The Express. — London, England, 1868-09-17 00:00:00

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Pries A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTLINItiO The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting. and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LOS .V DON, THURSDA Y, SEPT. 17. A LATE PANIC. EItYBODY knows the last sensation topic. It i". the depravity of boys, which is understood to ft tercel, matured, or whatever else you please, by penny storybooks about " Claude du Val," Turpin," and the " Boy Pirate." If throe 1..0e1;" are not put down, boy-nature will be cl.,,rged for good and all. In fact, it is changed nlready. The boys are coining up in mass, forgers, icurderers, burglar", and anything else to which tlif old legal maxim, svi idol (I t eel/ 1, can IN)f.i.ibly apply. Let society prepare ! Boys are 01; }1. , . way. I:..:ders with inenwries arc aware that there is a :Li:A periodicity libmit sneial panics. Every •,v, and then the " angels - are " bid to turn • the poles of lf 4rt twice ten degrees and 11; ,, i1.. " so that we are to expect very different i.sl weather. It was not so very long ago ue were informed that murder, not to -41fishness, came natural to a girl of six tefn at least this version of what was said 1..111 M ith:n the limits of fair caricature. Yet girLA continue to charm us at home and abroad, and not even in fancy do we see blood on the little boot against which nestles the croquet-ball on the lawn, or on the suivez-nwi-jemie-honina of the damsel in St. Paul's-churchyard. And, the girls having survived criticism, and continued to 'harm us with their innocent kindness, we propose to continue to trust the boys. Nobody doubts what is obvious, namely, that, in default of any system of national education, immense numbers of the young grow up uncared for and untaught, and then come into collision with the law. But it is not pretended that those new develop ments of boy depravity which create the panic, occur among the wholly ignorant A boy must be able to read before he can get much harm out of " The Boy Pirate; " and he must be able to write before he can forgecheques. Now, it was the opinion of Wounsworrw, who preached national education irg the " Excursion " before most of us were born or thought of, that society was being enlightened by superficial culture in a degree out of all just proportion to its moral culture. And if that view of the subject was plausible when he was thinking over the Ecclesiastical Bonnets, it may now, perhaps, bc more plausible still. But we believe that those who will take the trouble to examine records of crime for, say a century and a quarter back, will not be able to arrive at the conclusion that there are in proportion to the total number of persons arrested and convicted more young criminals than there used to be. A Newgate calendar of a hun dred years ago conveys no such impression —nay, on the oontrary. Nor are we in any particular specially precocious in these days. There is no proof that the young dash into life earlier than they did in the times of the BLACK PRINCE ; on the contrary, perhaps, or at least the case is doubtful. Above all, there is no reason to believe that the majority of boy-criminals have been made criminals by reading bad books. There are, per haps, few respectable circles in which there are not sad stories that furnish a contrary indication. Does the bad boy, a thorough black sheep, a liar, a thief, a lewd, ungrateful scamp, never turn up in the very " serious" household ? The an swer would be a commonplace. And every man of the world could supplement it off-hand by a down heart-breaking facts. There is no room in the question for paradox. Bud book s are mischievous, and so is bad corn pauy ; and when a boy is found committing burglary or • forgery it is a very shock ing thing. But there is no apparent reason to believe that any power whatsoever has " pealed " oblique the central globe" in regard to the ;citing of this new generation. and that wo are going to have a great diaproportiontiteinpour ing of wicked boyhood. THE CHINKIIK 81184813 E. _ _ Tns Chinese Embassy now at 'New York will hardly be unsatisfied with their visit to England as with their stay in the United States. We cannot promise them muck popular enthusiasm, and if poli tical considerstiona break through the national reserve and lead to a banquet or two, we have no expectation of seeing our poets writing songs in their praise and our authors leaving their homes to harangue large audiences in their honour. All this they have enjoyed in America. At the classic city of Boston they were welcomed by some of the most eminent men in the Repablio, and note worthy things were said in their presence. Mr. CALEB CtialllNG, who went out to China some ran ago as American Commissioner. made use of remarkable language: I take pieseare is seem les% is the bearing of en the members of the Ikahway. sad especially of the two wawa Nees sad their eowstrywea. what I have never failed to my on other proper ociessioes, that the Kaneohe sad Obi. aseestetemaes. with whoa* Wile my labia* to ems is official contact in China, were sea"! the Welke! °stars- lion and aoooraptiehmen, versed in the &leen* of tie largest public attain possessed of thorough compeeheamin . of political and Womanised qnsitimas, and Watley is ail impale fob. ranked with the moat acoemplimbed statesman and diplomatists of Christendom. San men wee fully capable of rising to the height of any exigency of policy which the progress of time and events might require their