The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-31 00:00:00

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HMI MAT= AT LoYIsIN BRIDOK MI DAT —Mandan. Itt 3,0 Afternoon, 2k. 6m. to-Mlutow—Morninit. tn. 31m. Afternoon. '213. 63w. LONDON, WLrIIVKSIM Y, JULY 31. THE proceedings of the Simla Court-martial have at length been made officially public, and with them the censure passed by the authorities at home upon the parties concerned. We regret to find that the record of the trial, and of the pro ceedings which led to and which followed it, con firms the unfavourable opinion which at the time of the occurrence we felt obliged to express upon the conduct of the Commander-in-Chief in India. That opinion has been, indeed, expressed in the most decisive language in a despatch by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE to Sir W. MANSFIELD himself, dated 17th January of the present year. But although this despatch approves fully the verdict of the court-martial, which Sir W. MANSFIELD impugns, and conveys the weightiest reproof on that officer for disregarding at his own hand the recommendation to mercy which the odhrt ap pended to their verdict of guilty on a minor charge, the public will be somewhat surprised to hear that of the two culprits, the one who is blamed most sharply retains his poet and his honours, and the one who is least condemned is dismissed the service, with only the paltry allow ance of 1,8001. to make up for the ruin of his prospects for life. These facts make it still neces sary to recall the leading points in the history of this discreditable case. Up to April, 1866, Captain Jsavis held the appointment of aide-de-camp to Sir \V. MANS BUILD. His functions in that capacity were rather domestic than military ; ho was in fact Sir Wi LL i Am's farm steward and groom of the chambers, and Lady MANSFIELD'S gentleman-in-waiting. He had the superintendence of all SirWILLIAE's house hold expenditure, and charge of his stables, and of a farm which was kept for the cheaper supply of his table. It was alleged against him, GM the evidence of a dismissed butler, that he had in this capacity misapplied or converted to his own use certain sums of money and ether property. These formed the primary articles of charge on which he was brought to a court-martial, and on these he was acquitted. But before his trial he had been ordered to attend a court of inquiry, and to submit his papers to it. This he refused to do, and the court-martial found him guilty on this point of insubordination. But the Judge- Advocate-General, whom the Duke of CAM IMMIX consulted, pointed out, as we did at the time, that it is very doubtful whether an officer is bound to obey an order to defend himself before such a tribunal as this was, and whether, therefore, he is not entitled to refuse to obey an order to produce books. Re was next charged with refusing to give up his sword after being put under arrest ; and this also is • very doubtful military offence. Lastly, he was charged with having declared, on being ordered to appear before a court-martial, that he would not appear unless dragged before it, and would protest against the illegality and injustice shown to him. But for this strong, yet surely not unpardonable, remonstrance he had the excuse that he had been refused permission to summon the attendanos of military witnesses whom he con ceived to be essential to his defence. On all these supplemental charges he was, however, found guilty, and sentenced to dismissal from the service; but the sentence was accompanied with a recom mendation to mercy. Sir W. MaNsFisLD—at once party, prosecutor, and judge—sent the proceedings back to the court-martial, to revise their verdict of not guilty on the original charges of peculation. They adhered to it. Then the Commander-in- Chief confirmed the whole sentence, dismissed Captain Jaime; from the service, and refused to give any effect to the recommendation to mercy, adding instead some strong strictures en the con duct of the court-martial in making it. On this head the Duke of CAMBRIDGE observes that the court acted perfectly rightly, and that Sir WILLIAM adopted an utterly wrong course in confirming a sentence in a personal matter, instead of sending it home to be adjudi cated on by more impartial and higher authorities. But even against this reprimand Sir WILLIAM rebels. In a remonstrance, couched in language far more strong than that which he had pronounced subversive of military discipline when used to himself by Captain Jarvis, ho disputes the cen sure passed on him by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. And in a memorandum distributed anonymously in this country, and only now subscribed by hie counsel, he maintains his own views, and calls in question every contrary opinion expressed either by the court-martial or by his own official superiors. We have hitherto traced the cue in its merely legal progress. But the papers now produced supply information which may, perhaps, lead to the conclusion that the hand which smote Captain Jiang so heavily was not that of the military Comrnsnder•in•Chief. The duties of an aide d, -clamp, it has been observed, are not merely peeuniary, but social. This last branch seems to hare been • considered in the Commander-in- Clocra household the more important. They were defined by Sir Witalan etsLa in two officia: nome,randa, puldished for the guidance of his aides-de-camp, and specially cominended to the notice of the negligent Captain 'Nevis. These documents are characterised by the Doke of I:Autism.