of his person. 2. That the independence of his person cannot be secured without exemption from all temporal superiors. 3. That this ex emption requires a sphere of its own. 4. Tbat the pro vidence of God has actually so exempted the head of His church from temporal powers, and has actually given to him, as the sphere of his independence, the city of Rome and its provinces, which belong to him by the sacredness of every right and title. From this, sir, you will perceive that all transfer of Rome or of the Roman State to any other temporal power is in express terms excluded. But, as I then went on to say, when the conflict is between an unarmed and defenceless pastor and a great military force, I have no confidence but in God and justice. Nevertheless these must at last prevail." The success which has attended the middle-class examinations for boys has induced the Universities of Cam bridge and Edinburgh to extend the scheme also to girls' schools. On Saturday a meeting of ladies resident in the chief towns of the West Riding was held at the house of Dr, Heaton, in Leeds, to discuss this question, and Mr. J. E. Fitch, M.A., Assistant-Commissioner of the Schools inquiry Commission, Mr. Sales, hon. sec. of the West Riding Edu cational Board, and Miss Davies attended. Mr. Fitch spoke at son.e length, explaining the character of the eta- minations and the adyantagea resulting from them, and, after a discussion, it was decided to form a committee to superintend the examinations which will be held in that town in December. Prince Napoleon in hourly expected at Havre. His yacht is ia readineu for sea, and the Prince has sig• nified his intention of cruising round the southern coast of England. The sudden death of Doctor Burguesse, of Havre, is announced under rather peculiar circumstances.. He was attending on a lady in her confinement, when all at once he called for help, and expired almost immediately. The shock to his patient was so great that she gave birth to a dead child. " Two young priests," says the Vigie de Cherbourg, " °De the vicar of a parish in the neighbourhood of that town, the other a tutor is a reipecteble family, attracted a large mob on Thursday night by appearing in the Place d'Arrnes in a state of complete intoxication. Some good Samaritan took pity on them, sod took them to an hotel out of the jeers of the crowd." _ _ _ Some experiments have been lately made at Bremen, under the direction of Captain Werner, of the Prussian navy, on a rocket apparatus for saving crews of wrecked ships. The experiments are said to have been most satisfactory, and to have proved that this apparatus, which has been prepared in Spandau, is much superior to anything of the lame kind that has yet been brought for ward. In this appends.s the saving line, which can be thrown further than by the English system, is of common hempen cord coiled round a roller, which is itself enclosed in a sort of basket of wicker work. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST. Though changes of law and changes within and without have rescued the agriculturist and the country from a slavish dependence on the elements, the prospects of the hamlet, remarks the Titers, are still a very serious matter. Wheat is lOa. a quarter more than it was this time last year, though even the crops of last year proved to be considerably below the average, and the quotations of all the country markets are rapidly rising. An immense quantity of wheat and barley is still in the fields—a perish able property at the mercy of the elements. As far as the country is concerned, we are bold by good authorities, and everybody's observation must bear it oat, that the crops are generally heavy and the yield apparently good , notwithstanding the wet winter and the backward spring. The produce that has been housed in tolerable condition ie probably enough to make up to the country at large for a good deal. But there must be much private lota In the north of England, we are assured, appearances are even worse. A large proportion of the harvest has not been out. In the midst of all this we are told of pur chases on Freud' account ; we are told that Germany will not give us her usual assistance this year ; and America is evidently not to be depended on. So here is matter at least for apprehension. With all that miaow, skill, and capital have done for agriculture, can nothing be done for she rescue of crops left lying for weeks after they are ready to be canied ? In the north of Europe it is well known they proceed to extremities with their corn, and actually dry it in kilns, as being better than losing it altogether. Th►t is • method that necessity alone could excuse. Can we