The Express. — London, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

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II AAAAAA RT.j Tws /Two.. LONDON AMUBANGI. Noma ladtaume. W 4.!. Jim•ars; th• CI. 11• Yams.-11• SWLT• f ra ACT VI. Mr. C. Ilailwen—JAo[ll %STURM MOM C•7I1 • 031. Awl ••T TORT Ii A arfuu3L—Owimmess /. PRINOZWIL Tin Hymn. AWAY Will KILLICHOLT.-1d ZINO JOHN. AL ms 4 le-n si i. PAVILION. Tan aTT7, Tes PAII*O II NOIR Nara laysir. W. t i ta * u=leoe CANIV S ! .1 0='at L 1111011 WATtR AT LONDON BIM& r e. par-=z. n o t It. a:: LONDON. TUZSDAT, NOV. 2. SPORTING DiTELLIGENCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of the EXPRESS,* sustaining the results of the day's Races, is pub limbed every evening during the Sporting Season, et eii e'elook. Tee Cabinet meets to-morrow. After an interval of more than two months i's members will naturally be curious to Ware all about one another's program in opinions, and to hear what is the outlook of each in his respective department. The LORD PRESIDENT may not, indeed, have anything more original or suggestive to say than usual, the shine having been quite taken out of the established ways of education by the dueling diversity of voluntary proposals for popular enlightenment we have lately witnessed. The Hone I'ICRETARY, however, having been to Ireland daring the recess, will probably have certain propositions to make for enabling the Church party in that country to undermine the outworks of Na tional Education, which they have so long beleaguered in vain. How the Patellas may like being asked kismet in the obeequies of the first and best offspring of his legislative skill, we cannot tell. Tyra things chiefly are remembered and retnemberab:e of him during his days of Whig statesmanship : the Aboli tion of Slavery, and the establishment of the Neutral System of Government Schools in Ireland. His present Tory administration seems destined to witness the re-establishment of the Slave Trade; it would be a strange coincidence if it were still more directly participant in the demolition of the other good and great work of his younger and better days. We trust Lord Inure, for the sake of his own fame, as well as for the sake of the country, will ponder deeply on these things. If nobody asks the CHANCELLOR yet for his programme of Law Reforms for next session, it will probably be from a silent conviction that they will have to listen to it time enough, and that, judging from the pest, it is not likely it will contain anything affecting vitally their joint-steak administrative existence. Neither sea it be expected that the COLONIAL SECRETARY will havemuch that is novel to tell of continuous gold-findings in Tasmania or his new colony on the American shore of the 1 Pacific. Were the projsct of federalising our Northern Provinces on the Atlantic side ripe for legislative execution, that would indeed be a noble topic of consultation for the Ministers of a maternal I empire, and one entitling so accomplished and elo quent a person as Sir EDWARD BVLW RR LITTON to pre-audience. But the practical sobriety °flag ellant and the circumspect care which the right honourable baronet has shown in his administration hitherto of colonial affairs leads us to believe that he will not hazard the stability of the buaiseselike reputation he is building up by prematurely "snatch " ing at laurels while yet they are growing ;" and he well knows that a federation of the North American British colonies is en act which must be sponta neously and deliberately resolved on by themselves, before any legislative interference by the Imperial Parliament can with prudence or propriety be attempted. The new SECIANTARY for Item will, of coarse, have hie oontidential narrative to give of the final events of the great mutiny, and his plans for reconstructing the administrative system when be can get time. But he evidently feels more and more that the one insuperable difficulty of hie position is that there are not thirty-six hours in the day. While all his colleagues have been taking more or lees of relation during the autumn, he has not given himself a single holiday. Be it exces sive conscientiousness or insatiable ambition, it 11 certain that Lord STANL IT has evinced untiring seal in the attempt to perform the kw dinate duties of his office ; and that however painful his own sense may be of the hopelessness of ever overtaking his task, he has left the impression upon all who came in contact with him of rare single-mindedness, equanimity, good sense, and eeriest solicitude for the public welfare. It is, of course, too soon for the CHANCE:LLD* of the Ex- CHILQUaI to divulge the thoughts it is supposed he has been ruminating, fur making both ends meet next spring. Fortunately far him the country is pee porous, end the revenue is steady, the funds are high, and money is cheap. Um) unforeseen calamity arises between this and Easter, he may fairly calculate upon being able to present as mamba a Badget as his last. His aim, we trust, will be to gain credit with the country for substantial reductions of ex penditure, Dot by the curtailment of our means of national defence, but by cutting down, wherever it may be possible, the wasteful extravagance into which we have been drifting deeper and clasper during the last few years. We trey we sae hear the PREEMENT of the BOARD at TRADE availing himself of the first passe to express his " wish to know whereabouts wear. " just sow; because it must appear to him no doubt extremely difficult to say, after so long °raising 'boat, each on his own hook, in rather foggy weather, what is preci.cly their common longitude as a poli tical fleet jest now. And we can well imagine the impatient and peremptory request of Lord DERBY, that discussion of all general questions like Reform should be deferred until definite proposals were be fore them; and that meantime they should de cide epos what really