sovereign to adopt. And I think it is easy to perceive how at length China has advanced of her own motion to negotiate with Christian powers; how it is that she has become active in this respect, and no longer wave ; and how it is that she came to select oar own honoured fellow citizen to initiate her own antemmen into the International society of Europe and America. Mr. B. W. ENISSON, on the same occasion, pointed out the relation of China to the gathered wisdom of the generations of mankind, supporting the declaration of Mr. CUSIIINO that " the Chinese " were a highly cultivated people—civilised in the " beet sense of the Word when' our forefathers " were half-naked barbarians in the wilds of " Britain or Germany." Mr. EKeesoic went on to say : Chine, is old, not in time only, but in wisdom, which is grey hairs to a nation—or rather, truly seen, is eternal youth. As we know, China bad the magnet--oentaries before Europe—and gunpowder, vaccination, canals: had anticipated Lnimetre's nomenclature of plants ; had codes, journals, clubs, hackney coaches, and, thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of new-year's calls of comity and reconciliation. Why mention its upper arts, its pottery, indispensable to the world, the luxury of silks, and its tea—the cordial of nations ? But I remember she has respoctable remains of astronomic science and historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gape in the ancient history of the Western nations, but she has philosophers who cannot be spend. C,IfYI:CIUS has not yet gathered all his fame. Mr. lititulvon.t.ms, who we may expect to be eanguine, compared certain aspects of China and the tinted States, such as the divinion of the country into subordinate sovereignties, the deriva tion of all power from the people, universal repro bation of distinctions of caste, general regard for popular education, and government by laws rather than the traditions or will of a monarchy. Mr. BUELINOHARE, in fact, has almost persuaded him self that we have everything to learn from China : We have to learn from them to respect old age ; we have to learn from them sobriety ; we have to learn from them good manners; we have to learn from them habits of scholarship; we have to learn from them how to cultivate fish ; we have to learn from them much in re lation to agriculture, much of the effects of heat and cold and light and shade upon plants ; how to irrigate, how to manure the land. Indeed, it would be a most profitable employment for some man of observing powers, iCsome scientific man should go to China and record the /acts he finds there. The Chinese may not be able to give him the reasons why they do this thing, or why they du that thing, but he would find that through long age of experience they had at last attained the right way. Ido not know of a field so wide and unreaped fur a scientific man. and I trust that the grtateet living naturalist, Pro testor Agaasiz, will neat year make an expedition to the Chinese Empire. Re are unable to hula out to the embassy a prospect of this kind, but it is to be hoped that attention will be paid them, and that they will not be left to the tender mercies of those who are always waiting to turn strangers, and strangers who are foreigners especially, to account. - - GAMEKEEPERS' FEES. •• VAILi" to servants, their extent and cost, is an old grievance in. England. Itemours and Boomer n, Ai/visors and STEELS, all entered their protests against it, and the complaints of the ex turvegant expectations of gamekeepers which find utterance now are simple echoes of those pub lished lung before this generation was born. •' Which of these men em I to pay for my din " ner ?" sardonically asked a last century guest on passing through a retinue of menials ostenta tiously watching his departure; and the increasing expenditure of the present age, when everything is conducted on a more lavish scale than formerly, has, ae a matter of course, affected servants' tips. But a recent correspondent of the Times surely out-heroded Herod when Le spoke of " paper"— in other words five-pound notes—being demanded as a right by keepers at the conclusion of a good day's sport. The gentleman who underwent this experience would have acted wisely had be kept it to himself, for the inference is that he is very young, very foolish, and very rich—a com bination not favourable to the successful advocacy of social reforms. It is only the genus " plunger " which is liable to such attempts at extortion; and no sensible sportsman, be his rank or wealth what it may, would dream of laying down a fixed tariff fur hie gifts. That civility, atten tion, and extra labour merit their reward none but curmudgeons will deny; but an honorarium is one thing and a hard and fast line of payment another, and it would be a sad stain upon the hospitality of England were any confu sion to arise between the two. What host would care to preserve covers or to rent moors if his friends had to pay for shooting over them at so much a day ? What guest would feel the same pleasure in accepting an invitation if he knew he would be regarded as a mere trade customer by the man or men wait ing for his pay ? The essence of country house life, and et least one great charm of sport, is the knowledge that healthy amusement is freely given and shared in by host and guests. Gamekeepers' tips ought never to come into question at all. Their extent should be determined by the inclina tion and the pocket of the man shooting ; and to enforce fixed rules would be to make that irk tome and unpopulur