The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-05 00:00:00

• • .. BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIEM lo obtain intis poet by the oak other kinds an sometimes Awed Instead or BROWN and TOLSON'S. John Brown," "John Yolson."l6 signed by the makers on p‘citt T HEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. CIVENT GARDEN CONCERTS. rater the sole diruction of Mr. J. RUSSELL, EVERY EVENING at 8. 'I he first part cf the Concert THIS EVENING will consist of the foil. ring works of vir.rrnovgx: The Pastoral Symphony (Mc enure work . Carotins Adelaide. performed on the Double Rs,. by signor ibittesini ; Concerto, Violin, M. Wienlawski. aid tl.yrture Leator.t. The se , mil part will be mlicellanont. and Include Selection 10 mod . i(.110 by Mwtsnoiaelle sarolta and Mademoiselle Er !Ile Polkas and Waltzes by Johann Straus, solos by Mr. J. M Weldl and A. V. Dicer. /tr. de. Conductor. Signor BOTTLSINI. For the Dance Musk, Herr JOHANN STRAUSS. HAMM sv nest Grand selection from Dar Fretschata for Or. etw.tra and Chonus limr..lo neat a Mozart night. 11.onenuffe, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre. Ore Maili ag. I' 'es open at haltimat Seven. Bile erprelos. TO 00ILRESPONDENTS. advertisements Intended for "TM Express," London Evening ➢iper, snit be at the Mee, 10 , Bouverie-etreet, by Two frolocit au the day of publichUou. BAYMARICIM t Tnt4 EVlClffill. AS YOU LINK IT. Messrs. Howe, dale. Mown. Modal. Clark. Weathenby, de. ; i s= 9r.44t Burke. FltzwilUam, ft.—To PARIS AND RACE IVY SS. Mr. Buckatone.—And PET= BMINK. Mr. Clark. PILINCIURN. '1171% XVINCRO, POlti PIELIJODDY. Memo. Dominick Murray R iirankank ; MW Polly Marshall—And TH it OVUM'S OE LONDON. Mr. Vining, Mews. M•Leass, D. Murray, tc.. Messlemes Stuart, Barnett, and Marston. 111117'ANNLIL. THE Tiik6lTHE RED MANSION : OR. YAK DAVi ie► MARIE ANIOINETTE —The Champion Stan: Mr. Plimpton ; Mr. & Mrs. Coleman and Mr. Brown. And THE BRA; OR, TUE OCKAN CHILD. 111011 WATILE AT LONDON BRIM - IL TO= DAY —Storming. Gin 17in.......Aft0rm00n. fili. SAIL 141[0/1/AoW—Morning. gin Cgoi.--Altermoon, 70. Mi. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. THE London Working Men's Amociation has done a service to the Liberal party by calling forth the letters of Earl Rosana. and Mr. Chun wroN e. The country had begun to expect some declaration of policy on the part of the Liberal leaders, and Liberal politicians have been pretty generally asking what those leaders were likely to do. The desire of the people has not been an swered by any long disquisition on the political situation, nor by any formally enunciated cry, but the short expressions of personal opinion and feel ing which these letters contain are amply sufficient for all that we require. No one will at any rate any longer be obliged to ask the question, What does Earl RUSSELL think ?we shall scarcely be obliged to ask, What will Mr. GLADSTONE do I for their opinions may be gathered, and their atti tude learned, almost as well from these informal ex pressions as from a programme more diatinctlydrawn out. It was not to be expected that either Earl Russet'. or Mr. GLADSTONE would express that entire approval of the Reform Bill which some sections of their party rather demonstratively utter. Not to speak of its disgraceful origin and history, it is a great measure of enfran chisement fettered by one or two almost un workable conditions, and deprived of half its value by being united to a dwarfed and inefficient scheme of redistribution. It is unequally developed— strong on one side and weak on the other. Those who view it only on its enfranchising side are astonished at its magnitude— those who look at it front the aide of redistribu tion and the balance of political power are disap pointed at its littleness. Mr. GLsowrotis expresses the universal feeling—universal excepting among some few Parliamentary Liberals who share with Mr. DISRAELI the responsibility of its authorship —when he says :—" Of course your satisfaction " would have been more complete had some other " parts of the subject, and especially the redistri " bution of seats, been treated in the same coin " prehensive manner as the borough suffrage, and " had the enfranchisement in boroughs not been " connected with provisions so inconvenient and " irrational with respect to the payment of rates " through the owner." But the satisfaction at " the great extension of the franchise which has I " been given by the Act" far outweighs among the working chases any dissatisfaction at its short- comings. They feel that what has been given cannot be taken back, and that what has been withheld will yet be won. They do not forget bow much is owing to Mr. GtanirroNz for his un compromising and unceasing hostility to the re strictions which hemmed the enfranchisement ori ginally proposed within such narrow limits, and for the courage with which, at a critical moment, he preferred to accept household suffrage in its entireness rather than mock the people by grant ing them the name but denying them the thing. But gratitude is cynically said to be a sense of favours to come, and it is therefore to Mr. GLADSTONE that the newly-enfranchised householders will look to make the redistribution settlement as broad as the settlement of the fran chise. Mr. Gtantrrorte evidently includes this in his programme of future policy. He is no sulky ACerLLES, as he has been represented to be, retiring to his tent, and refusing to mingle in the fight. He is ready to take his natural place as the leader of Liberalism in the House of Commons, and only waits for the voices of the reformed constituencies to call him to his poet. The letters of the two leaders are singularly characteristic of their position and temperament. Mr. GLADerroNE is hopeful, as the leader of the future should be—Earl Rusam. is cautious, as a veteran statesman may be expected to be. Mr. GLADSTONE thinks such a celebration as the Working Men's Association propose, to be " amply justified by the great extension of the " franchise which has been given to the Act," and thinks the meeting may tend " to create an en " hence(' sense of the duties it imposes as well as " the powers and privileges it confers." Earl Buassxt is " too uncertain what effect Lord " DERBY'S leap in the dark may produce to be a fit " and enthusiastic companion for those who " might wish to celebrate the passing of the " Reform Bill of 1867." But the veteran leader representing one mood of the Liberal party to itself, and the younger leader representing another mood, are strongly agreed as to the future. There is no particle of