The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-06 00:00:00

" by the meritorious exertions cit volintary 11140- " ciations," can only be removed by a return to established administrative principles, and by d due exercise of the legal authority already provided. der ipaink brought _forcibly forward i:a this able. Raper is the interested motives animating the 10 - cat authorities ; the clerks of the largest unions having objected to the patronage of the contracts for supplies being taken away, as without these they would not be able to induce guardians to attend in sufficient numbers to make up courts, or transact the parish business. But Mr. Cam:mica's statement has special interest now from its calm, unwavering assertion that the whole tendency of the law he aided in passing was to provide the control, for the lack of which the most horrible abuses have sprung up. Let our readers compare the following passage with the defiance and opposition from parish guardians they have read of, and reconcile the discrepancy be tween theory and practice if i.hey can :—" It was " the policy of the amended law that responsi " bility for executive functions should be where " practically real responsibility can only attach— " namely, to the paid service of well-appointed " permanent officers ; for, knowing the increasing " difficulty of obtaining in busy urban districts " well qualified and reliable unpaid service, it was " intended that the functions of the annually " elected guardians should be mainly of audit and " supervision of the paid officers, to hear corn " plaints, and see fast they did their duty, to be " eurcised at monthly rather than weekly meet " ings." The treatment of casuals at Clerkenwell ; the insolent obstructiveness of Bermondsey ; the cruel deaths at Bethnal-green ; the horrible sick wards of Whitechapel ; the burial-ground and cramped apace of St. Martin's ; the evasions of the Holborn Union ; and the shameful disclosures at Rotherhithe, Paddington, Shoreditch, and the Strand, make the most fitting commentary on this passage. The flagrant cases of abuse these names represent have all come to light within the last twelve months, and most of them are rampant now. In the face of these shameful facts and Mr. ILLIWY'S pledge the present policy of the Poor-law Board is irritating in the extreme. The new Inspectors are futilely employed in examining, criticising, and reporting in official language upon evils patent to every newspaper reader in the kingdom ; the Poor-law Board expresses its entire confidence in the good feeling of the Guardians in maundering compliments in an officialcircular ; the paupers rot and starve; and thepublic asks sullenly what the new and much-professing broom has done, and how it is all to end. lithe erpreoll. MINTS. Adosettoemento hiteitia foe — flea,* London Two =moat be at the 10„ vorie.alreet, by Teo i on We day at pnbikation. PIMMBn. - ----- Tin Zvmn., THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Seam Vl:ant and G. Honey Q : Woes Neilson, Augusta Thom" 024 Mrs. Etirling.—And UIET LODGINGS. REITANNLL TRH Zvraso, THE DRUNKARD'S CRILDELK—Miss L Latimer Mr. U. Macarthy ; The HarvellousMattiaeUes.—Ahd THE MUTINY AT THE NOR.E. RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TRIO D►Y —Morning. Ills. 611nt Ahonnoon, Oh. Ols. TO-ROLSON—Morolog, Oh. 94an Afternoon. Oh. fons. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. Tun discussions which have arisen out of the lamentable failure in our Poor-law administration all tend in one direction—that of giving the public an insight into matters which have been hitherto imperfectly understood. Intermittent indignation at isolated cases of hardship is being superseded by a conviction that improvement, to be effectual, must be sweeping, and that any attempts at patch ing up or glossing over existing defects should be strenuously opposed by reformers. Just as this feeling was gaining strength, a strikingly sugges tive contribution to the history of the subject has been made by Mr. Cnenwrca in the pages of Fraser's Magazine. In this we learn, from the so'e surviving Commissioner of the great inquiry of 1832, what the framers of the new Poor-law really designed, and how miserably their intentions have been defeated. " It was never contemplated,"writes Mr. CHAD WICK, " that the requisite extended combine " lions for relief of separate classes in separate "'houses, and provisions in districts for the proper " treatment of the sick and the different classes of 4 ' the destitute poor, should be charged on the re presentatives of ratepayers in parishes ; who, " whatever might be their general intelligence and " integrity, were as uninformed and as little " qualified to deal with the administrative grin " ciples specially applicable to the chief classes of " cases as they were to direct or to judge of " medical treatment or an operation in surgery. " We could see nothing but failure as consequent " on confiding extended arrangements to the un " informed or ill-informed discretion and nacos " sadly divided attention of the representatives of " the ratepayers in the narrow areas of pariah " vestries or of boards of guardians." It is unnecessary to remind our readers that what " was never contemplated" has been made the uniform rule throughout the country ; that upon the " uninformed or ill-informed discretion" and " divided attention of pariah vestries and " guardian'," has rested the administration of the Poor-law ; and that the contingent failure antici pated by its authors has been as complete as cor ruption, ignorance, cruelty, and neglect could make it. Indeed, if we were reading the rules of some Utopia in which failure is unknown, and where means are invariably adapted to beneficial ends, the contrast could not be greater than between the Poor-law as propounded by Mr. CHADWICK, and the Poor-law we know as hard, bitter, and shamefully anomalous fact. Besides showing us the breakdown anticipated more than thirty years ago, if the course we lure ever since adopted was pursued, Mr. CHADWICK explains that his fellow-Commissioners and himself " proposed to concentrate the responsibility for " making the requisite extended arrangements " exclusively in the Commissioners, the permanert " officers of the general Board, who would have " the means of obtaining the widest and most " complete information for the guidance of a " superior discretion ; for the due exercise of which " they would be directly responsible, not to the " lowest representatives of the people, those in ves• " tries, but to the highest representatives of the " people