which should be spontaneous and agreeable. GAS v. CANDLES. Tun notion that the air of • lighted apartment is more contaminated by gas than by candle; rooms to be altogether untenable. Much ha; been made of the presence of sulphur in gas al constituting a peculiar impurity likely to i.i juriously affect moat things animate or inanima'o, from a human being to the binding of a book. The fact of its aosversks, daring oonibisetion, into a pungent gas, lmovm to everyone who has stench a sulphur-tipped Welter match, the . per/- Able gradual alteration of this gas into oil of vitriol, and the cumulative influence of the latter corrosive agent on the various Metes in a dwelling-hones, have been held up as onions dis advantages to those who should desire the con venience and comfort of gas-light. But till the other day no one seems to have thought of ascer taining the actual amount of contamination communicated to the air of a room well lighted by gee. In a lecture recently published, Dr. OWING, assuming, for the moment, a specimen of gas to have an accidentally high degree of impurity and the sulphur in it to be completely burnt at the jet, ends by simple calculation that the absurdly small quantity of one half-millionth part of sulphurous gas may possibly be present in the adjacent air. Moreover, scarcely a particle of this gas, he says, gets converted into oil of vitriol--'-osetainly not more than the ammonia, ordinarily occurring in the air, will convert into a trace of a harmless sub stance, sulphate of ammonia. It would appear, therefore, that the inconveniences associated with the employment of gas, such as the daokening of silvered surfaces, and the overheating of rooms, are duo to escapes from faulty fittings and abeam of ventilation, rather than to any inherent quality of the gnu its~lt, - PILIVAI I E BILL COMMITTEES. Ws get a glimpse, through a return which was issued this morning, of one side of parliamentary life, which in the eyes of some people effectualledis enchanta the other. No public duty can, perhaps, be more tedious than attendance on a private bill committee. The only break in its weariness is in the squabbling. Still, there may be public spirited men with a taste for it. Perhaps Mr. Ayrton, who has served during the present Par liament on no less than 23 of those tribunals, did not feel the hardship so much as some would have done. His only companion at that figure is Mr. Fordyce ; then come Mr. Yorke, who served on 22 committee.; Mr. Kinnaird, at 19, Mr. Childers and Mr. Howes, 18; Mr. Dent, Mr. Miller, and Lord R. Montagu, 17 ; Mr. Stacpoole, Mr. Bonham-Carter, and Mr. Waldegrave Leslie, 16 ; Mr. Powell, Mr. Read, and Mr. °cachou, 15; Sir J. Ferguson, Mr. Hunt, and Sir C.O'Loghlen, 14 ; Mr. &•later-Booth, Mr. Whitbread, General Dunne, and Mr. Graves, 13; Mr. Barley, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Clive, Mr. Dunlop, Lord Hotham. Mr. Pollard-Urquhart, Mr. H. Russell, and Mr. Woodd, 12. The fa vourite members for Select Committers last Session appear to have been Mr. Ooschon, who was appointed to serve on 6 at one and the s:►me time ; Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Howes, and Sir C. O'Loghlen, who were nominated for 5 ; and Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Childers, Mr. Graves, Sir C. Lanyon, Mr. Powell, and Mr. Read, who were appointed on 4. Three private-bill committees had the advantage of Mr. J. Stuart Mill's attendance, but the hen. gentleman does not appear to have sat on any select committee. L'prards of 150 members warped eetninittees alto gether, and this not to all cases on account of ago, for Lord Atuberley, The O'Donoghue, Sir R. Pal mer, Mr. Platt, and Lord Stanley, were among the number. OUR CONTEMPORARIF.S. (TlllB DAY.) ANEllealf PoLtrICI. Comparing the almost too tranquil scene which our own constituencies present with the passionate eon- trovoreice to he witnessed in the United States, and giving some illustrations of the extravagance in the Republic, the Ti wr obeerves that, in the midst of all this nonsense and violence. there is a large and powerful class in the United States as sensible in their ways, and as decorous in their language, as any in this country. It is the outside, the froth and the foam, that we see and hear. It is not by these speakers and writers, or by their arts and methods, that the United States are really governed, their legislators and rulers really chosen, and their policy dictated. Else that mighty fabric had been a wreck long ago. The Ame ricans du but celebrate their carnival and perform a mas querade in their political elections. The Daily Nests thinks the victory of the republicans in the state of Maine is probably indicative of the total result of the autumn elections. American politicians look with some anxiety to the Maine elections. Vermont, which votes first, is known beforehand to be overwhelmingly re publican, but Maine is divided. Nevertheless, it is clear that every inch of General Grant's progress to Washing ton will have to be fought. THE EXPRESQ. