The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-04 00:00:00

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Were the Mar shal not a man to be depended on, a good deal might be said in favour of the principles and policy 'emaciated in the manifesto which hisOovern mint has issued on the occasion of the dissolution. It has the merits, rare in Spanish documents, of being temperate, prudent, frank, and intelligible. It aims at the creation of a third party in the poll tin of Spain, which, standing on the foundation of the Constitution of IMO (not beaus, it is in itself unimproveable, but as a point of departure on which the largest amount of unanimity can be secured), will eater on a career of progressive Moderation, and rely for supporton an union of memo at/rusted by this middle line of policy from the existing AfeArrodo and Proftresisra forces. It proposes to this party to pro ceed on 010111 favourable terms with the dimmer tisation of municipal property, sad so liberate hap tracts of the best land in Bpaia hoes the mischievous effects of fecidality ; mad it will also renew the We of ealesiastical property, if it can procure from the Holy See an alteration permitting such sale in the Concordat, which expressly forbids it. And in language at least, the (YDeatent.d. Cabinet profanes a desire to respect the freedom of election. The homely saying that " Fine words butter no 4 . parsnips," seems correctly to describe the feeling with7which this manifesto has been received by all eXisting political organisations. Both Mode redoes and Progresistas treat Marshal O'Doa sett as a deserter, who has no higher passion than personal ambition, no object but to keep himself in power either by delusion or force. Never was the inconvenience of a peat bad character or the value of good repute better seen. For, in the existing condition of Spain, an honest and able paste-milieu policy, if not the beat that could be pursued, is certainly the one that admits of the best chance of success. But a large majority of Spaniards either h►te, fear, or despise Marshal O'Doaaxtt ; whereas each a policy as his can only have one basis—confidence in the integrity, loyalty, good faith, sad rapacity of those who propose it to the nation. Seek confidenoe O'llormat.t and him colleagues do not inspire. When he has mean- Med the SOW Cartes, placed, as he will be, be tween the two fires of ?halts= and of OLOZAO/1, it is difficult to see how the Cabinet of O'Dounatt eon long survive the remorseless battering to which it will be exposed. Such a position as that the Marshal proposes to occupy, requires immens e parliamentary skill, exquisitely good temper, the most conciliatory manners, as well se undoubted political capacity, and a superabundance of good measure, to occupy and divert attention from the weak points of the Administration. In almost all those requisites CYDoun ELL is singularly deficient. Hie personal defects cannot fail, indeed, seriously to aggravate his poNtical difficulties io the Cortes. Marshal O'lloYmtu. has, it is believed, the best wishes of the French Court for his success ; and although it is not an avowed principle of the Imperial policy to take any active part in the affairs of Spain, the Tuileries necessarily, from its oonnexions, has considerable infinenoe in Madrid. A sense of security disinclines the EMPEROR either to promote actively the intermits of the extreme retrograde party of Spanish polities, or to do aught that would assist the admission of the Liberals to power. The EMPERDI loves a strong Government, but he has the sense to know that anlese strength is in these days accompanied by high intelligence and substantial material benefits, its tendencies are to degenerate into a stupid, senseless, selfish despotism, very dan gerous to its friends. Lorin NaroL►ON oaa there bee have no wig to see the system of the Neapo litan BOURDON{ trsaderred to Madrid. Apprehen sive of the stisehieh to himself which would arise from the freedom that would follow a restoration of the Liberals to odioe. he very satarally wishes well to a Minister, be he NAavAaz or O'Dowiritu., who will endeavour to keep the Court in some order, and sot be afraid of resorting to military merinos if the muse of order" seems to require it. THE Government School of Mines and Applied Science, in ssaamins with the Museum of Prateical Geology in 'mega-street, sommenceil its eighth 'maim to-day. Many of our readers probably pass this building every day, and have some general notion of its objects and working, both as a mecum and a school. Several, no doubt, have at some time or other stepped inside and reed along its well arranged galleries the graphic history they contain of the surface, 000stitation, and productions of theme Islands —their geological treasures and mineral wealth. Some may know that the Museum is not only an admirable instrument for collecting mining records and cooducting pologioal surreys, but an active School of Practical Chemistry, ?rusticla ~Ge.!;;;;, 1 04 Practical Mieentlogy, Probably few, however, .!re aware that it is at the sate time an e le mire Working Man's College of Science, • real mechanics' institnts. tlrreb, nevertheless, is now the fact. Coors's of lectures are delivered weekly during the maim to large classes of fond Ms working men by the professors and lecturers connected with the Government School. Them THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1858. tonnes are systematic, and arranged so as to illus trate, within the period of two years, the principal subject• taught at the institution. The only condi tioos of admission are the payment of sixpence for an estrum ticket, and the production by the appli cants of some satisfaetory proof, such as a note from their employer or the like, that the applicant is really a working man. This effort—a comparatively recent eme—has sesseeded far beyond the expectation of its promoters. On this point the evidence of the President, Sir RODRRICK Mracnisoar, iv decisive. In his speech at the Leeds Mechanics' Institute last week Sir RODULICIL thus alluded to the new experiment. "He was," be said, " a geologist by profession, and was the Director of " the