do nothing better' TRANSATLANTIC AFFAIRS. The Tinto informs its renders of what it conceives to be the nature of the great political contest for which the people of the United States are preparing--observing parenthetically that the instance of America is a proof that democratic government is no security against political animosities. According to the view of the Times the American radicals are pushing forward to a centralisa tion of government which would remove any checks at present existing on the absolutism of popular will, and the American conservatives are desirous of retaining these ob stacles to the tyrannical power of numbers. The demo cratic party are seeking to recal their allies of the South in order to restore the democratic ascendancy, but the republicans have advantages of their own in the conflict- The fact that it we. they and they only who brought the civil war to a triumphant issue naturally gives them favour and influence. They seem to rely, too, upon the support as a political reserve of a large mass of Americans who side actively with neither pa.-ty. They have, moreover, a perfect organisation though the President is on the other side, and they hold in strength the positions from which the new party must dislodge them. The contest, therefore, is expected to be long and desperate, and the issue is so doubtful that no politician will venture to predict it. The Daily News says the Mexican problem has been simplified to this, namely, how to get the Emperor safe back to Europe—how to evade the capture which some ardent nationalists threaten him with. In proportion, however, as the question of the Mexican empire narrows simply to a personal interest, that of Mexico itself grows in import ance. An abdication in favour of the young Iturbide would have no political value. The settlement most natural and beneficial would be the accession of Juarez to the headship of affairs, but Maximilian and the French h see plunged the country into financial embarrassments of unprecedented magnitude, such as are altogether beyond the means of the people ; and whoever succeeds Maximi lian will have foreign as well as domestic difficulties, arising out of the residence of French, Belgians, and Austrians and the pecuniary obligations of the Mexican treasury, to France to contend with. The prospect is not a cheerful one, but whatever hope it contains gleams forth from the national spirit which has been evoked in resistance to foreign aggression. If General Juarez can turn this to socount, and make it the regenerating element of the na tional character, he will deserve to be esteemed the second founder of the Mexican Republic. The Telegraph sees much significance in the introduc tion of the Juarist envoy to President Johnson, and in the language which was used by General Grant. Each such compliment is not merely a warning to Maxi milian, but a covert threat to France, which supports him. According to the Telegraph the Emperor Napoleon de served thanks from every friend of civilisation and hu manity for sending his troops to put down the Mexican republic, but the event has proved that he miscalculated the difficulties of the enterprise. PRUSSIA. AND PRANCE. The treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia stipu lates that " the people of the northern districts of Sales wig, if they by a free vote express a wish to be united to Denmark, shall be ceded to Denmark accordingly ;" but all experience teaches us, the Times thinks, that a vote under the pressure of such circumstances as those in which the Duchy is situated is little better than a mere mockery and de ceit. Meanwhile the opposite parties are ranging them sel►es in dense array for the forthcoming straggle. Already, on Saturday, no leas than 1,000 Schleswigers went up from Flensburg and Ala to Middelfart, on the strait be tween Jutland and Innen, to attend a popular festival that was to be held on the spot. The town of Flensburg and the Isle of Als or Alsen, be it kept in mind, are no part of those northern districts of which the cession is proposed. Indeed, the Prussians, whatever else they may in their fit of generceity be inclined to give up, will certainly never consent to part with that strong position between Duppel and Sonderborg for which they fought so stoutly in 1860, and which they now look upon as the key to the whole of their northern frontier. The commotion naturally created among the people by the prospect of having a voice in their future destinies may afford a pre text either for abandoning the promised plebiscite alto anther, or for putting such a restraint on the " free vote of the people " as to obtain just such a result as may suit the originators