The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

AMMON-HOUSE COMMITTEE for the Fault, of the COTTON OPILATIVS3.-71te Lord Mayor bee to ennOkken tkaa b 7 the kindness of the Governor of Bridearen, a portion of that building has been placed at their disposal for the reception of clothing for the use of the suffering population to the distressed districts ; they therefore invite contributions of clothing of all kind; an d of blankets, and request that they may be sent to the above-man. tioned place, vls. , Bridewell, liridgeatr,:et, Biackftiars, LC., for the Committee. LTARMONIUME3.-NEW MODEL, camait, BIALL sad WOOD. W, Zapat-strest. PATENTAL AWARDED.) ALLEN'S PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAOB with square opening'. LADLE)* WARDROBE TRUNKS, DBJEMING BAGS, with slim fittings. Dliti - ATCH BOXES, WRITING and DRESSING CASES. and MO other articles for home or continental travelling. Illustrated eatalognea post free. Also Alien's Barrack Pitrtiltnre Catalogue of Portable Bed nest steads, Drawers, Easy Chairs, W sakhand•stands, Canteens, dm., tree. ElifaLLIN, Lando., W.C. and Patentee, 31, West Strand, 000 REGENT-STREET. LONDON. tiortivallAPPlN niumaßs (by special appehitmetat to hie IllaJeidy Napoleon Ill.), EILVERSMITIIS. Electro- Writ Dressing-case Manufacturers, and Cutlers, Queen's Cutlery Works, Shetbeld, hare the honour to announce that haw CID EL - EINEM at the WEST-ICID of LONDON, by opening PREMISICI at irk REGENT -STREET, with a large collection of their manufactures, and they hops to receive, as they irdl endeavour to went, an extension of the favours hitherto awarded thew at their City Establishment. 67 and Ott. KING WILLIAM-STREET. the erpreols. UOVENT GARDILN. Tin Ennio, TRI DWORTEIt. Min Louisa Pyne and Atha Susan Pyne ; Ream -Batley. W. IL Weiss, Patey, A. At. Albyn, J. Rouse, C. Lys'', E. Doren, and W. 'Jamison. ...Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Commends at d. RAYMMICIT. TIM IV S. 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Sir Bri.wra LYTTON approached the subject of farm leases very cautiously at Hertford, but he so discussed it as to leave it more obscure than he found it. He rightly ob served that agricultural prosperity depends, in the long run, on the justice which is done to the land, and called on the cultivators who heard hire to put money on their acres. Nobody knows better than Sir BrtwErt. Lyres why this is not done more extensively. It is because there is no security that the tenant will be suffered to reap the reward of his enterprise. When he has sunk his capital he may be turned out, as we see daily, because the new landlord has new arrangen.enta to carry out, or some favourite to put in ; or he is fresh from Oxford, and will have no dissenter on his estate. Nobody would feel more keenly than Sir BULWEIL LrrroN the in justice of such treatment; nevertheless he exhorts the tenant to have more confidence in his landlord. Bat, singularly enough, in full view of the fact that men will always, under equal cir cumstances, do more or less for land in proportion to the permanence of their interest in it— the occupier with a lease more than the tenant at will, and the freeholder more than the mere occu pier—he instanced the proprietors of Virginia and Maryland to show—well, we know not exactly what to show, but here is his argument : " In certain " districts of America—Maryland and Virginia— " which possess the most fertile soil in the " world, the yield is of course enormous. But " the cultivators were not tenant-farmers. They " were squires, they were gentlemen, and they " unhappily forgot manure. They took from the " earth the alkalis and the salts, and never re placed them. The consequence is that those " districts even now are so hopeessly sterile that " they have been altogether abandoned. This "shows that the fertility of the soil depends on " the nourishment bestowed on it. Therefore, I " yak, can there be any stronger argument than " this for maintaining the confidence and friendship " which ought always to exist between landlord: " and tenants 4" This is curious, to say the least of it. We wish Sir BULWER LITTON would only apply his eminent talents to this very case, and ascertain for himself, as he may easily do, why Virginia, with the finest soil and most abundant resources of any State in the American Union, has been desolated by her very system of agriculture. The whole story of slave society is told in that devas tation. But we cannot go into that now, and inde e .; • it is not necessary to do so t try oferbiiiafili us that, Eli far from property in land lessening men's inclination to do much for it, proprietorship makes the occupier enterprising and speculative. He truly says that in Eugland it is from the men who have the most permanent and best secured stake in the land that agriculture expects and receives her improvements. "Any new ides " requiring an experiment will naturally be tried 14 first, as a general rule, by the proprietor who " farms his own land." We have only to ride across any agricultural county to see this truth illustrated. A man with a good eye might make a tolerably correct map, distinguishing the various tenures on which the land is held, by observing the different styles of cultivation. Yet there aro some who believe, or think they believe, that the best land system is that which delivers half a county into the hands of one landlord, and the best custom of tenancy that which leaves the invested capital of the tenant-occupier to the good will of the proprietor. All the discussions at agricultural dinners have not been so theoretical as those at Hertford. At North Walsham, it seems, some speakers of *a landlord clam had an uncomfortable feeling that there was too much unanimity, and invited the tenant-farmers present to give expression to their opinions. This, as the sequel showed, was a some what rash challenge. The old doctrine was the safer one, that the landlord is the natural repre sentative of the tenant, and that the latter need under no circumstances answer for himself. Mr. Howe.., M.P., had