celled for decision regarding For, , gn A ffiirs. Will Lord M E•i; Y be able to satisfy his colleague THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVE NO, NOVEMBER 2, 1858. that he has done the right thing, and not , merely the courtly thing, in the air of the Stade Dues? Hu he rejected the unreasonable proposition of Hanover, and renewed the notiee fee the termina tion of Lord ABERDEEN'S Treaty of 1843 ? Or does be waver between dynastic love of jobbing and the lanwesta of oar trading community P Turning toe far MO important subject, will the FOREIGN SECRE TARY tve able to satisfy the Cabinet that, though he was in Scotland when the Della ewer a and Austerlitz were secretly despatched to Lisbon, and though he tarried out of town till the question was settled, as It has unhappily been, by the submission under &reset of Portugal to the bullying demands of France, we did all that in us lay to avert the humi liation, and to prove our loyalty as an old ally ? It is said that the Portuguese Government asked only for our good offices in mediation, but did not desire the protection of our fleet ; and our mediation being refused by Louis NAPOLEON, it would have been aboard in us to have forced our protection on • Power that did not wish for it. But is this so ? There would be, indeed,as Lord Defter may jauntily say, no use in turning out Lord PALMERSTON if we were still to go on thrusting the muzzle acne ruse into every friendly harbour that did not want them. The inquiring mind of Parliament, however, will probably ask whether the King of PORTUGAL, before he broke his sword in the face of Europe and Hang it at the feet of the French EMPEROR, had any cause to doubt that he would have been supported by England in ease of ezt7mity ? We are naturally glad to be saved from even the chance of hostilities with France; and Dom Pane° IV. has undoubtedly shown himself • wise man in preferring to submit to a wrong which does not dishonour him, rather than expose his country to the horrors of being fought for by two first-rate Powers. Still we should like to know how our Government demeaned itself in this and other affairs, for our own satisfaction. It cannot be too often regretted that the bad habits of our Foreign-ofike prevent it in cams like that of the Charles-et- Georges from telling the public at once what it has done in their name. If Parliament were sitting we should ere this know all about the matter. It is an intolerable penalty and puerility which re quires us to wait three months for the information. Tins really won't do. Our Bankruptcy system, from its inherent defects of procedure, is already sufficiently distasteful to the mercantile community of this country, without being rendered additionally odious by the overbearing and intolerable demeanour of those to whom its administration is en ,trusted. Was there ever so indecent a scene wit nessed in a modern court of justice as that which was reported at length in our columns of yesterday se having taken place before Mr. Commissioner FaBx ? We know nothing of Mr. SAROOOD, the gentleman with whom the long-drawn altercation took place, beyond the fact that he is a barrister of some standing, having considerable practice in the Bank ruptcy Courts. We form our judgment solely on our report, which we have every reason to believe to be strictly accurate, of what took place on the occasion referred to, and, judging by this test, we have no hesitation in 'eying, that while Mr. Baitooon appears throughout to have preserved his temper, under circumstances of the greatest difficulty and provocation, the conduct of Mr. Commissioner FAME sou sash as deeply to disgrace the administration of British justice. Mr. SAROOOD appeared for the assignees, to oppose the passing of a bankrupt named SAUNDERS. The principal ground of opposition was that the bankrupt had made false state meats on his balance-sheet. It was also con tended that as, jest before his bankruptcy, he had executed a bill of sale to his son-in-law (of which he had mid nothing in his schedule), the assignees were entitled, under the 123 th clause of the Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act of 1849, to the usual order for having the goods, included in this bill of sale, sold and disposed of for the benefit of the creditors. Both these were important points: both of them were urged by Mr. BARGOOD with perfect temper, but with that proper degree of firm ness which his clear duty to his clients rendered imperatively necessary. The manner in which they were met by Mr. Commissioner Fame is almost incredible. Alter the bankrupt had explicitly admitted the utter falwhood of the statements on his balance-sheet, the Commissioner, resolved appa rently that the man should :pees if possible, in spite of Mr. SARGOOD, endeavoured to make him retract his retractation, and answerer the contradiction that he had jut been compelled to make on oath. The only result of this attempt on the part of the Judge was to involve his insolvent prcitigl in a still more hopeless entanglement of equivocation and falsehood. With regard to the fraudulent bill of sale and the application founded on it under the 123 th clause of the Act, the Com missioner's conduct was still more extraordinary. He refused to look at the bill of sale, or to take any note of its contents; he flatly refused, indeed, to take any note of the evidence at all, declaring that it was the solicitor's duty and not his to do so. When Mr. SAROOOD earnestly entreated him to take a note of a particularly important answer, his reply woe, " I am not to be dictated to as to what I am to " do; of what I choose I will take a note." Mr. BAROOOD descended to ask it as a favour; the short answer was, "I shan't do it." The solicitor fared no better, rather worse, when at an after stage of the examination he urgently pressed the same request. Mr. BURILITT—" Will your Honour be kindenongh to take that