despondency in either. The policy of the past may not have been wise, and has cer tainly been venturesome, but it must at any rate be made the beat of. Earl Rusanes letter does not by any means indicate a reluctance to accept the new Act, but simply a desire to see bow it works, and what can be done with it, before rejoicing over it. He simply says to the Liberal party : Toryism has given you a new weapon, let us test its temper. Will it help vs to remove out of the way the ancient obstacles to progress ? The present Govern ment do not mean this, yet it is essential to the future welfare of the country. Surely no thing could be more appropriate, at the present moment, than thus to remind us what remains to be done. The Liberal party want a programme ; Earl Rusazt.z. supplies it as to the legislation which is 11013410 d, Mr. GLADSTONE 115 to the popular action which is required—"a general, " sound, unsectarisui education of the people; the " abolition of Church-rattw; and a redress of those " grievances, both in regard to tho relations of " landlord and tenant, and of the maintenance " of the Church of the minority, of which the Irish " as a nation justly complain." These are laid down as the immediate programme of Liberal legislation, but they are only " among the measures " " un " connected with the Reform of Parliament," which Earl RUSSELL considers to be " necessary "to assure the future of this country." Mr. GLADSTONE completes the programme when he speaks of the unsatisfactory character of portions of the Act, and when looking in the direction of the outdoor work which needs to be done he approves of the proposed Reform fête because " it will tend to create an enhanced sense of the " duty the extended enfranchisement imposes, "as well as of the powers and privileges it " confers." Here, then, is a Liberal programme. First of all, t, give the people such political education as may be possible, and thus to create an enhanced sense of the duties their citizenship imposes ; and next, to take up the work of Liberal legislation where Parliament left it off, to destroy the last traces of religious inequality in England and Ire land, to settle the land question on the basis of economical science, and therefore of justice ; and to establish an universal system of unsectarian education. We have been told of late that the old Liberal watchwords were effete. But they can only become effete when they have done their work. The policy of Peace has become so essen tial a part of our national action that, after the next great European change, the policy of re trenchment may be carried out with equal com pleteness and success ; and now Reform has been so far successfully attained, that no further de mand for an extension of the franchise in boroughs will be made during this generation. But the Liberal party does not abnegate its function when the work of one campaign is done. For new times it has new measures ; for a fresh fight a fresh cry. The new times are already on us— the fresh fight is already before us, and Earl Rva sztt's letter gives a glimpse of the new measures and an intimation of the fresh cry. For England, national unsectarian education, and the abolition of church-rates ; for Ireland, security to the tenant farmer, and the complete establishment of religious equality. And though these are only " among the measures" which a Reformed Par liament must be induced to pans, and on which the rtconstructed Liberal party will insist, they will of themselves inaugurate a new era of reli gious peace, of social content, and of political progress. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE ZZLZANZ Or THE ADVMHNIAN CAPTIVES. If the news that the English captives in Abys sinia have been liberated by the Emperor Theodore is sub stantiated, it will, says the Tines, gladden every heart. Englishmen will be glad to believe that the threat of hos tilities and the preparation of an invading force have ac complished what gentle words and royal presents mild not effect. The intercession of the Armenian Bishop Isaac, to which the clemency of Theodore is ►ttributed, comes sus piciously soon after the news of an expedition from Bom bay must in due course have reached the imperial court. The news will be especially acceptable to the government and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Even as it is, should the prisoners be at once restored and the prepara tions everywhere cease, the budget of next year will feel the effect. very deeply. But should we have done with Abyssinia reasonable people will not complain. Only let it be understood that those who have been delivered, and another bold spirits bent upon African adventure, will have henceforth but themselves to rely upon. If they en gage in it they must not look to be rescued by new expedi tions. We cannot send • mission to redeem them with the chance of being obliged to send an army to redeem the mission. No more welcome news could reach England, observes the Doily Nevi, than that our countrymen, so long held in cruel captivity by the savage King of Abyssinia, have gained their liberty. There is only one thing to moderate the joy which such intelligence inspires —the suspicion that after all it may not be true. It is difilcalt not to feel some slight misgiving on this point, for we have been betrayed into premature self-congratulation more than once or twice before. And yet there is no direct and positive reason for doubting the report, while there is much to render it probable. The more the course of affairs during the last few days is considered, the more the Star is inclined to believe that the government knew well the expedition would not be required. When it ordered the chartering of the vessels, it must have supposed that the captives were on their way to the coast. Without even the justification of an unsatisfactory answer to the ultimatum a vast expense has been incurred, and the spectacle presented to the world of a Christian nation hastening to put on its war-paint, and preparing to show the depth of its religious fervour by letting loose the savages of India upon the savages of Ethiopia in order to punish one ruffian whom we had no chance of reaching. The responsibility which ministers incur in appropriating to an Abyssinian expedition supplies which have not been voted for that purpose is very serious indeed. The Teirpreph expresses doubt of the truth of the release of the captives, but hopes, in the interest of the British tax-payers, that it may prove correct. In the opinion of the Tixees, the dismyanisation of par ties will not be diminished by the letters