The Express. — London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

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LANA, at. a qta trwr to a. pore t arowthoot w elfeetivety sot 41. an I the sem smtiorsl Mit iC . of the pput keaps the atulleser fa a perpetual stair of earit. un ut." -111ndtntnlLondon News L e ANAslllitE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . 1 11 : 1 •0 F. 11 its w Corn! rerll.4-liiatiint wee rentArnil w.tl rTPII "roister &Wan.. t han ~n tn....vennkc of nroduction."—Daily feletotoh. - - riniE I.ANCASIIIIIE LASS, at a quarter to 8. " A lung ruts may he predicted tor the piece. wh Lestl_t +Van. ft trill he as omit a hit se the 'Conroe Been.'" N... , .. LAN. at a quarter to 8. Altogether, judging from the inters* of tie pies. Stir es t-Alms of the acting, and the beauty of the roorary. to my nothing of ttr hur and natittly•intWeallbai aUttialltaal. I.anetre tom' set fors a .sores of Sintebea for is Wag a Twa4oo so say dr..m.• • hat has let.ly ism pr•hord."—elt.ortant. .IMEUM 't i I EATRE. - - Mr. FAIRCLOUGH JLI baying nt.ar• an e5t...141n5 , , maws on hls first nee linsnd. he Date the honour of appearing EVER EVEN. la ing I dur the week in iiiklll.l4T. The Ter. kind reception he set with from a faeluonatie and olowded honae on Saturday will OMR he Mar.t from his memory. nor the enthusiastic rails Silt he rewired Meer the mead% by a kind and tlinerieninstmg audience, entire avengers to him. and few ly of whom heard of his eerions aria li of Sinew on arrival in th fat is 0011111/f. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Three Harts. Prowess& Ones& Baal of Ott *Wu st l la Box-oftle.• orm fn ,411 41 4 ^ 4. WILLIAM CHURTON sad SON. 110SIEBB and LADIES' 1.741) 11 M II G II : 91 and ft OXFORD-STREW. - NE WTON WILSON and Co.'. SEWING Aelf 111Z8. PARIS ELHIBITION TWO PRI= =DALE NEW HAND ILACHINEB, WET/4 MAR, CLEOPATRA. 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II I Domzsnc SHATANTS Wanting PLiboos I do. 10 do. 0 3 • Ten worafinake • Una; • Angle letter or *roe towns at a visa The above is Was the Kole for the “EZZIZSI" •.• ADV=7III3III77IIOF D 07111710 81112FANTS WAFTTWO PLACES, DI Mg FLAMM RPOCIPJ7/0 DOIMPTIC BaavArre, Lu insuaraD is TES " DAILY NIWI" 101 ONO SHILLTING MACH ; TOM rim= son Is. ld., oa arz vats roa 4, AID ILZFIMBSCO ALLowisso Tam OFTICI Or MI PAPAL As the "• Dons limn" excludes from its columns all elbesive Ad% ertimmente—ead a. a high class paper circulates very Oltllo - amongst private families in the higher and middle dames of sopet~, and as it is now sold at a price within the reach of all— loth plovers and Servaata will find it a most valuable shame! in making 'mown their wants to each other. NOTTrZ TO OE` E*AL 41Y The " muiT News," as an acknowledgediiiii;;Mtinpon Oom anemia! and Monetary queetions. enjoys a high potation, and ita extennve and rapidly increasing circulation since its reduction in price to One Penny renders it an invaluable medium to all hods or d vertieere Poet-otnee Orders for Artrertieemente elsould be made payable to Mr JOPLIN HAIRTIMTON. P044:410111. Fleet-street. rootage btampo received for amounts up to PA. OPlose. ti. Bouverieetz,et. Fteetetrest, EC.. Levier.. atte exprefso. PRI:NOUN'S. NIP Emilia, A CHARMING PAIR.—AFTER DARK: • TALE OP LONDON LIPS. Mr. Vining, Wears. Walter Lary Dnininiet Hurray. Montagne, Share, le. ; Minas Mantas and Letiereq.—And MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. (MEWS THEATRE, LONG-ACRE, M Manager, r.L T R OUBLES. Tins Evaargo, at 7, TOMKI N'S TROUBLES. Mr. L Brougt, ; Mien Montague.—And THE T.ANCASHIBB LAM. Kelm Irving, L. Brough, Stephen', Wyndham, Clayton, and B. Emery; Madames Hodson, Montagne, and Nelly Moan. STRAND. Tin Enema, SISTERLY SERVICE—TEE ITEM OT THE CLOTH OP GOLD. —And MARRIAGE AT ANT PRICE. BRITANNIA. Tons EvTruro, THE HIT OF THE RED MOUNTAIN. Yaws. Reynolds, Pat Charlton, kc. ; Mesdames Coveney, Boots, kr.—Hz. H. Rickards ; Mr. C.Wooalman; Abe (;o:. —And TILE TERROR OF LONDON. MOH WATER AT LONDON BR/DOE. To-DAT —llandag, 2h. 1816. Wien:won, 2h. Mal. To-absaow—Yoraist, 41. 61 x. .Alterhom. lb. 341. NOTICE. Kerins et Marna, 'Catalans', and Darras, are received wail 12 o'clock Ice inseetion some evening. Penn Is. Id. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2. THE CAB QUESTION. Tint cabmasters and cabdrivers have made a false step, and fairly pitted the whole public against them, by treating their customers as the people of two hostile countries are treated when their kings fall out. Because the majority of the railway companies insist, on the public behalf, on making the admission to their stations a pri vilege to cabmszters who conform to certain conditions, such as good behaviour and decent vehicles, the rest of the tabowners and cabdrivers have got up an agitation which is to result in a temporary and partial strike, and, if their demands are not granted within eight days, by a total withdrawal of their oonveyances from the streets. In some former cases, when the cab-interest has complained of the legal regulations under which it laboured, the public, even at the cost of their own convenience, have been willing to sympathise with " cabby," and to take his part, and wish him success in the removal of his grievances. It was so some years ago, when the cabmen 'track In a body for higher fares; it was so the other day, when the cabmen, wfth much less reason, struck against the police injunction to carry lamps. On neither of these occasions has the conduct of the cabman entitled him to the public sympathy Le obtained ; it has been reckless and in solent ; tainted with a spirit of violence, and prone to outrage. Cabmen as a body are not so generally trusted by the public at the beet of times that they can afford to assume this hostile and aggressive attitude. They have been called " the sailors of great