% as resembling nothing which had ever before ("nal' to his notice, mid us conveying instructions in the propriety of which he is unable to concur. Nor certainly have the rights of woman ever been more strongly put by any of her adviwates than by the Commuider- M-Chief of India. The aides-de-camp are warned that " When Lady Msv.rir.mi is in India any " HINT (f 0) which she may give with regard " to matters connected with the establishment, " leaving of cards, reception of visitors, Ac., " is to be received as if it were an absolute order " from the Commander-in-Chief." The double underlining which is represented in print by small capitals may perhaps suggest the sex of the com manding officer by whom this memorandum of military duty was framed or revised. Again, " Whenever Lady may require the is impaired if it be had aside under the impression that one vistory can decide a contest, the recur. ranee of which in one form or smother we must always stiticipste. HOUSE OF LORDS, .11:s.v 30. The birth-rate will Alibi:assail be dependent' upon certain conditions of material prosperity, which may be subject to considerable inctuation, oftentimes through causes beyond human previ sion or control. The depression of any branch of industry soon becomes apparent in the marriage returns, and intervals of scarcity and high prices check the natural tendency to fulfil the mission for which our race was created. Cornwall, Mir ham, mad Northumberland are now suffering from the stagnation of minis operations, just as Lan cashire felt the weight of the cotton famine. These times of depression are happily, however, not often of long duration in this country, and the buoyancy of our commerce and trade soon repairs the waste of unprofitable seasons. Arise in the price of the staple article of food, operating, as it does, not here and there only, but throughout the length and breadth of the land, is a circumstance always to be regarded with anxiety. Wheat is dearer now than it has been in any corre sponding quarter since June, 1856: it has risen rapidly within a short time from an average price of about Cas. per quarter to its present quo tation of 645. in the quarterly return. And the prospects of the harvest are not as favourable as couldlbe wished; indeed, there is every probability of our having to encouuteraconsiderable deficiency in the yield of home-grown corn, which may have to be provided for by largely increased importations from abroad, no doubt at enhanced prices. pensonal attendance of au nitle-dc-camp, the " hitter is to be in uniform." Further in are given in the duties of military politeness. "On occasions of State 1)03 at Oovennuent " House or elsewhere, it is expected that the " whole of the personal staff will avail them " selves of the invitation afforded them. " They should time their arrival an as " to enter the rooms of the host in the suite "of his Excellency." " Whenever the master or " mistress of the house enters a room it is ens " tomsry for the expectant guests and the sons of " the family to rise, even though they have sat " down to dinner. This and other forms of social " ceremony cannot be to.. carefully attended to "in a military household." This manual of etiquette was however insufficient, and a year after a second edition was published, aimed directly at Captain .Ifutvis by name. He is re minded that on the day before, being " Lady " M IMSFIELD'S reception day," "many visitors " called, and it seems to have been forgotten by " the aidede•camp on duty that it was part of " his duty to usher in ladies or gentlemen who " called, and to remain in the drawing room " while the visits lasted : performing his part in OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) the entertainment of the viaitors:and slowing " them out again." After some further snubs it is laid down that " his Excellency desires to " signify his disapproval of the disappearance of " an aide-de-camp from the drawing room after " dinner, before the disappearance of other " guests." But we cannot quote further from this curious handbook of headquarters genti lity. Bad temper bred bad blood, and from bad blood sprang angry charges which could not be austained, and a course of conduct which the head of the army has found it necessary so em phatically to rebuke. But while we deplore and pass over these ebullitions on the part of an officer of Sir W. MANSFIELD'S rank and merit, we are bound to measure out at least equal leniency, and to show some more tenderness than the Govern ment has done, to the unfortunate aide-de-camp whose neglect of hie carpet, not to say servile, duties led him into disgrace, and who was thence forth pursued with an almost feminine pertinacity of persecution. To dismiss him from the army is a hard sequel to a long course of misfortune ori ginating in the bad taste of leaving Lady MANS FIELD'S drawing-room too early, or not obeying with exact military submission her ladyship's " hints." Tea Quarterly Return of the Registrar-Oeneral usually affords some points which to the jour nalist are necessarily of interest. It can not be otherwise than satisfactory, for in stance, to learn on undoubted authority, that during the quarter last completed a high birth rate has been coincident with a low mortality, and thus a substantial gain to the population has accrued. What is called the " natural increase," by which is meant the excess of births over deaths, amounted in the three months ending 30th June to about 87,000 persons—equivalent to a daily addition