down ?" The Commis- MonlA—" It would be better if you would do your " daty, and not interfere with mine. You know " perfectly well that it is the duty of the solicitor to " the bankruptcy to take down the evidence." Mr. Bunarrr—" Then, if I do so, will your Honour sign " my notes ? " The Commissiontiz—" If you do not " conduct yourself with donee, and propriety I " shall not stay here." The Commissioner did stay, but it was only still farther to ex pels hinmelf. He could not forget Mr. Hun- UTE and the notes. He returns to the charge. " As to my taking notes, it is no part of my dirty to " Mks thmis. It is the duty of the solicitor to the " bankruptcy,andl think that person is not a very fit " person to attend in this court, for he does not know " the respect due to this curt, inasmuch as he " neglects his daty and then finds fault." " That per " son " has addressed to us a communication, which will be found elsewhere, giving very good, in feet unanswerable, reasons for not taking notes himself, and showing that Mr. Commisaioner FsNa's declared opinion of the correct course in this respect was the very opposite of that which he promulgated on Saturday, and one which not only the reason of the thing but the practice of every other court in this country would show to be the right , rale of proceeding. As the cam went on, the con duct of the Commissioner became worse and worse. He called on a fresh cause. He took notes and signed documents relating to other bankruptcies. He fell foul of the parliamentary draftsman, that • " wiseacre whoever he was, who by throwing three "or four mischievous words" Into the 123 th section of the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act, " had thrown • " everything into confusion, and made a very awk k " ward and terrible clause of it "—a clause which he the Commissioner, for bno, we'l not going:to net snider. Finally, brealdeg throsih Mr. sAxGoicnre address, the Commissillwer, taniing to the bank rupt, asked abruptlyOrturther kb was prepared to sign the papers—the papers, be it observed, which he had sworn to be false. What follows we must give verbatim: Mr. SAROOOD—Yon ant net at liberty to pass him If I show they sm wrong. I do not think any judge ta the kingdom would allow him to do so. The Comettetortza —I allow him to judge for himself. Mr. SAILOOOD —l3st I do tot, Mr, and I uk you to judge. I em going to e second pert of my am. The Comma/tough (to hie attendant)—Where's my hat P (To Mr. Bergood)—Do you propose then to farther examine the bankrupt ? Mr. 8.4.4000 D-1 am addressing you, air. upon the evi - data, already given. TM CommitMtom sa —I do not care (patting on his bat). XT. BASOOOD—WeII, really this surpasses everything. The Commtsstoteza (to bankrapt)—Are yon erillin,g to sign them papers and adopt then an a fall and tries amount of your Weis sad Aids ? Btsurrt—Yes, I us. The Cortitaatowna—Thwa you may do 0. Mr. Saanooo—Bitt, taellJ, elr, I was about to all your attention to the feet that this matt Davin swirled away the whole of him property ea the 2tet of Jute, there la not a syllable lo the whole of that balanoe-sheet rderring to that anaignment in any way whatever. The COlOluatom az (rising sad pushing away his desk) — That is nothing to we. Mr. 8s nooon—Do yon adjourn this sitting, then, sir? The COMMISSION2B-1 osanot. Yon must go to soother court. Solotmtur risu tabula: "his Honour" retired amid the general hilarity of the Court, leaving it I subject of animated discussion whether the bankrupt had been passed or adjourned. It appears by Mr. Straurr's communiestion that to pus the bankrupt under the circumstances was too strong a measure even for Mr. Commissioner KUM. He re turned to make an entry that the bankrupt could not be sworn to his statement, and then—retiredfor his va cation. If the creditof his court were duly consulted by those in authority, that vacation should be a long one. Mr. Commissioner FANS ought to be ad journed sins die. He has had several hearings—that on Saturday was neither the first nor the most flagrant—and he has taken care to give himself a I certificate of the lowest class. These are not the days when a couple of thousand a year can be given to a judge who is too lazy to take • note—too arrogant and ill-mannered to consult the decencies of his position—too self-opinionated to submit to the I law he is paid to administer, or to consult the in tercets of that class of the community which he was principally appointed to serve. • LIVIST INTELLIGBKE. '1 THE MASSACRE OF A FRENCH CREW BY AFRICAN " EMIGRANTS." (IT SONOIRRINI7 AND !WYNN TILRORAI.R.) I PAWS, TUESDAY MORNING. The name of the French vessel, the captain and prow of which were massacred on the coast of the Comorea, is the Anna. The emigrants rose upon them, and only two men escaped. The Moniteer ds la lifunio* gives the following details connected with the seizure of the French ship the Alfred by the Portuguese, as briefly men tioned by the telegraphic despatch from Nantes : _ . The Labewdounsis steamer has brought to the government of Recision news from the meet of Africa, which leads us to augur favourably of the mission of the French brig of war Le Genie. She has also brought reports from Capt. Cahours, ef the Alfred. That veinal was at Anjou= when she fell in with the English corvette Persian, by the captain of which she was visited, every inquiry being made se to the opera tions which she was engaged in. The clear and explicit re• plies made by the captain of the Alfred prevented the corn ancient of the Persian from carrying Into execution his intention of searching the vessel. The interviews which the captain of the Genie afterwards had with the commanders of the English maulers on the station and the energetic language he made use of were of • nature to prevent the renewal of similar pretensions. The instruc tions for the vessels on the Mozambique station, by the governor of Riunion, give the