cities," but the comparison Was not complimentary to sailors. THE EXPRESq, WFDNESDAY E They are sometimes the savages of grist cities; 010 1 I nehmen and backwoodsmen of populous capfuls. To judge them by their infinitely various physi ognomy they are the rinsings and the soeurings of es cry trade and profession. There are m ming them who might peas for bishops n•td di tins ; them are men among them who) might be n for liberated convicts. Clergymen, country tgnir, a, for mere, lawyers, ostlers, blliard -markers, turbot In, family coachmen, and the rowslies of Le times, but all down upon their Issok, all out of sorts with fortune, and all at war with mm kind, appear to bo represented among them ; de,perotion is the badge of all of their tribe, and they look as if the world were not their Mead, nor the world's law. Of course there are exceptions—men of education, of good manners, of honesty. It is not abso lutely impossible to pay a cabman his fare with out being bullied—nor is it always a proof that you have paid him much more than his fare whoa he fails to insult you. But why should so useful, so indispensable an order of men as the drivers of hackney carriages be regarded as the refuse of civitisatigp P They are not so in all cities—, in Edinblirgli, for instance, they are most re spectable, honest, and obliging citizens. Why have the railway companies found it noceasary to restrict the admission of cabs to the stations, and to impose certain con ditions upon the owners and the drivers of the vehicles which are licensed to ply for hire within their precincts, and to set down and take up passengers at their platforms ? There is nothing to prevent the Railway companies, so far as t heirown interest is concerned, from admitting indis criminately all cabs, and making all pay an equal tax on admission to their stations. The Railway companies have enough to answer for on their own account, but in this matter of cabs they are really acting for the common good of their passengers, and protecting the public, as far as they can, against insolent and extortionate drivers, filthy vehicles, and animals only fit for the lmacker's yard. Wherever cabs are admitted indiscrimi nately passengers become the sport of cabmen, who pick and choose their fares according to their own convenience, and the station becomes a scene of ruffianism and confusion. There is a decent and respectable minority of cabmen who would confess the truth of these remarks, but who are overawed and bullied by a majority who do not shrink from emulating the rattoners of Sheffield. It is most important that the public should under stand that the present agitation of cabmasters and cabdrivers, although nominally against the rail way companies, is really against the public ; that the interests of the railway companies and of the public are in this case identical. There are cab masters who oppose what they call the monopoly of admission to the railway stations, because they are unwilling to provide decent carriages and cattle for the public use, and prefer to screw the hard earnings of their servants out of disgraceful conveyances, blackguard drivers, and terrified " fares." But now that these public enemies have chosen to descend into the streets it is to be hoped that neither the railway companies nor the public will yield one jot or tittle to their pretensions. If the cabmen prefer to stand idle and let their families starve in order to bully the public, let them be made to learn that where there is a demand the supply will not be long wanting. The strike could not happen at a less unfavourable season, and if it is persevered in it ought to result in the discovery of a better class of public vehicles than those which are now disputing the "monopoly" of the railway sta tions, and in the application of the regu lations of the railway companies to every licensed cab or driver; or, what would be infinitely better, in extending to cabs and cabmen the principle of free trade, subject only to such regulations as might be necessary to pub lic order and security. Under such a regime most of the cabownere and drivers who are now clamouring for the abolition of a " monopoly" would disappear altogether, in obedience to that law of natural selection which presided over the destinies of the whole animal kingdom. porl.. et fulsene e eulogies of.rAi . h e . Nispoleoni,! . use 1:els eximposee et Lein on •Iker y ktte-ex on spurin tred4mark. Belch arti as . IRRAE el (Meg °via has ik]y itublish* in satemelve numbers oat The ArderES ' tl eir eystcm of government, written in a style which by no stretch of courtesy can "be called Frglisb, result only in the condemnation of the Luftatunate journal which priaht them, with-1 out conferring the slightest momentary al %willow, upon their secret promoters and penipters. Public opinion in Franc* is Cot deluded for an instant by such counterfeit ',resentments of English opinion ; nor are English readers quite so credulous as to mistake them for indigenous products. No party differences shall prevent us, once for all, from expressing a regret that any journal professing to be the chosen organ of an English political party should bnd itself to such ignominious adulterations, and descend so ter beneath the contempt of English journalists, of whatever party, who respect their vocation, and have some regard for the honour of their country. Whe can wonder, in the faoe of such facts as the conspicuous connection of Con servative members of parliament with the Credit Foncier, and the devotion of an accredited organ of a Conservative English government to the service of French Imperialism, that English gentlemen of high and stainless honour, such as General PHIL, should seize the earliest opportunity of announc ing their complete separation from a Minister Mho, in the last days of the Morning Chronicle, was