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868. THE WAIL VICTIM. It seems to the Herald that the French press has made up its mind to war. Of the independent organs, one half are in favour of war, the other half content themselves with predicting it. The government organs, properly so called, are either obstinately silent, or emit occasional notes of alarm and dark warnings to Germany. To all this the North German press responds with a will, and an influential organ at Berlin has now gone so far as to declare that this talk of restraining the natural development of Frueaia amounts in itself to a declaration of war. Meanwhile the newspapers of Russia, of Austria, and Italy, even those of Spain and Belgium, swell the chorus, divided in their sympathies between the angry com batants, but all speaking with certainty of war in the winter or spring. The government of the Emperor seams almost powerless to stay the tide, or to give another direction to the fatal turn which things are taking. MUMMO ♦ MAY. The Telegraph comments on the case of a man named Hotchin, who was sentenced to imprisonment in Swaff. ham gaol for three months for killing a hare, nod to be sent back for six months at the end of that tuns unless he could find sureties for good behaviour during twelve months longer. He had a wife and child, who entirely depended on his slender earnings. The wife fell ill ; in her utter destitution— money, food, coals, all were wanting—she was forced to apply to the parish authorities; but the application was ineffectual, or the response came too late, and she died, leaving her child, of three years, to the mercies of the parish. Such is the pitiable tale that is told by a local newspaper; and though the details may require verification, we tee well know that such cases have not yet become uncommon. Benjamin liotehin, when, at the end of nine months' hard labour in gaol, he loads back his motherless child to hie debated home, will, no doubt, be wonderfully filled with gratitude and dutifulness to the local dignitaries that have so effectively taught him the lifiCredllo6lB of property in game. PROBABLI 'VISIT OF TIM DUKE. OP EDINItITUOII ro iltn.t..—We announced a tow days ago that arrange mente had been made for unveiling the statue of the late Prince Consort, intended for the People's-park, Hal, on the 14th October next, the anniversary of the visit of her Majesty the Queen to this town in 18114. The Mayor, Mr. 0. C. Roberts, communicated through the Home office with her Majesty, who, through Major-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, R.C.8., has expressed her rogret that she cannot personally perform the pleasing Jeremouy of inaugurating the statue. Her Majesty, however, graci ously intimated that the Duke of Edingburgh might be able to attend. In consequence of this gratifying infor mation, the mayor has called a special meeting of the Town Council for Monday neat, in order that en invite.. Lion may be forwarded from the town to his royal high. ness, in accordance with her Majesty's suggestion. A com mittee will be appointed to make all necessary arrange ments for giving the royal visitor a imitable reception.— Realms Morning News. Tug Bum FESTIVITIPM.—The Mitrqui,t of Bute disembarked from his yacht at the Low Water Pier, Cardiff, yesterday morning. He was received by the Mayor and corporation, and was escorted by the local au thorities, volunteers, and friendly societies, to Cardiff Castle, amidst every sign of welcome and enthusiasm. On Tuesday there was a dinner to the Bide workmen on the East Moors, a regatta in the dock, a casoart in the hall in in the evening, a display of dreworks tram the Car diff Arms Park, and a general illawdnatiten LORD NAIINI Ol 111r40D4L4 IN EDINBURGH. EDINEIERGE, WILDNIVIDILY NOM Lord Napier of Magda* was presented to-day with the freedom of the ampr of Edinburgh, in the Knee hall. which was crowded. Lord-Provost Cuxininen pre sided. Lady Napier was present. The Loan-Pnovosr said it was an old ewe of the cor poration to confer the freedom of the city as a token of respect and good-will on persona didiaguished in states manship, arts, science, literature, and arms. By Lord Napier accepting the honour the • town council would itself fed honoured. No event in modern times had evoked so much surprise and admiration as the gamma of the ithymeniaa expedition. Lord NAPIIIM, who was received with great cheering, viewed the honour conferred upon him as a mark that, in the estimation of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, he and his naval and military brethren -faithfully served their country to the late expedition. Ea felt he could receive no higher honour under the sanction of her Majesty the Queen. ,He was far from areogeting to himself Assumes of the Abyminian expedition. It had succeeded under many didioulthe because all in their several places strove to do their duty, and acted under the guidance of a merciful and divine Providence. Three diem were given for Lord and lady Napier, aryl the proceedings terminated. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE POPE The falawing letter is riblialied td Tbeter diy's Overdiari : r,—Teie following paragraph from the Rev. F. G. Leda letter to Yr. Oathorne Hardy has beets quoted largelyin Tory paperw with the view of stimulating the "No tk pery" misled against Ur. Gladstone: "A dnguished Roman dignitary, writing to the author of this letter in the spring of the present year, intimates that it had been formally promised to the authwiiice at Ream, by a political agent authorised to do Do, that Lord Granville Lord Clarendon, and Mr. Glad. stone were fully prepared to establish and endow the Ro man catholio church in Ireland. . . . At that period the Btupeasory Bill was in embryo." Now. ear, this is not true. I was in Italy last spring, and had an opportunity of talking to sayers! " Roman dignitaries," among them an ecclesiastic who holds • high position at the Roman Court, and the belief among them wee universal that Mr. Disraeli had a scheme for the gra dual disestabliabnient of the Anglican church in