in Parliament." The system snadowed forth here is as advanced as the most zealous reformer could desire. Mr. ERNEST Hzar's thoughtfully considered scheme for providing for the sick poor in workhouses, by transferring them to State hospitals properly controlled, is but a proper application of the above principle to one section of the poor. With the exercise of common judgment, the enforcement of direct responsibility, and the establishment of independent control, our workhouses would have been duly classified, the sick and aged fairly tended, and not one of the shameful disclosures made by independent witnesses would have been possible. It is for the permanent legal advisers of the Poor-law Board to say whe ther the authority Mr. CHADWICK credits them with exists, and if it does why it has not been exercised. It is startling to be told, in the midst of the puzzlement and indig nation caused by recent events, that what we are all striving for was codified and arranged more than thirty years ago, and has lain dormant all the intervening time. Mr. GATHOILTE HARDY'S accession to office was heralded by a flourish of trumpets from Lord DERRY, in the course of which the new President was described, with an im plied sneer at his predecessor, as the fittest man in Great Britain to cope with the evils then shocking and disgusting the community. Yet Mr. HARDY, in spite of his statement that the law was sufficient, and that the fault lay with those who had not enforced it, has in no one case lessened the evils de scribed as disgusting, and has, oddly enough, pleaded the shortness of his reign as an excuse for not doing what the " fittest man," if admi nistering a perfect law, might surely hare accom plished at once. Mr. CHADWICK says, with somewhat sweeping charity :—" How, through " whom, by what acts of nonfeasance or mia " feasance, the existing conditions of ignorant " and cruel treatment intended to be prevented " have been so long maintained in the metro " polis—ostensibly it would appear under the " excuse of opposition, from the exercise of " the necessarily inferior discretion of guar " diens and vestrymen, whose authority and right "of consultation in the matter the law ex " pressly excludes—are questions upon which it is " at present unnecessary for me to enter." It is upon the validity of this " excuse of op " position" that the permanent staff of the Poor law Board must be content to stand or fall. Mr. CHADWICK'S words are uncompromising and direct, and coming as they do from one of the authorities responsible for the new Poor-law, demand atten tion. He insists that the evils, " made manifest OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866. 'the Legations the Marcho, and Umbria, replacing him =der Auatriegkaad Boudoir pxoteetioaread carrying GO hie non-iniareention poi* to ita last imeneiraciage, leaving the Tope alone to come to each terms with hia people aa beet he can. LATEST INTELLIGENCt Tie Post argues that in the blockade of the Mexican ports which President Johnson refuses to recognise, every thing turns on the question whether the Mexican Emperor is in troth in a position to maintain an effective blockade or not, and,, if the former, whether he is prepared to en force his rights against American vessels. If, however, he elects to waive his rights against such vessels, he must also waive them against all others, and in that case the only coarse open to him will be to give notice to all neutral powers that the blockade is at an end. The addresses presented to the new Lord Lieutenant, on Monday last, lead the Titres to treat of Irish prospects, impressing upon Irishmen that the only substitute pro posed for the British government is a communist re public, that the faults of the British government are things of the pest—that no people could be more ready to help another people than Englishmen are to help Irishmen, and that private capital will Sow in abundant volume through channels once opened. Even the wildest spots of Ireland tenanted only by the creatures of nature are so manyresources of which Englishmen would avail themselves 1 1 as they do of a Highland forest, a moor, or an unnavigable stream. Why should a moor in Scotland fetch a fabulous rent, while moors in Ireland are left without a tenant If Ulster and Leinster have commercial advantages, the advantages of natural scenery and attractions belong to Munster and Connaught. Turn both to account, and the face of Ireland would soon be changed. Nor is anything wanted to accelerate this change, except the public tran quillity and contentment which all kinds of enterprise require. THE IMPERIAL POLICY OF FRANCE. M. Michel Chevalier, in proposing the toast of the Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial, at a banquet given on last Saturday by the Council- ,neral of the Huai:lit to the Prefect, said : I have the honour to propose the toed of "The Emperor.' , In this room that toast is not a common place one. In drinking the health of Napoleon 111. you honour less the inheritor of the most popular name of the age than the able and persevering promoter of a new policy, which it was necessary to produce from the womb of our glorious revolution of 1789, and it is the merit of the Emperor that he has known how to acoomplish this laborious acoouchement. This policy consists in employing henceforth the N:tal forces of the state and of society in promoting the moral, intellectual. and material prosperity of all classes, and especially of those who have beenhitherto disinherited of the advantages of civilisation. For civilised society labour is a kind of beneficent and tutelary genius which produces l ht and I gives precious aid to lofty sentiments. Labour is peace, of which it has been said that it is the greaten biasing of modern nations. The new policy, therefore, encourages labour ; it assists it, gives it a share in all dis tinctions, accords to it ever increasing privileges, it utilises labour to change the surface of the earth, to give to the mind of man a pedestal and to the moral advance ment of man a lever. Let us honour, gentlemen, in Napoleon 111. this new policy which he has propagated, strengthened, and, more than any other person, contributed to acclimatise on almost the entire surface of the continent of Europe. Honour to the Em per, the glorious champion of this policy ! Respectful homage to the Empress, who, under the infiuenoe of the noblest feelings, has performed acts of courage which his tory will be proud to record ! Affection for the young Prince, whom his august parents are forming to practise this generous, intelligent, and