significantly reminded by the agents of the Emperor NAPOLEON of a correspondence which it might be inconvenient to his reputation to dis close. A X " ITINERATING" KNIGHT. It• it could be said of the quality of honour distributed by a Prime Minister as of the quality of mercy, that it is not strained, and that it blesses him who gives and him who takes, then, assuredly, the present would be one of the most blessed administrations that ever governed England. Mr. DISRAELI, faith ful in this as in so many other respects to his great Imperial prototype, is showering titles with a pro fusion which bids fair to make them as cheap as the ribbons and rosettes of the Legion of Honour. The Gazette of last evening confers the dignity of knighthood on Mr. ANDREW FAIRBAIRK, the Mayor of Leeds, and on Captain FREDERICK Axaow, the Deputy-Master of the Trinity House— two most unexceptionable nominations. To these, however, is added another name which is not so cagily accounted for. Mr. EDWARD WILLIAM WAT KIN is advanced to the dignity of knighthood. For what public services—it may be asked by some cap tious misanthropic objectors—civil, military, or political i We are sorry to be unable to suggest any other answer to such a question than that Sir EDWARD WILLIAM WATNIN was once unseated for bribery at Yarmouth, that as Chairman of the South Eastern Railway (among Heaven knows how many other companies dead or alive !) he has made himself principally re sponsible for raising the fares on that line, and that in the last session of Parliament he, in con junction with Mr. Lsulo, put an amendment on the notice paper (subsequently withdrawn under the pressure of his constituents) which would have had the effect of relegating all action on the Irish Church question to the new Parliament, precisely in accordance with the wishes and the policy of Mr. DitaLtyl. This was by no means the first occasion on which Sir EDWARD WATRIR, albeit a " Liberal " member, had made himself agreeable and useful to a Tory Government. That this " itinerating " chairman," as the new knight was once most hap pily described, is an able and enterprising, a most plausible and eloquent man of business, a per fect master of the art of tickling the credulity of shareholders, we should be the last to deny. Had his lot been cast in France he would probably be at this moment Minister of Finance or of Public Works. His Liberal constituents will no doubt acknowledge with gratitude the singular fitness of his new dignity. A WORD OF WARNING. UNDETY.RBED by the melancholy example of the Morning Chronicle, it seems that the Second Empire has again secured the services of a very clamorous and clumsy elaqueur in the English press. It is an act of the merest charity to warn tho Impe rial Government of Franco that there is no surer way of alienating the sympathies of any and every section of the English public than by attempting to impose upon its candour and confidence elaborate AFTER-DINNER PEACE. Artornzz declaration of Peace ! M. MAONE, the Minister of Finance, who has just concluded what, if the destination of the money is considered, must be designated as a War Loan, with brilliant success, proposed at a banquet at Perigneur on the the 26th ult. a toast to Peace. In the course of his speech he said :—" Peace will be lasting because " Europe needs it and the EMPEROR desires it. " France is strong enough to abstain from war " without danger of being accused of weakness, " for no ono has any interest in disturbing her." Will any one dare to hint a doubt of the peaceful future of Europe after this ? Well, nothing can be more reassuring than M. MAo:vz's toast to those who are willing, or paid, to forget that M. MAoNE is not in any settee or degree a responsible Minister, and that he cannot pretend to know the mind of his master, who does not know his own mind from one day to another. How long or how often is the free and independent press of Europe to be compelled to insist that there can bo no security for the peace of Europe while the conditions of the supreme controlling power in France remain what they are now, namely, personal government, sustained by a million and a quarter of bayonets, by half a million civil functionaries, by an immoderate oentra li sation, by a constitution partly borrowed from the old monarchy of the Don plaisir, and partly from the democratic despotism of the Roman decadence ? THE DRAMA AND DRAMATIC cRITICIS.V IN ENGLAND. DRAMATIC criticism has gone the way of dra matic literature in this country. It has fallen into the bands of playwrights who have never written an original piece, who accept the de gradation of the stage as a sign of the progress of the national intellect, and discuss the actors and their performances in the slang of the side scenes and the greenroom. These clever gentle men, who, instead of reviewing a new piece as representatives of the audience, review it from the " wings, - are never so proud of their functions as when they can insult the genius of a great national dramatist by comparing his works unfavourably with the burlesques and melodramas of the day. They treat SIIMIZSPEARE as the modern Romans trust their monuments, with a befouling fami liarity. A recent critic displayed his superiority to conventional admiration by confounding the King in Humid as the great dramatist drew the character with the ridiculous figure which generations of vulgar and ignorant actors have made of him—a ranting and roaring pothouse ruffian, with a crown always on his head and a sceptre always in his hand. Critics who cannot discriminate between a coarse theatrical daub and the design as it came fresh from the creative genius should no more pretend to "notice" a play of 1311ARRAPRARE than the painter of a sign-board to lecture on IltenAzr. ANGELO. Is this palpable degradation of dramatic criticism in England