of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone on the proposed Reform FEte. Unfor tunately for the world, we have not the whole of Mr. Gladatone's answer, but, subject to this qualification, it may be boldly said that no two letters can be conceived more characteristic of their respective writers than those read at the meeting of the Working Men's Association. By a singular and unhappy accident each writer seems to have exhibited in as small a space as possible his pre dominant faults and shortcomings. Earl Russell's letter is ungracious, and Mr. Gladstone's is obscure. One leader seizes the casual opportunity of writing a letter to vent little sneers upon opponents to whom he sandbag prospective courses, contrasted with what be suggests he would do himself, quite unwarranted by anything he has dons or they have attempted, and another lets his meaning be lost in a maze of verbiage. The working men's Reform banquet, remarks the Tele. graph, bas certainly drawn from the chieftains of the whig and of the liberal party two letters of marked significance. Mr. Gladstone 's response shows him to be in perfect harmony with the national feeling—glad of what has been achieved, careless of personal triumph, sager only to have any advance consolidated and complete ; but Lord Russell ' has replied to the workmen's invitation in language which too plainly avows that the age has gone clean beyond him. Yet Earl Russell possesses some of the most essential qualities of a parliamentary leader, and ho may even yet be able to serve his country and " dish the fairies." The Star can no more understand Earl Russell's doubts of the faithfulness of the masses to that progress of which they had always been the faithful friends than it can share his easy belief that the tory government have ac quired popular influence by carrying a reform bill. Mr. Gladstone does not in any degree regard the Reform Bill, as Lord Russell does, with misgiving. He is all for gra titude, congratulation, and rejoicing on the one hand, while on the other he hopes to see an enhanced sense amongst voters of the duty which the franchise imposes. mrecau.ANsore TOPICS. The Daily New remarks that the ninth report of the medical officer of the Privy Council is probably the most important which hu ever emanated from the same quarter. Amongst the reports contained in this book, the one which will probably command the greatest interest, as well from its subject as from the admirable manner in which it le handled;is that which treats of the outbreak of cholera in London Art year. It is from the pun of Mr. John Netten Badclilik, who last year contributed a most valuable paper on the Marc. and development at the pressed diff tyke of cholera in Europe. No such complete history of any outbreak has ever appeared before. In no pievious record has the charge of disseminating cholera been so clearly brought home to an impure water supply. Doubtless, it is not a pleasant reflection that the lives of men often hang upon such a chance as the irregular work ing of a water supply, and the contingency of foul river water soaking through a porous bank. But it is surely in the highest degree satisfactory to find such evidence that we may with justice conclude that if these or like con tingencies had not occurred, 5,000 people would not have died of cholera last year in London. To prevent their oc currence should not be a very difficult matter. At any rate, the attempt should not be delayed. In another article, treating of the Church of England, the Times says her danger lies In a wide-spread indifference, which is intellectual among the more educated classes and animal among the lower. If this is to be dissipated, theo- logy must be better cultivated and religion rendered more vigorous as well as more reasonable. It is not, it fears, superfluous to recommend these considerations to the notice of the clergy. They are not wanting in real and activity, but recent movements give but too much reason to apprehend that they are becoming less learned, more frivolous, and more flashy. If this tendency should con tinue, the Establishment would soon discover th►t its foundation rested upon sand. The Times, Herald, Post, and Standard, contain re marks on the presentation of a testimonial to Mr. Mark ham, the manager of the Staveley Coal and Iron Com pany, by 3,000 of the workmen. The testimonial, it is said,expreseed not merely their senseof hispersonal merits, but their gratitude for his sucorsaful endeavours in " vin dicating the right of the British workman to freedom of labour and of action against the operation of trades' unions." Eke Court. BALMORAL, SEPT. 3. The Queen went out yesterday, accompanied by Prinoes. Christian and Prince Leopold, and attended by Lady Churchill. Lord Stanley had the honour of dicing with the Queen and royal family. Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood hu succeeded Lord Charles Fitzroy as equerry in waiting. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegan have left their residence in Grosvenor-square for Hametead Marshall, Berkshire. The Earl of Shaftesbury has gone on a tour of visits in Scotland. The Countess (Dowager) of Kinnoull, who ar rived at her residence in Belgisve-square at the end of last week, has gone on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Binnoull, at Dupplin Castle, Perthshire. Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden and the Hon. Mimes Mando have arrived at Dandrnm, county Tipperary,where the noble family intend to remain several months. Viaoonnteaa Joonlyn and Hon. Mies Jocelyn are staying with Viscountess Palmerston at Tunbridge Wells. The Right Hon. Sir David Dundaa, Bart., and Lady Lucy Dundee have returned to the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Paris. Sir Henry and Lady Blake and Mrs. Bennet have left Penance's Hotel for Aahfield Lodge, near Ix worth, Suffolk. Mr. Bright, M.P., says the Leeds Mercury, is at present staying at Pitnacree, the Highland residence) of Yr. Thos. B. Potter, M.P. Baron de Roux has arrived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde•park.oorner. The Count de l'Aigle has recently died at hia Chateau de Tracy, in the department of the Oise, at the age of 100 years and 10 months. We (Freeman's Joural) regret to learn that the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne's (ex-Lord Chasmllor) health is in soprecarimas a state that his life is despaired of. The eleventh annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science commences in Belfast on Wednesday, the 18th, and terminates on Wednesday, the 25th of September. MAJORITY OF MR, C. L. ADDERLEY. —The majo rity of Mr. C. L. Adderley, son and heir of the Right H o n. C. B. Adderley, M.P., is now being celebrated in the good old English style at the family seat, Hams Hall, near Coles-hill. The festivities commenced on Monday, and hospitality will be dispensed throughout the week, not only to the relatives and friends of the family, but to all classes of persons connected with the estate. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.—The shipbrokers and speculators at Liverpool were quite in a peak yester day morning on the receipt of the telegrams announcing the release of King Theodore's victims from their long captivity. The freight and coal markets were completely paralysed for several hours, though as the day wore on doubts were felt as to the accuracy of the intelligence, sceptics asking, " Why could the news not be tele graphed from Alexandria?" and "How did it get to Con stantinople" Their doubts received comparative confir mation from the fact that, though the Admiralty officials received their daily flood telegrams, none alluded to the release of the captive*. In fact they all urged the prompt completion of the surveys and despatch of the steamers re quired for the East Indian and Mediterranean service.— The Timer says, in relation to this subject : The telegram announcing the release of the prisoners has not yet been fol lowed by instructions for countermanding the preparations for the Abyssinian expedi ion. The work of fitting the ships is being briskly pushed along, and the whole of the transports will be ready in a few days. Of these 14, or two- thirds of the required number, have been taken up in Liver pool-11 for troops, and three for mules and stores. The West India and Pacific Company s upply four—namely, the American, the California, West In dian, and Bolivar ; the National Steam Navigation Company two—the England and the Queen—and the fine new steamer, the France, is under survey, and it is expected will be c hartered. The Inman Compan furnish the City of Dublin, the City of Manchester, and ' the Kangaroo ; Mr. C. E. Dixon, the Bos phorus; and Mr. Fernie, the Peruvian. The Meander, belonging to Messrs. Bibby, has been placed under survey for the conveyance of mules ; and the Bolivar, taken up on Tuesday, was yesterday sent round to Deptford to be fitted up for the same description of service. Two of the Liver pool Admiralty surveyors have been despatched to New castle to survey the steamers Emperor and Empress, for the conveyance of mules and stores. A detachment of the Military Train, consisting of Captains Morrison and Miller, Lieutenants Devine and Walsh, Ensigns Make and Stone, and !ti men, left Southampton yesterday in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Maasilie, for Alexan dria, whence they proceed to Sues for service in connexion with the Abyssinian expedition." PIROONAL STATIIITIVFI or THE SOOTCH BAR.— Daring the period of which we mimic eighty-one men, in all, were called to the bar, or " panted Advocate," es we say in Scotland ; for with us it has been a passage not wholly free from anxieties, though, in obedience to the fashions of the time, the term sot the examination committee have alternated with those of the ballot box. Of these eighty-one, not more than fourteen or fifteen ever secured any appreciable amount of general practice, by which we mean a permanent income of say 300/. a year, not arising from official appointments. Out of these. say. fif teen men of promise, not more than nine or ten are in practice now ; but of this comparativelyinsignificant band five are in very large practice, the extent of which may be judged of when we mention that two have held the office of Solicitor-General, and two are under stood to have declined the Bench. So far—notwith standing these brilliant prises —the prospect certainly is not inviting, except for those whose self-reliance is greater than that of most men ought to be. But the picture brightens when we remember that eight of our number have been made sheriffs of counties ; fifteen sheriff-aubsti totes ; and that we have hail scattered amongst us twelve other official appointments, which would scarcely have been attainable except to members of the bar. On the whole it seem to us that our fortunes ought by no means to exercise a deterrent influence, when we inform those who may meditate joining our family circle, that just about one half of us (forty as near as we can calculate) live, or have lived, by the altar. And this impression will be strengthened by the additional fact that amongst us there were eighteen who were, or were to be, the happy inheritors of paternal acres so wide as greatly to relax the energies of the youthful wearers of horse-hair. Of these sons of fortune one only has stuck to the profession with loyal devotion ; and, though several hold Office@ not one, so far as we know, has got into practice. On ehe other hand, they have probably had • good deal to do with raising the marriage rate to the high figure of fifty three already, and there can be little doubt that their influence is telt in keeping down the average are of mar riage to (we believe) twenty-seven—which is greatly under what our readers would probably have anticipated. The death-rate amongst us has not been high—only about four teen. But we have had no less than seven cases of in. sanity, which is greatly beyond the average, and must, we fear, be set down to the tear, and wear, and worry, of of which many of us have had more that. our share. In conclusion, we shall add these few miscellaneous gleanings. We have now one pinion, and one doctor, whilst two of us were doctors to begin with, and two of us were soldiers. We have had no less than eleven authors (not including periodical writers and reporters), two professors, two M.P.'s, and one—there could be but one—Lord Lyon ! Macsraltan's Magazine for September. EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (storms MEG HAWS.) THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, SEPT. 5. Throughout Schleswig-Holstein only one Dane (Herr Kruger) has been elected as a member of the North German Parliament. THE WEST INDIES. LIVERPOOL, Sur. 5. The Columbian, from the West Indies, has ar rived here. She left Jamaica on the 16th, and Hayti on the 17th August. The Isthmus was healthy. At Jamaica yellow fever was on the decline, and trade was dull. At Hayti trade was dull. Disturbances had oc curred on the north side of the island. Several towns had been sacked, and many murders had been committed. THE DANISH WEST INDIES. HAMBURG, Sinn. 5. A semi-official cemmunication from Copenhagen to the Hamburg News denies the correctness of the report that Denmark is negotiating the sale of her West Indian possessions to America. AMERICA. (ST ATLANTIC TILSOKAPH.) NEW YORK, Sen. 4, 6 P.Y. President Johnson has issued a proclamation warning persons not to obstruct the decrees of the Federal courts, as was recently the case in Caro lina, and ordering the military and civil officers to assist the enforcement of these decrees. The Persia has arrived out. Closing prices :—Gold, 142. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1141. Illinois, 120}. Erie, 70j. Cotton—Mid dling Upland, 27. PHILADELPHIA, SErr. 4. Petroleum, standard white, 31. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROI OUR OWN PARIS, WSW:MIDAS EN'S:CIE). Government has suffered a severe electoral de feat in the department of the here, where M. Riondel, the opposition candidate, has been re• turned to the Corps Legislatif by 16,359 votes against 13,095 given to M. Kieber, the prefect's nominee. The prefect, M. Pastoreau, was impru dent enough to tell the electors in a proclamation that he was under the necessity of opposing M. Riondel because he had placed his candidature under the patronage of a journal " notorious for its systematic and radical hostility to the im perial government"—(the Impartial Dauphinois)— and further that those who voted for M. Riondel would be reckoned among the ad versaries of government, that all the opposition journals would triumph if he were elected, and that "the confidence of the country in the strength of the Emperor's government would be dimi nished." The prefect must be sorry now that he said these things. This election is most im portant, for it shows that the dissaffection of the great towns is spreading to the country districts. M. Riondel stands pledged to support freedom of public meetings, freedom of the press, and gra tuitous instruction. M. Gauthier, a printer at Nice, having been told by the prefect that if he continued to print an opposition paper, the Phare du Littoral, he would lose the government buainess, replied by the fol lowing spirited letter : Nice, August 31. Monsieur le Prefet,—Having been told by you that I must elect between the printing of the Phase du Littoral and the prefeetoral business, my first impression, as mana ger of this establishment, was that I ought to think of the interests of the printing office, reserving to myself person. ally such a course so a due regard for my dignity and my principles might dictate. But on reflection I have come to • different conclusion. I sin not only the guardian of the interests of the house of V. Eugene Gauthier and Co., but also of its honour ; and that honour would be sacrificed if I were to accept the conditions which you would impose upon me. My press belongs to whomsoever desires to make use of it within the limits of the law. To refuse the use of it to • journal which happens to displease you would be an abuse of a privilege which the law confers upon me. To consent to the pact you propose would, I repeat, be to sacrifice my honour and that of my house for gain. I cannot do it. lam at your service, as at everybody else's. I beg you to accept my respectful salutations. V. EUGENE GAMMEN AND CO. The utmost inequality and disregard for law pre vails, as is too well known to be worth while to remark often, in the government management of the councils-general. The rule is that they are not to talk politica, and yet they have all been made to vote addresses to the Emperor, thanking him for his " grand " letter on the making of cross roads. It cannot be said in excuse that the measure, although general, and therefore political, concerns in a degree every department in particular, because the same argument would apply to the bill on the reorganisation of the army ; and yet the moat severe ' orders have been given that the councils-general are to say nothing about that. Moreover, privileged men like the Duke de Persigny, M. Troplong, and the ministers generally, talk politics in the councils-general, but no independent mem ber is allowed to answer them. I have often said that the present government glories and revels in illegality and unfair play, and I emphatically repeat that assertion now. M. Rouland, the Governor of the Bank of France, when presiding at the council-general of the Seine Inferieure, went out of his way to say that " the exagge rated pretensions which create uneasiness in a certain part of Europe must be settled in a manner consistent with the dignity and security of France and a proper balance of power." That is surely talking politics with a vengeance. It is curious indeed that such an essentially pacific functionary as the Governor of the Bank of France should propound a easus belli. The Epoque says : Tho news from Spain, communicated to us this morn- Ding, leaves no doubt that the revolutionary movement is still going on. We are sorry if the Petrie does not like it, but the course of events cannot be stopped to please K. Dreolle. It is not true as the Patric states, that Larvae: bag discovered the retreat of Prim. None of the Spanish journals have arrived to day. The Bourse, after opening heavily, closed with with considerable animation. Rente rose 20c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69fr. 80c., and 89fr. 75c. Italian rose 15c. Crtklit Mobilier, though still greatly discredited, rose ifr. 50c. DIETROPOLITAX GAS COMPANIES.—There is a proposal on foot for amalgamating the 13 London Gas Companies into four, and thus assigning them districts. It appears to be favourably reviewed by the companies that one district should be assigned to the Chartered, the Lon don, the Equitable, and the Western ; and the gas sup plied in 1866 by these four companies was 2,650,832,000 cubic feet. Another district would be allotted to the Im perial and the Independent, whose make of gas in 1866 was 2,761,017,000 cubic feet. A third district would comprise the City of London, the Central, the Commercial, and the Eatcliff, which last year sold 1,690,340,551 cubic feet. A fourth district would be supplied by the Phesnia, the South Metropolitan, and the Surrey, which last year sold 1,651,328,000 eabie feet.-2 1867: LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OP BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN as H. W. SILCOX.