Geological Survey of Great Britain. He " mentioned this fact in order to announce that he " was, as director of that institution, really the " President of a Mechanics' Institute, and he would " tell them how. The Professors of the establish " ment had volunteered to give lecture' upon various " branches of science to the working men of the " metropolis ; they had succeeded in a most remark " able manner ; and he mentioned it to the credit of " the working men of London, that when the tickets " were to be issued the 600 were applied for in lees " than three hours, and such was the desire "to obtain them that it required two or " three policemen to keep order." The most noteworthy fact is, however, one not mentioned by Sir Rontificx, that of the 600 who thus received tickets the average attendance at each lecture, in the different courses, is rarely less than 560. When we consider the numerous calls, of a domestic and convivial kind, made on • working man's scanty leisure, the regular attendance of so many on courses of strictly scientific lectures, delivered during the winter months at a considerable distance from their homes, is certainly a striking fact. There is at pre sent no means of accurately testing the results of these lectures, as the pupils are subjected to no ex amination. Bat the lecturers amen that they rarely address a more attentive audience ; that the majority of their bearers take notes of the lectures, and that instances have been known in which a workman has repeated as much of the lecture ea he could remember to those of his companions who were not fortunate enough to obtain tickets for themselves. These facts teach us an important lesson. They prove that the cry hastily raised on the failure of certain ill-advised attempts to diffuse adult instrue tioa among the working classes—that all such at tempts were useless—has really no foundation. And they explain how it le that Mechanic' Institutes established on the old system so generally come to nothing. The founders of these institutions took an important step in advance of their time, for which they deserve all honour. They recognised the import ance of stirring up intelligent operatives to vigorous end combined efforts in the direction of self-improve ment, and the duty of three who are above them in education and social position to help in securing the means. Bat they fell at the same time into a two fold error. They implicitly denied that the working classes had any claim to be amused, and assumed that they had no natural taste for instruction. This double blunder in the end ruined the whole echoes'. No direct provision was made for mere entertain ment in these institutions, as at first established. The diffusion of knowledge was the one end in view, and the knowledge to be diffused was of a severely useful type. But on the erroneous assumption that no real desire for such knowledge existed in the classes addressed, it was deemed necessary to gild the pill. The lectures were to be made as popular and attractive as possible, and the element of amuse ment, which had been rejected for its own sake, was now employed as a means to secure the great end the Institutions had in view. This was a fatal mistake. The forbidden element of amusement proved • cuckoo's egg in these local nests of learning. The lectures delivered in them, desultory rhetorical effusions dashed with science, were neither very amusing nor very instructive. They sow became, in fact, a mere weariness to the flash, equally distasteful to all classes. Those who mime for amusement found them dull ; even blue lights and gigantic skeletons failed to make chemistry and zoology entertaining. Those who went for instruction found them superficial and insipid. The intelligent mechanics who had entered in the hope of adding to their stock of knowledge, and studying science in earnest, dropped off in die appointment and disgust at such childish folly. To attend lectures of this sort was to them mere legate of time. A few evenings spent in the diligent study of a cheap scientific manual proved far more profit able than • three months' course of such desultory and superficial prelections, and when the serious students had left, the Institutions either fell to the ground, or were managed by those who cared only for amity men OM willingly sacrificed everything to popularity. The new directors quickly huddled the stuffed birds and fossil specimens into a cupboard, turned the platform into an orchestra, and the lecture-room into a =lino-hall, or pleasant evening lounge for concert and conversazione purposes. Outraged nature thus avenged herself on feeble-minded sci ence, by turning its chosen seats topsy-turvy. By a kind of natural Nemesis, the very institutions which at their outset rejected everything in the shape of direct entertainment, came at last to can for nothing else. Having commenced with matheam tire and chemistry, they ended in music and dancing. We have, it may be hoped, gained some little wisdom by this instructive experience. In the new, or remodelled, literary or scientific institutions, the classes addressed are dealt with in a more frank, straightforward, manly way than in the old. Yeowledp is no longer administered in a disguised form, and the recipients insulted by the tacit as sumption that if offered pure it would be refused. What is merely pleasant or entertaining is no longer rejected as a forbidden element ; on the contrary, while far better provision is now made for systematic instruction in science, the importance of amusement . I and recreation is fully recognised. The library is stored not only with =WWI of science and history, but with works of general literature, of travel, Action, and poetry. And just as on the cos hand there is the museum and its classes for scientific students, so, on the other, there is the reading-room for literary loungers and aetive politicians, where those who desire such entertainment may inform themselves of current events, study public question, or beguile an hour with the lighter periodical litera ture of the day. Institutions of this type succeed, and the rawest of their success is plain enough. If you frankly offer what is really