the cause or the con sequence of the degradation of the stage In France, where the dramatic literature and the dramatic art have also declined considerably during the last twenty years, dramatic criticism has maintained its high literary character, because it has been seriously and conscientiously exercised by men of letters who respect art, and their own office. In England, no doubt, the fault is not all on one side. But we cannot help thinking that a high and serious school of criticism might have arrested the decline of our dramatic literature. Shakesperean criticism it is true finds little en couragement in a representation of Hamlet, in which only the Prince of Denmark is presented as an educated and intelligent gentleman, attended by a Polonius whose conception of his part is that of a comic retired publican, by a Claudius who looks like a seductive transpontine coalheaver, a Queen Mother who whines like a apirituously minded monthly nurse, an Horatio who wears the aspect of an enthusiastic butcher boy, and an Ophelia who has the airs and graces of a sprightly and lackadaisical parlour-maid. Yet, to cite the latest instance, the performance of the new American actor deserves more credit and more attention than it is likely to receive. In spite of many obvious tiefecte and deficiencies it is de cidedly meritorious above the average ; for the c►reful study, the thoughtful and intelligent reading and conception, and the grace and finish of execution which it exhibits in almost every scene particularly in the scenes with Ophelia, with the Queen Mother, with the players, and throughout the fifth act. It is im possible to see a play of SHAKESPIABS acted without feeling that the dramatist is being grossly caricatured. All his plays contain a number of minor personages, each of whom should be repre sented at least in the form or figure of a gentleman, instead of by one of those strutting and bellowing beings who " neither having the secant of Christians " nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, or man " " imitate humanity so abominably." In the present condition of the English stage per haps the true way to enjoy the performance of Hamlet is to see the tragedy with the mind's eye from ono's own arm-chair at home. A SEPTE MBE TEMlbOltAltlkoS. IE4 DAY.) F 1 ) IA onowes Lintimo. t TboAgiba oft Mr. Bright's address to lilt of Ititniinpluint produces a f• cling of rare satisfutio4. obee,v s the Thum lie 'peaks as on • who feels the. h wailers is aotsemplislied. The prime object of his &Tat tles; tho ofolm of parliamout, bas beau scoured—the end Otte next great labour of 'lds life, the redness of ia 800 in tits goverummit of Iralaad, iset band. All atte.ei,l4 to withstand that inevitable act of justice have aortrud ally to provo bow clearly, how truly it is inevitable. No "dead Loire" Lam been so utt.uly dead and irra 'pensive to all flogging as the al of " No Popery !" 'lllr. Bright feels something of the serenity of evening. Ile knows the sweetness of rest, and wkon he +(Nato to the electors of Birmingham his sentences were irradiated with ; the after glow of repose. "*I , 72% J• • i 1 ~, In the opinion of the Daily News Mr. Ilright's &direst was not intended to be in any MUM a politOal programme. Although the leader of a section of the liberal party, he hag always kg pt his personal claims strictly in the backgrosoid. Nei now stands abreast of his party, not because he has fallen beck, but because the party have almost come sip with him. Ills position, taken in connection with that Of Mr. Hommel, gives the moat ample evidence of the re onion of the liberal party. lie was once a voice erying in the wilderness ; be is now a counsellor at home. Me has given an admirable example of en election address suited 'to the aisle. TAO INOSELMI OP Both the Herald and 6tanderd, apropos of General Feel's letter, repeat their defence of the flannelsl admi nistration of the government, and ascribe the increase of expenditure to the files economy of Mr. Gladstone. 'The Svnr on the other band considers that General Peel's letter makes out no case for himself or for his friends. It is open to just the same criticism as the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's letter to Yr. Cross. General Peel answers the complaint that so much money has been spent by merely acknowledging that it has been spent, and declaring that he thinks it was necessary. Where his predecessors effected any saving, he merely says ho thinks it was unwise saving. The Star dose not see that in any single instance he denies that the expenditure has kept steadily increasing since the accession of the toriei to power. TIM NEW oorrawoa-ovrirva. or INDIA Referring to the appointment of Lord Mayo to the post of Governor-liaseral of India, the Post observes that when so large a possession as our Indian empire is at stake it is not enough to rely upon unsupported possibili ties; and, if a government has any duties to perform at all, it is oue of the most important it can fulfil to be care ful, in making such an appointment, to select a man who has, by his training and performances, raised a strong presumption that he is the most fitting person for the post. The tint act of the new parliament will be to call the ministry to a strict account in the matter, while the first act of a new ministry will be to rescind an appointment which amid never have been made. PIIOILMIL Remarking on the arrest of the prizefighter Allen, the Telegraph 'aye pugilism has come down to its present state of degradation. partly because the tastes of the day bare changed, but mainly because the associations connected with it hare become more and more disreputable. TNN •DISLIf DEMONS ON INDIA. In an article on this ntbjeet the roma remarks that really do not know whether Russia means to attack our Indian territory, but that if she have any such, it is our policy rather to keep friends with the Affghans than to make them our 1101110iSINwhich we should do it we invaded their territory. It is more desirable to meet %lasi& on the Indus than the Oxus, SIIL IIPPZIART OCTItAGE. it is a new thing, observes the Daily News, to find conservative journals vigorously and repeatedly de nouncing an Irish landlord who certainly acted within the law, and making excuses for tenants who have risen against that landlord is arms. The phenomena would be inexplicable if we did not remember that Mr. Disraeli and Lord Abercorn have lately been making prosperity speeches whiff have to be supported by corre.ponding interpretations of unpleasant facts. THE QUEEN IN SWITZERLAND. LUCERNE, Avourz 28.