of 957 to the steadily aug menting number of the English race, whereof ascertained emigration absorbed about 180 per diem. Supposing that immigration does no more than compensate for the loss of those leaving this country of whom no record is kept, the residual 777 persons must approximate closely to the absolute daily increment of the resident population of England during the quarter ; and it is evident that this would indicate a growth very much in advance of the ratio commonly adopted in computing the number of the probable future inhabitants of this division of the United Kingdom. Here, surely, is a wide field for speculation opened to the political economist, the statesman, and all who think deeply on the laws of human existence. The census of 1861 showed that the population had, since 1821, increased in a decreasing ratio, and we believe the general assumption is that the same method of progression will be apparent at the census of 1871. But if the birth-rate continues to be maintained while unitary science still further reduces the mortality—both highly probable eventualities— we must be prepared for meeting very seriously a situation which will call for legislative and adminis trative capacity of the very highest order. With good government England can well afford to contemplate with equanimity any possible acces sion to her population, and it only remains for her rulers and people to be wise in time. The most remarkable feature of the Registrar- General's return is the greatly improved health of the districts comprising the chief towns, while the rural parts of the country, although partaking of the general salubrity, only show a slight decline in their mortality. The urban death-rate during the quarter was 2.38 per 1,000 below the average of ten corresponding quarters, but in the rural dis tricts the decline was only .59 per 1,000. In London, Bristol, Birmingham, and Salford the mortality was lees by 5 per 1,000 than in the second quarter of last year ; in Leeds and Shef field there is a decrease of 8, and in Liverpool of ' , 11 deaths to every thousand of their inhabitants. And taking thirteen of the chief cities and towns of the United Kingdom, the difference in the death rate of the two quarters represents a saving of upwards of seven thousand lives in the short apace of three months. In the borough of Leeds alone the death-rate has declined from 34 to 25, while the births have increased from the high rate of 45 to nearly 48 per 1,000. In Liverpool the births and deaths wore nearly equal in the June quarter of last year, now there is a difference on the right side between them of 15 per 1,000. Plainly, therefore, the death-rate is, within certain limits, an element so controllable as that its reduction to, and maintenance at, a low stan dard becomes a matter of comparative certainty if the measures of public hygiene which have already borne such good fruits be persevered in. We owe, no doubt, much of our present freedom from epidemic disease to the acceleration of sani tary work last year, when local authorities were stirred into unwonted activity by the diffusion of Asiatic cholera and the fear of its impending visit ation. The armour has been proved and its pro tective power clearly established, but its efficacy THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1867. PARLIAMENTARY DIVIAION. • REP!IESENTATIoN OF TTh PEOPLE BILL After clause 6 Droved to insert the following clause : 7 -At a contested electing' far any county or borouttillpre sented by lbws members no person shall rote more than two candidates.—ibord Cairns) : —On question :' Contents, 142 ; Not-Contents...l. 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Chelmsford Bradford Gloucester and Ilarthourre DOBBS. cadogan Bristol Ilay Beaufort Cawdor LOMA Lobel and MI- Buciaushatu t Greham Begot laud Chandoe Granville Roe Mii Ronson Marihmvugh Hnmo Brburepeth Penrhvo Richmond Leven 11041 Mel-t'hurstou .._ Raalao . . 111.1841. lA. villa Clifton itede.as le Abercotai Manta...bury otlonany Fivcra A &binary Manama CuiHllr of Cui•lLemilly Meter Sandwich new teller) etilchester !AILS. Tanker, We Congleton Mel mersdalc Abingdon VI3CuUNTS. Crofton Sow*. Bailor,* Ilawarden *Woman Tentenicu Beauchamp !teller) Ifeverahasa IV) Word Delmore Strathallan THE COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDER AND TUE LORDS. —The following are the forty-three peers who voted last night for Baal Grey's motion to omit clause 7, which abolishes the power of oompounding for rates within par liamentary boroughs :—Dukes—Graf ton and Manchester; Marquises—Bristol and Salisbury ; Earls—Amherst, Car 'torso n, Chesterfield, Harkey, Doncaster, Grey, Her rowhy, Lovelace, Mansfield. Morley, Morton, Romney, Selkirk, Shaftesbury, Shrewsbury, Sommers, and Zetland ; Viscounts—De Vesei, Everslcy, Hardinge, Lifford, and Sydney; Lords—Belper, Blantyre, Charlemont, Clon brock, Granard, Harris, Hatherton, Houghton, Methuen, Overstone, Ponsonby, Somerhill, Stratheden, Strathnairn, Taunton, Wentworth, and Wrottseley. THE REPRESENTATION or NINOEIII2B. The Times is delighted with the House of Lords for following the advice which our contemporary has so persistently offered in providing for the repre sentation of minorities. By a single vote the house has covered many errors, and justified the opinions of its warmest admirers. Such a triumph of reason and truth may well startle us, accustomed as we have been during this session to rapid growth of convictions. The supposed crotchet of yesterday has become a fact. The