wanted, whether beiroos, Literature, or Polities, it will be thankfully accepted. Thecae condition of enemas is that every p►omw be well fulfilled—that whatever is done be dose thoroughly. The lectures on science should be good and systematic; the library contain as large and varied a collection of works as possible; and the reading-room be liberally furnished. And while a multitude of working men, who, perhaps, never read with any regularity before, will frequent the newspaper table or patronise the shelves devoted •o lighter ►iterature, a smaller number will pro btu:4y become earnest student/ of science, and re it !ran time to tame the ranks of our national c h em i aii , and engineers, many of whose leaders, both &moot; the living and gin dead, have risen from the huehleet ranks. Inc i!E ouri. BALMORAL, Berm N. The Queen and the Prime Comet drove ant. ml royal dame party facials' the Dachas wileat, Lady data Maria Daum, Laid Jams Money, sad Man Stuart Watley. _ _ Oar. 1. hiritEbts PARIS, SUNDAY EV1.1310. There are in the text of the convention of Paris, of August 19, as published in the Moniteur of today, some slight differenoes front the version given some days since by the independence Beige. The most im portant of these regards the wording of the first article, according to which in the authentic text the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia are des scribed as the " United Principalities." The Inde pendence said the" Re-united Provinces." The distins Lion is somewhat more than verbal, and the final word ing was not agreed upon without considerable discus aion. The expression " re-united" was intended by its partisans to imply that the Principalities consti tuted from ancient times one identical nation. The wording which has been adopted implies that they are now for the first time " united." It appears by a recent correspondence from Bucharest that the painful result of the labours of the Paris Conference is the reverse of happy. " The new constitution,' says this letter, " pushes us backwards. We have now no political existence. We are in this regard as dependent upon the Ottoman Porte as are the Rape who inhabit the Turkish empire." In support of this view it is urged that Moldo-Wallachia loses by virtue of this convention the right to declare war and to make peace. She must rely almost exclusively upon Turkey for her dearest interests, and her very existence. This is a sorry safeguard, considering that Turkey has allowed Bukovina to be taken from her by Austria, and Bessarabia by Russia. The new constitution thrther diminishes the indepen dence of the Roumains by stripping their hospodr ro of the privilege hitherto enjoyed without contest of corresponding directly with foreign powers. The populations, it is said, also fear that notwith standing the title of " United Principalities," ' the division of power between the two hospodars will give rise to continued jealousy, and they farther complain that the electoral law puts the qualifica tions so high that the major part of the agricultural population will be shut out from the polL Since the advent of M. Delangle to the Ministry of the Interior, vice &pinups of sinister memory, no warning haa been given to any Paris journal. It is only lately that the Patric, a paper which, though not official, is in its leanings entirely governmental, congratulates M. Delangle on his having availed himself of a law long fallen into desuetude, by requiring the insertion of an official answer to a journal instead of inflicting a warn ing. The Petrie inferred that argument and not force was henceforth to be resorted to, in order to counteract the errors of the press. A provincial journal of some conaequemos, the Gironde of Bordeaux, has now, however, been visited with a warning. I am not sure that M. Delangle knows anything about it. It purports to emanate solely from M. de Stentque, the Prefect, bat I can scarcely rtkink that a prefect would have ventured, of his own authority, to innovate upon a principle known to be favoured in any positive manner by the Minister of the Interior. The grounds of the warn ing given to the Gironde are stated in the docu ment to be, that the article in question contains " a direct and excessive attack against the laws which regulate the press"—that it represents the present law as " an instrument of oppression and tyranny "—that it "exceeds the limit of discussion by agitating a question which ought to remain beyond the limits of controversy, and in salts the law and the administration, which is found to act upon the law." An African journal called the Echo d'Oran has alto been warned, for some strictures upon the munici pality of the town. - T6a Mowiteur contains, in a aide page, a circular which is a death-warrant to a multitude of minor ' journals in Paris. By a return to the strict letter of the law, and controry to a long received practice, no newspaper not stamped will be hereafter allowed to insert advertisements. Hitherto the stamp has only been exacted for political journals; very many the names of which are little known have enjoyed a wide circulation, steering clear of politics, but giving gossip and piquant., personalities. The extinction of some of these will scarcely be a social evil, but the principle is despotic and bad. PENINSULAR MAILS.