French merchantmen all the support necessary for their commercial operations. The Alfred, on leaving the Comore., when she had made some engagements, proceeded to Ibo, on the eastern coast of Atria, to convey three European passengers to that place. The Portuguese governor seized the vessel, and sent her to Mozambique. The governor of Reunion received the intima tion of this fact from the governor-general of Mozambique, who in the same despatch announced that the Alfred had been Messed, and the governor of Ibo summoned to Mozam bique to glee an account of his conduct. Thu satisfaction has been given before It has been applied for. The Pays denies that it is the intention of the Emperor's government to forbid French vessels from proceeding any longer to the coast of Africa to engage negroes for the French colonies. " The operations of the immigration," it says, " are thoroughly straightforward and correct. They have nothing whatever to do with the slave trade; and if, in practice, there sometimes take place irregu larities which it is easy to remove, that circum stance does not destroy the principle on which they are based. We believe that the only reform in contemplation at present is to destroy as much as possible the trifling abuses which take place in practice. As to the immigration itself, France maintains its right to the utmost extent. We may add that not only the immigration has not the inconvenience* mentioned by the English journal, but that it constitutes a positive progress, when looked at from the point of view of humanity. It results, in fact, from the last reports of the French and English commanders of the squadrons on the coast of Africa, that at present the black kings wou,d put a considerable number of their subjects to death, if, since the abolition of the slave trade, they did not find means of employing them in immigration." ITALY. (PROM OCR OV( CORRESPONDENT.) NICE, Oct 28. The trial of the murderers of the advocate M. Garibaldi, cousin of the famous Garibaldi, was con cluded this afternoon. This crime had created a most painful sensation in all Italy, and, from the peculiar circumstances of the case, it may be con- • iidered as a public lesson. For many months, and up to the day of the murder, Nice had been plagued by a band of idle scamps, who this evening tore through the streets shouting offensive songs, insult ing the passengers, and breaking windows. The police was never present when wanted; the indig nant representations of the respectable inhabitants and of the local journals failed to stimulate the zeal ed the authorities, while the evil-doers, encouraged by Impunity, at list committed murder, from noother aeotiee than love of bloodshed and defiance of authority. On the afternoon of the 28th ult., three men, named Raymondi, Anfosso, and Martin, who ' belonged to the above turbulent band, and were notorious vagabonds, presented themselves before the country house of a M. Saint Aignan, outside of Nice, and, uttering menaces, commenced battering against the door. The steward of the property, leaning over the wall, inquired their business, and met with this reply :—" We intend to beat some one." The steward gave the men some figs and wine, whereupon they directed their steps towards a neighbouring country . house, belong. ing to M. Garibaldi. On arriving before the door they commenced shouting for drink, and, having met with no reply, forced an entranoe and rushed into the garden. Two female servants who expostulated with the men were insulted ; and one of the latter, striking a rose tree, vociferated, " Were you a man, and not a tree, I would kill you." A !shearer, attracted by the noise, advanced towards the three men, who, without fu rther cere mony, commenced beating him with their fists and with stones. Two other labourers approached, and, having released their comrade, seized on one of the assailants. The muter of the house, M. Garibaldi, arrived at this moment, and, having ordered the men to keep a firm hold of their captive, he de spatched one of the women into the house to fetch writing materials in order to draw up a report of the mange. The other two assailants, on hearing this order, commenced hurling stones at M. Garibaldi; end one of the two, Raymondi, encouraged by the absence of resistance, drew a knife and closed with the people of the house. One of the men engaged In holding the captive received two stabs, from which he has partially recovered ; while M. Gari baldi received a mortal wound, and expired two hours afterwards. The three men escaped in the confusion ; but, instead of seeking safety in immediate flight, they insulted arid maltreated other persons in the neighbourhood and then withdrew to their usual haunts, where they were captured on the following day. No doubt existed with regard to the identity of the prisoners; numerous witnesses recognised them. Raymondi, moreover, left behind him on the scene of murder his waistcoat and hat. The knife with which the deed was committed was recognised as having belonged to • relation of Ray mondi, who had, • short time previously, stabbed with it a person named Vial. The prisoners adopted for lines of defence the plea of drankenness, and accused themselves of having stolen on the evening before the murder two dozen bottles of wine from the cellar of a publican. But the latter had missed none of his property, while the majority of witnesses declared that the prisoners were not intoxicated bat seemed possessed by an evil spirit. In fact, they were inflamed by the idea—confirmed by previous impunity—of their superiority over the law. The public prosecutor concluded for the following ver dict :—Raymondi, death ; Antonio, hard labour for life; and Martin twenty years' hard labour. The wart, however, took a more lenient course, and sentenoed Raymondi to hard labour for life, Anfosso to twenty years of the same punishment, and Martin to three years' imprisonment. The