Lords have shown their independence and their foresight. At a point of the highest importance in the history of the representative institutions of the country they have been faithful to themselves and to their great duties. The arguments on behalf of the proposal were over whelming. The voters who are now hopelesalyoutvoted,and whose political energies become feeble by disuse, will start into fresh vitality. Enfranchised in deed, and not merely in name, they will be animated by the consciousness of power. It is not too late to enlarge the scheme of redis tribution so as to apply the proposal at once more exten sively, and if the ministers be wise, the Tinws says they will act on the suggestion. After adverting to the fate of Lord Grey's attempt to reprieve the compound householder, and Lord Halifax's proposal to place the owners of leasehold and copyhold property in the same political position as the owners of freehold, the Daily Pews passes to the more important event of the evening. Allowing the desirability that minorities should be represented, the Daily News asks whether, in three-cornered constituencies, to which alone Lord Cairns' motion applies, minorities are not already re presented ? Lord Cairns does not see why an elector in • three-cornered constituency should have the right of voting for three members, while an elector in • constituency re turning only two members should only vote for two. On what ground does he stop here! Pursuing this principle, he would arrive at My. Dillwyn's proposition for single voting ;or why, on the same showing, should an elector in a two-membered constituency have two votes, while an elector in a single-membered constituency has but one ? The amendment, if it pus the Lower House, and becomes law, will lead, the Daily News fears, to an enormous amount of electioneering management and private arrange ment. It will substitute " wire-pulling " for true popular election ; and will do so in order to secure more systema tically an end which practically is attained already. The Herald has the singular pleasure of expressing its great satisfaction at the defeat of the government. It assumes that ministers will now acquiesce and give the clause their support in the House of Commons. In the opinion of the Telegraph the deliberations of their lordships, so far as they have gone, have wrought almost unmitigated evil, and this it attributes very much to the absence of Lord Derby. They have reversed the acceptance which the government gave in the Commons to the 101. lodger franchise ; they have allowed Lord Harrowby to raise the freehold qualification from 51. to 10/.; and they have foolishly and most unfairly swamped the urban constituencies of Oxford and ('am. bridge with voters who have no more concern in the affairs of the municipality than they have in those of Heidelberg or Jena. The Commons are anxious to leave town for the holidays, but they must unpack their portmanteaux again, and make ready to write stet to the clauses erased. THR PARIS REGULATION BILL The Times tionoludes a bantering article on the subject of the parks and open-air meetings with suggesting that the subject is a fair one fora committee. Its not a party question. Mr. Cowper did his duty in supporting govern- ment, which ought not to be charged with a responsibility in which all are squally interested. The question can now very well wait till next session. This is the last day of July, and the "demonstration" folks can have the parks almost to themselves for the next six months. They will find a solitude without the trouble and scandal of making one. The Herald and Standard counsel the government to e policy of no-surrender. If there is much excitement about the question, it is only a proof that something has occurred to justify the introductiou of the bill. The government are striving to uphold the rights of the working man, his wife, and his little ones. The Telegrapk describes the struggle as a contest of right against might—of ancient law against modern, arbitrary, and intemperate legislation. Though, un• happily, a large proportion of the liberal members have left London, the opposition is earnest and resolute, and we may yet hope it will be suomisafuL On the motion in the House of Lords for the second reading of the Church Bates Abolition Bill Lord Delamere will move that It be read a second thne that day three months. To-morrow Mr. Fawcett will ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give a promise that par liament shall be consulted, and its opinion expressed, before either a charter is granted to a Roman catholic university, or before the government sanctions any other scheme affecting university education in Ireland. On Tuesday Mr. Mill will call the attention of the House of Commons to the Declaration of Paris of 1856 so far as it relates to the right of search. Hie bill for the better municipal government of the metropolis is deferred till Tuesday next- On the motion for going into oommitteo on Expiring Laws Continuance Bill Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens will call the attention of the house to she anomalous and unsatisfactory state of our existing treaties of extradition with foreign powers, with a view to the establishment of a permanent and uniform system of law for the aurrender of fugitives accused of unpolitical crime. On Friday Lcrd Frederick Cavendish will call the attention of the house to the recent grant of a free pardon to Edward Greenland (late manager of the Leeds Banking Company), who