-PORTUGAL. The Peninsular and Oriental Ootnpany's steam peek's Valetta, Captain T. IL Joy (Admiralty agent, Lieut. Cud, R.N.), arrived at Southampton yesterday with the Peal muler mane. Ha dates ware :—Gibralter, Sept. 26th. Cadiz, 26th; Liabts, lath; Oporto, nth; and Vigo, 30th, Sim brought 22 Ant-clam and 6 moond•cleas peettengere. (ssow ors owl LISBON, Seer. 29. A deal of bad feeling hu lately existed between the governments of France and Portugal en the @abject of the Preach system 01 pursuing the slave trade seder the Mona of free emigration. It is not long slue the Preset ship Regime Coll was ordered out of the Peelers* waters, where she was in arrest of these seollisl Illidiraala At the Um, I believe, the French nimbler at lAsbca addressed a very strong note to the Portages, gorenuanst, to the diet that the Preset mains would skit say Peragusee war- sera whist latarheal wild Torok vessels la Usk mescal stew free blacks. The question Steel Uses tee NM bees agaves& sad bee am summed mere who dlmeriess Is the ease of the Pseud barque Cherie et Osiers Ttie sesel, it will be reentubersd, was seised by the Parterser selscrities some dim ego, in one el she peer a(' ° "due. Tbs port ht wlaboli the vowel was bass ie. I base, as which is closed to vowel ameraeree. mobs weds weld desesestanoes. The weak' of the vessel &Aged that stn sus haw, end her rigglag needed rape., bat on bang seelwaSell lest was fined not to be the Mal. end she Ist els signs es Surd, bang evidently fitted est to Anew Ite sew Preach brads Uses these caress stasis Its Perlegssee snthositke test sewed pessimist of the ship, sail els le sow lying in the Tagus, la eras of the Sty. It sea be slowed that the Portages, stalsorldee tale j asks es thou. Ade, beasts the Fresh milk le speedy lorbidden by their laws; but I believe ISt Pest gess meat has made a claim, a large one, for tademalty a scestat or the owners of the ship, which es yet Ms set beet slowed. It was reported yesterday that the Preach sinless had asked for 1.1. passports, but I dad, oa Inquiry, that wash is not the cue. his question, coupled with that of the MOM of Clarity, gives flee to a dal of bed Salim ageism the Frau& la Lisbon. Tai EMPEROR NAPOLEON AT eneLows.—The Monitor, announces the arrival of the Emperor at the Camp of Chaim", at 5 p.m. on Saturday. The troops were under ' arms, and brewed it double line from the railway 'MN= to the imperial quarter.. His Majesty warn received by Marshal Canrobert and staff, amid bud aeolamatioss. He inoonted on horseback on qaktiag his osertags. The womb and superior officers were afterward' entertained at dhow by the Emperor. The bands of all the regiments played the retreat, and were socompenled by soldiers bearing torches. The camp wee illuminated, and the words " The rEmpsrer ;" VIVO rlimpirstrice l" " Viva le Prince Impirial I" were traced tn light. • Tbs'afwearew adds, It mar be said that at this mamma a wew lib circu lated in our troops. The Camp of Chilton, le animated by that spirit which the presence of the Emperor develops, over all the point' of Franca. Yesterday it wee a military school, attentive and serious; to-day it is an assemblage of men sitimated by that enthusiasm which gives to our army on the field of taanosavres, as on the laid of battle, the last degree of its perhation.' . Ia anything the effect of the Emperor's promos at Chalons the official journal is more temperate than the lieseefer de Bayonne, which, when recounting the ceremony of blaming the work► at the month of the Adour, a month or six week' ego, hinted that the wane of the ocean grew husked r the fesperiel eye wee owned an them. • - The Chevalier de Negrelli, who is known to the Britian public aa t►e opponent of Mr. Stephenson in the 800 Canal question, died at Vienna on the night of Thuu eV ken THE CAPE. (wr maw= vaLsoaava.) (Fool/ ova owx 00 7/1/SPONDIL PLYMOUTH, Mow r. The Athens, Royal Mail steamer, Captain Wm. Btrutt, arrived at Plymouth this morning, with the mails since the sailing of the Indiana from the Cape, and the monthly mails from St. Helena and Ascension. Her homeward dates see Table Bay, August 24th; St. He lens, Slat ; Ascension, September 4th ; Madeira, 21st. She brings a full general cargo and 26 pas sengers ; her cargo consists principally of wine, ivory, horns, wool, whale oil, and bone, cop per, cotton, arrowroot and cowrie shells. Among her passengers are Lieutenant Brous, Dutch Navy, and lady, Lieutenants Newsome and Ash, and Captain Davis, Royal Arthur, (condemned), and Sims, W. E. Malcolm (sunk), from the Cape; and Lieats Baillie and Ratfray, 8.N., from Ascension. . _ _ . _ Trade was dull at the Cape. Bad weather had pre vailed for the last fortnight, and interfered with the transport of produce. Freights lower. The governor was en route for the free state to adjudicate between the Boers and Moshesh, but had not yet crowed the Frontier boundary. Union with the Cape colony has become a very favourite idea with the people of the free state of the Banda. The preparations for the elections were going on briskly in the colony. Candidates are numerous, but differ but little in the political measures they advocate. Her Majesty's ship Magera, and the East India Company's steamer Prince Arthur, were preparing to take horses for India, and are expected to take also with them the 2nd Queen's Regiment and the 2nd battalion of the 60th Rifles. Her Majesty's ship Hermes was refitting in Simon's Bay. The Marian Moore arrived August 12, with her captain confined to his cabin by the crew, on account of his alleged drunken habits. The case was investigated by the Simons' Town magistrate, and he considered the crew had fairly justified themselves for their conduct. Table Bay had been visited with strong gales, but little damage was done. The Carpentiara, of Liverpool, arrived from Bombay, August 18, leaky, and with the Scotia, would have to discharge. The W. E. Malcolm, which sank while being hove down, was fast filling with sand, and will prove a wreck. Her Majesty's skip Hecla arrived at Ascersion from St. Helena, on September 3. Madeira had been visited by a succession of gales from the south-west and west. The Athens passed, on Oct. 1, in lat. 45 N. and long. 10 W., her Majesty's ship Terrible, with Growler and Quail in tow, standing to the south• west. The Athens was detained one day at the Cape by the Governor ; had light winds to Ma deira, where she coaled, and gales from the S.W. and W. to Plymouth. BURNING OF THE STEAM SHIP AUSTRIA, AT SEA.. FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN PERSONS ON BOARD.-GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED. SOUTHAMPTON, Surrnar. Last night a telegram was received here from Bristol, announcing that the ship P. Pemberton, of Virginia, had arrived at Bristol and reported the de struction, by fire, on the 13th of September, of the steam ship Austria, from Southampton to New York, accompanied, it was feared, with great loss of life. The P. Pemberton fell in with the Lotus, bound for 'Halifax, which had on board eighteen of the pas sengers of the Austria, and it war stated on board the Lotus that there were fifty others in a French barque. Tee Austria was a fine screw steam ship, of 2,500 tons and 600-horse power. She was built last year at Greenock, and had made three or four voyages to New York. She belonged to the Ham burg and American Company, and was commanded by Captain Heydtman. She left Hamburg on her last voyage on the lit of September, and Southamp ton on the 4th for New York, with 613 passengers, principally German emigrants. She was nine days oat, and usually makes the voyage in twelve days. It is feared that with the exoeption of the pas sengers picked up as above stated, the remainder have perished. Captain Heydtman jumped overboard and was drowned. THE CRUSADE AGAINST COCHIN CHINA.—A letter from an offscio. in the Philippine Islande states that everythiag is ready for the expedition to Cochin China, and that the Spanish soldiers, excited by the sermons of Father Gaines, who has described to them with every detail all the tonneau inflicted on the missiouary priests, are eager to be led againat their barbarous enemies. The Regiment of Per. dinand VII. has had the imsge of the Virgin of the Polkr embmidered omits standard and bland with great religions Pai „ IN A NA mum:l.—The Nana is said to be about eighteen miles from Dhorghures, in Onde, in his jungle of bamboos. His companions are oared to be Bak, Rabe Shut, Oodgir, Abbe Dhanwoh Dheree, Rannoo Towle, Oingadltur Tuttle, Baboo Khan Kuttsy, Shah Alley, Ah melons, and Mahound Ishaqof Shabjetumpore. The num ber of his own adherents hes much damned sines the de ist of the inenrgeafs et Yareegunxe, but it is stated that he has about 2,200 bashcs hanging about him.—Botabey Theo, Sept. 7. THE New CAMEL CORPS.—The new Camel is thus (Waited by an Allahabad correspondent of the Delhi Gana; Last evening the governor-general, cons meniseds-ehlef and waite, were onion the maidens reviewing the Camel Corp, about 400 of these ungainly beasts, going through military evolutions. It was a novel and curious spectacle to see then animals performing almost all the movements of cavalry. Besides the native driver (who is of owes armed) there la es every camel a hardy Briton who occupies the beck seat, and is quite tea position to use kis Ade. The eassele ere well trained so the word of command. On a recognised tench of the guiding-airing down would they drop on their knees the rifleman would be off in a second and go into skirmis artier till the word of recall was limed, when they w i lt shoot back to their places, remount, and almost 'lmola ' nectualy, like a brown rases growing out of the ground, would the camels again their fest (so to speak) in their own i awkward mode—that s first their hinder parts and then ' their long stretching necks! Yon am fancy what a rare 1 owes the wbote was." . . . COAT 11; iii — .:-The report of the inspectors of ceel mines states that during the year 1866 there were about 233,000 persona employed in and shoot the collieries of Great Britain, and about 66,600,000 toes of coal were rased.' The total number of lives loot by accidents in the year wee 1,027, being at the rota of one pence killed In eaoh 224 employed and one killed for each 84,751 tone of opal robed. In 1857 the tool prodeetlon of cosi was about 68,000,900 tom, and the total lose of life 1,119, being about one person killed for each 60,760 tons prodoosd. The inspeotors acknowledge the inceemel attention which has bees paid towards improving the management of mines slime the passieg of the present inspectieg sot ; bat accidents cure in moms districts from defective gosnegennot. sad they, them- I for, urge the necessitof sliver eetpk , ying viewers who also combine preotioal knowledge with scientific attainments. The impectors wool* their general report by stadog tkot groat efforts are being bade be Tarim" parts of the country ▪ setabliehing mining schools, and they believe that wok Whets are welt deserving of esconragement. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TOR THE PROMO TION OP SOCIAL 6CILPCI.-81001 our la 4 impression, the subjects on which a number of papers will be read in the various sections have been made known. There will be papers front Mr. Ruskin on the inflame of Art Unions, a subject upon which be la entitled to speak with authority; from the Rev. T. Carter, chaplain of the boroug h pal, giving some facts in connexion with his experience on 'Crime in Liverpnoi;" from Mr. Rowlands, the borough engineer, on a subject of local and general interest; from Mr. Blaney M.P., on "Public Path and Playgrounds;" front Mr. Nathaniel Caine, of Liverpool, on " the Social Red." It is a matter of regret that, owing to the demand spa his time and attention in connexion with his insporreat state duties, the Right Eon. Lord Stanley will be unable to be present daring the meetings of the sesmistius ; bat persons of every shade of opinion and of ell *redone of society will rejoice to hear that then to reason to hope that the proceed_ fop will he honoured sod graced M the presence of Miss Florence Nitlitiorale.—Lieweret INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT, 00T. 2.—Mr. CA3ra 'skidoos, Murphy bee concluded the present sitting*, and Yr. Commissioner Phillips will sit as Tuesday week, the 19th took, to kw bell own sod motions. The Quota sad the Priam Consort drove oat. Thar irres Cowart and Prior Alfred went oat shooting. The Duran of Kest left Absegeldie for Frogman. Her Royal Highwee was woomputied by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lord Jame Murry, and Mir //irons Smart Wortley. Yr. Thomas Baring, 111. P., left town on Saturday to visit the Chancellor of tha Exchequer, at Hugheaden Manor, Bain. Daepekbee wore received on Saturday at the Colonial tram the Gomm et the Welt India Colonies. Daspasobss von ma b the Ciomacn of the Mauritius, Ceyks, Lakeas. awl Han Law. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, sa tes/1d by the restlereen of We mite, returned t the Mite Lodtm, in Richmond Park, on Friday evenhig, from Sal- Prints Adalbert of Prussia arrived at Plymouth a• Saturday night, has Falmouth. in Ms gown yacht Grills. The Duke of Rutland left Belvoir Cut!. on Friday, for Cleavelay Park, near Newmarket, where hie race will remits a newt dials for pheasant shooting during the weak. The Earl of Dalkeith, M.P., and Lord Walter Scott have arrived at Montage Howe, Whitehall, from Dratolenrig Coeds, the Duke of Beroleuch'e .eat is Lord and Lady John Russell returned to Pem broke Lodge a few days duos from a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Barghersh and their infant son have left Como Hoar be Apetborpe, to join the Earl end Countess olWomtreartlantra family circle. The marriage of the Hoe. Heart' Bligh and M;` , 4 AnNylige will be solemnised to London on the 14th lost. Mr. thorns, Baring, M.P., left town on Saturday to That the Chancellor ol the Exchequer at Hoghandan Manor, Buck. Count Persigny left Inverness on Friday morn ing, and procosted to Sehmwarry Hones on a visit to Lord Msarsbary. sir Edwin Landseer, the Marquis of Stafford, the Marquis of Abercons, and the Duke of Manobeseer, wore in lams= ma the 23rd, to join the Undies otemsr, for a armies. Print* Louis Lucien Bonaparte returned to Inverness on Friday from his northern tour. Hs Tent south shortly afterwards, having waited on the Rev. Yr. Macgregor to hays another consultation about Gaelic The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian have been residing at Mosley Mt. The marquis is in a feeble trite of health, and is about to proceed to the Continent. Sir William and Lady Gomm have been their gnash at Montsvoit. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford arrived at their seat of Ford Castle, near Cold stir mu (North inabarlsad), on Tuaday. Lord Campbell and Mins Campbell are at Shrne way, os a visit to Sir James and Lady Matheson. Oa Mon day his lordaldp want to the forest, where be la anjoy;ng the naiades of door stalking. On the recommendation of the Marquis of Done gal, Li/storm of the County of Antrim, the Lord Chr n estles prepeeme to mesas two yaw magistrates for the county, in the pawns of Mr. WlMate Dnoville tad Mr. Throbeld Boise% The Northers Whig says that thew appointments will be highly acceptable la Belfast. Mr. Bushell is a Roman 'ethane. The death of the Rev. Francis Fisher, Vicar of Hilmarton, near Caine, renders vacant that living, which IN in the petromage of the Lord Chancellor, and worth about .1.001. a year. Prince Napoleon arrived at Dresden on Friday evening, on his return from Warsaw, and will join the Em peror at Chilous. The Czar has returned to St. Peter.- burg, end the Prince of Prussia will arrive at Berlin to-day from Badau-Baden. The Oszett• de Silesia state• that on his return from Warsaw the Prince of Prussia unit Prince Napoleon at Granite", a station on the Russian frontier, and that those two personsges breskfamed together, and re mained together, for shoat ea hoer. The new Minister for Foreign Affairs in Persia is Fernkh Khan, whose visit to France and England will be fresh in the recollection of oar readers. The King of the Belgians paid a visit to the Ex hibition of Fine Arts at Antwerp, on Battuday. The Premien journals have received an intima tion that they have now full liberty to discus, the regency question. The numbers of the Gazetts Nationals, which were seised by the orders of the Procureur-Genaral, have tom returned, sad the editor has reprinted the articles which wee mode the 00014012 of the NEM. ML ROWLAND HILL AND THE LET T= CA/LATEEN. —Ws dad that Kr. Rowland Hill waa not the " Had of the Dopartarnt," mistimed to oar leader published oa latarday, who allmaptell, MN years ago, to abolish the pastiness Chrienms boss That gentleman had nothing to do with the nromors The China Mail, of August 10, mentions the suspension, from the office of Attorney-General, of Mr. Chisholm Anstey, '• who" it says, "has acted towards the governor and other °facial, in a runner which necesaitated the step. Mr. Anstey's character and failings area wall knows in Ragland that his suspension will not ruse say surprise, however the necessity of It any be regretted there, se It certainly is here by all who have observed hit honesty of purpose sad his skill in dealing with Chinese witnesses. Mr. Day, the ergo, counsel in the colony after Dr. Bridges who ea seta ae Colonial Secretary, will take his place In the interim u Attorney•Oeneral." A letter, jam received by Sir John Barrow, from Captain M'Cluntock, R.N., commanding Lady Franklitie y.cbt, conveys the rratifybrg intelligence that be ban esfaly crooned the middle ioe of Baffin sea, and ie In a fair way of sue osedolly accomplishing the object of his enterprise. Lettere from Dr. David Welker, the 'organ end natur►liet of the ezpatitkm, give the mat cheering account of the health and happiness of all on board, net withetend'og their a inter'e campaign In the middle los. The Dials', the first steamer ever sent to the sarthsre &heist, has Jost &Tried at Hall from Devis's Straits. She has 14 whales, 125 teas of oil, sad ei tons of bone ; sad reports the steamer Chase with 8 large fish, 116 to.. of oil, 7 UM of beau sad the steamer Tay, of Dusan, with 6 whales, 100 tumid oil, sad 6 teas of boas. The supe riority of steamers foe sagsgleg is this trade is fully dissimetratsd. Mi. AMMON SMITH'. HUNT.—The follooing dream fives the Marquis or Ailesbury is is the °cum, of circulation to the residing is lb. TiAram* country —•• Sir —I vs mashred Irmo Teases:alb a awn sasalcahon from ; Mn. Anaheim Amish, hatonalag me that I or lb. gentles* who live is the aighboarhood Imre say twenties of tossalmoiog to Isseg horWs here. •b• wilt have groat Omens la pormatiag r with the Talworth Pack of Hoods,' talllas 'lied it will be • pnwa eatlehotims to her that they shad( rims* is the coutry holmd of betas disposal of to stintagers: osadike it a ditty I owo t h. vadegim assidiag gbh* mime the ssuary leafy boots( by Sr. A. Smith, is M lllom laser ileeth wialk the Wry liberal and imadsmos saw which Yrs. B.fth bus made. las ask myself dhow* Is become a toadish* Ise Os honour of kamitfosilis mousy, am do I, at this Dow of say or wits wham to do so ,• but I coach* the mode of saceetalabg ths *alms of the gestlemsa gsamolly laterowad la dis sash* is to oust together Aw ths wpm of phi diegustice, sad