public did not, it is true, comprehend the disproportion in the two latter sentences. During the trial considerable ex citement prevai led, and the court was densely crowded on every occasion. This severe lesson given to the riotous band has afforded general satisfaction to the foreign residents and to the inhabitants, who have already remarked that the police of the town has proved less ineffective sines the commission of the above crime. It cannot, however, be said that public order is protected as it should be, and I only re-echo the sentiment of every di eigner in Nice when I state that the less fre quented streets are not so secure as they should be sifter dish. Considering that the principal mer chandise in which the town deals is sunshine, and that the customers for that article are weak invalids, Mho are at the mercy of the first muscular scamp who attacks them, too great attention could not be paid by the authorities to the protection of those ,whose very weakness creates the prosperity of the General Garibaldi, cousin of the murdered man, has just left Nice for the little island of Maddalena, is the Mediterranean, which he inhabits with his son and a smell colony of political friends of Nice. The general. who, by the bye, is the mildest and meet unassuming of men, has not yet given up his profession of sea captain, and he is about to Assam the command of a first-class vessel of Genoa. His daughter has been adopted by • wealthy family of Nice. - - Russian families of distinction continue to pour into Nice, where Englishmen now play only second fiddle. The widow of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, the Grand Duchess Maria, his been residing in Genoa for the last four days, and is expected here daily. General Sonkonsannotto 1., brother of the Russian Minister of War, figures amongst the last arrivals, with several other general officers with equally un mronounceable names. More illustrious visitors are, however, expected, in the shape of M. Meyerbeer and Ernst, the king of violinists. A singular specimen of the character of the re ligion professed by the inhabitants of the neigh bourhood, and also of the town of Genoa, notorious for their fanaticism, was offered • few days afo at Arenzano, near the " Superb City." A religious fête, the Casaccie, is celebrated in that plane by pro cessions, in which the male population indulge in trials of strength: the man who can carry the longest a gigantic wooden crucifix is rewarded by general esteem, and take.; the place of honour in the drinking bout which follows the match. After all the money collected for the celebration of the fête has been consumed in drink, the crucifix is sold to the highest bidder, and the libations recommence with fresh vigour. The enlightened portion of the clergy endeavoured to put an end to this disgraceful custom and the Dort of the place announced his in tention of devoting the funds collected for the cele bration of this year's fête (800 f.) to the restoration of the church steeple, which is sadly in want of re pair. This decision provoked the indignation of the people, who despatched • deputation to the Arab bishop of Genoa in order to have the reforming cure called to his senses. But the archbishop and the civil authorities of Genoa pronounced themselves completely in favour of the cure, and dismissed the deputation. The latter, on its return, excited the population to disorder, and the offending cure was beaten severely in the church when about to read mass. The deputation has been matched off to prison in conseouenee. Cbt Court. WINDSOR, Nov. 1. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur, drove out this morning, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Prince Consort went out &hooting. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel the Hen. A. Harding, hare succeeded Colonel F. H. Seymour and Captain the Hon. D. de Boer Equerries in Welting to her Majesty and the Prince Contort. The Earl and Coaster of Derby arrived fn London yes terday from Knowsley Hall, Lanosehue. His lordship and the Counter proceeded in the aftrriroon to Osterley Park. The ChompDor of the Exchequer arrived in town yester day front a visit to Baron L. de Rothschild, at Onnnersbory Perk, Adorn. Dee were received at the Coionia-ofice yederday fro thee of the North AUNIFIC*II Provinces, the West ladle bland*, Natal, and from the Lard High Com missioner of the lonian lelsnds. Killislitoyal Highness the Genii/ Commanding-W -aist wM hold a levee ►t one o'clock on Monday wit, thra Silt last. Major-General Buckley and Lady Catherine Buckley have arrived In South Audloy-streat, tram vhdting Major-General Bulwarks and Kra Boum* at Deism Abbey, Naar Arthsaptos. Sir Edward and Lady Conroy have arrived at the Quesses Said, Upper Norwood, from Reading. . _ _ The Dean of Worcester hat left Ferran ce's Hotel, Belgravia, for the deanery, Worcester. Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P., and Mr. Hayward have joined tits oink visiting Vistioant and Viscountess Palmer ston at Bonham& The marriage of Lord Eglintoun is fixed for to morrow, at three p.m., at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, after which las invited party will partite of a Jfjedet►. The damming einem,' will be Aroltdsecee °cold, bro tber-ie-law of his Exaelleacy. Mr. Drummond Wolff, of the Foreign-office, has succeeded Mr. W. Higgins se private emeetery to 81r Ed ward Huhn, Lytton. The Admiralty steam yacht im to leave Woolwich for Boulogne this day with the funeral ass need in the inter meat of Befallen st tk. Helena, and which has been 031 /I plendy restored. Bir John Bermes, K.C.8., Inspector- General of Portitlastions, proceeds to Paris to present the ear in the wee at her Majesty to the Brower sad the Frisch Po*. _ _ Th. Noshes Dowager of Northumberland has presented a beautiful service of communion plate to the now church of Bt. Mary's, Bervick•upon-Tuasd. We (Dosdisoiton Times) hear that his Grace the Duke of Cleveland was seized with Maass on Thursday, whilst out shooting, at Itoteby. The Governor-General of Canada, acootnpanied by Lord Redssock and one or two °then, h barn leading • hunter's life In the backwoods, on the shores of the beau tiful river Severn, which empties halo Lake Huron. The Royal Caledonian Hunt have voted 601. in cheeky to the town el Kelm. A donation of 1001. has just been presented by Dr. Maltby, the retired Bishop of Durham, through Biz John Fogies, to the Watt Busse; Esat Hants, end Chisholm. Balmer,. AZT MID THY FAINCILBB ROTAL.