was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for perjury ; and will move for the cony spondence on the subject. In committee on Parks Regulation (re-com mitted) Bill Sir Colman O'Loghlen will move after clause 1 to insert the following clause :—" After the passing of this act no military review or inspection of troops shall be held in any of the said parks or gardens." According to the Owl, " it is generally believed in the lobbies of the House of Commons that the govern. meat, content with the two majorities they have obtained on the question, and in deference to the wishes of many of their supporters, will remain satisfied, for this session, with the progress they have made with the Public, Parks Bill." AGRICULTURAL GANGS. The following is a copy of a bill introduced into the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor, entitled en Act for the Regulation of Agricultural Gangs : " Whereas in certain counties in England certain per sons known as gangmasters hire children, young persons, and women, with • view to contracting with farmers and other* for the execution, on their lands, of various kinds of agricultural work : and whereas it is expedient to make regulations with respect to the employment of children, young persons, and women by gangmuters. De it enacted by the flue' n's most excellent Majesty, by ►nd with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : " 1. This art may be cited for all purposes ' The Agricul tural Gangs Act, 1867.' "2. This act shall come into operation on the Ist of January, 1869. " 3. The following words and expression. !hall in this act have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there is something in the context inconsistent with such meanings, that is to say, ' child' shall mean • child under the age of thirteen years ; ' young person' shall mean • person of the age of thirteen years and under the age of eighteen years ; woman' shall mean • female of the age of eighteen years or upwards ; gangmaster ' shall mean any person who hires children, young persons, or women, with a view to their being employed in agricultural labour on lands not in his own occupation ; and, until the con trary is proved, any children, young persons, or women employed in agricultural labour on lands not in the occu pation of the person who hired them shall be deemed to have been hired with the aforesaid view ; ' agricultural tural gang' shall mean a body of children, young persons, and women, or any of them, under the control of • gang master. "4. The following regulations shall be observed by every' ganginurter with respect to the employment of children, young persons, and women:—(l.) No child under the age of eight years shall be employed in any agricultural gang ; (2.) Ne females shall be employed in the same agricultural gang with males, or under a male person acting as gang muter ; and any gangmaster employing any child, young person, or women in contravention of this section, and any occupier of land on which such employment takes place, unless he proves that it took place without his knowledge, shall respectively be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20s, for each child, young person, or woman so employed. "5. No person shall act as gangmaster unless he has obtained a license to act as such under this act. Any person acting as gangmaster without a license under this act shall incur a penalty not exceeding 20s. for every day during which he so acts. "0. No license shall be granted to any person who is licensed to sell beer, spirits, or any other exciseshle liquor. "7. Licenses to gangmaaters shall be granted by the justices in petty sessions, on due proof to the satis faction of such justices that the applicant for a license is a good character, and a tit person to be en trusted with the management of an agricultural gang. Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the justices to grant him a license to act as gangmaster may appeal to the next practicable court of general or quarter sessions; and it shall be lawful for such court, if they see cause, to grant a license to the applicant, which shall be of the same validity as if it had been granted by the justices in petty sessions. "8. Licenses under this set shall be in force for one year only, and may be annually renewed on the same proof on which an original license is granted. "9. There shall be charged in respect of each grant or renewal of license a fee of Is., and such fee shall be ac counted for and applied in manner in which the fees ordi narily received by the authority granting the license are applicable. " 10. On any conviction of a gangmaater of any offence against this act, the justices who convict him shall endorse on his license the fact of such conviction ; and on any con• viction of such gangmastcr of a second offence against this act the justices may, in addition to any other penalty, suspend his license for a period not exceeding six months ; and on any conviction of any gangmaster of a third offence against this set the justices may, in addition to any other penalty, suspend his license fur a period not ex ceeding two years ; and after a fourth conviction for an offence against this act, the gangroaster shell he li..inali tied from holding or receiving a license under this act. " 11. All penalties under this act may bo recovered sum marily before two or more justices in manner directed by an act passed in the session holden in the llth and 12th years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 4:1, intituled 'An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within Eng land and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders,' or any act amending the same. " 12. This act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland." WHITEHALL, JULY 29.