if asoseorry sated.. isle • salamiptisa le mho to mow* this lias peak of ham* to dita sosatry. I bells* ewers' matlsmsa Mimi Is neat at the Star lan, Ardlowar, oa Thursday arc* the 7th WM.. at sae o'clock ; sad it would gi* as tea k phrase, d yea sad say bawds of yews latarmesd ia *kr gamic. could maks it cosmic* to bo ps+smtl and um nada as to rstara sa mower to Mrs. We read in the Amass, Itteisaland :—"The pat. Hendon of the Liners patens whoring a barometry —sal partly deasrsal—as lamer* Jejsebboy—has somewhat shocked the idols ef many isrepenne, by atoning that the baronet and his Mire ens entitled to take precedence of all beneath the rusk of the sone at the nobility. Sir Jemmies is entitled to take the bed of Sir James Ontrato, Si. Henry Somerset, Sir Hush Rose, end others whom names war hes mods dluetrious. It la to be hoped that Lb* demendants of the baronet will abj ow. the barbarous treatment of their wiser at the time of their condeement for whiob Peruse base keg been fanione, and discard all oonnezion with jelerjrecohn smd other Hindoo abominations; where dimmed doge sad oats an rsarardad with more attention than sick men and wawa ; Los lan are mod, and attenuated dam bnssad, so lets at wortkip." THE BISHOP OP 011 1 01 D AND THE CON- PIBIIION4L. The oomminioners in the late Boyne-hill ease here each received the following letter from the Bishop of Oxford : Levingten-howie, Petworth, Sept. 30. " Gentlemen,—l have received the report of your Com mission of Inquiry into the charges brought against Mr. West, and heartily accept as my own the decision at which, after a fall examination of the matter, you hays arrived. "In thus formally adopting your decision, I wiab, for the oaks of my diocese at large, to add a few words on the mo ral subject of confession. " As I have already dated In writing to Mr. Shaw, I bold it to be a pert of the wisdom and tenderness of the Church of England that she provides for any parishioner who in Bick nell, shall feel his censoleace troubled with say weighty =Aar' being' moved to make special mewl= of his sins ;* and that she also provides for those who before Holy Comma aka %moot quiet their own consciences being invited to math* grief to the minister of God's Word.' " In meld 4 thla special and limited prey . ..eon for troubled souls, I hold that the Church of England discountenance. any attempt on the part of her clergy to introduce a system of habitual oonfeesion, or, In order to carry out such a system, to require men and women to submit themselves to the questioning and examination of the priest. Such a eyeteer of inquiry into the accrete of henna must, in my judgment, lead to innumerable evils. God forbid that our clergy should administer or that our wives sod daughters should he subjected to it. lam care that any attempt to ' introduce it would throw gtievoue difficulties in the way cg that tree ministerial interootree with our people which, for their sakes and for the efficiency of our niiuistag, It Is all important to maintain open and nosuspected.—l am, dco., "8. OION. "The Commiesioners of the Boyne-hill Inquiry." SIB G. O. LEVIS, N.P., ON P. MORAL KNIGHTON, SATURDAY. The annual meeting of the Radnorshire Agricul tural Association took place yesterday afternoon in this town, and was largely attended by the gentry and agriculturists of the surrounding district. The public dinner wea held in the evening, at the Farmers' Club-house. air G. C. Lewis took the chalr, and was sup pmied by Sir J. Welsh, M.P., the Rev. T. Gress, MOM. Mynas, Women, Peters, J. B. Green, Banks, 80. &r G. C. Lewis, M.P., in proposing the touts of the evening, took masks to his confidence in the jogai% sentiments towards Baglmd of the majority of the French nation. With regard to parliamentary refold), he observed, "It is said that the eirmunstances of the times demand • apts. matic plan of parliamentary reform. lam not dietitian( that proposition, but I only say that any government which brings or proposee to bring forward a plan of parliamentary reform is bound to state distinctly what is the evil they proles to remedy, and what are the detects in our present system which they intend to remove. I must be permitted to remark that those persons who think it is possible by some praxes of in genuity to propose a Reform Bill which shall increase the power of • particular party, which shall throw an lUCT(49II of influence into the hands of a particular clams of the commu nity, are entirely mistaken in their supposition that any mea sure, any contrivance, any device of that kind, will impose on the general intelligence of the country or inflame the decision of parliament. In my opinion, in whatever form a Reform Bill may be introduced into the Howe of Commons, it will come out of that house a real Reform Bill, Increasing the popular character of the legislature. It will give greater weight to the voios of the people in the councils of the Horn of Commons, and if any government should entertain different views, and propose a Reform Bill not having that object, In my opinion they will not only be grievously disappointed in their erpeotnione, but will attemptto pan off &deception upon the country. That most, in my opioiou, be the necessary result of any proposal which may be made at the present time for parliamentary reform, and I will add that, as it seems to ma, at is the only legitimate bean upon which such a proposal am be made. (" Hear, hear," and chews.) I ern very mach indebted to you for the kind manner in which you have listened to the remarks I have offered on this subject, and I thank you cordially for the manner in which you have drunk my health. The right hon. baronet tesumd his seat amid load cheers. The toast of Prosperity to the Radnorshire Agricultural Association" was then given from the chair, rid the list of print having been read, Sir J. WA LS H, M.l'., in proposing the health of the chairman, observed—l agree very much with what my right hon. friend said, that any change which is made must, in the present condition and temper of the country, be in the daerocmtio direction. I cannot conceive that any govern ment would be successful in presenting to the Imislature and the