ventured in his speech to claim credit for having voted for the Poaching Bill of last session; but no sooner had he mentioned that unfortunate measure than he was assailed with a storm of hisses which was kept up throughout his apology ; he scarcely fared better when he went on to praise the Highway Bill. Mr. BEAD, one of the judges, and a tenant•farmer, speaking later to a toast, accepted the invitation from the upper table to give free utterance to his opinions. He said : It was customary for tenant farmers to be patted on heir backs and to be told that they were a very enterpris ;ng and enthusiastic body of people—a very Indepeodent and improving set. The great and noble of the land told THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, them these things, and he supposed they believed thesa to be true ; but he would remind his friends &snag the tenant farmers that in private life a man Tel always veined, net according to the compliments which he paid, but for the good which hedid. Yet, when groat landed proprietors and apical toil Y.Y.■ west to parliament they seemed to say some thing like this :—" You are such an intelligent set of men that you son now no longer climb's of managing your roads, and therefore we will do it for you ; you are so independent, and have shown yourselves independent so long is protecting your kndlortie game, that now we think you ought to pay for the preservation of it also." We are left to imagine the highly reserved and discreet attitude maintained by the landlord orators as these words were pronounced. But the reporters have recorded what passed lower down the room. Cheers and cries of "Goon ;" " Let's have some more of it," accompanied the speaker, who, however, seemed to learn from these exclamations that he had said enough to be understood. " No," he exclaimed, " I will say " no more than—Gon preserve the farmers from " their so-called friends." Mr. Howse, M.P., who was soon afterwards on his legs to propose another toast, said the last speech called for a reply ; but although greeted with invitations to "Make " it now," he chose the more prudent course and sat down. Be perfectly understood the situation of these bucolic revolutionists, and could well afford a little outbreak lice this once a year. THE troubles of International Exhibitions seem to begin with cooking. It was so in 1851, if report speaks truly, and it is notoriously so in 1862. In 1851 a number of estimable gentlemen connected with the great enterprise were nearly poisoned by gastronomical experiments. In order to cater pleasantly for their expected visitors, they gave up their palates to strange and unknown dishes. They realised that scene in Smottsrr's novel which shows that one man's food may be another man's poison. They tried how many spoonfuls of Tartar broth could be taken without nausea ; they choked themselves with birds-nesta prepared by ignorant cooks ; they ate the best substitute for alligator which could be found in the country; and only broke up in the moat admired disorder when an undisguised baked monkey was brought to table. The Gastronomic Committee of 1851 are worthy of our compassion, and so are the Committee of 1862. They have made a great mistake, and they are suffering for it severely. Unlike their prede cessors, they have preserved their stomachs, but they have played at ducks and drakes with their reputations. They are called upon for an ex planation of the " CADOCIAN scandal," when they have none to give, and when a penitent silence is the best answer they can make. Zhe letter which we printed the other day from Earl GRANVILLE is as candid a confession of error as any one ought to expect that estimable noble man to make. The fact that it is written single handed from a distant German town is a sufficient exposure of the board-room feeling on this matter. Earl GRANVILLE, like many other good-natured men, has many hangers-on, and amongst these is the Hon. F. CADOOAN. That gentleman's busi ness aptitude must have been well known to his lordship, who cannot have forgotten the Telegraph Company squabble of 1858. An ill-natured man would have refused Mr. CADOOAN the slightest fa vour, in spite of supposed family claims, but Earl GasNviu.a is not ill-natured. The Hon. F. CAnoGAN carried every point he wanted, and the French refreshment contract was given to Masers. Veit,- LARD, BROWN, JONES, and ROBINSON. The four other Royal Commissioners have allowed Earl GRAN-max to reply, if they have not called upon him to do so, and he has replied by admitting that he knew the aristocratic refreshment room manager. No evidence extracted willingly or unwillingly in the Bankruptcy Court—no produc tion of an ordinary business agreement drawn up by such experienced solicitors as Messrs. FLADOATIL, no further discussion in Exhibition corners, or in newspaper articles, can now throw any additional light on this unfortunate transaction. All that need be revealed is revealed ; • foolish piece of kindness has turned out badly and been exposed, and everybody must be sorry that more prudence was not exercised. Earl GRANVILLE has not shrank from the duty of replying alone, and his exonerated colleagues will be wise not to stir the puddle further. THE QUEEN'S RETURN FROM GERMANY. The Victoria and Albert royal yacht has sailed from Portsmouth to Antwerp, to be in readiness to embark her Majesty and the royal faini , y, who will arrive at Osborne Dent week. MIL OLADSTONITS VISIT TO Till NORTE. (rim • oomerommer.) NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FarDAT. During Mr. Gladstone's visit to the North he has had, u people here remark, Queen's weather, and everr where a Royal reception. No expense was spared, every possible element of splendour the towns or rivers could com mand was put into requisition to do him honour. The Tyne, the Wear, and the Tee*, resounded with congratulations to him. The famous river men of Newcastle and the Naval Reserve of Sunderland, and all orders and classes beside*, gave the right honourable gentlemen ape. oilmen, he will not soon forget of