civilising policy. THURSDAY, EXPRESS !FROM PARIS. (ram oua ows coaassrosolarr.) PARIS, WEDNZSDAT EVINING. The Emperor intends to open the shooting _won at St. Germain to-morrow. The Marquis de Lavatette, Prince de la Moskowa, the Grand Veneur, the Marquis de Toulangeon, Prince Poniatowski, General Fleury, and Count Mono de Hale are invited to join in his Majesty's battue. A despatch from Niort of this day's date states that the mail train yesterday evening at half-past 8 ran off the rails near St. Maizent. Five carriages fell over an embankment. Six people were killed and eight injured. There was a disturbance at Lyons on Sunday at the fête of the Grand Camp, owing to the high wind preventing M. Godard from inflating his balloon, an ascension of which had been announced for that day. Count de Palikao, the general command ing the district, denies in a letter to the local papers that the troops made a charge. They were hissed, pressed upon, and even assailed with pro jectiles by people, who cried, " Return us our money ;" but the officer in command said that there was no serious riot, and would not allow the troops to attack. It is not true, as stated in some journals, that there were any killed and wounded. The only accident was that one unfortunate and inoffen sive man received a kick from a trooper's horse, from the effects of which he died in hospital. Eight young men who took a prominent part in the disturbance are arrested. ____ A fatal accident at a bull fight a rEspagna oc curred in the old Roman Circus at Nimes on Sun day last. A torreador, named Mateo Cabrera, was run through the cheat by one of the bulls, and killed on the spot. The Moniteur du Soir gives the following account of the above catastrophe : It was evident when the very first bull appeared that the pretended Spanish torreadors, or at some of them, either knew nothing of their dangerous Dwane's, or were in such a state of excitement as to lose their heads. They irritated the bulls in most unnecessary ways, and their rashness was only equalled by their awkwardness. At the beginning of the performance the bulls, which, though good enough for our amateurs, were tame creatures indeed when compared with the genuine furious Spanish animals, knocked over several of the tor readers, though without hurting them. With the fourth bull the unfortunate Cabrera attempted the hoop game. But instead of watching the bull's movements, and hold ing the hoop on one side so as to avoid the rush, he held it inboth hands exactlybefure his breast,and the bull,after running his horns through the paper, transfixed the man. The other torreadors in the circus rushed to their comrade and picked him up. They opened his waistcoat to see where he was hurt. Supported by them he walked two or three steps, then slipped from their hands and fell heavily. A torrent of blood gushed from his breast and he was quite dead. The sight of the blood caused great emotion among the audience, and several women fainted. It is confirmed that M. Benedetti has gone to Carlsbad, but it is also said that he will come to Paris to confer with the Marquis de Moustier as soon as the latter arrives from Constantinople. The Bourse was firmer, though not much more active than yesterday. Relate rose 20c. for cash and 12lic. for account, closing at 69fr. 95c. and 69fr. 92tc. Italian rose 65c., and Mobilier and Credit Foncier 2fr. 50c. each. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) 8, 8 A.N. T and G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters, e." t/ 1 and 2, Princes-street, Leicester-square, W., lump an eaorraous Stock of Bora CLOTHING ready made. Boy's Knickerbocker Salta Lon and Dress Salta Ma. to 40e. Summer O►ercoats l4a. to tla. Suitable for all time _ _ ____ _ ___ EtWelLl?ogarltheTshH E SHOW at J. and 0. 841MQNSiovtglarswind:awgi and "'set 1 Iniensisi-erane, . ONE of die institutions of London is EVANS'S. Sappers sad a charming MUSICAL strnekrAtnuarr EVICAY EVENING. Altar the theatres sad Mellea's Cassette be sure to sup there Witt Court. BALMORAL. Bar. 4. The Queen went out driving yesterday morning with Princess Christian and Princess Louise. In the afternoon, the Queen and Prinoess Louise, at tended by Lady Churchill, rode on ponies in the Ballo* Buie. Princess Christian, attended by the Hon. Emily Wh eat., drove to Abergeldie and Birk-hall. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Majesty. A committee of the lords of her Majesty's mort honour- able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council Chamber Whitehall, on questions relating to the cattle plague and cholera. The lords present were the lord president, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, the Right Hon. H. Carry, and the Right Hon. H. Waddington. Mr. Helps and Colonel Harness attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of Canada and Laboan. INAUGURATION OF THE ALBERT STATUS IN LIVERPOOL.—INVITATION TO THE QUEEN.—The understood determination of the Queen to visit Manchester hu stimulated the Liverpool Town Connell to make arrange ments, if possible, for her Majesty to be present at the inauguration of the statue of the late Prince Consort, which is being erected in front of the St. George's-hall, Liverpool. At the meeting of the council yesterday, the mayor was requested to invite her Majesty to visit Liver pool for this purpose. THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALFA TO DUNBOBIN.—We learn on reliable authority that the long-expected visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle, which was to have been made about the beginning of October, has been again de. layed, and will not take place this season. The breakin; off of the engagement is understood to have been occa sioned by the presence in this country at the time men tioned of certain distinguished relatives from abroad. The disappointment to the northern public, and particularly to Sutherlandahiro —the population of whirl had fully pr- - pared to give an enthusiastic Highland welcome to the royal visitors—will be very great T inier/sus Advertiser. We understand that on Monday morning the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie left Invermark Shooting Lodge, and rode across the glen in order to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral Castle, and that his lordship had returned yesterday. Sir George Grey and Lady Grey left Invermark Lodge on Monday morning podded to Brechin, and went south by the mail, after having spent some Jaye with the Earl of Dalhousie at his shooting lodge. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam• bridge arrived at Invermark Lodge yesterday, and will for some time be the guest there of the Earl of Dalhousie. His royal highness, accompanied by his private secretary travelled to Brechin by the limited mail from the south' and posted thence to Invermark. His arrival had been anticipated at Brechin, and a good number of people were at the station to catch a glimpse of the duke se he left the train.—Dundee Advertiser. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and the Maharanee, and their son, Albert Victor, accompanied by Sir Thomas and Lady Beauchamp and Miu Robertson, have left Grandtully Castle, near Ballinluig, on their way for Elvedon Hall, Norfolk. The Earl and Countess Percy, accompanied by Lord Warkworth and the Hon. Algernon Percy, hare ar rived at Alnwick Castle, from Keilder, where the earl h►d been grouse shooting, and joined the Duke of Northum- berland. Lord Stanley, M.P., will shortly succeed General the Right Hon. J. Peel as Secretary of State in attendance on the Queen at Balmoral. Lady Constance Stanley has returned to Knowsley Park, the seat of the Earl of Derby, from visit ing the Earl and Countess of Clarendon at Buxton, Derby sh"e. Last night a meeting was held ;n the Victoria hall to inaugurate the Manhood Suffrage Assoc , ation r - - cently formed in Leeds. Mr. Alderman Carter war in the chair, and the principal speakers were Mr. Beale., President of the Reform League, the Rev. W. H. Bonner, ex-president, Mr. E. Jones, and the Rev. J. H. Morgan. The spacious hall was crowded to excess, and it was found necessary to hold a second meet ing in front of the hall, composed of some thousands of persons who were unable to gain admission to the building. Mr. Beale* and Mr. Jones also spoke to the open•ai r Tethering, and both the meetings were of the mat enthusiastic character. It might be expected, gays the Times, that the operation of the Atlantic Cable would remedy the useless transmission of money ►t the same moment backward and forward between England and America. At present, how ever, the process is going on, and while we have sent 100,000!. to New York during the past few days, the Saxonia, from New York, has arrived this morning with 71,000!. The census of 1861 revealed the curious fact that in the whole south-west of Ireland there were but two Jews. One of these ancient people abode in Munster, and the other in Connaught, so that they sufficed between them for a population of nearly three millions. In the metro politan districts of Leinster 200 Jews were found, and a Jewish colony had settled about Belfast. The Emperor Francis Joseph is expected at Trieste to review the fleet. The Emperor Ferdinand of Austria and the Em press Maria-Anna wilt return to Prague immediately after the evacuation of Bohemia by the PraISiSIIIL Their Ma jesties have inhabited that city, as is known, ever since 1849. The King and Prince Koyal of Hanover have estab lished their residence near Fichonlit min ; the Duke of Nassau also inhabits a sills In the neighbourhood of Vienna. FLOGGING AND BRANDING IN THE ARMY. —A return to an address of the House of Commons has just been issued showing the subsequent conduct of men in her Majesty's forces who are included in a previous re turn of last session relative to army and militia (flogging and marking) as having been subjected to punishment by the lash, and stating as well to what further punishment these men were sentenced at the time. It also states the cases in which since the former punishment these men have been again tried by court-martial. The return shows only the subsequent conduct of the men flogged in 1962 to the date of their quitting the corps, in which they were punished. When men are transferred to other corps it has been ascertained that to identify them and to obtain information as to their conduct would require numerous references to regiments in various quarters of the globe. For this reason, owing to the great chases of men be' tween brigades'and batteries, but little information is even as regards the Royal Artillery. THE ELECTION CONNIZISTONE. Though it may be said with a certain ti ath that toryism is, in theory and principle, far more favourable to corrupt practices than liberalism, yet in practice, observes the Daily News, there does not appear to be much differ eace between the public and official morality of the two great parties, and the evidence before the commissioners is about equally damaging. But in this IN in some other eases party loss will ultimately prove a national gain. The true proportions of the evil are brag brought to the light, and the strong revulsion of public feeling they produce is the first step towards decisive treatment. Electoral bribery, in its organised and developed farm, seems to exist only in particular localities, and in time lo calities it chiefly prevails amongst certain limited sections of the community, more particularly among the 'mail shop keepers, who were especially selected by Mr. Lowe as models of political virtue and intelligence. The skilled artisan class is far more independent and is comparatively free from the taint. Perhaps, then, one way of combating the evil of electoral serration, so far u the voters ►re con earned, would be that of largely extending the franchise amongst a class not only more numerous than the chum of small tradesmen, but also politically far more independent an 1 intelligent. The Post attributes the desira for en extension of the saff rage to the consideration amongst the worleng-claas electors that its minimum value at every election is 5!., and its maximum, when the contest is close, 501. Never theless, whatever steps be taken to put down this disgrace ful corruption must begin by dealing severely with the briber himself. Neither of the great parties, the Herald says, has any right to cast reproach on the other. Bribery Is an evil which is scandalous to both, and which both may fairly join in trying to put down. To disfranchise the four con victed boroughs would be ineffective, as there are fifty other towns quite as bad, and if we disfranchise ever/ borough which is corrupt, we must consider what • gap we should make in our House of Commons. In spite of the numerous preaching' with which it has been visit rd, society con tinues to regard these things in a spirit of levity. Public opinion persists in not holding that there is so much gailt in the briber, whatever it may think of the bribed. The Herald has no cure to suggest, limiting itself to ridiculing the idea of increasing the lower clam of voters, and attri buting, like the Post, the desire for the suffrage to the