—It will intermit airy of sir readers to lass that the Primus Firsiolt Willies of Prowls sedulously cultivates he, treater aa artist in her new hire; rd. ISOM that the Prisms MD sake the ealetesseasil resionbers the storks of theft who win Mr only inansters Mr. Edward Carbeskl, her when the Prisms' nesSed Ims Imre is art, hes jut sew retard heft libabslabers, where aid at Potsdam drag the tersperry wears of hie dudes at the parr at be.,, be hes bets espwirmesdise her arise. rim/elk/Ab e ow. beta aband bat sti lay venation. ram% It is prateping to emir best es swe-slassi sadism et the seam then ordinary doses* bappiare sadism by sae wham all situ ßritain regards with mission. The Pirates mhos poor girl e. ot sldll is drawing la the liandrisp asi dos reties of Mr ralier and is kering a Sadie fitted tip In the sew palms. Is IMAM Ha royal Mears rpms to be a past ssd may mar eas us told to show bar krobalia. IWO so elep or of air way to trim ale ? At the lest fele Ikeliss. where earythiag was to le bought that poser mad old, then wee eon stall MSS sae Med with i that as coakettng sad metal, sea as felt tress mad some/ soakage sad woollen gloves The Prisms Sr hoes looking from the windows of the miss apes the veriest proms asd Mots of people is the fair sodas the heriessy =strew of arm with ea artike eye, when ha stiattlon wee east to this stall, Is tibia sets ism wars, to amber at.. west. The follow. Ins day the semi Ni. premed itself—the salltat7 agar sad ...miasma. TM Proem at La iletermar that Men shield be INN .axiom at soy re* rid iatlmated that her pone. WA to walk. Osr:o s hl sp again t beams of the oaks she told the attestiaate that they said ramie them whir she armed to the pie. Zedmise the stall, re ailed the price of the contests. to whir tie wows replied that it would far exceed the parr of •raw ledy—it maid amass to 24 trios. The Pris ms Mil bat 10 la bee pares at the ment the Prime hatily sip pared la sight; Isar th aw benowell, sad sae mil soar etas use ands happy, ter the ixotiets if she stet mew dietriberd as seen r Wight. The fiery Is WE at eharesserbsie et the kiwi bort of the BegNsY Primes.— Ike Ardor. -.-- - In the ir personal eleanliness the Japanese present • noshed nostrum to the Chinese ; no deformed orient* mast the eye in the crowded 'were ; outinneoue dyeseee seem almost unknown. Is Nagasaki towards evening • large parties of the }tale end feni4le population mirth' be rat, on the ecowion of Lnrd Elidn's ye*, ine,,neutly tublike," at the corners of 'be streets. In Jeddo they frequent' kn. Whine eet•Wistimente, the donr of which 14 Op.. to tie pr by, and presents• CUT4OO.I •premele. ISM sspeYlly if the Weans of blth Poxes ingenuously nettle It es sass at Mu as he dui blushingly past. INDIA,. COMMERCIAL NEWS. EIIEIIARIH■ AND BRITISH TELZGRAPIO (PION 0111 OWN MALTA, TOSSOLT. Commercial' airless from Bombay of Oct. 10 report the money market rather tight. Imports were healthy ; in exports little was doing, and prices were receding. Freights were lower. Exchange, 2s. 0)d. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, SAIIIRDET EVENING. _ _ _ Ali Ghalib Paola, son-in-law of the Sultan, was drowned last evening in the Bosphorus, his barge having been sunk by a steamer. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Emperor and Empress have left to-day for CowipiAgne, where the Court will remain until the end of the month. This being All Saints' Day, the Bonne and public offices en closed. In the Paris corn-market, during the past week, business has been of an average character, the four marks being quoted at 48G. the sack of 137 kilogrammes. Superior qualities were offered at prices varying down to 44fr. For wheat, the quotation was 28fr. the 190 kilos. Some good samples from Champagne were offered for 26fr., and others from Sens and Montanan at 24fr. 60e. 1 3ye was in demand, the price being 16fr. 260. the 116 kilos. The only journal that touches on the subject of 1 1 Mr. Bright's first speech at Birmingham is the Constitution:oat, which publishes an article briefly enumerating the chief points of the oration. After dwelling particularly on the language used against the House of Lords and against unequal taxation in England, the French journal concludes as follows : It may be sees on what daageroas ground Mr. Bright has curried the discussion on the Reform Bill. It is probable that certain aasertiorts weds by him at Birmingham will be lamely ocarbstad by the orgies of the old parthm At MI mats, It Is certain that this harangue, et times so vary violist, against aristocratic prejudices, mat pro duce a eonsiderable effect. It la in vain for the Tines to pretend that the radical orator spoke with mars vehemence ties& wee otmeistuat wit► the national &alias at this p•rtiosler meteata, he then are not Um Mee good ramie be amposing that this hammy will exalts the public Mad, and give a fresh end *mem impales to • movalmat which has hitherto heat rather limited. Mr. Bright wished to give this ismales, mil be invited his auditory sad the numerous Mewls of ratan to follow It op with all the may salted to so great • came What Mr. Bright wishes is a general agitation similar to I that which preceded the adoption of the Reform BM of 1832 sad the vote on the com laws ; that world be the whole a•rioa dosing op its