their thoraxial regard. Mr. Gladstone's servant appeared at every railway station loaded with addresses which had been showered upon his master ; and Mr. Gladstone in return flung orations among the crowds such as never greeted northern ears before. Mr. Gladstone conquered by his eloquence, and his wife by genuine graciousness everywhere. The whole country reverberates with exultation. Middlesborough, which made its maiden effort to welcome a distinguished visitor to their town, taxed all its invention in banquet, river procession, and commercial display. The Chaocellor of the Exchequer wee conveyed to the Eaton Iron Works of Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan, where he was soon seen entering sulphureous flues, and crouching under furnaces, studying their construction. Mrs. Gladstone was equally intrepid in approaching the iron lava as it ran in molten rivers to the acres of pig moulds. The return to Middlesborough was made by the Tees. The whole town met Mr. Gladstone on the river in vessels. A barge with a band preceded the nautical prooession. Salutes were tired from thogreat works which line the Tees. The soot-begrimed, perspiring, half-nude sons of Vulcan crowded the shore, and gave the ilinetrieue visitor, hearty Teesside welcomes. Mr. Gladstone went to their Town-hall, and contrasted Oxford with Middlesborough ; went to the banquet, and beat the iron masters in his knowledge of the great iron gum , lion, as the chief among them, Mr. Bolckow, confessed ; and though he bad spoken twice at Sunderland in the morning —an hour at one time—he rose at the banquet at night as fresh as though he bad Mr. Disraeli for an opponent. Everybody strove to prove to Mr. Gladstone that the people of England know how to appreciate a minister who had shown a regard for them. I have seen royal and other ovations in England and elsewhere of many kiods. I never witnessed anything in variety, intensity, or universality, equal to what Mr. Gladstone has experienced in the north. THE PROPOSED GARIBALDI MEETING IN THE CITY. The sub-committee appointed to arrange the de tails of this meeting met last night. Mr. Richardson, one of the hon. secretaries, reported that the London Tavern could not be obtained for Wednesday next, the day fix: 1 upon. He had received a large number of letters from members of parliament, clergymen, merchants, bankers, and other gentlemen in the City, men of all parties, and many of whom had not signed the requisition, all strOugly disapproving of the conduct of the Lord Mayor in refusing the use of the Guildhall to the requisitionists. The majo rity of these letters contained offers of personal and peen niary aid to make the meeting at the London Tavern an effective one. It was finally resolved that the meeting should be held on Friday next, the 17th inst., at the London Tavern, at 2 o'clock, Mr. Western Wood, M.Y., having con seated to take the chair • and that Baron Rothschild, Sir J. Duke, and Mr. R. W. C rawford, the other City members, should be invited to tak e p art in the proceedings. It was also arranged that the s era should be chosen, as far as possible, from City men, so that the meeting might be really what it professed to be, &LI expression of the citizens of London. Every precaution has been taken against dis turbance. • 1862. !dl RIGHT HON. 811 P. T. BARING, 8AL1 . .. .M.P., SIR JAMES D. ELPHINSTONZ, BART., Y.P., AND SIR J. C. JIIIVOISR, BAIT., M.P., AT PORTSMOUTH. The 108th anniversary of the Portsmouth Benefi cial Society was this year attended by Sir F. I'. Baring, M.P., and Sir J. D. Ephinstone, M.P., the borough Mein. bars, and Sir J. C. Jervoise, one of the members for South Manta. The Mayor (Mr. Alderman Hamby) presided, and about 150 members and friends sat down to the banquet. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been propmed, Mr. Alderman Swarvalin proposed "The County Members." Sir J. C. a:Racist, Bart., in the course of his reply, mid —The success that has attended the defensive exercise of that great branch of metallurgy—the coating of our vessels —the sumoss seems, up to this point, to be pretty well with na, and I doubt if that terrible Le Clare would cut a very good figure if placed alongside some of those creations of oar own artificers. (Bear.) With regard to our guns, I think the program we are making with them will leave the question of ' offence and defence undecided for some time tocorue. (Hear.) Costly as the experiments are, they are better than the cart of action, as less costly for us to bear, and more to the ad vantage of the country and of Europe at large. (Hear.) With regard to the policy of our neighbour over the water, it is still one of those grays matters that time alone can solve. (Hear, hear.) But we meet it with a policy on our parte that is equally difficult for other nations to oombat with. I believe after all the _policy we shall be found to have adopted is the beat—and that policy is honesty. (Hear.) A word has lately come in vogue, and I think it is one of the best ever coined—it is the word " non-intervention," a terrible puzzler to the diplomatist. of other countries. (Laughter.) It seems to be a word of Almighty Power if I may use the word ; it is a word that seems to me to upset all the syllogisms of the inexorable logic of facts. When the vexed question of Italy was brought on the carpet, the word non-intervention is a very great touch stone for all the correspondence that has taken place between the ministers of a attain great man and himself and the ministers of a nation he has gone far to establish, with what motive I will not inquire into. But that nation has a very difficult card to play and has been left considerably in the lurch. What will be the result of Italian policy it is difficult to comprehend, but we must hope that the great principles of liberty will ultimately prevail in • country which was so unsuited to receive them when the great blow was struck. (Hear.) Having touched upon the American struggle and the affair of the Treat, he said the policy of non-intervention was a very useful one