consideration of its value in money. The Tdegraph would fasten the public censure upon the affluent men who provide the =whiner/ of corruption and keep it in operation—the rich patrons who hire the ready invention and unscrupulous wits of electioneering agents and scheming attornies. One thing is evident. Our present constituencies can scarcely be worse, and no in fusion of fresh blood by the reduction of the franchise can deteriorate, although it might easily improve them. But to whatever extent they are increased, let the punish ment for electoral corruption fall on those who produce it ; let the sinner in high places be smitten, and the evil will be suppressed at its source. The Star thinks it would have !been more seemly if g reater regard had been paid to decorum, and the people kad been taught by the demeanour of the commissioners that the transactions over which they laughed were illegal proceedings of • peculiarly disgraceful kind. The remedy is clear enough. The small end manageable boroughs must be merged into larger constituencies. The new Reform Bill must embrace a sweeping measure of redistribution of seats. SRN CICITICD STATES AND RUSSIA. Commenting upon the eternal friendship which the re presentatives of the United States and of Russia are swearing in almost every city of the Russian empire, the Daily News finds the real attraction not in any resem blance in the spirit or form of the domestic institutions of the two countries, but in the fact that they feel that they occupy an analogous position towards the older nations and the civilisation of Western Europe. Lying, as it were, on the verge of the older civilisation of the world, conscious of a great future, removed by geogra phical distance from the chances of collision and rivalry, and sensitive of the same refined contempt, Russia and America are drawn together by an indefinable but real sympathy. Both imagine in the leading powers of Europe a disposition to thwart their natural progress and develop ment. Certain parallel passages in their recent domestic history, such as the abolition of slavery and the organisation of free labour, together with the sympathy of Rusin with the North during the American war, are superficial incidents in an international movement which had and has deeper and more permanent causes— causes which will operate for good and for evil on the future of the republic and of the empire, and of the world in which they are destined to play an increasingly im portant and decisive pert. 7S TOPICS. The Tina is unable to reconcile the enlistment of • French legion at Antibes for relie‘:og the imperial gal A eon on its departure from Rome. with the terms of the September convention. Scenes of violence and bloodshed are preparing for unhappy Rome—scenes easily to have been avoided without this fatal help, which seems only to have been tendered to the Papal government with a view to dis credit and to ruin it. The Emperor Napoleon must feel that there is no middle course left for him between andoing all the past—restoring the Pope to his former possessions of THE ANNEXATION OF HANOVER. The Journal des Dibats of to-day mays : The reply of the Bing of Prussia to the Hanoverian do. putation is of the same stamp as the declarations made by him in his message to the Prussian parliament and in his reply to the address of the Prussian deputies. William I. always considers himself not only as Sing of Divine grace and as a representative of God upon earth, but likewise as the involuntary and continued instrument of the design. of Providence. It was to accomplish the mission which Heaven entrusted to him that at the age of 70 this monarch, the friend of law and of justice, decided " with his heart full " to have recourse to violent conquests instead of moral ones, the only ones which he had hitherto ambitioned. But the power of circumstances, the increasing hostility of his pre tended allies, and finally, his duties towards Prussia, forced him to take the gravest of decisions—that of the entire annexation of Hanover, in order to remove for the future the probable return of the dangers which might have been caused to Prussia by the hostile attitude of the little kingdom which borders upon it. The Hanoverian deputies have not left this reply unanswered. It appears from their answer that the Hanoverlans only resign them selves with regret to seeing the moat ancient branch of the illustrious family of the Guelphs disappearing from the number of royal houses, a family which was one of the great powers of Germany when the Hohenzollern/ were but petty middle men of Swabia. "It only remains for us," they say "to pars from the feelings of animosity, excited by the project of annexation, to those of resignation to the inevitable decrees of Providence." We may certainly con sider the fall of the dynasty of Brunswick-Hanover is irre vocable. It is now for Prussia to show that she can unite winds and hearts as well as annex territories. (111113TEIN TZLEO WM ) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Szrr. 6. Major-General von Moring has left for Venice to carry out the transfer of Venetia to General Lebcenf. The Austrian Gazette says that the negotiations for the solution of the Austrian constitutional question have hitherto been conducted in reference to material changes only. The question of the persons to be entrusted by the Emperor with carrying these changes into effect has not yet been announced. We hear newspapers speak of personal changes as impending, or already effected ; these statements are simply based upon unfounded con jecture. - The Neue Fresidenblaft asserts that a meeting of the leading members of the German party in Austria will take place shortly to discuss a plan for the future constitutional organisation of the Empire. The same paper adds that the principle which will be adopted by that party will be that of per sonal union between Austria and Hungary. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. SOUTHAMPTON, Barr. 6. The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, from New York on the 25th ult., has arrived, with 57 sacks of mails, 69 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, and 257 bars of silver for London, value 483,162 dola. On the lst inst. she passed the ship James and Ellen bound west, and the American ship Culti vator bound east. The Count de Chambord, the Duchess de Berri, and the Duke de Modena are remosing from their palaces at Venice all the moveable objects, mirrors, panels of marble, and gilt or carved woodwork. " Those precau tions," says a letter from that city, " were quite unneoes. nary, for those residences are placed under the special protection of the law, and no one would certainly have touched them. There is nothing to prevent the Count de Chambord end his mother from continuing to pass the winter at Venice, particularly as that city w 31 be gayer in the approaching season than it has been for the last 80 years." It is reported from Brescia that Ricciotti, the youngest son of Garibaldi, two days since was out riding ou an Arab horse given to his father by the King, when the animal ran away and dashed against some iron rail ings after having thrown his rider. Bicciotti was picked up insensible, and his state inspires some uneasiness. Ausrazaws AND PRUSSIANS. —The following is an extract from a letter from an English resident in Frankfort, dated August 31 :—" I thought it best to remain here to look after our property and the soldiers quartered upon us, We had as many of one side as the other in due course, and I must say they all behaved most creditably, being very orderly and expressing more thanks for our kindness than it really deserved. The Austrian troops were a strange, patchy party. Not a man among them could speak a word of Germs*. The Hungarians were a fine-looking set, but the rest made but a poor show. Our men were Italians— Venetian gondoliers, I fancy, for the most part, with a Croat for captain, who could n.t speak their language. The poor fellows were delighted to chat with my wife, who took care to serve them their native poleract. After they had rested the second night they all sang in chorus an Are Maria in thanks for ther good quarters, and afterwards many Italian airs, from our garden all along our Maumee, each party taking up the same strain, till the whole road was alive with it. It was truly charming, and recalled to my mind Venice and the delightful days we spent there together. The poor fellows were very young—too young, I thought, for the hardships they had to undergo. You can not imagine the state they arrived in here—fainting, lite rally dying with fatigue, all along our road, at our very doors. Of course, we all ran out with wine, coffee, water — anything we could think of ; but of what nee among so many thousands ' They all preferred the water. Our man could not fill his buckets fast enough. They would not have it poured out, but drank from the bucket like thirsty wolves. dome were past cure, and carried away dead. Their hunger, too, was past belief. Among our men enor mous ribs of beef disappesred, bone and all. We truly pitied them and did all we could to relieve their pains. Their love for Austria was not, of course, very strong. It was hard for them to suffer and perish in a muse not their own. The Prussians offered a marked contrast to these, being perfectly well oared for and wad disciplined. When I saw tiara was not at all surprised et their sumessive victories. The real character of this war seems to be re ligious, though both parties have all along kept this sedu lously .ia the hackgromd. Towns end even villages are divided against themselves ; the catholics aiding with Austria, the protestants with Prussia." Settled weather at present. The southward at Pensanoe and on LI the blab mate, with a fresh a gale yesterday on the coasts of probable. REM, There are no apparent signs of winds have again backed to the the French coasts arul to B.E. of fell of the barometer. It blew th, Channel, and snore wind la DRESSES AT THE FRENCH SEASIDZ.—A lette r from a lady at Trouville says :—" There are • very few English people here, ditto Spanish, ditto German. The majority of the French are from Paris. In the morning they bathe ; afterwards go home to breakfast ; then, if the weather permits, go on excursions (there are many round here). At half-put 4 the concert begins at the casino, at which time all the ekgants and the et iyantea make their appearance, in the most ex traordinary costumes, and so short (the ladies' contume) as to be quite indecent. The ladies here all wear those high boot+ with tassela, with such high heels that they look perched upon stilts ; these throw the body forward, which is most ungraceful The petticoat only meets these boots, which makes about half a yard from the ground to this aforesaid garment. They are generally red, blue, violet, mauve. The dress is shorter still, without sleeves. This is of the same colon as the petticoat, some thing in the jockey style. Ido not despair yet of seeing (perhaps next year) a sleeve of one colour, say red, and the other yellow. Red is the prevailing colour, because it attracts attention. Small cam:mu, or peplums, without sleeves, is the outside garment which terminates these cos tumes; and, to crown all, • small sailor's hat, with very long ribbons hanging behind, the colour of the petticoat and sleeves, is worn on the tip of the head, falling very much over the eyes. This costume they wear at the balls, only the texture of the dresses and slip are changed for more elegant materials. Crinolines are much smaller and shorter of course ; but when the wind blows or they turn round and round in the waltz, you are much edified as to the shape of the legs and the colour of the stockings, which are mostly red, black and white, red and white, &c. I was saying yesterday to • friend that • stranger coming here for the first time would not think much of the mo desty of these said ladies. Formerly they hid even the tip of their toes ; now, were it not for the trousers, they would show up to their waists." A FRENCH DEFAULTER.—The Canadian steamer Damascus, which arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday night, had on board M. Ernest Burrell Lamiraud, late • clerk at one of the Parisian banks. He recently embezzled 28,000/. and escaped to Canada. He was arrested in Quebec by • French detective sent after him. He has been sent on to Paris. The French consul wished the magistrates to act at Liverpool, but they declined, having no jurisdiction. TRIALS FOR RAPE.