ranks to Mask privileges and I march to the smash of the Home of Lords. Will the cornea listaa to that Met sad obey its sa•r gede semeale ! Will it repast the ay which was so wen* applauded at Birmingham:—" No hypo critical measure I Let as ham • Ma bill, • pod hill, se no bill at all " f Will they exact, as Mr. Bright drains, an antemian ef the right ef weans nearly equity- Ime M named setae; vote by teapot; and an equal Mviam of the rimmesatatives aseortMeg to she eatable of Medea f That is what we Mall seem sm. Bat tf the righollea semismesd by Mr. Bright shod& spread end es happremsetkme, It may, perhaps, be sot ally the ex istence of the Them mhdatry bat also the preponderance of the arlakatreim that will be campmates& E•gls•d hermit meld asporiseat cm of those shocks which hers elresdy several Nem sfsake• her to bar handations. It Is true that her robust wassitation knows bow to triumph over each Wahl, and there Is every reason to hope that on this occasion also she will be able to undergo, without danger, • huh transformation. THE PENINSULAR NATL. (ST SLECTRIC TILSOZAPIL) SOUTHAMPTON, TrEssiT. The Valetta has arrived with the Peninsular mail The French squadron left Lisbon on the 26th ult., with the Charles Georges. TURKEY. WWII 001 SPECIAL COR/MPONDEXT.) CONdTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 23. On Wednesday afternoon, Sir H. Butwer was the object of an outrage in the main street of Peru, which has created a oonsiderable local sensation. Attended by a black groom, his Excellency was riding down this narrow thoroughfare, when he met one of the court carriages filled with ladies, aid seseriul, canal, by a troop of eunuchs and palms .are at As these lumbering vehicles filled up nearly the whale width of the street, Sir Henry's groom called out to the coachman to draw a little to one side to Ist hi. master pass. Conchae, with the usual insolence of these palace menials, replied that he would not move au inch for a Giaour, and kept on till Sir Henry was in imminent danger of being crushed against the side of the adjoining house. Seeing this, the groom struck the near carriage horse, to turn the vehicle aside, whereupon the driver returned the blow across the shoulders of the former, who, showing fight, was speedily beset by the armed servants and eunuchs in attendance. As short work would have been made of the poor black if left to the mercy of these ruffians, Sir Henry rode into the melee to the rescue, bat although the groom and the bystanders called out to the palace people that it was the English ambassador, it was not until, I beli eve, more than one blow had fallen upon his Excellency that the spectators snooeeded in putting an end to the outrage. During the latter part of the squabble the confusion of the scene was enhanced by the dim oordant screams of the veiled occupants of the car riage, who, to do them justice, however, enco urage d their myrmidons right loudly with shouts of Aferim! aferim! (Well-done, well-done) till they heard that the object of the indignity was the redoubtable English Elchee. Fear of the result then took the place of vixenish glee, and encouraging laughter gave way to screaming orders to desist. The prin cipal actors in this disgraceful outrage have, it i s said, been severely punished ; but till something more than dogging and an apology is exacted for these brutalities, which are of frequent occurrence even in the heart of this Frankish quarter, their pampered perpetrators are not likely to practise better manners. As it is, their prmtorian insolence is beyond all toleration. After another postponement of a day, Lord Strat ford finally departed yesterday. His visit of leave to the Sultan was paid on the previous day, when, I am informed, the farewell between the old lord led his imperial protigl was touchingly warm and in formal. Yesterday a deputation of the resident English accompanied him front the British Palace to the landing-place at Tophaneh, off which the Caradoc lay; and as the calque moved off from the pier more than one loud and hearty "God bless you!" followed the unmanned old diplomat to the ship. His lordship has gone to Civita Vecchia, whence be proceeds to Rome for the winter. The anniversary of the Prophet's birth-day wax celebrated with the usual waste of gunpowder and round of raves-show ceremonials at the Palace and Stamboul, on Wednesday. 1 UNITED STATES (11011 0171 SPECIAL 0011111PONDENT.) NEW YORK, Ocr, 19. We are labouring in the throes of a Piccolomini mania. The lady arrived with her relations a few days ago, and the Opera-hothe iB now besieged from morning till night by a tumultuous throng, seeking tickets. Without intending the smallest disrespect to the lady, I must add, however, that she divides the public attention with a great " mill " which is to come off to-morrow in Canada between two Irish prizefighters, named Morkeey and Heenan, for 6,000 dole. and " the championship of America." The rapid rise of the ring into the character of an " institution " here is one of the most curious signs of the times. Fifty years ago, when it flou rished in England, and found some votaries amongst gentlemen, it was unknown on this aide of the water, at least in the North. Prizefighters are now quite important political personages. They are courted for the aid they render at elections, either in mailing or defending the polls. When they commit an assault, as they often do, it is almost impos sible to get a conviction against them ; while they are training for a braising match, the leading papers keep the public constantly informed with almost as much assiduity as Bell's Life of their " points " and " condition, and retail all the small I gossip that can be picked up about them with great gusto. More marvellous still, nearly all the leading journals of this city are sending special re porters to the soene of action to-morrow, and we shall have hourly reports of the progress