—Her Majesty returned to Lucerne from bee excursion to the Pucks last Tuesday at half-past 7, by the steamer Wrunkelreid. A large number of people. chiefly English, assembled on the bank of the Lake to receive her Majesty, whose return had been previously announced. The Queen left here again yesterday morn ing, to spend a few days on the Righi. In Lucerne as everywhere else, her Majesty has made a moat favourable impression by her simple appearance and pleasant manners. Not bug ago the Queen visited the cattle sheds on the Gutach, when a servant was just at that time engaged in feeding the beasts. At first, when he perceived who was his visitor, he was greatly couftuiod. but quickly recovering himself, he saluted her Majesty with "Good day, Madame Queen." The Queen laughed, and asked various questions as to the manner in which the cattle were managed. On another occasion, a few days back, the Queen went to Golden, and took a seat upon a rock to draw, while her suite went on the Schritt. After a time she called a poor woman who was standing in the road, and sent her to summon the royal suite to return, for which service her Majesty amply rewarded her. When the company bad all taken their seats in the carriages, the Queen said to the poor woman. " You can go home now." " No," replied the poor woman, you go ;I am at home."—letiter's Express. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is not expected to return home from the Continent till the week after next. Their Royal Highnesses the DuchosB of Cam bridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz dined with the Prince and Princess of Teck yesterday evening at Kensington Palace. The baptism of the infant son of his Serene Highness Prince and her Royal Highucee Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck, originally appointed for ye4erday, has been postponed, owing to the absence of the Duke of Cambridge. The health of Count de Bismarck continue, to improve. The pains in the muscles caused by the late ac cident have almost entirely disappeared. The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar hay just established a press law which abolishes printer& licenses, caution money, the preliminary deposit of a copy with the administration, the penalties against alleged complicity between the editor and the printer, &c. ; and substitutes for them the application of the common law to journalists ; it also imposes on the judge the duty of rendering his sentence, with the reasons it rests on, within two days after the seizure of a journal or printed work. The Bishop of Capetown has postponed hia de parture from this conntry for a month. The farewell ser vice, as at present arranged, will take place at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry on Wednesday, the 30th inst. The Bev. Robert Gray, 8.D., Canon of the Cathedral of St. Helena, and bead master of the High School, Jamestown, has been appointed to the Arch deaconry of Piistermaritsbcag, and to a canonry in the Cathedral Church of Natal. _ _ _ The Bishop of Salisbury has collated the Rev. Frederick Beng 3 M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, vicar of Mad ' n, near Devises, and the Itev. John Henry Carnegie, .A., of St Catherine's College, Cam bridge, vicar of Cranberne with Beveridge, to pro'bwdul sWL 131 Salisbury Cathedral. The Bishop of Manchester has licensed the Rev. Christopher Cronshaw, formerly curate of St. Barnabas, Manchester to the incumbency of Christ Church, Penn ington, on the nomination of trustees; the Rev. Frederick ALMS Lillmand, M.A., to the incumbency of the new church of Matthew, Ardwick, on the nomination of trustees; the Rev. William Coglan, curate of St. Judo's, Manchester, to the conventional district of St. James the Less, in that pariah ; and the Rev. John William Doane Hoare, RA., to the curacy of St. Albans, Rochdale. THE MOVEMENT FOR A CONVOCATION MEEITNO nr lastryn.—The Archdeacons of Armagh and Dublin have issued a circular to the art•ldeacons of other dio ceses in Ireland, beseeching thorn to beseech their various bishops to beseech the Queen to issue writs for a meeting of the Irish Convocation. Legal difficulties, say the two archdeacons, have heretofore been thrown in the way of a revival of this august body ; but they think her Ma jesty's present advisors will hardly counsel her to Wane the prayer of a petition from the bishops at the present time, when the thumb is in such desperate peril, and when it isso necessary that the voice of the clergy should be heard on its behalf.—Norlhera TilE MULTI! OF THE REV. De. COOKII.