of the scheme, and no other. The Herald, on the assumption that the French journal published in London called the International is, to a cer tain extent, the exponent of the views of the French go vernment, finds it not without sienificance that that paper published lately a series of threatening articles on Bel gium, and that it has commented with much bitterness on the territorial increase of Prussia. These sinister omens reached their grand climacteric in the issue of yes terday, when the Iniesnational appeared with two loading articles side by side, one of them denouncing in terms of unusual violence the innocent preparations for the PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. A large and enthuaiaatic meeting was held yes terday evening in the Hulme Town Hall, Manohester,ander the auspices of the Reform League. Resolutions were passed, pledging the meeting to assist in the great reform demonstration on the 24th inst., and knifing Mr. John Bright to be present on that occasion. HOP AND MALT EXCHANGE WAREHOUSE COMPANY ( LIM! TED).-(THIS DAY.) An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders was held to-day at the temporary offices of the company, R. Southwark-chambers, Borough ; Mr. D. OGILVY in the chair. . . . . . The CHAIRMAN stated that the only object of the meet ing was to confirm resolutions passed on the 21st of August for the adoption and circulation of the interim and supple. mental reports of the oommittee of investirtion ; making certain alterations in the artioles of association according to the recommendation of the committee ; forfeiting 200 shares ; and empowering the diruotors to terminate the contract entered into with Messrs. Rankin. Mr. CONYBEARF. announced that the new buildings were advancing rapidly towards completion, that some of the offices had been already let, and that the company would remove there within a fortnight. Mr. TAYLOR (director) stated that de building would be erected for 300/. or 400/. less than the estimate of 50,000/. In reply to Mr. REAL, The CHAIRMAN intimated that another call would have to he made before long. About two-thirds of the former call had been paid, and the rest was coming in satisfac torily. The four resolutions were then confirmed, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings. It has been decided to hold a West Riding de monstration in favour of manhood suffrage, on Wood house Moor, on the Bth of October. Communications have been received from Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and other towns in favour of such demonstration. A meeting was held in Liverpool yesterday a t which it was detennined to support the town council in its effort to secure further legislation with a view to diminish drunkenness in the town. REPRESENTATION OF PENRYN AND FALMOUTH.— Intelli7ence leached the united borough on Saturday of the death of Lord Northbrook, whereby the seat in parlia ment held by his eldest son, Mr. T. G. Raring, has become vacant. A meeting of electors was immediately summoned, and held at the Royal Hotel, Falmouth, at 8 p.m. on that day, when a very large body attended, the mayor (Mr. N. Fox) taking the chair. A resolution was unani mously passed, appointing five gentlemen from each sec tion of the borough to consider the names of candidates who would be acceptable to the constituency, to be sub mitted to a general meeting for the selection and approval of one of them at the earliest possible moment. This com mittee at once put itself in motion. A second resolution was also carried, pledging the meeting to liberal principles deprecating corruption of any kind, and declaratory of united and immediate action to secure • suitable represen tative. Mr. Malin!, Q.C., is to be invited to contest these boroughs on the ministerial interest. THE LANCASHIRE INVITATIONS TO THE Qunnie.— Her Majesty has declined the invitation of the corporation of Manchester to inaugurate the Albert memorial in that city on her journey southward next month. The Queen fears that the fatigue of the proomxlinp might be too much for her, at the same time she hears with pleasure of the completion of the memorial, and will ever cherish a grate ful recollection of the feelings by which its promoters were impelled. It is conjectured that the Liverpool invitation for a similar visit contributed to influence her Majesty's reply to Manchester, as the Queen might shrink from the exertion of inaugural labours at both places, or front giving offence by honouring one more than the other. LIBERALITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALZE.—AA the train was carrying the Prince and Pnneem of Wales to the north, about a famiaight ago, a pitman at Howarth, near Newcastle, was storing the line and was killed. Hie widow, who lives at Haworth. has just received from his royal highness a sum of one hundred pounds as seam com pensation for her bereavement.—Nortkeva Express. DEATH OF COLONEL M. G. WHlTlE.—lnteffi genes has readied London of the death of Col. Matthew George White, who was seized with cholera on Sunday week at Boulogne-sur-Mer, and died on the following day, notwithstanding the combined exertions of than's& acid English doctors. CRYSTAL FARADIC. 0.1 81111:111:11V DAY. — MONDAY, SEPT. 10.—Admissions on payment, 12.942 ditto by season tickets, 2,322. Total Adam. 15,164. GREAT RAILWAY WAREHOI7BZ Plii (THIS DAY.) Decidedly the most extensive fire th a t h as wok place in the metropolis 'km the great wharf fire is % hp. street some three or four years since, wheth er a s the large amount of propertydestroyed,o r the "Ws eatiew pound on which the destroyed boildinp d ee d * al between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning es the rings of warehouses belonging to the ldrafloa mad Nin Wcitern Railway Company, situate in Rayd 01e ,...7 Minorite, and known as the Haydon - square good" At the hour above named one of the night duty discovered fames issuing f rom thiwhi — Eaal warehouses immediately fronting the • e ntrance, and underneath which r eam leading to the main body of the buildier s Z in which gateway is situated the manager ' s Ask Re * ones gave the alarm, and, there always leap s imp number of labourers working by night in th e asdatanee wee speedily at hand ; ease of thrall: e l dispatched for the - brigade engines, others sett m j on the flames by all conceivable meama,antret° body getting into work the engines belcogi ag t,„ g y premises, and on which there is always kept miry p p venienoe for obtaining any supply of we* is 'my. AR the efforts used, however, to soma pregress of the flames were unavailing, and * N Z upwards from floor to floor with great rel en t.' speedily seized hold of the immense range of hound' running along the eastern side o f t h e yard :4 , them, fi lled to the ceiling with woollen bales were m a alight from top to bottom, the fire defying eh deb of the firemen, • large number of whom, am* panted by stem sad manual engines, wars energetically at work. The opposite range of m a d with dry goods of every description, now T ealgit i Zt soon became one mass of flame. The scene prewated e this moment wee one of the most eimo o ke: t h immense piles of buildings on firs ben top le lem ma the crackling of the goods as they caught fire, variant& explosions, with the fear of a still more serious em hissing of the volumes of water unceasingly {oared , a burning premises, the cries of the firemen and the s h ma , of the immense crowds assembled on all sides of ths - ' isa mime, and above all the falling of several of the s e warehouses, all combined to suggest • complete *tad Pandemonium. To add to the confusion • large mak, of the valuable hones kept on the premises, dam* by the fire and noise, broke out of the and were rushing madly about the premien. The eta, men and others, however, secured the anima" derma trouble, and removed them, with the others "Rifle Mahler, to a place of safety. By 2 o'clock the eastokg efforts of the firemen and the volumes of ma i poured forth from upwards of twenty engines lise a !perceptible inroad on the flames, sad It s were entertained that all further danger e p past. Unfortunately, however, owing to the Mos w e d prevailing, the large warehouses occupied as Ono is whisky now caught fire, and the flames rigid aft furiously than before fed by the thousands of beenlid whisky in the building. The effact of the benne d these warehouses was grand in the extreme, the inane sheets of flame taking every possible form and to* shot high up into the air, illuminating the sky foray around with the most beautiful tints. This prom en repeated as each successive floor of the warehouses woo fire, and the effect has been described by the resident d the suburban d istricts as like prolonged flasher of lilt*** The fire at last to sonic extent burnt itself out, sad o'clock this morning, to the great relief of the Anneal WWI announced that it was not likely to rztend indf • any of the other warehouse'. The great body of doh however, in the premises burned rendered it neenuyia the engines to be kept well st work during the whsis d the morning. rtZSDAT, Now An attempt was made about 11 o'clock to make a soil of the scene of destruction, but this was found to In in possible ; the firemen were still playing upon the brig rains in all directions, the walls of the gutted rt. houses were tottering as if about