of the fray by the aid of carrier pigeons. Newspapers in this country depend so largely for their circulation upon a class to whom such details are intensely interesting, that they cannot refuse to administer to their appetite ; but that any such demand should extensively exist, and that a pound ing match between two blackguards should assume the dimensions of an important public event, even in the midst of the election excitement, is a fact which no admirer of democratic institutions can afford to overlook. The "native Americans" contend that these brutal tastes and barbarous tendencies are of foreign importation; bat, even if this is the case, it is somewhat disheartening to feel that a flight of English and Irish gaolbirds have it in their power to drag down a refined and religious community to their own level. However this may be, there ie no question that pugilists have attained in the United States a standing knd influence such as they have never enjoyed anywhere since the last of the Olympic games. FRANCE AND PORTUGAL. The official gazette of Lisbon, the Diane do Grocerno, gives the following account of the diffi culty between France and Portugal: On the 29th of November, 1857, the comma:Awl alibi naval station of Mozambique captured the Ftwach barque Charles et Georges, because It was found anchored near the island of Quitangonis, in the Bay of Condo* a port tuterdieted to foreign commerce. and for having on board 110 nevem, who declared they had been forcibly shipped, isdepewlass of the vessel having on board effects • according to the list attached to the decree of the 10th December, 1838, are considered indicative of the Illicit tralBo ' in slaves. _ _ . -- TlUcrown lawyer or advocate at Mozambique having cm the 26th of December, 1867. nude his accusation, in com pliance with the sail decree of the 10th of December, 1836, against the captain and mew for tho Infraction of the bell laws and the purchase of slaves, and all legal formalities having been complied with, sentence wee lamed on the Bth of March, 1868, oondemning the captain in two years of hard labour with the fine of 500 milieus (1000, and condemning the vessel and specie, but absolving the crew. The crown advocate and the captain both appealed to the Court of ashcan (Caseation) at Lisbon against the maid sentence. The French government, not ',cow:Mang the right of cap ture and the luality of the judgments of the Portuguese tribunals. under the pretext that the vessel wee authorised to contract for labourers, and had on board a dekatas ap pointed by the Governor of the Island of Reunion, demanded the delivery of the vessel and release of the captain. The Positivism government did not consider it could in terfere in a matter which was before the tribanale, whose . . ilie;;;Oie;a7Tt;;;Liairol mach without brcshin g tires far. demented law of the state : and the French government coo ' ironing its claims, especially in a note from its minister at this court on the 14th of September biet, to which the Minieter of Foreign Affairs replied on the 19th of the MOO month, and transmitted the documents which explained the affair, the government, by despatches of the 2nd and 6th nit., directed its minicar at Paris to propose to the Wl peril government the dedmon of the pending question by the mediation of a third power, to be choeen by th e Emperor of the Frio* racording to the ptintiplea era forth in Per tecol No. 23 of the Fran Conferences on the 14th of Araff, 1366. This proposal was immediately rejected. By despatch of the 13th nit., Coosa Waleweki, Hides ter of the Foreign Affairs of the French Empire, directed the Marquis de Lisle de Slry, Minister of France at this court, to inform the Porcupine« government that the Imperial government would accept an arrangement epos the following basis : " Delivery of the captured vessel, release of the capbbit 24 hours after the departure of the French ships _al oar from the Tagus ; mediation of the Eine of Hulked, te the indemnity to the parties interested, France rspriliag ag ides of mediation upon the question of right." Count Welewalu added that, upon the non-ecospiesne d this basin the Minister of Frazee should carry out the h aemostats he had received. These inetructims would, ed cording to the verbal explanation given by that agnietir to the President of the Council (Marquis de Louie), as • Let resource, result in his Excellency's retiring, with all the diplomatic and consular cores in Portugal, thus intennotiolt diplomatic sad commercial Manors between the two rase tees, and leaving to Admiral Levant], Commander if the French naval forces In the Tagus, the termination of the pearling question. Coder them chenmetamore the government penises( is the conviction of its right, but seeing at the seem time the Impossibility of imattag that right prevail, believed it to be its duty to meanie towards the country the grave raped- Milt, of aiding to the iperemptory exactions d Fromm by directing the release of Captain &mail, and the &livery of the captured vowel to whomever the Franolt Minnie might designate. As regards the media** indicateA by the larowitt yernment for fixing the sant demanded, wader the title of deneeleselan, the government coraidered that mediadea at having been ereepted by Francs, open the question of right, the only One effecting the honour and dignity of the wants, ' Portugal could not accept it upon the pecuniary (l utetium, sad therefore left France to proceed to that torpor as it may Jodys convatient, declaring that it maid code to the reside tlyn France may adopt, for the Name reseona which bad obliged it to cede to the other exactions. In this conformity .1 note wan, on it.: 3rl inn., mot by*/ Minister of Foreign A Heirs (Lout.) to the repromelklAtil'S of the Imperial government at this Court. All toe d...nments relating to thin matter will bit hid before parliament at the approaching opraine of the Wino' lature. FI