—ThOro was a change rather for the worse, yesterday, in the rev. doctor's health. He was Ina very low state up toe late hour last sight. —Northam Whit. ON NEWS. (►PHIS DAY.) ..:••+•- - , • 1111104ingir ON IN BO H 14311 A . imperial government of Austria his just arts rued ade C . lliNe attitude Bohemia. A formal isnamona has been served on the Czech deputies lust they are to attend at the Diet. Should they fail to ccniply, tl.oir seats will be declared valant, and new elections proceeded to. Tee decision taken at Vienna seems to be generally approved of, although the expectation is that the first result will Lea sort cf Kendal. Indeed, very few Of the members concerned will, it is thought, obey, and acme violent manifestation is looked for on their part. However, the government con 'eiders the better plan is to provoke an immediate eriaie, and, once for all, to get out of an uncertain position which has lasted too long. The ministry, tesidee, poetesses a powerful auxiliary in the Hun garian press, which severely condemns the con duct of the Czechs, unmasks their motivos, and repels their advances. A letter from Stuttgard, in the Slide, has the following : Count d'Usodose, whose name has bees so frequently pronounced of late, has just arrived here. lie lives in the proxy town of Carlstadt, renowned for its. baths, and eituated at the very gates of the city, and where his gamily had preceded him two months ago. The Cabinet of Berlin lately sent a despatch to Baron de plant, intended to efface the effect of the reve lations of Einem! de La Harmers. The Frannie government is paying its court to that of Austria; as not only has General Vogel de Falkenstein been replaced by General do Manteuffel, who has always been a partisan of the Austrian alliance, and who was naly rot aside on the ore of the events of 18116, but King William has just sent to the Emperor Francis Joseph, on the occasion of the latter's birthday, • telegram congratulating him, a proceeding so much the more significant that it had not been practised since the great rupture between the two powers. Prussia is visibly striving to make Austria forget what has paned; but if Baron do Beustcan only see with a favour able eye everything that can consolidate the peace which is indispenrable for the success of his projects, he has an excellent answer to all the solicitations which reach him from Berlin :—" If you regard us as Germans, and if as such you desire our alliance, let us together revise Art. 4 of the Trra+y of Prague, which expels Austria from the Fatherland." (ntioutin am:main Uniscr.) FRANCE. PARIS, Sm'r. 2, MORNING. The Monifrut of this morning reprints the peaceful speech delivered by M. Magne, Minister of Finance, at a banquet at Perigueux on tho 20th ult. The commisaion for fixing the indemnity to be granted to the Mexican bondholders has completed its labours. Every bondholder entitled to indem nification will as a first instalment receive 30 prr cent. of the amount of his share of the capital ap propriated for the liquidation of the claims. GREECE. ATHENS, SEPT. 1. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of M. Coumoundouros, late president of the cabinet, and now chief of the opposition, together with four others, for their conduct during the recent elections. AMERICA. NEW YORK, SEPT. I. The National steamship France arrived out to. day. Closing prices 145 ; Sterling exchange on London, 109,1; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1131; ditto, 1885, 1111; 10-40 ditto, 1051, ex coupon ; Illinois, 145; Erie, 461 ; Cotton, Mid dling Upland, 301. Petroleum, standard white, 311. Flour, extra State, 8 dole. 10c. to 8 dots. 70c. ; corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 24c. OUR PARIS LETTER. (FRox ona mint cosamaromorr.) PARIS. TUESDAY Evssiso. The constant cant of the semi-official press is that war rumours are propagated by foreign cor respondents. lam about to transmit you one for which I am in no way revonsible. This day's number of the R. rue Con& mporaine takes it fur granted that the Emperor is resolved upon war, and that the question of finding a pretext for declaring it, though possibly a cause of a delay of some weeks or months, may be solved almost imme diately. After noticing the silence imposed upon the councils-general, and observing that if they enjoyed the natural right of electing their own presidents, instead of being governed by men forced upon them by the Emperor, they might very likely protest effectually against a war about to be waged, contrary to the wishes of the country, the Revue Centempraiae says: However great the mystery in which the military councils of the government axe involved the secret of their delibera tions has been found out. It is plain from the quantities of money thrown into the gulf of the ministry of war that nut defensive measures but an attack and a speedy attack is in contemplation. And while these dam. gerous projects are iu course of elaboration, our ears are tickled with dithyrambics in favour of peace. Ministers in the tribune, the Head of the State in his speeches, the confidential journals in their exhortations, all preach peace, and tell capital and industry to be confident in the future. They say this uut because they mean peace, but because they know the country wants it. But acts belie words. The hope is no doubt that, on the day when war is declared, the patriotism of the country will sustain the government in a step which the country would fain have avoided. We greatly fear the empire will be mis. taken in this calculation, and that, if it makes war, it will do so alone. It will, of course, have its armies behind it, but not France. The time for illusions is past. We must open our eyes and look steadfastly in the face what is before us. It will not do to say we are safe because no reasonable cause of wax can be found. We know the habits of this government, how it is addicted to theatrical surprises, and we feel nothing more likely than that 300,000 men should be one fine day thrown across the Rhine without France or Europe having any notice what ever. At the Bourse, Rente closed at 721 fr. for sooeunt, with no change. Owing to a misprint in my money market bulletin yesterday, I omitted to record a fall of nearly 20c. after the declaration of the " options." Italian fell to-day 23c., and Credit Fancier !Mfr. 73c. In other securities there was little change. Dr. Nidaton hoe returned to Paris from attc.nd lug Count de Montelambert after the late oarriage acci dent. The patient is going ou most fayourably. NFAPOLITAN BIUOANDB.