country any scheme of what we may call reaction, how ever carefully veiled and disguised. I believe that the acute ness of our opponents and the general sense of the country would very soon detect any latent tendency of that kind, Sack an attempt would be not only unsuccessful, but would be followed by that discredit and loss of reputation which in variably in this country attends en attempt to am • disin genuous pan. (Cheers.) One remark I may venture to make to this assembly, as it is a truth strongly impressed en my own mind, namely, that it is a very great and pre valent mistake in the present ege, to nylons that all re forms, se they are called, are changes and Innovations in the direction of democratic extension, which is idomf by some identified with the cams of liberty. (Hear, hear.) I believe there lino greater mistake In politics then to identify those two vary difierent words and principlos—to suppose that democracy and liberty are synonymous. (Cheers.) Sir G. C. Imwts, after returning thanks for the honour done him, said—l moat apologise for having called your attention to subjects of more general interest than even that of agriculture, but there are not many occasions upon which Sir John Walsh and myself, the only representatives of this county, have the opportunity of addressing so large a body of our constituents. 'there Is one sentiment to which my bon. Mend has given utterance and which I think will meat IVA general concurrence, namely, that we are not necessarily to identify democracy with tinny, we are not necessarily to suppose that progress in the direction of democracy will itself, without proper guards and securities, Menem our public liberties. (Cheers.) He has taken you across the Channel t and asked you to contemplate the political condition of the kingdom of France. I will ask you to look across the Blies, to look to Germany as well as to France, and say whether the hasty and ill-considered rush they made a few years ago fa the direction of democracy has not ended in riveting despotism on their necks. Nothing is more obvious than that • hasty and 11l considered attempt to run by a short cut to the goal of democracy, will land you in the very opposite goal. (" Hear, beer," and cheers.) I will, however, add one remark to those which 811. John Welsh ham made ,: end that Is, that hitherto, in my opinion, all Mesons which we in this country have made in the direction of demeeney s have likewise bean advances in the dinettes of liberty. (Hear, hear.) That has been owing to the mations manna In which the progress has been mein, sad to the man ner in which public measures sew proposed and conaidand this country. (Cheers) That width has been hitherto will, I eincerely treat, continue to be the case. It is with a vier of contributing my swell mite to that conclusion, that I have ventured to throw out coy sentiments with respect to the mining Reform Bill. I met those who propose it will form a distinct Ida of what it is they seek to accomplish. I trust, alio, they will make an honest sad Snare proposal, and that they will not attempt to accomplish one thing under the mask of another. If they do, they will have the certainty of detection before their eyes. No political trick in this country ever peens undetected, and the certain result is a reaction of publie opinion, and • tendency to advance too rapidly la the direction contrary to that In which an attempt may have been made to mislead the public. From whatever quarter a Redeem Bill may come, and in whatever shape It maz= sent Itself, I trust it will receive that consideration will who It obtains the sanction of the legislature, make It teed to the public good, sad as I feel sure it will be. and moat be, in the direction of democracy, so I believe it may be brought to increase our fabbe Shensi. (Cheers.) Several other toasts of a purely local character WIN thee drunk, and the proceedings terminated. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT IN SHETLAND.—Another of these sad boat casualties which at often wear In the ate* sad are so frrquently attended with loos of life, has taken place is Shetland, resulting in the drowning of two mu. Oa Thursday last a Dunrossnes• crew were engird in the barring &thing, and, utter hauling their nide and setting nil for land, the boat being well laden with herrings, miss was struck by a heavy sea, which threw her on her side, in which pmitiou she remained, the mil preventing the boat from either totally upsetting or righting. The cram all got on the boat, but in about an hour after one of them let go his bold from complete exhaustion, and was was more seen. The other three continued to hold oa by the boat for about four hours, one of them sorist• fag his father; bat no aid appeering the yoang maw was compelled to let go his bold of his aged perm; in order to preserve himself. The old man immediately mak beneath the waters. la this perilous condition the two remaining EOM continued, tossed about at the moray of the waves, and oil la the wreck of their boat, tUI after tea e'eleek la t h e larawaee, or nearly siz boars after the sod ding 6e crew of • smack belonging to Mr. h d min at acme littla dimwits. heed M k gassing ma *dr milled= Wag deemed to dare they bon they d, ebeereed the ewe we ail the La ing i the wok, owl isessatly east title Meow them ow bawd, a work abetted with peg dratg - 10 the enleasted state of the aaffensre, and of stets of the sea, they pot their vessel aboetZ lir e= landed the mm at the Birkabister Lighthouse. The ma 1 who helped his father so long was not expected to Ii Sj coming ashore; but we are glad to say he has grestV 1r covered, end has gone home on hanaback.—lrerthaa rigs. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL TOE DIIILLeaI or THI Carat, VICTOkIA-PLItIL.—The somber of primate relieved at this institution daring the bet weak was 968, of which 143 were sew mess. rrAR r p 97 j1.4 i 6 1 men, 99rd 1 Alper I. Royal ar Ott, 01 Tin 1 and C by 8E mono moon the of WI& CATII hu WHO WilE st Lm with t Yoch Ito fit 'II!, 8U& 01 throe leek deed led tl decal her. dens .tree &boa than dow, the t that PM deed was from wha pme W' TI the 1 tau Pie sat by] awl Übe Jut