—APPLICATION FOR &FLEAS'. The bankrupt, who was formerly a dealer In musical instruments, had since carried on the business of a green grocer, in Elgin-road, Notting-hill. The debts are 2281., and the bankrupt states that his assets are worth 3/., sub ject, however, to the payment of 201. for rent. He bad been arrested at the suit of Messrs. Metzler and Chapple, of Great Marlborough-street, who had supplied him with musical instruments of the value of 73/., and he nowapplied for his release. _ _ Upon examination by Mr. Lucas, who appeared for the detaining creditors, the bankrupt stated that he gave up the music business because he found it very unprofitable, and he took a greengrocer's shop, for which he understood there was an opening. Upon one occasion he sent the detaining creditors 10s. on account ; it was not from im pertinence, but because it was all the money he had, and he thought they would not arrest him if he sent them something. He had been obliged to dispose of some of the musical instruments in order to meet the demands upon him. His Honour said that as the application wee opposed the bankrupt must remain in custody until after the letting for choice of assignees had taken place. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. fierjeant Dowling.) ROBEIRT OP MIRIAM. RICK LIT AM) MUTH, COAL srmicumeve. Jana Rogers was indicted for riesling • 9nantit7 of coals, value 4s. 9d., the property of Mews. Rickett end Smith, his masters ; and JoAn Timmons, 54, was in. dieted for receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. Yr. Begley prosecuted (instructed by Mr. Thos. Beard) Mr. Collins appeared for Rogers, Timmons was unde fended. William Barrett, police-constable 148 N, said at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of August he saw the prisoners on the canal, New North-road, in two barges. Rogers was in one laden with coals, and Tim mons was in an empty barge receiving colds which Rome gave him. He went to them and detained them. He then examined Timmons's barge, and found 4 cwt. 5611*. of coals in it, and they were of the same quality as those con tained in the other barge. Charles Warner, weigher at the Times Wharf. New North-road, produced a sample of the coals from the barge, and a piece of that found m the other barge. The coal belonged to Masora Rickett and Smith. The polioe-constable, in answer to questions from Mr. Collins,said,when he first saw the prisoners dealing with the coal he was standing on a bridge 240 yards off, and then went immediately to them and took them into custody. Mr. Collins then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner Roger,, who had that morning surrendered in discharge of his bail, and contended that this was • case of mistaken identity, as it was impossible to distinguish the features of any man at a distanoe of 940 yards, especially as all coalbeavers were dressed much alike, and were in the same dirty state from the coals they had to remove from one place to another. It should be borne in mind that Rogers had been for upwards of ten years in the service of the prosecutors, and without • stain upon his character. Several witnesses were called who gave him an excellent character. Timmons made no defence. The jury found both the prisoners Guilty, and the judge seatenced them to be imprisoned with hard labour for three months. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-BOLTS& THE FORGERY ON TOL BANK OF INOLANUX William decry Hodgson, 22, wan brought before Alderman Sir R. Carden, for further examination upon the charge of feloniously forging two transfers for the delivery of 1501. and 2231. coma stock standing in the names of certain parsons in the Bank of England, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of that cor poration. Mr. Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, con ducted the prosecution ; Mr. Wontner, jun.. of the firm of Wontner and Sons,Bucldersbiu7,appeared for the prisoner. The whole of the evidence in support of the charge was given at the former examination, and the prisoner was fully committed to Relegate for trial. BOW-STREET. ♦ TOO CLEViII TOONG LIMIER WRITZR. A youth named Edward William Lane, a porter at Messrs. Cogswell and Harriman's, gun-makers, 224, Strand, was charged with stealing four revolvers, valued at U. 101. each, from his employee' premises. Mr. George Lewis, of Ely-plane, conducted the prosecu tion. He stated that the prisoner had been some time in the service of Messrs. Cogswell and Harrison, at first as errand boy, but latterly as light porter, which was • position a step higher, both as to the trust reposed in him, and the amount of wages. A few days ago, however, Mr. Stallman, book keeper to the prosecutors, received information from Messrs. Lawley, pawnbrokers, Fatringdon-street, of the following circumstance :—A lad, representing himself as being employed by the prosecutccs, bad called at Messrs. Lawley s shop, offering • pistol in pledge, and presenting • letter, purporting to be signed by Mr. Harrison, autho rising him to pledge the revolver for 2/., or sell it for 4/. ; or, if that amount was refused, to take what he could get. Mr. Lawley's assistant, Mr. Henry William Baas, desired him to bring his master's card. The lad went away, and returned with the card in about • quarter of an hour. Mr. Bass detained the pistol, and gave information to the prosecutors. On being confronted with him, Mr. Bass at once identified the prisoner, who was given into custody. He was remanded for • few days, and wrote in prison a latter to his masters confessing that be had stolen two other revolvers, and pawned them at two pawnbrokers' ships which he indicated, and another which he concealed at the back of the warehouse, not being able to find an opportunity of removing it from the premises. He added that he had now confessed everything he knew, and that he had nothing to do with two burglaries recently com mitted on their premises. He declared that at the time of the burglaries he had never thought of doing anything dis honest, which he had been subsequently tempted to in consequence of the expenses he had incurred by joining • volunteer corps. The revolvers were produced, and identified by Mr. Stallrean, upon which the pawbrokers gave them up to the prosecutors. The prisoner had nothing to say but that he had con fessed everything. Mr. Lewis said if the prosecutors believed that they would not press the prosecution beyond this court. But as they bad good reason to apprehend that he knew • great deal more than he acknowledged they must ask the magis trate to send the case to a juq. The prisoner was committed for trial. WESTMINSTER. OROSU4 OUTRAGE BY WOMIN. Matilda lritzatorris and Ellen Gilliam, two young women, were placed at the bar charged with committing the fol lowing outrage: James Massingham, a very respectable looking middle aged roan, said—Last night I was