—The Ratio of nits es giv the following news concerning brigandagis:—" st weak the band of Ferrigso Pieta committed an act of great audacity, as it captured a man named Amato Passariello in the very village of Montella. On the same day, three brigands, fully armed, seised on Giovanni Atripaldi in the commune of Castelruggiero, and took him to the moun tains of Rossano. His younger brother was motto to accompany him, and after some hours journeying. the lanes was sent back toobtein a ransom. The mune after noon ton men, dressed as peasants, captured near Mon fella three men minted Nem, Pesapta, and &Mar°. Shortly after they set the two last at liberty, ordering them to go and donuunt a sum of 29.730 fr. from the family of Pima, who would be killed if the money was rallNed. 'Tic rubbers took the road towards the mountains of Serino." NATIONAL EXIIIRITION OF WORKS OF ART AT Lizto.—Bettor of oilmissions:—Tuesday, September 1, by meson tickets, 687 ; by payment 01 L Mob. 4 . 626 ; total, 6;313. LA LANTENNE.-AV L 14 In the lest number of La Lanteree publisltpt in Banish*, •ed ciseulat4d widely in Paris in spit e of t o attempts ak suppression, MI. Henri Rochefort dale-,. crn war *hat the Emperor sad his dynasty*, U. lows : " The imprudence of the persecution against me sue,. chatty indicates its object. The intention of the Oos who • nuanpr.late laws as they won't card: (we Wiettr liege), is to bitty the Laarrne deal or alive. Noe tis tai k I Lave met num If is to prevent the premature merit of the Lot tow. My publication must In It 34 In: of tenth's uneasiness to you, rince it makes you brave th 490r11104111 unpopularity which you get by your *cants! .11 ILIWOLWITtiI to put it down. You mud mama Comment .r Pinard, that I should be too simple if, while I cau, c et tissue to show you up in your taw oolours W Freers. Europe, I should give up the game when all the truss sue in my hands. Before accepting martyrdom, I e:11 prolong the combat. The wrestler who feels able to fie solider' a greater *snipe to his cause than the retire whose stole heroism cousits iu resienstiou. To suppop. that any good can be dune with the men of Decant) .r by stoetching out your wi ids fur their handcuffs saying, • Het e I am; do with me whatyou would to stupid indeed. Such a cour s e would be duly justilisl,;., when one feels impotent to be of any more use. Tbs. it not my case. I shall redouble my blows in order to pre. cipitate the daseermenr. Al. ! you sentence me to sixteen months' imprisonment. here is my anewer. I croetelea you to two yi ars of the Lento-rte. Your idea is to pia down a journal which frightens you, mine is to perseeos, you by the persistence of this journal. To give up my permnal liberty in pursuance of your sentence of imprie.n. meat would be kill the LanPerne, which lives by me atm.. The only way to exthguiah the trosterne would be to esp. y our glorious Empei or from the Tuileries. Whenever th is devoutly-to-be-wished consummation happens I will po• out the/atter/1r with my own hands. Belonging, as I do, t., a political and literary school diametrically opposed to that of Boileau, I am quite willing to leave off writing but Napoleon must first cease to reign. (This is an allot. Minn to Boileau's celebrated courtier like line, "Gram Roi CAW de vaincre, on je cease trecrire."] Now I announce this—that every Saturday the Les. I , rre, illegally strangled in France, will appeo in some foreign country. It will filter thrornth the French frontiers, and be circulated in Paris to sii extent that will astonish you. Your police pretend to i,. formidable, but my contraband police will be found t match them. You may send to every railway station 3 , formidable armies of police agents as you please.; whit., they search innocent travellers and find notliin i 4 Bei Latilerne, which so alarms you, will be distribiltd by mysterious bands in workshops, in drawing-rioms, and in barracks—in barracks especially, for there our *Adler , are beginning to read my writings, and I will continue to teach them that love of country i. even better than love of discipline, and that they mud be ware of the adulterated drinks which it is customary t, serve out to them on the eve of a coup (ital. lam je,i• fectly well aware that the 'strong' French goverrumen . will lose tie time its tie anding my expulsion from setussuni. But I have already taken every precaution na' to embarrass this generous country, which puts ours shame by its respect for law, its communal franchise, and the energy of its liberalism. lam ready for French government on that ground. My domicile will h. , here, and there, and everywhere. I resign myself to plai the part of a wandering journalist and a literary poacher One day I shall date the Lanterns from Geneva, another from London, Baden, Heidelberg, Ostend, or Cologn e:id when you come to demand my expulsion you m apply to some &teen governments, of whom fourteen least will laugh in your face." TUX QL - EEN AT THE FURICA PAss.