—Apropos of the Toomer case, a correspondent of the Times draws attention to • similar trial which took place at the last spring maims at Derby. The prisoner in that ease was • fanner occupying a respectable position near Derby, and the prosecnUix was a married woman living hard by. The facts, according to the evidence of the prosecutrix, were aa follows : On an evening in last spring the prisoner called at the hones of the husband of the proeuntrix to spend the evening. The prosecutrix went in the course of the erviieg to a neighbouring village to fetch a bottle of gin. The prisoner soon after left the house. In about an hour's time the prosecutrix returned. There was at that time nothing unusual in her appearance. Her countenance was composed ; her dress was neither dis ordered nor torn, and there were no marks of violence upon Ler. Soon after the prisoner returned, and spent the remainder of the evening with the prosecutrix and her husband. No complaint at that time was made by the prosecutrix ; but the next day she told her husband that the prisoner had, during her absence on the pre iso, even ing, committed • rape upon her. The prisoner was then apprehended and committed for trial. In craw-examina tion at the trial the prosecutrix said that the offeror) was committed by the roadside that she did not scream nor cry out, that she held the bottle of gin suspended from her arm all the time, and that the bottle was not broken. To the astonishment of a crowded court the pri soner was found runty, and sentenced by Mr. Justice Shea to a long term of penal servitude. The Indignation felt in court was so great that before the prisoner left the dock proceedings were eecninenced at the instigation of the magistrates who sat upon the beach to obtain a reversal of the sentence. From that time to the present • "eery (Mori has been made to obtain a pardon for the prisoner, but without avail. IT. P. 1 Retreats. Pea B. I t W. li i vie i. — . --v—,l w. w. II : I Nairn - -.10.21 51 W. 2 ' N.& ro 0.16, 2 aberdema . -15.36 501 W. 1 I N.N.E. rb 0.06 1 Leith - 1 2 ardroman . 39.4355 W. 3 B.W. W. b - 2 Greenmuali 19.46 491 W.S.W. 1 11. W. TO , 0.02' 1 Yalentia 29.26 66 1.3.1 L 2 N. er 10.26, 2 Cape Clear X 29.30 S . E. 9.30 56 6 W.S. W. boa -1 6 Laverpoal - 12963 69 &LW. 2 &W. e 10.43 2 Holyhead . ;29.46 56 W.N.W. 2 &&W. oe &211 3 Penzance.. • 1 29.154 001 8. 6 W.S.W. co - 4 Brest .. - 4 Lorlent 19.6963, 8. 4 &W. co - 4 Rochefort 29.83 15‘, 8. 2 B.W. e - 2 nymouth ,.19.61 621 &W. 6 W. cm 0.04 4 Weymouth 19.66:6 2, &&W. 4 B.W. 10- 14 Portsmouth 19.68 611 LW. 4 1 S.W. re 0.05 4 London - Yarmouth Scarborough 19.3101 B.W. 2 N.W. Ire 0.671 2 Elblelde 129.49 67 N. W. 4 &W. its I 1 addle - -.- LRICB. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF d YO ---- ----"LUSri t --• INQUEST. — (THIS DAY.) This morning, Mr. Richards, deputy bald en inquiry at the Green Gate Tutu, ohy re. apecting the death, under very *d u i l r ed. • Mr. Tomsop Bradbury, aged 47 years Aloysius J. Warman said that km. seabed intimately. Hs bad been • olerk ek s e_ don and Westminster Bank for twenty ran, Li r* superannuated some two years ago. g o ga d , itua ir• members of the 3rd Middlesex Volunteer Artiliery.... l4 tieened lived at 30, Westmoreland-ph ut , • -1 1.4 Witness lived at the Angel. On Tuesday ereolu s , 28, at a quarter past 10 o'clock, the deceased ruiteevi nese at the Angel, and left at once. He was quite AA.. be well. refused to take a glass of ale, sayi ng b e d id noi z Mr. Edward Bradbury, solicitor, 40, Southwark, brother of the deceased, said that %WWI, bad been under a doctor for softening of th e He used to become giddy at times, but would retouch memory before falling to the ground. In answer to questions from Hr. Bradbury, Mr. Warman said that deceased used to attend enti a drill regularly, and never bad a lit g o understood all about artillery pract.j © , H• tel4l, drunkard. Poliee.seriwant George lade', acting birder ed 16, street station, said that at half•past 12 oda* air morning of Wednesday week the deemed wee In% in by a polioe-eonstable, whocharged him with hiss and • in Tabernacle•row. Witnees took the AA DDssooeeaasseedd smelt very strong of rum. He said Am his name "I shan't tell you." He staggered about. had him put into a cell made purposely fat haik persons. It was a boarded sell, the floor bung as sok It did not strike witness at all that it was a fit dre% suffered from. By Mr. Bradbury—Witness did not see any Minn deceased's bead or neck when he was brought in. i n blood or marks of blows. Deceased was silted ened times during the night. He took off his coat rail coat at 7 o'clock in the morning ; when told to dre% took of the remainder of his thinp. He wee L i o into the charge room when he began to rye • if in want of sleep. At 8.15 Dr. Yarrow, th e pi, surgeon, was sent for, and he said that delirhuare% was fat coming on, and directed him to be removed telb workhouse. He was sent there shortly after 9 s'eleek Police-constable Clark, 149 G, said that he sad uele constable removed deceased to the workhouse at et% quarter to 10 o'clock on the Wednesday morn*. Wilia saw no blood or marks of injury upon him. BR po i sensible ; he could not be got to speak. He 'anodes.y workhouse upon being led by the band. He Imhof rei slow. Crces-exarnined by Mr. Bradbury—Deemed am at dragged along the street. Mr. Bradbury—lf I bring witnesses to prove that Mau dragged along the streets, will their evidence be num! Witness—Yes. I did not see him dragged. I essy e sitting in a chair in the charge room ; the doctor at* at 9 o'clock. His eyes were open. He wee Wahl drunk. Witness did not see his ears rubbed to Mt him to. He smelt very strongly of drink. Tim ea stretchers for carrying people who could not walk. A ceased could walk. The other policeman, as well si 11, nee',, only held his band—not his arm or ' , boulder. Mr. Warman stated, in answer to the ooroner ' thia did not see the deceased after he left the Angel • quarter-past 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, until lass him when dying in the workhouse infirmary Thvnig Mr. Bradbury asked polices instable Clark whedimils deceased's cost was muddy or not. Police-constable Clark said that there was some IA mud on the back, particularly on the shoulder. The deceased's clothes were produced. There mil little mud on the shoulders, and a great dial ca skirts. Clark swore that the &boulder w.ui in the am Min when he saw it on the decay(' last, but be 4111 mention the skirts. Mr. Bradbury—You swore that ihere was no Bede the deceased ? Look at the blood on that cost sad mat coat. . . . . . . Witness said that he had not noticed any blood. Mr. Bradbury said that deceased's arm was 114 jured, and he pointed out that no marks of blood ma the sleeve of the coat. The witness, in answer to a question, swore that don did not fall in the transit from the station to the es& house. He was put into No. 11 ward. Sergeant Eades, recalled, said that be had predombia posed that he noticed mud on deceased's shoulder d is station. He did not notice so much mad as at pima upon the coat when he left the station. He could mum got that mud in the station. Witness did not deem id blood on the mat or waistcoat. Mr. Bradbury—But you