on my way home, when I was very strangely stopped by these two women. I was quietly passing Hyde-park-corner, when they suddenly rushed upon me, and seizing my umbrella, tried to take it away from me. They both called me very bad names, and punished me about. Mr. Arnold—Were they strangers to you ? Prosecutor—Perfect strangers. Mr. Arnold—Had you had any conversation with them before this occurred ? _ _ Prosecutor—Not a word had passed between us. After what I have described one of them took off her shawl and nicked it in my oyes, so that it hurt them. I said I would give them in charge, when they gut into a cab and laid down in the bottom of it, but I found a policeman and gave them in charge. Mr. Arnold—What became of the umbrella? Prosecutor—l succeeded in keeping it. Policeman William Watling, 197 B, said he found the women in the cab and took them in charge. Mr. Arnold—Were they sober? Constable—Yes ; one had been drinking a Mlle, I think. Mr. Arnold—Was prosecutor sober? Policeman—Perfect) Mr. Arnold—What did the women say when you took them ? . . Policeman—They accused one another about trying to take the umbrella. The women said they had nothing to say. They were each committed for one month to hard labour. SOUTHWARK. DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMPA2tI. William Freer, a singular-looking young man, described on the charge sheet as a merchants' clerk out of place, was placed at the bar, charged with defrauding the London and South Western Railway Company, by travelling from Fareham to London without paying his fare. Charles Cook, one of the ticket oollectors at the Wa terloo terminus, said that on the arrival of the 10 o'clock train on the previous evening, he was collecting the tickets, when he saw the prisoner concealed in one of the second-class carriages. He roused him up and demanded his ticket, when be felt hie pockets and said be had lost it. Understanding that he had come from Farebsui, he demanded 10s. 6d., the fare from that place, when he said be had no money. Witness took him to the superinten dent's o6loe, and on the way be told him that he had not paid his fare, and did not intend to do so. He was ac cordingly given into custody. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he was out of a situation, and came up to London to see his friends with the view of getting a place. He intended to have gone to Hampstead and obtained the money and paid his fan. ' Inspector Hewlett, of the company's detective police, said that the prisoner gave false &diktats, and put the officers to considerable trouble. The prisoner said that he lived at Farehsm, and had forgotten the name of the street at Hampstead where his friends resided. The magistrate told him he had wilfully defiswied the railway company, therefore he must pay a fine of Ms., or go to prim tor woo days. The prisoner, not being prepared to pay the money, was committed to gaoL BOW PWOrtil 11#1LED IN Till TOXIC lITIZETIL Janes Coale, a man about 30 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with furiously and recklessly driving a horse and cart in the public street' to the danger of pa angers and vehicles. Charles Stroud, a police-constable, No. 270 K, stated that last night between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock he saw the prisoner in a cart which contained seven or eight men and women. The prisoner was driving the hone at a furious pace along High-street, Shadwell, from Ratcliff-high way. People were screaming and shouting in all directions and several called to the pnaoner, who took no notice of them, and at the rate of eleven or twelve miles an hour. fie called to him to stop but no notice was taken. He ran alongside of the horse and out for some distance, and at last caught hold of the reins. At the same time a young man caught them on the other side of the horse, and at the imminent risk of their lives the hone and cart were stopped. A cab driver came up and complained that the cart had run against his cab, and injured it. The prisoner was very drunk. The prisoner said he was tipsy, and was returning from Barnet fair. Mr. Paget—More 'ham for you. The prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s. GREENWICH. BUICIDZ ON ♦ RAILWAY. Lawton Robert Ford, a man about 45 years of age, who deanibed himself as a plasterer, residing at Sydenham, appeared in discharge of his g racognisances ' to answer • e c of unlawfully trespassin on the London and B ton Oompany's line of railway, and attempting to commit suicide. It appeared that on the afternoon of Saturday, the 6th July the defendant way observed to climb a fencing bre feet in height, dividing the line of railway from the public roadway in the neighbourhood of Forest-hill, Sydenbam, and, getting on to the line of railway, be laid himself across the metals of the up-line, his face fronting an approaching train. Just as the train reached the spot where defendant wee lying he rolled over, and the engine passed without touching him, but the step of the succeeding break van caught him at the beck of the neck and hurled him into the six-foot way,where he was picked up in an insensible state, bleeding from the mouth, and was corned off the line apparently dead. He had since been under medical treatment for injuries sustained. Inspector Carpenter, the chief of the railway company's police, said the defendant had bees summoned by order of the company, the polite not having taken him into custody, as he had not only endanger his own life, but might have been the cause of the train being overturned and the injury or death of the passengers. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said his mind had given way under depression, owing to his being unable to find money to register the patent of an inven. tion, and also to his being reduced from living in • house with two servants to the occupation of a room 7ft. square with his wife and five children. He had suffered greatly, and now regretted what he had done, of which he had no knowledge at the time. Mr. Trail said the defendant bad is the most deter- mined manner sought to destroy himself, and had most miraculously escaped being cut to pieces. He should therefore require him to find bail in the sum of 461, for his good behaviour during the next three months. The required bail was tendered and accepted. WANDSWORTH. NARROW ISCA.PI PROW SUFFOCATION. James Peptoe, an elderly looking man, wee charged with attempting to commit suicide in Battersea•park. Poynter, one of the park constables, said that on the previous afternoon he was celled to the water, when he saw the prisoner in about three feet. A