for us. It was a policy that was most useful, and it bad been most consistently carried out, and be thought they would agree with him that the foreign policy of this country under the present government had been marked by great firmness and dignity. (Hear.) Mr. VANDENBILEIG briefly proposed " The Members for the Borough," and the toast was received with the greatest enthusiasm. Sir J. D. H. Eceurnstroint, M.P., was received with enthusiastic cheering. The honourable baronet proceeded to notice the events of the lest session, and said— As regards Portsmouth, the principal measure was the car tying out a system of fortification which is henceforth to minion this port, and I trust prove a guardian power to defend a nucleus of forces which at present doss not exist. These defences compared with the first plans offered to parliament were curtailed and modified to a material extent. I must say my opinion is, whatever I thought of the scheme when first brought fot ward, that now, it would be the most politic to carry out these defences in the most ample manner, for the purpose for which they were intended. This was a question as to what extent land defence was necessary for these put. poses. But that having been settled I think they ought to be carried out to the full extent. (Hear, hear.) The means by which the harbour is to bo defended will be by fortifications of a new description, supported by iron plated ve:sels, either moveable or fixed in such positions as to effectually resist au enemy's vessels, and that the full artillery of those fixed defences may be brought effectually to bear on them. I believe these objects will be perfectly and completely effected and I am happy to say that an effort which was made last year for the purpose of disparaging this harbour, and to carry our dockyard to some other and snore protected spot, com. 4 pleisly failed. (Chews.) The lagoon of Portsmouth has been held by Sir John Rennie and other eminent authorities to be the finest port in the British channel. After all the examinations that have taken place, Ports mouth is still found to be the point, and the point alone, on which the main arsenal of Great Britain can be centred. (Loud chcers.) This being the case, lam happy to say that it is a fact, the government having carried the proposition to surround Portsmouth by a circumvallation of a strong and most powerful nature, have also settled that they are to create basins here upon a scale of size and magnitude equal to the maritime power of this country, and which has been urged upon them for many yearn by competent men, able to judge of what is necessary for the development of our naval power. (Hear, hear.) I believe we Snail see here docks and basins, and thole auxiliary barracks and buildings, which are so absolutely necessary far the enormous fleet which we have been obliged to create. (Hear, hear.) I feel quite certain that nothing will conduce more to the economy of our shipping, and also to the well-being of our men, than that the fleets of this country should be concentrated in floating basins for the purpose of their equipment, instead of this being carried out, as at present, partially in the stream and partially at Spithead, and that the men are now subject to discomfort and inconvenience has long been strongly felt by all who have the well being of the naval service at heart. (Hear, hoar.) The barracks will enable the government to keep our fleet Moor port at periods of the year when it is impossible to carry out evolutions with any degree of comfort at sea, instead of sending them to upend money in foreign countries. Sir FRANCIS T. BAKING was received with loud applause. He also briefly reviewed the past session. With regard to the defences of the country he said,—" My impres sion, reluctantly *doped, was that it was necessary that ' the country should make exertion both as regards its defences by sea and land. With regard to the hod defences, one to a certain extent might look into the matter, and form his opinion, yet at the same time 1 think it fair to admit that my opinions were mainly formed by the decision of the government, and the reports of those able officers-- the lint men of the country--and upon their responsibility who suggested and recommended to the government the measures they thought necessary for the protection of the country. My gallant colleague bas alluded to one member of parliament who was very noxious to remove our arsenal and our dockyard. Ido not think we have the slightest reason to quarrel with Sir Morton Polo, for I believe be did it conscientiously, and thought he was right. It was of advantage to us, for the question did not pass by without coosidevattun • the government looked into it, and I think that Sir Mor ton Pete found himself in a very small minority. (Hair, hear.) Sir Morton Peto very naturally opposed the fortifications,: and ho said " You will have to move your dockyard after all." We believe Portsmouth to be what Sir Morton Peto does not mean it to be, for although he says " Don't spend sixpence," the money is going to be spent, and after the fortifications have been built, and the money qgpended io their construc tion, it would be still matt difficult to remove the arsenal, and so far you have the advantage. But when the bill comes to be paid for all these measures I find a large number of persons. and among them those most an uis mo b u il s l. for a. the ug mess ht.r3 ree N t o h w emaelv that es, do not is very.t h urai ke — to pay (c.n. tinued laugliter)—but just allow me to tell you, gentle. men, that you will have to pay the bill, for nothing could be more childish than when • great measure of this kind has been decided upon for the security and honour of your country—decided deliberately, after repeated discussions, great difficulties, and after much consideration—nothing, I say, is more childish than for men to turn round and say, "It cost inure than we expected, and therefore we do not wish to pry." (Hear, bear.) If you expect me hereafter to refuse to find the money—and you will find that there an some sitting on our side who are much disin clined to find the money—if you expect me to aid them I am bound to tell you that I shall by no means coincide with them. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member next proceeded to refer to the American question, and expressed ao opinion adverse to any mediation on the part of this country. He believed there exists on the part of the government of this country an earnest desire to contribute as far as possible to peace between the contending parties. They were the beet judges, know most, and have the best information on the ! subject. (Hear, beer.) He believed, therefore, that we may fairly rely on their judgment, and leave it to them to interpose if they see there is the slightest possibility of doing so with effect. .The meeting shortly afterwards separated. " It is believed," says the Army and Navy Gazette, "that Lord Lyons, who is expected to return to Washing ton in the course of this month, will be placed in a position to define the course and views of her Majesty's government without soy uncertainties or doubts in view of the various phases which the contest in North America may assume ; and that the ministry will have arrived at positive concha. aions, and have determined their policy in reference to the affairs of the United States, before his lordship returns to his post. The views of Russia are, it is believed, assimilated to those which the march of events and the inexorabLe logic of accomplished facts' place broadly and clearly before the government of the Queen and that of his Imperial Majesty." FOREIGN•OFFICE, SEPT. 30. —The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Honourable William 'art, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legatioe at Athens, to he Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Washington. ThelQueen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Horace Rumbold, Esg., late Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in China, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Atheus.—Gazette. . . . . The Crystal Palace Company's School of Art, Science, and literature, has now established itself as a lead ing scholastic institution, and will commence its third session ou November lst. No less than 150 ladies joined the various classes, which were allcooductedby ismieent pro (tenors during the last unsioe, a fact sufficient to prove that the praiseworthy efforts of the directors to nails the re sources of the Crystal Pals,, for educational purposes are being properly and steadily appreciated. The pioneer of a fleet of itumenme iron-clad ships is now building at Jersey, U.S., for the protection of the Pacific coast. THE PRINCE OF WALES. The Prince of Wales arrived at Darmstadt on Tuesday last on a visit to the Prince and Princess Louis of Home and the grand-ducal family. On leaving Darmstadt his royal highness will proceed to Coburg to ph* her XV Itit; a 414 we Tire fiIIMY. PRINCE ALFRED.—His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, accompanied by Major-Cowell, yesterday honoured the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, at their Regent-street establishment, with a sitting previous to his Royal Highness's departure on a cruise in the St. George, which will leave Portsmouth to-day (Saturday). COURT MOURNING. —LORD CHAMBERLAINS OFFICE, OCT. 10. —Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday next, the 12th instant, for her late Serene Highness the Duchess Marie Antoinette Gabrielle, widow of his late Serene Highness the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, sad aunt to her Majesty the Queen ; viz., the ladies to wear black dresses, white gloves, black or white shoes, feathers, and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain gold or silver ornaments. The gentlemen to wear black court dress, with black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Sunday, the 19th inst., viz., the ladies to wear black dresses w.th coloured rib bons, flowers, feathers, and orpiment; or grey or white dresses, with black ribbons, flowers, feathers, and orna menta. The gentlemen to continue the same mourning. And on Sunday, the 26th instant, the Court to go out of mourning.—Oa.elte. CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses have been issued for a cabinet council, to be held on Thursday, the Zird bat. His Serene Highness Prince Henry IV. of Reuss bas left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. His Excellency Count Lavradio returned to town yesterday from visiting Viscount and Viscountees Palmer ston at Broadlands, Hants. His Excellency Baron Adelsward, Envoy Extra ordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Swe den and Norway, has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel , Jermyn-street. The Dulce and Duchess of Manchester have ar rived at Drummed ()untie, Perthshire, on a visit to Lord and Lady Willoughby de Ereaby, from Duorobin Castle. _ _ _ _ _ The Marquis and Marchionene of Waterforl have left town for Curraghmore. The late Archbishop of Armagh has bequeathed his reeidence in Cbarlee•street to the teary nix. The Marquis of Hastings has arrived at Long's Hotel. The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford left town oe Thursday last for Madeira, where her ladyship purposes to pass the The Earl and Countess of Bective have returned to Underley Hall. Kirkby Lonsdale, from Kiseengen. We learn that Sir Thomas Redington, K.C.8., bae bad a relapse, and the greatest fears are entertained for his ultimate recovery. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EX-QUEEN OF NAPLES TAKING THE YELL. A despatch from Augsburg, &tied October 10, contains the following : Queen ➢(aria of Naples has just been escorted to the Unuline Convent by her brother Prince LOUIS. This retreat chosen by the wife of Francis IL is definitive. She the world. An explanation of the above paragraph throws a doubt upon the " definitive " character ofi the renunciation of the world spoken of. The youth. ful Queen of Naples has had a quarrel with her husband; but as the catholic church does not allow a married woman to become a nun without her husband's consent, the latter will probably have a word to say on the subject. (u 17 7 .111% TZLIGILLICIL) TURKEY. OONSTANTIIMPLE, Oar. 10. The mosque property is to be secularised. It is expected that this will result in a gain to the re venue of 3,000,0001. sterling, a part of which will be appropriated for payment of the interest on the new Consolides, and the remainder for :public works. The arrears of interest on the old Conaolidds are now being paid. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES Om. 10. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 4 p.m. The mails leave for London at 10 p.m. EXPRESS FltOM PARIS (raoit °us welt °want OEMS) PARIS, Fam►r Emma. The ministerial council, from which so much was expected after the Emperor's return, was held to day at St. Cloud, and I think it already safe to say that no decision of any importance with reference to the great and pressing question ofjßome was come to. There are no symptoms of any change in the status quo. The Pays has been instructed by some minister or other to say, iu small print, "it would appear (if paraitrait) that the council was mainly occupied with financial and industrial matters." The convenient season so long waited for has, therefore, not yet arrived, and the san guine believers in the evacuation of Rome must now invent some other period to look forward to. Bußier's Correspondence says that M. Thouvenel read his answer to General Durando's circular at the council, and that the minister uses moderate and conciliatory language, but without departing from the tone of his former official correspondence. All that means evidently nothing. No wonder that M. Rattarai's visit to Paris should be said to be countermanded. The Pays contains the following parsgeaph on the subject of Mny'co : A despatch from Reuter's agency of a nature to excite alarm in the country appears in the Independa.tee peoe. That despatch announces that the vomit* is making great ravages in the French fleet at Mexico, and that uneasiness Is felt about a convoy of a million of dollars sent to Orizaba. No packet having arrived for the last week from Vera Cruz, we do not understand how such a despatch can have been received in France or elsewhere, and there is, there fore, pound to believe that the news must be false. The Pairie is lead positive in its contradiction, for it admits that Mexican news to the date of Sept. 11 has arrived by way of New York, but it holds that the statement in question must be false or " much exaggerated." The Bourse was less active to-day. Route fell 10c. fur cash, and sc. for account, closing at 71fr. 65c. and 71fr. 90c. Mobilier was without change. The Italian Loan rose sc. Railways were generally lower, but Southern ruse 7fr. 50c. A Paris correspondent of the Journal du Havre says :—" The Council of State is already occupied in examining the budget of 1864, that is to say, four months earlier than usual. That fact is considered an indication of the Legislative Body being called together before long." Other commentators, how ever, draw no inference whatever from this fact with regard to the greater or less proximity of the coming session, but simply give M. Fould credit for having his budget ready earlier than his predeces sors were wont to do, and thus challenging the fullest examination of it. That unfortunate journal the Courtier du Di manehe has received a warning (N 0.2.) for an article in last Sunday's number by M. Prevost Paradol, which is considered by M. de Persigny to contain matter " exciting to hatred and contempt of the government." The offence is not further or other wise specified ; and there is this peculiarity about the warping that instead p otrdetrnating, aa is customary, the paragraph or paragraphs containing the incriminated matter by citing the three or four first and the three or four concluding words, it gives merely the first and last line of the entire article, thus insinuating that libel lurks in the whole and every part, without its being necessary for the government to specify any passage in par ticular. Misers est servitue sari raga est lex. " The statute of 1808," says the Debuts, "autho rised the granting of the title of Knight of the Empire on certain conditions to the members of the Legion of Honour. Since the restoration of the Council of the Privy Seal, numerous demands relative to that hereditary:title of knight bad been addressed to the Minister of Justice. These de mands, which until now had been reserved, have just received a favourable solution, and the title has been accorded in those cases which presented the required conditions." The - ate= advice boat Rodeur has arrived at Marseilles to be placed at the disposal of a com mission charged to inquire into the state of the French coast-fisheries in the Mediterranean, and especially to ascertain whether the present suffering condition of the said fisheries is owing to the free competition allowed to Spanish and Italian fisher men, with a view to the adoption of protective measures if necessary. The London correspondent of a leading Parisian journal boa a ridiculous tole about a young lady who served comestibles behind M. Veillani's counter at the Ex hibition. A baronet one day called for a bottle of chum pagne—drank it, left his purse behind. It contained a good deal of money and a senor, ticket. " Mesa " returned tt to him ; but he retained only the ticket, and made her • present of the purse and its contents. The next day "the baronet came for another bottle of champagne, and again left his pane ; and he continued the lame strange proce dure for several months. At length came a day when he did not leave his purse : the young lady asked him why,• and he thereupon made a proposal of marriage. She is now Lady In this singular manner do English baronets make love." Father Pantaleo, Garibaldi's chaplain, who war arrested at Naples, has bees set at liberty. Garibaldi intends, it is said, to have himself re moved in a few days from Varigeano to an hotel at Spins* la which his soo Menotti has already taken op his residence. THE DISTRESS tY LANCASHIRE. The London committee of the Operatives' Relief Fund beta their weekly meeting at the Mansion-house. The LORD MAYOR took the chair ; and Mr. Alderman Rose, the Lord Mayor elect, was present. Messrs. Cotton. Hower, Lyoett, Morley, Armitage, and Gibbs, were also present. The total amount received up to Thursday afternoon in aid of the fund was 66,531/.. of which the week's receipts amounted to 3,5841. 