Ireland, and the gradual establishment and endowment of the Roman catholic church. Moreover, the scheme was pub lished in one of the official journal' of Rome, with an ex tremely laudatory article on Mr. Disraeli, and a severe attack on Mr. Gladstone, who was ac cused of having destroyed Popery in Italy by his pamphlet on the Neapolitan prisons, as well as by the moral support which lie gave to the liberal movement generally. Mr. Disraeli, on the other hand, was praised for his secret Roman catholic proclivities, and his speech some time ago in defence of the temporal power of the Pope was referred to with great satisfaction. In short, Mr. Gladstone was soundly rated for having . spoilt the nice little plan which Mr. Disraeli was preparing for the conciliation of Ireland. That plan was in outline as fol lows :—The endowment of a Roman catholic university, with a partial endowment of the Roman catholic priest hood ; and the partial disendowment of the Irish Church by the suppreemon of some bishoprics and incumbencies. This, it was argued, would result in the extinction of the Irish church, and would prepare the way fur the Roman catholic church to step quietly into the emolu ments and dignities of the heretical intruder. Mr. tilailkone's plan was denounced as premature, becau.e the total disestablishment of the protestant church iu Inland would inevitably destroy any chance of establish ing and endowing the R o man catholic church. A few days after the publication of this article in the Ossavalore R,mwso, the editor of that paper was deco rated by the Pope for his awl and ability in defence of interests. And the evidence does not end here. When Mr. Gladstone gave notice of liis reeolutione, a Roman catholic gentleman of great ability. who enjoys the confidence of the Irish hierarchy, and is deep in the secrete of the Vatican, requested an interview with Mr. Gladstone, to whom he was till then. I believe, personally a stranger. In that interview ho urged on Mr. Gladstone the abandonment of Ins Irish church policy as being most prejudicial to the interests of the Roman catholic church. Mr. Gladstone replied. I behave, somewhat as follows : That he had considered the question in all its bearings ; that the disestablisliment of the Irish church was au art of political justice ; that justice would, in the long run, he beneficial to all legitimate interests ; that the time had, in his opinion, arrived for declaring a policy for Ireland; that the direatablishmeut of the Irish church seemed to him to be both the most just and the only satisfactory policy, and that he was determined to risk Ins political future on it. accomplishment. Whou you cuusidur the stab• of opinion at the time, the risk was very great, though Mr. Gladstone's unexpected success has made the public insensible to the danger he was running of making shipwreck of his political reputation. Uhe bad failed, it would have discredited his datesananship for years to come ; and failure was clearly on the cards, and was, at first, confidently predicted by the Tory press, and even by the Pell-w4ll titnefle, and, I think, the Salerday Renew. I am writing this letter without the knowledge of Mr. Gladstone, and I do not know whether he would approve of my publicly referring to the attempt which the lb,uian entholics made at the beginning of the session to turn him aside from but Irish policy. My information on that point was not derived from him. nor (lid I reeeiva it in confidence: and 1 think it ought to be made known, in order that the public may hare the means of judging for thenisels es 14 Wilier Mr. (Hailstone's policy was inspired by the l'ope and Cardinal Cullen. It is a significant Let that the linden ni wspapere an. supporting Mr. Disraeli against Mr. Gladstone. VERITAS. If rifle shooting does not proper in Ir4.land. oh-crves the North.rs MAO, it will not I* for want of encouragement. The Duke of Ahereorn has accepted the captaincy of the Irish Eight for 1/468-9; and Colonel Gatcoigue has announced that he will give 1001. to any Irishman who, having properly qualified himself, shall win the (jueen's prize at the next Wimbledon meeting. Major Leech, of the Irish Rifle Alasoeiation. also offer, a prize of ro. to be coral:etc(' for by three teion.—F:nglish, Scotch, and Irish—next year on Irish ground. This is good, healthy encouragement to rifle-shooters ; and thos+ who wish for a little wholesome competitive practice will find an excellent opportunity at Clandeboye next week. Sir Richard Griffith, who for forty years has presided over the Irish valuation service, has been obliged, through failing health, to place his resignation in the hands of the government. It is understood he is to be succeeded by the present commieaioncr, Mr. John Ball Greene. In the county of Cork the priests aro taking up the cause of Mr. Mg:arthy Downing. Ou Sunday last, in several of the chapels, his candidature was supported in addresses from the altar. Queen Mohdly has returned to her own country after having travelled many thousands of leagues in the hope of obtaining an audience of the Emperor of the French, which she wea obliged to give up becauNe the Emperor declined to receive her. Thu Indepeudunce Beige announces tho death of Baron l'ona de Valet, who was accused some years ago of attempting to murder his son, for the purpose of obtain ing the fortune which he was about to inherit. Thu case will be well muensbertsl in England, where it caused au unusual Ile struck the youth a severe blow on the bead with a loaded cane, and for some time his life was in danger. The