to fall, the whole ells yards and basements were several feet arida este, and • perfect deluge of water was pouring does the floors and ceiliws of three wirehousn3 partially destroyed. The premises burned over at least two acres of ground, and as thif were all filled with goods it is asides* GI the amount of property destroyed mast be very peg indeed. The extensive cellars, also filled with goods,■ all flooded with water to such a depth as at presents wax them inaccessible. Great inconvenience audios mad de arise from the destruction of the invoices, mumybilh, hi of lading, and books belonging to the different wire. Mr.Gooch, of the firm of Gooch and Conoens, the relent brokers, and owners of a large quantity of the veil► stroyed,Vas endeavouring to arrive at some knewhied his loss, and a large number of the railway officials 's!' also in attendance, but owing to the rases above skid could not make much progress in their inquiry. At the present time it would be ridiculous to male stf estimate of the value of the property destroyed, salt reports as to the origin of the conflagration are so nisi and contradictory that it would be useless to repast flan It is not expected that any steps can be talcs Met to-morrow morning to clear the yards from the ended property lying about them, owing to the large bode d flame still shooting oat of the ruins, and the pietist and smoke prevailing. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE DISTURBANCES IN CANDIA. Accounts from Athens of the 4th state that the general assembly of the people of Candle has re fused to accept the proposals made by the Egyptian general. The Pacha of Epirus having attempted to force the Christians under his jurisdiction to sign an act of fidelity to the Sultan, the inhabitants o 40 villages are said to have abandoned their homes and to have taken refuge in the mountains, at the same time proclaiming their independence. Other advicea from the island of Candia, dated the 3rd, state that the Turkish army has made demon strations against the insurgents, who were distri buted into three camps, and were preparing for action. It is asserted that the insurgents have re fused a remission of taxes, still persisting in their demand of the union of Candia to Greece. According to letters of the Ist from Athens, re ceived in Trieste, the Greek government has re plied to the two notes delivered by the Ottoman ambassador that the constitution interdicted it from taking any measure of coercion against the press, and that the national guards who went to the aid of the Candiotes were natives of the island. Fears were entertained that the incident would bring on the rupture of diplomatic relations be tween Turkey and Greece. The Generals Sonolensk, Pants, and Spiromlioe have been commissioned to examine the state of the army and to make provi sional preparations. Advices from Constantinople of the Ist say that Omer Pasha was to make a tour of inspection in Bosnia and the Herzegovine. According to information from Constantinople, Mustapha-Pacha left on Saturday for Candia. His instructions as to the treatment of the inhabitants are most lenient. The Cretan Mussulmans of the country districts have en Inoue abandoned their homes and property in order to place them selves in safety in the fortified towns. RUSSIA AND POLAND. The Courier of Witna contains the following : By a circular of August 28 the Governor-General of Wana notifies to the officers of government under his jurisdiction that he has opened at Wiles " a special office for the introduction of Russian proprietors into the pro vincea of the West." The business of this office will con sist—Lt, in the transfer of property to persons of Russian origin ; 2nd, in the compulsory sale within two years of the properties comprised in the ukase of Sept. 22, 1865 ; 3rd, in the sale and letting of confiscated estates and the property of the State ; 4th, in the colonising of the State property with Russian peasants and soldiers who have passed through their term of service. (azoTEß's rzisaaews.) REDUCTION OF THE •AUSTRIAN ARMY. VIENNA, Styr. 11. An imperial decree, published to-day, orders an immediate reduction of the army in all depart ments and its restoration to the normal peace footing. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sarr.lo, Evraxa. The Porte has promised the French Am bassador, the Marquis de Moustier, that a portion of the State revenue and the Egyptian tribute shall be transferred annually to the Ottoman Bank for the purpose of redeeming the Turkish loan contracted abroad. The Turkish government has also engaged to effect a saving of 3,500,000/. annually by reduc tions in the civil list, so as to establish an equili brium in the budget. Conflicts between the Turks and Christians in the island of Candia are of daily occurrence. Energetic military measures have been taken by the Mussulmans. Husin Pacha, the Governor- General of Macedonia, has been dismissed from his post. The Porte is about to establish an Embassy at Washington. Petitions have been forwarded to the Porte to appoint Aristides Bilcazzi, Prince of Lantos. The railway between Varna and Rutschuk is completed. The Council-General of the Loire-Inf‘rieure has voted 2,500 fr. towards the purchase of the tower and the erection of a monument to Joan of Aro ; that of the Loiret, I,ooofr. ; the Var, fioOfr. ; the Council of Savoy, 500 fr. ; and that of Upper Savoy, 100 fr. for the same purpose. The Paris correspondent of the Times says • " For some time past little doubt has been possible as to how the Mexican adventure would terminate, and the abdication of the Emperor Maximilian has been looked upon as merely a question of time. But the complexion of I the last accounts from that country is so bed that we now expect his Majesty by eve'' , boat." In Switzerland the season has been most unsatis factory both for tourists and hotel-keepers. The war a t first kept many persons at home, and, when that finished+ the increasing stream of tourists was met with such a counter-current of rain that many returned or diverged in quest of less pluvions latitudes. In most parts of Swit zerland nearly the whole of July and the greater part of August were wet, cold, and altogether unseasonable. The Genoa Court of Appeal has just given judg ment in an important case. The registrar of that town had refused to sanction the civil marriage of a priest. His refusal had been validated by a lower jurisdiction, but that sentence has now been quashed, and the principle solemnly affirmed that priests can legally depart from their vows of celibacy. The British Consul at Geneva mentions a piece I of sharp practice on the part of the Communal Council at Zermatt. A monument had been ordered to be erected over the graves of the deceased gentlemen who perished last year on the Mont Cervin, in the churchyard at Zermatt, and inquiries had been made whether any inure. dimcnt existed, the answer being In the negative. The I workmen were sent up last week with the stones com pleted for putting up the monument, when suddenly the Communal Council made a demand of 5,000 fr. (2001.) for the ground ! " It is curious," says a letter from Venice, "to observe the tentative degrees with which the Venetians begin to assert their independence. A week ago the go vernor had good-humouredly to rebuke an impatient lady for banging the colours from her windows, and a dashing youth thought it something to march up and down with an insurgent necktie. Now the shops are all red, white, and green ; Napoleon, and Victor Emmanuel, and Prince Humbert are severally exhibited on scarf and tie for the purpoce of dangling over • white shut like a welting standard in the faces of the mild Austriaci, who are indeed so inoffensive that it ceases to be • joke to outrage them." A Paris correspondence of the IndApendance writes :—" I am assured that the Mon iteur will publish in • few days a note on the subject of Mexico. It is also affirmed that Count de Germiny, President of the Com mittee of Mexican Finance, is about to leave for Tarbes, where M. Fould must now be, to consult with him as to the means of reassuring in some degree the Mexican bond. holders, whose alarm is on the .recrease. If M. Fould persists in refusing • guarantee on the part of the govern ment in favour of those secuuities, the probability is that the President of the Committee will resign." The first-class passengers by the mails of the 20th and 28th ult., from Southampton and Memelllea, including several oaken, bitterly oomplain of the treatment expe rienced at the hands of the Baptism Transit and Penin sular sad Oriental Companies on the road from Alexandria to Suez. The carriages were " something between beast trucks and fourth-elms carriages," sad between 6 o'clock in the evening and 7 o'clock the following morning—the time taken by the journey—no food or drink weld be Ind at the stations. They arrived perfectly exhausted at Suez, " where the whole Book of us, herded together during the journey across the desert for some fourteen home, without any necessary conveniences, were innuediatelz huddled on board a lighter, exposed to a tropical sun without a pre tence of an awning, and after 45 minutes' tow scrambled up the sides of the steamer BengaL" DR. WARDER AND HIS CHILDREN. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY.--(TRIS Da) I This case, which has already appeared in a Express, was again mentioned to-day before Mr. Psi, the chief clerk attached to Vice. Chancellor Stuart's Osat It will be remembered that a question arse lead, a guardian could be appointed to children who nail out of the jurisdiction of the court, the object slit application bein ,, to apply to the crown to lesiva the Ott to the property fetleited by a verdict of felo do is a chief clerk doubted whether a guardian could be appelal while the children were abroad, but on Friday last Viso Chancellor Stnort made the order, and Miss Gessiog,ll maternal aunt, was appointed, and the object of Shop sent application was as to the manlier in which rho ads was to be carried out. The gentleman who attended from the office of Yeas Palmer, Eland, and Nettleship, the solicitors for Ir Gunning, said it was wished to send the eon to Wood!' Germany, and to allow the three daughters to mass abroad. The Chief Clerk said as Miss Gunning waa see di guardian, it would be necessary th at a summons dad& taken out to allow the children to remain abroad tad le send the boy to school in Germany, and on thstapplimis the matter would come properly before the court. Order sioordingly. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS Dl.l TVIDIDAY, SUMO= 11, • LS ----- ---_ a It' W. t ) sztalles. L i .ia iI2F. • D. l ib il _ Nairn 296 96 7, B.W. 4 - -•S E. coe ., - 1 Aberdeen 29.15,5 2. B .W. 2 3 ; Sl. ro . o .l' L e ith A -dreamt' Greencastle 19.12'64' N.N.W. 2 6 &I TO 0 I Vslentla 29.68 '5 01 N.W. 10 11 I W. 6.01. re Itr I Cape Clew- • - 1-; - - - 1 - - - 0 - lAverpool 5,80 67' W.S.W. 4 . 7 kW. C S .! Holyhead 9 I 3.3. W. 0 l a .' ; POlllll/1011 29.69 56 W.N.W. 81 9 W. re " ' Brag.. ...... - '-' - -1 - -- -I : Latent 1 - 1-: - - - - - l' Rochet Plymouth Weymouth -1 - - • . - -1- ' I •'lO 1 Portsmouth 1963 57 , S . W . BW 8, 0 S.Vt • r e Loudest _ 29.62 55 B.W. 7. 3 I B.S.W. aI: ; Y _ : armada. . 29.89 641 B.W. 64. 8. 8 . W. r !Le i acarboreagn. 29.35 62 8. 6. 4 ; 8.9 W. eo on BMelds 29.25 57 , 8. 2I 2 1 3W. CO ,-: I: Heider I I REM AREA. The weather h much disturbed over the whole oi 10 2, lalea. and heavy gales continue to blow from Sy from ~ '" west coast of Ireland. Banwneters tothe north have again balsa considersbllio. Cautionary telegrams were sent yesterdal to 'Swoop coasts of England, and our eastern and northern costa cautioned this rimming. THE MALTON 11011sES.—Yederday I IP% train of a dozen horse-boxes and other carfilg o .M' Melton with the united strings of the Mallon tor. foe Doncaster. There was groat interest 'bon' 1 77 them, and a large company assembled to s ee , tbell Knight of the Crescent was not taken from bu" L aid was loaded, van and all, upon a separate track horses of Mr. John Scott's string were Knight of tho r,fo• 5 cent, Weatwick, War, Knigh t of St. Michaare• a T. Cross, and Queen of Nuts. M r. Shepherd's ° Treasure Trove, Malta, and Little Traaure hi tk 7 l .l son took Messmate, Lina. Sycee, and BluteT•n,,' si Peck's lot were Bixig e, Skylark, and Gipsy Quo" . — l O, &Coe there were seve ral u yearling and brood ' fir Public opinion here is very sanguine of rolg coining to Halton. Since Blair Athol's year v Digh ts. .,.. 6 o has not been so busy as on Sund a y ni . r ornutihb es , pa• horses had their lest gallops. Ths na ture of 7f,„,a d carter course and the effects of the wet upon it t with the horses' appearance on Sunday, hare be°"•%ip into notice, and be has many friends — I indod. rally believed that in a " earl! M t eds s ale War was master. He is undoubtedly a hole for s course, and many who stand well on the oorlis.11: also put upon War, for both the handicap snd th e 'An t TRn ENGLISH " WELCHERS" IN FSANCIL.; will be remembered that some frauddentbetting recently bolted with their booty from Deauville rsorfrr. captured at Dieppe. They have just be en sera toog rC i ; Tribunal of Polices of the latter tetra to Pe Jos prisoomoot. bato° 4 Hzavy STairne.—A grand match at vic says the Sport, took place few evezdnis tort between an English duke and a Rtuniangethei • imiss efficient players, sad suormouslyrich. to haws left ad • law at 880,0001 n LA end Id go el em. Th veninge. y one ere imml n feet, be , Owed. Edward nihe IKE 1 olsat. Frauds ".. • t, B V ' etter-lan . s e lig ri rr ~' ' lit tl r. 1 , struck wii A younj Mid hew morns of t him in th Mm, , . tod , ii h wear iicTniii cw days o 1 00 1 r, arc a! Aldan nteacw o Wig i rr st u bsoto from the rpla The bi prisoner fora qua ' ' as 4 re. ref Mai ems Hr. Dab, at* • oPPw ed ' ll O, ousiodY. Tho: e t 6116 t ra o n. rn • .orart bq e . 29 ti tali Ts ama. tea not to hehi : fer sh . La ROD?' 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