quantity of mud had collected at the bottom, and the prisoner was stuck in it. He must have been suffocated in two or three minutes. His hoe was downwards under the water, except • small portion of the back of his head. Witness got him out, and in about 10 or 15 minutes ho came round. He said it was all a mystery how he got there. Afterwards be said he did not know how it happened, except that be had been very much worried. On the bank lay his coat and hat, and handkerchief of mussels. He was out in the water a distance of 15 or 16 yards, but there wu no current. The prisoner said be bad been in great distress. He had been out of work for 17 weeks, all his goods had been seized for rent, and when he came to Battersea to borrow a sovereign he failed to obtain it. The magistrate remanded him for inquiries. The thunderstorm of Tuesday night appears to have extended to most parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and, unhappily, was attended by fatal consequences. In the neighbourh o od of Chesterfield, the lightning struck a house occupied by a person named Dawes, and killed a boy eight years old. A sister of she deceased, who was also sleeping at the time, was likewise struck with the lightning, and was so much injured that it is doubtful whether she will recover. A MAN KILLED BY • FALL OVER THE CLIFFS NEAR Sosariono`.—On Saturday night or Sunday morning, In • man named Patrick Clark, aged 49, residing William street, Scarboro', met with his death by a fall over the cliffs a few miles south of Scarboro'. It appears the deceased collected • kind of seaweed, locally celled " denis " which is used by some as food, and then dried it upon the top of the cliffs to be ready for sale. On Saturday night showers fell, and while the deceased and hie little boy were out covering the weed, to keep off the rain, somehow or other he fell over the cliffs. The boy descended the cliffs in the darkness, and found the body of his father dead im the rocks below. He then returned and went for assistance to the nearest dwelling, and the body was removed as soon as possible. The wife of the deceased travelled amongst the towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire selling the material which the husband col. lasted, and was out in the country at the time of the accident.—Lrede Mercury. A MAN KILLED BY LIDHTNING. About half past 10 o'clock on Tueday night, a violent thunderstorm broke over Oldham and the surrounding districts, and continued for about an hour. Next morning, about 6 o'clock, a man named William West Hint was found dead on the road at ()shay, in Saildleworth. He was lying on his face, and had a small electrical machine on his back. It appears that the man, who worked at Ren shaw, was returning from Hohnfirth, when he was caught in the storm. His hat was torn into pieces, and found in an adjoining field about fifteen yards from him, and one of his boots was also cut into shreds. It is sur posed that the electrical machine he had with him was struck by the lightning, as there were marks on his body as if the fluid bad radiated from it. THE MURDER AT LElGH.—Notwithstanding that the jury strongly recommended to mercy the man Farringdon, sentenced to death at the recent Liverpool assizes for the murder of his wife at Leigh, Captain Gibbs, the governor of Kirkdal• Gaol, had not, up to yesterday, received from the Home-office any information that the sentence was to be commuted. The only persona by whom the prisoner has been visited since his condemnation are his brother, and a Scripture reader from the town where the murder was committed. They saw him on Saturday, hut nothing remarkable transpired during the interview. Farringdon apparently pays earnest attention to the exhortations of the Rev. R. Appleton, the chaplain of the gaol, who attends him daily. The unhappy man has evi dently made up his mind for the worst. In the ordinary course the execution will take place on Saturday week. NARROW ESCAPE.—Between eight and nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, an accident occurred on the London and North Western Railway, at St. Helen's June• tion, whereby a young man named James Tighe received injuries to his spine, but to what extent is not at present known, and a carriage which he was driving was thrashed to atoms. Two homes which were drawing the carriage escaped unhurt. The horses and carriage were passing over the first line of rails at the crossing, which is a level one, when Tighe perceived that an engine was close on him. He had not time to draw back, but gave the homes a lash with his whip, which caused them to start forward. and they escaped from harm ; but the carriage was caught by the engine and literally smashed to atoms. Tighe was thrown to the ground with great violence, and sustained severe injuries to his spine. LorregvirY IN ENOLAND.—Among the deaths re gistered in England in the year 1863, for which the returns have just been completed, we find that there were 21 men and 68 women who, when they died, were above a hundred years old, viz. 5 men and 25 women, aged 100 ; 4 men and 15 women, aged 101 ; 5 men and 11 women, aged lie; 3 men and 4 women, aged 103 ; 1 man and 7 women. azed 104 ; 2 men and 4 women, aged 105; 1 woman. aged Wi s .; 1 man and I woman, aged 110. These long.lived 'venom were not by any means squall' , distributed over the country. If we draw an irregular line across England, from the northern extremity of Norfolk to the northern extremity of Cardiganshire, rep. Wing the line by county boundaries, and placing en the southern side Herefor&bire, Woroeetershire, Wars ick shire, Northamptonshire, we have a population (according to the last census) of 11,229,000 on the southern side of the line, and 8,837,000 on the northern side. But the south , with it s 11,000,000, bad no less than 60 of these cente narians, and the north, with its 9,000,000, only 29. Or, if we include all poisons dying in England in the year, aged 95 or upwards-6'l in number—we find that the Routh, with its 11,000,000 of population, bad 448 of them, anti the north, with its 9,000,000, had only 2.15, or little more than half. London had Be share of old people ;10 women above 100 years old died in London in the year, and 70 persons 95 years old or upwards. In Lancashire, with a population only about an eighth less, the bills of mortality showed only 27 persons of 93 years old or upwards, and only four persons of 100 or upwards. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (LIMITED). —Traf f ic receipts week ending Sept, 1, 11,5271. ltie. 9d. 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