public were much dissatisfied with the mildness of the sentence, being only one year's imprison ment, with hard labour. Tw•o Sovereigns have just enter►d on the twentieth year of their reign, namely, the Empeeors of Austria and the King of Italy, who ascended their re. speeti►o thermos within a few months of each other. _ _ _ The authorities of Jaszbereny, an Hungarian town, have just bad the following extraordinary notice published to the sound of the drum:—" Seeing that oaths and blasphemies are the real causes of earthquakes, every one, no matter who, is forbidden to swear or u:4O bad lan guage, under penalty of receiving twenty-five st►ipes with a rod and paying a fine of 25 florins." A savant of Prague, M. Leonardi, invites all philosophons by profession to assemble on the 28th inst., in that city. They are to MI recuived hospitably and with. out di-diuctien of doctrine. The sittings will last a week, and the questions to be treated are to be metaphysical. The promoter of thin meeting, who was a prole .or at (lottingen at the seine time as Hegel. Hatters himself that he may bring about en amalgrunatiou of taw various istooLi of philosophy. A lottor from Buunti, written just before the arrival of the Emperor, Empress, and fries o lutporial, describes the increaue which ban taken place during the last throe years in the number of buildings. Apartments are esti avagantly high, so much so that none but pooplo about the court, some• Americans, Engliih, and ltwwiatis, intronire them. Au at Nice, this will sue doubt correct itself in time. The Speuiards live at Bayonne for eeonoiny's rake, and come into Biarritz in omnibuses to lathe. Food is much dearer than in Paris. There are milliners, jewellers, and other tradesmen frees Paris ready to serve you with all that la taahlosable; but no poor pooplo wool go to Martini. IeitiRBIGN NEW g. gaispsy.) • - )• ' TBN JUNG OP-14NRINTA ON WAR. When the King of Prussia lately visited Kiel, M. Ludemann, rector of the university, addreeeed his Majesty during a grand performanoe given at the theatre, and dwelt on the general desire entertained for the maintenance of peace. The King replied : As respects your wiahes on that head, no person can share in them more thoroughly than I ; betimes for • Sove reign the nauarity is painful, and forms • responsibility towards Ood of finding himself compelled to pronounce the fatal word—" War." And yet cirensoatanass do some times arise in which a Prince cannot and ought not to himself from that obligation. Yoe have seen with your own eyes :here that the "security of hostilities may sometimes force itself on • monarch as well es a nation. U between us there exists • bond of contilenee and friendly sentiments, we owe this to war. fig — r the rest, Ido not see throughout Europe rairrg threatening to disturb peace, and I my so openly in order to tranquillise you. But that which may emus you still more is the appearance here of the representatives of my ern and navy, that strength of the country which has proved that it demi not fear to accept and carry to • inc. orchid termination a struggle when forced oa it. THB INDEPENISEI447 ENCH PRESS ON • THE KING OF lifEti Fß BBlAll SPRECILL The Tempo, quoting the 'anglaise of King William, says : It is exactly the same as is spoken here. The King, whilst brandi'hing his sword, prognosticate. peace. In an ordinary situation such maniketations would have little in them, but in the present epileptic state of opinion it is different. We are not, therefore, surprised to moo tho King's words producing an effect oontriu7 probably to what was intended. The replying to the Etcndard, which says that the return for the Var " is a fresh pledge of peace," remarks : A fresh pledge of peace! In every quarter of Europe the earth trembles with the tramp of regiments on review. From day to day Baden may cast in her lot with the eon federation of the north, the Rhine may be croesed:and the treaty of Prague torn. King William waited at Kiel fir the result of the election of the Var, in order to know what speech he was to make in reply to the rector of the Erni variety! The King has spoken, and both elements are 80 admirably blended that we cannot lay whether tho com mentator-juries of royal prose will decide whether the speech is specific or bellicose. The Arenir National any.: It is evident that H. von Bismarck meant to speak to Europe an well as to the rector of Kiel University. He sees no cause for war, and, in the presence of God, he is anxious for peace. If to preserve this precious peace h e must rely especially on his immense army and his fleet, whose fault is it; Who iv disturbing the world, who, even when " there is no threateningcircumsteume," compels kings to keep their people under arms, and to point to their soldiers? The idea of the conqueror of Sadowa could not be more clearly expressed, his denunciation mill not be less equivocal. The policy of Pruseia is no mystery. Prussia is in no haste to giro France a cause of war. M. von Bismarck is in no hurry to annex the South German States. He is reported to have said—" I have the money of South Germany ; I have its sohliers. Annexation would only give me nom deputies, and these perhaps would only increase the oppo sition in parliament. Ido not want them." lie thinks it better to remain at peace, to throw upon France the re sponsibility of the public disquietude, to isolate her in the opinion of Europe, and—to wait. In the Liberty we rend : The language of King William is an entire contrast with the addresses of the Emperor, for the King's