rust have seen it If Oa there when deceased was in the station I Wither—l believe I must have seen it. Mr. Bradbury remarked that it was strange that vii the coat and waistcoat were stained with blood, am m visible on the scarf or linen collar. Witness said that he sent two policemen with ties ceased because the doctor said he had ckfirisd rem and not because he was unsteady in his gait. If be di been unable to walk he shouti have been lest se i stretcher, but there was an unwillingnese to rat rap* able people on • stretcher. Polioaeonstable Swan, 90G, who assisted Clark bleak the deceased to the workhouse corroborated the friths of that officer. Deceased did not fall on the way, asr is he complain of his head. Witness did not noun blood streaming from his head. He appeared as if liqb Red and smelt of drink, brandy spparently. Ormaammined by Mr. Bradbury —Witham ball i erased's right hand. If Clark had dated he held the' right hand he was wrong, Wham not injure the right arm. Deceased did nee _mai; he did not know where he was going to W told, but he appared to be inscneible. Witnem n seen the blood on the clothes if it was as DOW CS lb WI and waistcoat. He did not notice any on his Sem: not knocked down or struck by anyone. Ns paned. Witness did not know whethei themmititi which deceased was put was a lunatic ward. J. Richards, 250 fl, said that a few minutes Wes o'clock on the evening of the `2Bth August, • emenadlif his attention to the deceased in Taberneels-dslil l alit that he was very tipsy. Witness teem ila leaning up against • wall, surrounded by Ise • twelve people. Re was drunk, and emit spirits—rum apparently. There was mud on hisehisides Witness saw so blood. He and another acesbailliii him to the station, leading him. He did not fall. Emil he was an officer in the army, but he would sel ids* ' name or address. Witness charged him with bill dttli and incapable, and, with another co nstable, placed Mil the cell. He left the deceased sitting on the seat. Wright, 177 G, corroborated the last witness's Mama Crossexamined by Mr. Bradbury—Deceased me ed knocked down or struck with a staff. There was so em sion, for he was very • quiet. Witness could not If whether the blood was then on deceased's clothes, tat d did not see any. Parsons, 57 G, said that he had charge of the calls the night in question. He saw no blood oe deaseD hot:, coat or waistcoat when he put him in the cell. Diode could not have fallen in the cell. house by two policemen at half-vast I/ 0 ' 6 7. on the morning of Wednesday week. Wither didW phsaidMadtdhocatk, deceased porter house, fibtegLehtkOw7..eiebe, notice any dirt upon his coat. There was eosselitileill trickling from the right ear. Witness did not adds W slk mark of • blow behind the ear. Deceased was He was taken to the lunatic ward by order of the trade, to whom witness re p o rted the ease, s t a ti n g that W wPeararcemWthebe doubtfu l if ° wes t W br a o s ug a ht having been drunk and incapable. ml Cross-examined—Witness saw deceased strityla observed no marks of blows or blood on him. Did 8 0 . 6 him get any bath. He could not use his leis MOS chanacally. The two policemen report ed su him cassfromfortstled.t.4 ho [ u A r t l this stage the proceedings e far bails SHOCKING CASE OFSTARVATION AND DLitt Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held as hie° at the Sir George Osborn's Head Tavern, Prioesailed Mile-end New- Town, last evening, on the body of Jaffe Carter, aged 50 years. MU/ Ann Brown, a dreadfully emaciated looking tore, and who feinted from apparent exhaurtion ra y gi% :ng her evidence, said that the deceased 6 maker, and he lived at 30, Prescott - st reet, Examples. es. had lived :th him as his It :fa for six yam alL_ 1 1 . ; d eo e l ha : d ii.rr ld bin no cin. , :t to e d o g " H it: im ' ha died O n ano P 7 l b Sundaywas o t nd o da b f yy e w lightly fe o wsing b ut .ma a mThiro sill" .. ' 11"61 voir l ipo l o o l l had hardly eaten anything that day. tele The Coroner remarked that the witnem eve silly from want herself, nd he could hardly believe ve she said about the decea se d's being in full work up to O. time of his death. tut O s Edward Normanton, deceased's landlord, so • deceased was a sober, Indust/iota man, but whstlies went out to work or not latterly witness could not 10... 1 Mr. W. Proffitt Dukes, surgeon, said that he of srf, to the deceased oa Monday night. and found his Srl He was vety much emaciated. The pod morieV l S,_ nation showed that there was no trace of fou al • stomach. There was extensive e ff usion of serus brain. The state of the internal organs shored no; ceued was not a drunkard. He had annst• al, recently attacked with typhoid fever. Deastawsoisiss sinned by the e ff usion on the brain, and was want of food. The Coroner having Rammed un. The jury returned a wesdict " That deceamed, , o• effusion of serum on the brain, and that ha aw' accelerated by want of food." On the con clusion of the irts: i 3 a yl informed the deputy-coroner ingn that t the Ann Brown bad been seized outside the wort ••__..ajc seemed to be cholera, and that she was being sew.";.: - ,g, the London Hospital. She was attacked with and her her arms, bands, and lips turned blue. The be sad of P doe. Ti tie meet at debts I Riclifirsa of the pi to call to lir. G. awe, au T* foe rims ad eleo that swore J sot ap The Re seeseeary m. no preelh ire Kr. G. behalf of . Kr. Oh that veva oche fair: tint 311:11.3 here the moor to I 4,00 CW., io the reel& might be bills, whi, returned Mr. G. Kr. Out relisi woos tar A George tke tier b teat* try bridge. It wp night the m 'leder ex liken tb had tab lira Sn avoid the for the pi huabanorl himself Smith to husband' **medial Iltder he calving I 1 There - we he was ' eight of I arch In Fl leder fall the prim: police-co: custody. patterns running the foot watch. Km ser , avid to if he we: had nuule blow on i The pr the watai ;,', who calls i give you Synng , had beer The p ux.dergo , the etopl c'P AVi u : the oomj baker, an former hi It may men to driving a Old Tow fare at shouting 'Pm! 0/ upset ea effect of occasion eipolly bra cow sequentlj food, site own maid unable to Mr. L reekleae aosompat ata diets+ peat it klla roi holdouts lir. La *Wed w nature of effeutiera entree be condos w conduct until an e bur these sufficient] Oomph vehicle w medical c ....11!r• Lere an akoom et t o t the eh • shel l' H k. Plea Th wer,,t, n A a loft • e a pi e " 4 ricie fel Nem d left tl T hem, , been I Poliee-e le defer • woo HI der ; 'b orn i Ii a pie I • r , It, hi ' PIA*O Ilt B e Kr.lie! :ca whj medi foir f k d hoe aPP4 expel ' airov