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Donald Macleod to the charge and office of first minister of the church and parish of Montrose, in the presbytery of Brechin and county of For far, vacant by the transportation of the Re v . Malcolm Campbell Taylor to the united parishes of Cathie and Braemar.--Gazette. _ WHITEHALL, JULY 27.—The Queen has been pleued to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Inked nate William sit. Mali, BK.—Gareas. the esurt. OSBORN'. Ju' 30. ' Thil'Queen and a r Inc:ea-Louis of Hesse dr. ye t 6 yr., afternoon , attended by the Duchess of R, x- , rg ' and her Mgjeatrfralked in the grounds tars ' 45 ing with Prince' larrincess Louis. 'nee Leopold mil Prii.cesa Beattie* also went out. I nee Ar hur and Prince Leopold, attended by Major j Elphinstohe and Mr. Legg, weld in the royal yseA Allterta to Alum Bey yesterday afternoon. Major lienend F. H. Seymour and Cap tala von Wester-' 1 weller had the honour e accompanying their royal highnesses. Lady Augusta Stanley ho arrived at Osborne. A conrnittee of the Lordsof bee Majesty'. Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council aim. Whitehull, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lord' present were the Lord President, the Duke of Rich mon.l, and Lord Robert Aloutagu. A deputation from the lasnolou and :-louth Western and &Saintly oral Yeovil Railway Companies, consisting of Captain M.utgles, Mr. Fnuer. Mr. `tramp. and Mr. Scott, had an interview with the Duke of Richmond yesterday at the °dice of the Board of Trude. Cmainer Cot NI: There will be a cabinet council this afternoon at four o'clock at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Down ing -street. We (Old) understand that, in consequence of the great improvement which has taken place in nines Ltiopord's health, Mr. Legg will shortly return to his pre tensions' duties, and that the Rev. R. Duckworth, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, who is at present Prince Leopold's instructor, will be appointed governor to his royal highness. The Prince of Teck left Kensington Palace yes terday morning for Goodwood Park . , on a visit to tl e Duke and Duckess of Richmond during the races. The Duke of Rutland is expected to leave town the week after next for Longshawe Lodge, Derhyslire, for grouse shooting. The Earl and Counter; of Dalkeith and the Ladies Georgians and Alberta Hamilton left to +n on Mon day for Goodwood, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond during the race weA. The Earl and Countess of Wilton and V;s-ount and Viscountess Crey de Wilton hay.: left town for Good wood. The Countess of Eglinton gave birth to a daughter on the thith inst. at Eglinton C. stle, Ayrshire. The countess and infant are both doing well. The Countess Cowper and Ladies Cowper have left town for Panshanger Park, Herta, for the seamen, ac companied by the Hon. H. Cowper, M.P. The Countess of Carnarvon has left town. The noble earl will remain in town till the close of the parlia mentary session, and then go to Highclere. Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone and family have left Grosvenor-street for Longford Caste, Wilts, for the season. Lord and Lady Rendlesham have arrived at his lordship's shooting quarters near Dingwall, N. 8., where they are expected to stay till the end of October. Lady Henry Scott gave birth to a son yesterday, at her ladyship's residence, Tinley-street, Park-lane. A marriage is arranged to take place within a few weeks between Lady Georgians Adelaide Ransil, eldest daughter of Earl Russell, and Mr. Archibald Peel, third son of the Right lion. General Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Peel. FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. (From Le Felld.) Those who are not already enjoying the refresh ing sea breezes are doubtless anticipating the moment when they too shall leave the great city, and travelling and sea side costumes are just now more attractive than the ele gant and costly dresses with which we have almost been dazzled at the late fetes. As is usual at this time of the year, our modistes prepare the most elegant and recherché as well as the simplest of toilettes, and this season they are certainly not behindband in originality or good taste ; and although some may be too eccentric to last, yet the larger number of models are in such good taste that, with very slight alterations, they will be quite as appropriate for town wear. We will, however, proceed to describe some of those most worthy of notice. A short skirt of white pique cut in squares round the bottom, like turrets, and edged with " lhainarck"coloured braid, each breadth caught together by a ladder of brown braid, with the manliest bows of the same coloured ribbon placed here and there, but not too closely together. The petticoat also of pique, with three rows of the braid put straight round. Short paletaA, cut and trimmed to match the upper skirt ; sleeves nearly tight, also trimmed with braid. The dress and palctdt fastened with buttons of brown silk. The same model may be made of toile ecrue, sultan°, or alpaca, trimmed with a braid of the same colour, only a shade or two darker than the dress ; or, if of white alpaca or stilton, rouleaux of coloured or black silk way be substituted. The costume " Prince