19s. 10d. His LORDSHIP reported to the committee that, since the last meeting, by the kindness of the treasurer and governor of Bridewell Hospital, the use of that establishment bad been granted to the committee as a depot for the receipt and stowage of presents of cast-off clothing, blankets, Sc., for the benefit of the distressed operatives in Lan shire and Cheshire. Final arrangements were made by the committee, and agents were appointed to be stationed there, for the purpose of receiving auy presents of clothing, that might be sent by the benevolent public. A number of applications for assistance were pat before the committee by Mr. Gibbs, and, after due consideration, the grants were made : the cathedral district, Manchester, 1001. ; Whitworth and surrounding districts, 1501. ; Holm sewing class, lately under charge of Mn. Buck, 1501. ; Ashton-under-Lyne, 2001. ; Mills Platting, 501. ; Motlrsm, 1501. ; Millbrook, 1001. ; Newton Moor, 1001. ; Bt. Philip's, Bradfixd.road. 2004 ; St. Thomas, ltedbank , 751. ; Broad bottom and Charlesworth, 150/. ; St. Judas, Anooata, 150/. ; Liveray, 100 t ; Witton. 150/. ; Rochdale, 500/. ; Embeay, 501. ; Withnell. 50/. ; Paringtoo, 50/. ; Ftibcheeter, 25/. ; Staleybridge. 5001. ; Enfield, am, 1501. ; Giggar, Bury, 201. ; Preston, 1,0001. LANCASHIRE DISTRESS FOND.-MT. J. W. Madura, lion. Sec., acknowledges receipt of the following contribu. Mon :-From a few millwrights, 11. 18s. 9d, ; A. Patterson, 11. • J. C. Patterson 11. 10s. ; Burton-on-Treot Relief Fmk, 501. ; proceeds ' of a reeding at Mo ff at Academy, 11131. 18.1. 10d. ; Jno. Remick (weekly), 2s. Gd. ; Fraser and Orr, 10/. ; Robert Froggatt, 11. ; employes of London and North Western Railway Company,. Crewe, week ending Oct 4, 111. ' 9s. 4d. • ditto Longiught, Gl. lls. 4d. ; Mr. Bateson, Crewe, 7s. ; collections in the following churches : -Ce.rwent, Chepstow, 2/. Gs. ; Llanvair Discoed, 1/. Ge. sd. ; Mustou, Liecesterabire. 11/. lls. ; Felton Church, Liocoloshire, 31. 17.. dd. ; Steatite, 21. lls. 9cl. ; South Chippenham, Rutland. 71. ss. Gd. ; St. James, Hove, 511. ss. ; St. Thomu'a, Southborough, Kent, 2i/. 10/. 2d.; harvest thanksgiving at Braokshaw Church, Lyndhurst, 9/. 15s. ; Mayor of Manchester, S. A., 51. ; Sunday Scholars at Denbigh, 61.105. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Ocr. 10. In a congregation, holden this morning at ten o'clock, being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the fol lowing degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts : Rev. Fraurm Edwin Allen, Rev. William Henry Barnard, and Rev. David Harding, Exeter College; Hereford Brooke George (Fellow), New College; Thomas Carter Follett, Lincoln College. Bachelor of Arts: Eyre William Hussey, Christ Church. At the same time the Rev. William Yates, M.A., fellow and tutor of Reassume College, was appointed one of the masters of the achooll. The next degree day is Thursday, Nov. 6. QUEEN'S COLLIEGE.—Menrs. S4okey, of Magdalen Hall, and Thomson, of Queen's College, have been elected scholars of the above society. .CA*BIUD9E, Ocr. 10. THE LE Bes PRlZZ.—ThinPrize, given annually for ate best English essay ou a subject of general literature, to be occasionally chosen with reference to the history, in stitutions, and probable destinies and prospect. of the Anglo-Indian empire, has been this day adjudged to Frannie Cottrell tiodgeon, 8.A., King's College. THE ARCHBISHOPRIC or Yoac—The following address is now in course of signature by the clergy through out the archdeaconry of York We, the undersigoed clergy of the archdeaconry of York, are unwilling that your grace should quit the diocese without mime expres sion of our regret at the loss of one, whose wisdom, kind ness, and self-denial wo have largely experienced and grate fully acknowledged. We trust. however, that the change, which we ourselves lenient, will conduce to the general wel fare of the church. We rejoice that, by your elevation, under God's good providence, to the Primacy of all England, our national church will receive the benefit of the mature experience. Required during an active episcopate of 24 years in the northern province. We pray that the blessiog of God may ever rest upon You ; that His Grace may guide yon in the discharge of the high function, of that office to which you are now called—that you may long enjoy health of body and vigour of mind—and that you may be the honoured instrument of proluotiug, what we are assured is the dearest wish of ur heart, the glory of God and the eternal good of men. " —Yorkshire Gazette. Tire NEW PRIMATE ANo THE ATHANANIAN CREED.—A correspoodent of the Cambridge Independent writes :—" The friends of church reforms and liturgical re vision will be surprised, perhaps, to know that they have plausible reason for expecting some sympathy in one direc tion at least of their efforts, from the Pew Archbishop of Canterbury. Several years ago Dr. Lougley's sister named a gentleman who was a dissenter, and of a heterodox sect. A correspondence, which was afterwards published, ensued between the brothers-in-law, and though the con troversy ended in each retaining his own opinion, it afforded an admirable specimen of the temper in which such controversy should be carried on, and in no degree lessened the regard which both parties felt for each other. The lady died two years ago in the profession of the opinions of the sect she had joined. I mention the matter, in order to quote a sentence used by Dr. Lornley in the course of the controversy. It is true that at that time he was only a simple clergyman, and had no dreams even of archbishoprics, but it is pannier he may not even now shrink from the avowal. 