speech is without reticence, without restrictions, without mysteries, a kind of anticipated and categorical answer to the words used in Chalons—a speech of unusual brevity in the mouth of the chief of the Confederation of the North, a speech in which pacific assurances are mingled with almost al a r m . Mg however' and bets of significant energy, a speech which, as a whole, and especially in its termination, presents a threatening tune which is more than insulting to French sari. GENERAL LEE ON THE WISHES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA. The American papers publish a correspondenee between General Horieerans and General Lee, tle celebrated cotutuander-in-chief of the Confederate army, on the condition and wishes of the South. The following ix General Lee's letter : White Sulphur Springs. West Va., August N., IS.A. General,—l hove bad the honour to reeeire yonr 1.1 t of this date. and en accordance with your suggestion I have conferred with a number i,f gentlemen fr nn the South, in whose judgment I have coil filed, and who are well acquainted with the puhlic sentiment of their respective States. They have kindly consented to unite with me in replying to p.m- communication; and their flames will be found with my own appended to this answer. With this es. plunatien we proceed to give to you 15 candid statement of what we believe to be the sentiment of the Seutheru people in n•gaid to the subject to which you refer. What ever opinions may have frevaileil ill the past in rag ,r I to Afiirati emerge. or the right of 3 -tat • to s. e • le ft in the Union. we bei,•ce we r :press the aim est UllllllllllO . judgment of the Southern pe ogle when we el clan• that they consider that those questions were deehled by the war, and that it is their intention in good faith to abide by that derision. At the close of the war the Southern people laid down their arm., and sought to re. mute their former relations with the United States go vernment. Through their State ceiventions they abolished slavery and annulled their ordinances of secession ; and they returned to their peaceful pursulr with a s:ncere purpeee to fulfil all their duties under the constitution of the United States, which they had sworn to support. If their action in Mess particulars had been met in a spirit of frankness and c ardiality, we be. here that ere this old irritations would have passel away, and the wounds inflicted by the war would have been in a great measure healed. As far as we are advised, the people of the South entectsin no unfriendly feeling toward the government of the United States, but they complain that their rights under the constitution are withheld from them in the administration thereof. 'the Men that the Southern people are hostilio t 3 the ucgroes, and would oppress them if it were in their power to do so, is entirely unfounded. They have grown up in our midst, and we have be vi ae eusterneil from childlicod to look upon them with kind ness.. Thu change in the relations of the two races hat wrought no change in our feeling towards them. They still constitute the important part of our labour:ug popu tion. Without their labour, the lands of the South would be comparatively unproductive. Withuut the employ. ment which Southern agriculture affunls, they would be destitute of the means of subeisteuce, seed becorno paupers, dependent on public bounty. Self-inte rest, even if there were no higher motives, would therefore pmnipt the whites of the South to extent* to the negrees care and protection. The important fact that the two races are, wider existing eir cinualances, necessary to each other, is gradually Lemm ing apparent to both ; and we believe that hut for lode ences exerted to stir up the passions of the nOgnk"A• the relations of the two niece would soon ail. just themselves on a basis of mutual kindneso and advantage. It is true that the people of the South, together with the people of the North and West, are for obvious reasons opposed to any system of laws which would place the political power of the country in the hands of the negro race. But this opposition springs (nen no feeling of enmity, but from a deep seated convietiou that at present the negroes have neither the intelligence nor other qualifications which are necessary to make them safe depositinice of political power. They wieild ine vitably become the victims of demagogues, who for selfish purposes would mislead them to the. serious injury of the public. The great want of the South is peace. Thu people earnestly desire tranquillity and the restoration o f the Union. They deprecate disorder and exeitemeut as the moat curious obstacle to their prosperity. They ask a restoration of their rights ler the constitution. They desire relief from twreamivo misrule, Above all, they would appeal to their eountrymen for the re-establish. meet in the Southern States of that which has justly been regarded as the birthright of every Armo ries. —am right of ralf-guskrasiest. Establish these Oft a fine hubs, and was an safely pr mew, en behalf of the Seethes people, that they wd. faithfully (bey the constitution awl laws of tk, United States, treat the negro wit‘ kiwless, and humanity, and fall every duty incumbent o s peaceful citizens, loyal to the constitution of their osoe. try. We believe the above 'anteing a succinct t, the general topics embraced in your letter, and we v as tore to lay, on behalf of the Southern people. and of officers and soldiers of the late Confederate army, that th will amour in all the emitisseats which we have erprea,,,,,t . Appreciatiag the patriotic motives which have promote' your letter, and reciprocating your ex - Fenian of kin regard, we have the honour to he, very respectfully t truly, R. B. Lam, Virginia. G. T. Bastramoaan, Louisan', 6... (1111MII sztrnot's A.0111101G) FRANCK PARIS, Seer. lT The Moniteew of this morning states that the Emperor visited the camp at Lannernozan yr.. terday. His Majesty was roccivod by the Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Niel, and aerie Ooyot ; en imams) crowd w as present, including the Mayors and nuinersa, inhabitants of 172 communes. The peopl,, and the soldiers vied with each other in greeting th., Emperdr with enthusiastic cheeri. review of the troops the Emperor Sere a gr 9 0 .1 dinner to all the Generals and eup',riur offs s . and tehtened to Pau by the night train at T o'clock. Everywhere on hii jou s .. y his Majesty was received in the writ and sympathetic manner by the inhabita.ta. The ifonikur, in its ilayl that from Rio Janeiro to the 24th of Auzu,t annofmcq that Senor Sarmiento, the newly L. . td prN id ria, of the Argentine Republic, had h—% r-osi v .4 b y the Emperor Don Pedro. The Brazilian government ha couiplo4 with the demands of the American ministor by ponait ting the American gunboat Wasp t rt.st: , L I .!. Parana. SPAIN. MADRID, Rte. la. Err , • the court will proceed to-inotrow 5,,, Selniatian, and an interview betwom 0,.. peror Napoleon and Queen Lobelia stated, probably take place at Biarritz ..1 lath bat. TITE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LivEnroor., s u .. • The West African Mail steamer ;In . rived here with 19 passengers, 69 07.3. of g : 1.1001., 300 dole., and 1,830 fr. in 4pe:: II - dateg are :—Old Calabar, August 12 : C • August 14 ; Fernando Po, Auga.o.. • August 18 ; Bra,., River, Augu.,:, I • I _ August 20; Accra, AuguAt 22 ; C August 2 ; Sierra Leone, Aligii4t 2'. ; 1 . • September t; ; and Madeira. Si,teinl—r • At Accra trade was ba,l, ht:t r: healthy. At Brain oil was plentiful, Lug 1 :•I The news from all the otli- 1••••.• is twit. OUR PAItIS LETTER. (my Ovr owx Co:t: •• L,' PARKK. W. • - Is F:•.--f7v) tr:y French news of all kinds is r. ••-ti• now. The Emperor has gott. Biarritz, r body is out of town; and if it lepr•-• not i• excitement of an election turniug 1, L. , •••• then, the newsmongers would Lc fa:11611,1 • French talk a great deal about thu lat. earthquake, and journalists take you back • mournful histories of similar dire catastrol which have occurred in the world's history it the year 523, when 230,000 parsons are said t • have perished at Antioch, up to t l ,e present time. In the Revue dea Deux f• a there is au articl by Guizot which will naturally attract a fr deal of attention, especially o it addresses v.- to the juxtaposition of Fran -is an .1 Pruss: I aim evidently is to throw tipm the • • waters of public apprelan,iv,lle :110 t strate that none of the p. ••1 any dcbire to come imo : the paper is, ‘• France an , .l Pr :ssi.t lx-fore Europe." It ib wr:tt,.ll game of diction for ,r and the calm and &lib, r W;l.. it, and an impartiality 1 torian, will commend it. c: the' pains of a Ctaill.ll t • a:- looks 111.. n Bismarck .1 w• , l I-f 111:01, and upon the nation -lay tit:My:l4 a very bold andda:-ing.n: --nt; ,h.signates Prussia as "i. term clearly applying to th.• r Prisssia amongst the sever il st 4 w in ;vile sante tongue, and to t ce • .s • schemes of ambition bey on i ii. • \ • empire---as it will probably • The author, seriously revii•winz t!! Europe. enures to the ei•twi,is! :• will not be disturbed, fee • In the event of a v• • •.• be without an ally. IT Iv • indebted to France to help ••• mueh occupied with the ex -:••• to do so. England is so are all her leading state ! •• M. Guizot deduces the utf real cause of alarm as to 111,• But then he admits armaments of France .. source of distrust, and, s • lraeeful policy animates tLe ! •.....ert!::: Europe, he advises the reduction ei t! power of France to a peace footiti; • ills:lumina nt. This, he Skip, Would s • at nee to surrounding nations in thi• l declarations of the Emperor. and tliey w,•:; be slow in following his example; awl 1!• effects of this step would be seen r increasing confidence and prosrei•lty of the I . Empire. All this reads very well ; but timely the growing power of I • cideilly warlike element having bem intr.-! the persons of the new advisers of the Minister of War and what we should ,•:1!: • •l• Lord of the Admiralty, together with the military traditions of a Napoleon. too great a degree, lam afraid, t• sage counsels, or to neutralise any : •• that might arise from such power. ir. , c quarter they may conic. Very few transactions took place on to-day, and there was a decline in the almost all securities. 1... . •h ,• I i, c ~ , 1 . r. ,:..: of ttt The Faculty of Science of Paris ha+ ,•••• seised as Badietitae4s-ficiences Matiemoi..ll.• ke • toff, burn at inkraga, In Sunda. The number of immigrants who arrive a iti York from Jan. Ito Sept. 2, littiS, wag 154,00, 3- • • pared with 171,619 arrivals during the ammo period ,:• Tear. The total number of Immigrants who arn,-I. the United Stales during the your ending June 30. was 273.07, as comparrd with 311.990 the previous Another incendiary fire was discovered eti !!. • forenoon of TuriAlity on the farm of Mr. William [Who : sow, two mile.south-wi.at of Cork. The dairy office* sal "We Will , of Straw WPM consumed, but the large halt . 0 the mops. which were in stacks close to the couttagrato e. Wen sawed. 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