Charmant" is of bouton d'or silk, trimmed on the lower skirt with six rouleaux of black velvet very close to each other. The over-skirt, of the same silk, is cut in tulip or bell-shaped designs all round, and edged with velvet. The paid& is in the same style. This dress is original, but not likely to be very generally adopted. The same design in blue or green and white, or violet and grey, would be elegant and distingue. The costume " Sultan " has the under-skirt of blue silk, trimmed with a bias fold of white silk and a " Toni Thumb" fringe, also of white silk. The upper skirt of rich striped silk, white and blue, cut in deep points, and edged with blue fringe. Instead of a paletOt an Oriental scarf, crossed in front at the waist and fastened low down at the back of the skirt by a bow of blue ribbon, may be wom. Alpaca or woollen materials are the most in request for sea-aide dresses; the petticoat, dress, and palenit of the same material, and trimmed to match. For this style of dress the new poll de cherry chine, striped, checked, or plain, is a charming material, preserving its freshness so much longer than almost any other, and not easily injured by rain. There is little, if any, change in the size and style of bonnet.. They are certainly not larger, but many of our clever niodistes have been so successful in making elegant head-dresses in the place of the large bonnets, that for young faces one cannot at least regret the change ; and a coiffure of blonde or lace and flowers, skillfully arranged, is certainly not more unbecoming than the large over trimmed bonnets of bygone days. We will not, however, take up our readers' tune with our own opinions, but eve them some of the newest models on which to form their A fanchon of white Malin, tulle, with scarf of the same railed above the chignon by a bow of white ribbon ; at the edge a wreath of ivy-leaves mixed with gold berries. A fanchonnette of white tulle bonillonni with rouleanz of white satin. At the back a bow of white satin over • fall of blonde, which is continued so as to form the strings; on the front edge a wreath of strawberry blossom with green leaves bronzed, the same wreath continuing down the brides of blonde. Narrow white satin strings, fastened under the chignon. A bonnet of tulle " Bismarck," the curtain of blonde, the same colour, which is continued en brides. At the front edge and across the curtain pear-shaped drops, bronze colour ; at the side two gold rose-leaves and bird of Paradise feather. The huhu also faatenened with gold leaves. A bonnet of violet tulle, style "Marie Antoinette," with pear-shaped drops of gold round the front. Betweea each drop is placed a violet the natural colour ; a violet ostrich feather falling at the side, and from that a cLain of gold passing en collier under the chin over the brides of violet tulle, which are spotted with violets. A fanebonnette of pink tulle bouillons, with a bow of pink ribbon and harbes of pink tulle hemmed with crystal beads ; a wreath of small pink and white daisies across the front, continuing en collier over the tulle bathes. A fanchon of light blue tulle, covered with wreaths of leaves " Bismarck" colour ; the same falling over the strings. At the side • bouquet of forget-memid. A fanchou of mauve tulle, with " Mary Stuart" wreath, in violets of Parma, deecending at each side over the collier of tulle, which is edged with a silk fringe. At the side a spray of rosebuds in gold. A bonnet of blue crape bouillonne, covered by a scarf of white tulle. It is trimmed all round with a fringe of seed On the front is a wreath of bronzed leaves, which pearl, On the chignon and the scarf of tulle, which is fast ened under the chin by a bouquet of small leaves. A fanchon of white tulle plaited, trimmed with wheat ears and poppies. The brides are of tulle, trimmed round with blonde and fastened under the chin with a bou qu et. Strings of white ribbon, embroidered to snatch the Hower. are fastened under the chignon. . . . A. very elegant bonnet, prepared for country toilette, was of fancy straw, very flat across the head. The edge was trimmed with a wreath of field flowers, and a scarf of tulle fastened at the edge formed the brides which were eery Wag sad wide. LATEST - (RERTER'oI ?MURANO.) FRANCE AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Irty It is stated that the Emperor Napoleon shortly pay a visit to the Emperor of Austria. His Majesty will arrive at Salzburg on the ith of August. The Emperor Francis .Toseph will mum the visit in Paris before the end of the month. HUNGARY. PhYSTII, Jrt.T :a. The Sultan is expected here early on Thun 'ay morning. As soon as as the deputations from the /I u..gn. rian Diet and the Reichsrath come to an agreement, the Diet will be again convoked, possibly in the course of August. HOLSTEIN. ALTO NA,J;, , y :ci. At to-day's sitting of the municipality a • isr. f e majority of the Senators voted in favour of j.thal;; the Zollvercin, and that the port of Altomi cease to be a free port. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. FLORENCE Jr Ly In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of DePutles , Signor Rattazzi, replying to Signora Kim and Titori, said, that, from information he had re• ceived, the speech alleged by the journals to have been spoken by General Dumont was not a true version. The government having requested explanation from Paris on the subject, were in formed that General Dumont had no official mis sion in Paris. In order to learn the real state .f affairs, Signor Nigra had been summoned from Paris, and arrived yesterday in Fh. rence. The government were desirous that the September Convention should be exactly and strictly carried out by the two contracting parties, being jealous of upholding the dignity and inde pendence of the country. Signor Rattazzi also said that he awaited other explanations in reply t.. hi s demand to be informed of the terms of the misai”o entrusted to the French general ; he did not believe that the Antibes legion could be regarded as French. Signor Sella demanded the early publication of the correspondence on that question, and also on the formation of a foreign legion. Signor Rattazzi agreed to this demand, and also to the m ition of Signor Ferrari, according to which the Chamber, considering how important to Italy was the maintenance of the convention, urged the Minister to cause the same to be maintained by every means compatible with non-intervention. In the Senate, Signor Rattarsi, replying to Signor Angiolette, said that the great military commands will be suppressed on the let October. The Budget of Expenditure for 1867 was pained. THE NORTH AMERICAN. QUEBEC, Jur The steamer North American, that went ashore at Anticosti, has been got off and towed by the steamer Austrian into Gaspe, whence she will be taken to Quebec. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANIA. SOUTHAMPTON, JILT 31. _ The Hamburg and American company's steam ship Germania, from New York on the 20th lust., arrived here to-day with 108 passengers for thil port, Hamburg, and Havre, 70,000 dole. in specie for France, and 17,200 in specie for Hamburg. On the 30th she spoke the English barque Apollo, the Bremen barque Batavia, and the American ship Lancaster. (BY ATLANTIC TRU:GRAPH.) NEW YORK, JULY 30, 6 P.N. The Cunard steamers China and Malta, and the Allan steamer Austrian arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLICIENCF:. Closing prime :—Gold, 140. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1111. Illinois, 1181 ; Erie, 76i. Cotton : Middling Up land, 27i. PHILADELPHIA, Jur ;sO. Petroleum, standard white, 33. [This telegram arrived in London at 5.30 a.m. to-day, July 31.] Lord Derby has signified to Alderman Rose the Queen's intention to confer upon him the dignity of knight hood. The Herald says :—" It would certainly have been hard if, in the general dispensation of honours which has recently taken place, a gentleman whose civic reign, in hospitality and useful work, has not keen surpassed in our time, had been left without acknowledgment simply because be was a conservative. As a civic dignitary, as an active volunteer officer, and as a magistrate, Alderman R-se hu well earned the honour that has now been bestowed, and we are glad that Lord Derby has been able, by this timely recognition of his services, to efface the recollection of a slight, which was as uncourteous to the civic authority as it was un• generous to the individual." Mr. E. W. Watkin, M.P., is to receive the honour of knighthood as an acknowledgment of his ser• vices in connection with the Intereolooisl Itailvsy. A similar honour is to be conferred on Mr. W. IL Bodkin. wistant•judgs of the kliddlesaz sessions. .... The Oral understands that, although Sir William Coghlan's plan for operations to be undertaken with a vire to effecting the liberation of the prisoners in Abyuin4 Lai been adopted by the government, the command of ea expedition will probably be entrusted either to sir n'e• Liam Staveley, now commanding a brigade at Poona, or tc Colonel Merewether, the political agent at Aden. The Duke of Cleveland, writing to the Tim.: on the subject of th s division of the Lords' Committee (of which he was chairman) on the North British Railway, safc " The decision of the case did not rest with me as chair man, but with the majority of the committee. That ma• jority would not sanction the precedent of granting lam• preferential shares. They were not, however, guided by considerations of the interests only of the North British Railway, but by the dread of the effect which this I'rece• dent, if established, would have on the 150,000,00 , of preferential stock throughout the kingdom. I was not guilty of the absurdity which you suppose, of not brig aware that the issue of debentures sanctioned by the bill to be applied to the redemption of debt was not another mode of granting the promoters of the bill a part of what they asked; but I supported the proposal in order to :Joni some relief to the North British Railway in their resat difficulties." . The King of Sweden is expected in Paris on Saturday to pass some days. The Genoese Gazttte says :—" A few days back a person bathing between Cornigliano and Sestri, in tbe'todi of Genoa, was seized by a large polypus, and the cr..ature so interlaced its numerous tentacle. round him, that be was unable, in spite of all his efforts, to free himself, and was dragged under water and drowned. None of the other bathers ventured to go to his amistamte." Count de Montalembert has gone to reside at his chateau of Rixensart, in Belgium. Ilia health is much improved, and he can now receive his friends. In Hungary many of the most prominent mot taf 1R434.1 are taking advantage of the amnesty. (.ea' Klapka, Perczel, Vetter, and others have returned P , their native country, and their arrival has frequent:7% J c,', the cause of public rejoicings and festivities. /I os nith be. been proposed as a candidate for a scat in the Diet by the extreme left at Wsitzen. 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