—The of Berne publishes the following communication from Swim traveller visiting the Furka:—Last Friday even:r.2,-, about half-past 7, tired and hungry, I approadied to hotel situated on the Furka Per to get shelter for t,.. night. A heavy fog covered the whole neighboarly,o 1. and the weather began to grow sensibly colder. Iha I travelled that day from Hach ice Hof, over On Grimv , i and the ice mountains of the Rhone, and it rote easily be imagined that I hastened with a lonxi,. ; desire to reach the hotel. A waiter, who stood at : threshold, cried out to me, whilst at some distance, •• Y cannot come in here, the Queen of England has en.r", , sl the house for three days." I could scarcely trus s my ear: at fi rst. •• Was it possible," I at last asked, the; tho Queen could have engaged the only house on the steam' of the pass fur herseli "It is nevertheless true." :• plied the man, " and you must look out for other guar , for the night." I begged him, as the Queen had eog.t i all the bedrooms, to allow me to sleep in the saloon o. even on the Boor. "I am sorry," he said, " but nobody lis allowed to come in here." asked him then if the Queen with her suite had already arrived. be replied, " No. but there is no doubt that she will be here to-morrow.' About this time almost a doyen travellers, one of wh was a lady, had arrived and looked all very eagerly night's rest. Wben I related what I hail just tear:. • their dissatisfaction was extreme. Some of them tried to force an entrance, but as they were nut la Majesty's cook, ready to resist any intruder. they forced to continue their way, exhau+ted and half +ta: to the Itealp, where they found a rest, dough n,t out some difficulty for so many. We next day ! that many travellers had met with a simile: I r everywhere they expressed their feeling- string;y utter disregard of other people's comfert. TUE CIiVELTY 01 BIUOTRY.—ATROa 1 6 1 - " , 1' BECFTION OF BELGIAN PROTESIANT9.—An extra : trial of seven colliers fur causing the death td to • . workmen by ill-treatment has just taken place - werp. A baud of those men, headed by ,ins • appear for a long time to have exerci+++l a to tyranny over some of their companions. IL a:. •.. fur their cruelty were chiefly religion+. the v • being protestants and their torturers caoualle , . punishment inflicted was a sort of cru+uisi. . is to say. a cross was made by nailin_a two 1.: together ill the form of au X. to which the sole: suspended. bound with cords at their bands and feet they should do homage to the 'Cargill. tine al 11, who had died. Wooed Steenbergen, hail also been with a hot iron, and then plunged in water. Thea me nt brought .an a violent fever which termin tied in dea••: The ringleader. SeaseLs. inspired such terror amen; t!. other workmen that when in court before his g the witness trembled and hesitated to +peak. au the judge at length ordered him to he placed in .: position where he could not see them. The whole of the evidence was given with great reluctance. and several or the witne++cs had to he menaced with imiarboutueut their wilful reticence. Even .1 volhor t im,d Cettlern.tn.t. the father of the -ecend man wh., had died fumy the in+ ta.eries received. only au.10 , ..l the u.:tuer , . i the men wL , d exerciser) the a ruelty .41 th • . prom.-• ing him protection if he were mena..ed. voused w now condemned y eil eari to o d n i e ffe t r ‘ e , i i i , t ‘ur te y ra:! . .. , ci ,.. ir . ip .. ra , lll \esw.6 • - months; two to one year : and two to tune fines, in addition varying from THE WHEAT 131P0BrArtoNs kii the wheat importations of July were rather hob t!. - the corresponding month of List year. the t• q.tl a:: for the first seven mouths of I,SO have Ken 17 l' in excess of those of the same period of Ise:. s.: aggregate quantity of 1.0.706.791 cwt. : et: per cent. the t e nted States 22 per cent.. 0 , 1 11 ! one per acct , Turkey 12 per cent.. E g ypt 12 per cent.. 4 per cent., Chili 3 per cent.. Denmark I pc.: • Canada I per cent. , and other countrie+ cent. The supply from Russia and tlenn.iny • considerably less than that of last year. but there w • • great increase from the United Stat:s and Egypt. THE PASSE GER TRAFFIC BETWEEN Ltv Fla r• • IRYLLND, sera SCOTIAND.—The passenger tnulic bet. Liverpool, Scotland. and Ireland. and t... • during the past week undergone a most extmonlinory unprecedented increase. The trains arriving at and Ie ..• ing Liverpool from the north have had their first-. ..• passenger traffic greatly reduced, while all the stein. aiming in Liver poo l from Scotland and Ireland literally crammed both with saloon and deck pamteng. The same remark is applicable to the steamers hut •-• Mersey for tilasoa,. Dublin, Belfast, and other 1: porta—lt - adhere Whig. NARROW' ESCAFE FROM DROWNINC: AT BRZ,,: TON.—Last evening just after dark three boys took at • their heads to bathe from the beach oppocite street. One of them, named George Henry Jupp, • at 4, Liverpool-street, swam out about fift y yards. 11.% getting entangled in some seaweed, lost lii, prewiVe • mind and was in urgent danger. His *crowns were heart on the beach and cliff, and (with others) Mr. Frolenet Cavils, who happened to be es the promenade, ran I the ga Makulhet" capital lumps as he went from t he road to gap, the otnw from the gap to !he beach—Mr. Cavil (who still holds the wuitung &Intr. 1. ship of the south), dashed into the sea in aid of the dr.,.n ing lad, whom he soon reached and brought ashore .3 very exhausted stata—BrigAtee Oleareliew. A FLOCK OF BRIO IN TILE ROoF OF ACIIVIteir. -7 It having been known that bees were working in the red of All Saints Church, from which honey had been obsersca to flow for some time past, Yr. Barber, the church clerk, obtained authority from the churchwardens to remote them, and iu doing so on Thursday last obtained no than a hundredweight of honey.—Gary mod Sane , JOSEPH NOT A CA.RPENTKR.---when the British Mclueological Association were impeding the gallery et paintings at Charlton house, attention being called to the picture of Joseph working as a carpenter, maiated by the child Jesus, Mr. Black said he wished that .heeph had been represented in his proper business as a mud,. the original trim used siifying arnhiteet, builder, or mason. and not carpenter. The term carpenter. he W . Va. was undoubtedly an error, as in the climes where Joseph dwelt no wood was used in the erection of the stractures of their houses, but stone only.—Serrey Staitiord. 2, th, do noi at io 44 EU n 1 ait — d Was Kta. he I Riiry labs