'Nothing,' he sari, • that I have advanced on the subject of the Atbanuian creed is, as I ontoeive, in the least degree in consistent with my joining in the sentiment of Tillotsoe, and wishing it removed from our church service. If I were called upon to give my vote upon the subject, It would be for its omission. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The Exhibition wax honoured yesterday with a visit from the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess ➢Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge. The roy a l party, who were attended by Sir Wentworth Dilke, spent a considerable time in the building. B eing half-crown-day, there are no visits of nehools record, and the general company wee of about the usual Friday number and quality. The following were the total numbers admitted yesterday, compared with the correspouding day in 1851 : latit. Half-a-crown day. I Season ticketa. Friday. Oct. 10 ToW.. 1861. Halts-Crown elsy. t Season tickets .. TAW. Oct 10 1 Payment Total 11,61; 14,4 Z.3,ora CRYSPAL PALACE. The announcement that yesterday was vet apart for the benefit of Blondin was, of course, sufficient to at tract an immense gathering at the Crystal Palace. A splendid day gave a tall opportunity of wituesaing the autumnal glories of the park and grotto& ; but for thee few of the thousands of visitors bad coo eve. It was Blonde's benefit, and they were there to see Bloodia. They ca re d for nothing else, and little else was provided. It was Eke. din first, Blondin second, and Moodie throughout. There was nothing very novel in the feats which be wa s expected to perform, for he had done the W M f eu , b e f ore ; but then, he was to do in one clay what bad before been spread over many days, and it was no wonder that 20,000 sightseers should pay their slid. bogs to witness such an aggregation of his achievements. At 1 o'clock Blondin made his appearance, awl at once commenced his "low rope entertainment., the "low rope" being stretched across the front of the orchestra some seven feet from the ground. His wooden shoe dame, his stilt performance, his goand evolutions with balance role, were all rapturously applauded ; while his " thrilling chai r feat," sitting, standing, and dancing upon the their while resting upon the rope, and his backward somersaults, foot to foot, over burning candles, were successes of a still more decided character, notwitlnhol. Mg the fact that in "nomeresulting" over the candle' he nearly came to grief, losing his foothold as he come back to the rope, but coming to the ground with a grace vmrny of himself. Of course he repeated the attempt, and solo oeeded. Then, on the same low rope, he gave his flu claaoe—his "Tours de Chapeau"—• serio-comic perform. mace in a cocked hat—his grand violin feat— turoing luck somersaults while playing a popular vales. The finale of this tart of bis programme was his " wonderful drum feat," in which he threw a succession of somersault. while playing the drum polka. Then followed an interval of rt.:, and at 3 o'clock he :ascended to the high rope over thi fountains., running from the centre to tbe southern mast-1 distance of 200 yards—and returning blindfold, and with his head and body enveloped in a sack. Divesting himself of these somewhat inconvenient appendages, he proceeded to the northern mast, sometimes standing on oue lee, once standing on his head, several times lying down and tuning over, concluding this high rope performance by wheel. iog Punch over in a barrow. Although there was nothing in this which Blondin bad not often done before, the spectators cheered him vociferously, and it was curious to mark the eager way in which many gentlemen rushed forward to shake hands with the hero of the town, as if it were an honour not to be lightly esteemed or easily forgotten. Another brief interval of rest, and Blondin appeared upon the high rope in the centre transept of the palace, running from one end to the other as if he had been time solid ground; returning with his feet secured in huge baskets, and his wrists with manacles. he next carried out a table and a chair, and took luncheon on the rope, then, getting rid f his table he sat and stood upright upon his chair while it rested on the rope with me leg cooly, to the intense delight and wonder of be audiewe. But the great sensation feat of the day was yet to come. Dropping down a rope hand over hand from the top gallery, he entered a small pavilion, from which a stout rope had been securely stretchrl along the traosept to the orchestra opposite, about 13 feet from the floor. It was known that he would carry his wife across this rope, a " great feat," it was announced, which he "had repeatedly performed abroad on the high rope, hut he adopted the low rope on this occasion, that his thonsanch uf friends and patens in this country might wither it in perfect confidence." Some minutes of suspense, and then uprose the curtained front of the pavilion where the Mondin's —husband and wife—stood hand in hand, and looking quite charming in their light and gauzy costume. Fa lame mounted lightly on her husband's hack, and there she etood, or seemed to stand, with one arm on hie shoulder and the other lightly twining around his forehead. So on they OMB —he with firm step and balance-pole extended, and she like a floated Ariel ; whether borne by or sustained above Lim by some invisible influence, it must have been difficult for the more distant portion of the audience to say. Os they came, and at every step the enthusiasm of the multitude increased, until they stood, like a group cut from the mottle, over the middle of the transept, when it rem to a perfect furore. Some clapped, some cheered, some literally shouted, more, perhaps, in honour of Madame than of her bushiest — the hero of a hundred such feats ; and this tempest of ap plause was renewed when, having descended from the rope and gained the front of the orchestra. Blondin led forward his partner to acknowledge the booonr of their cordial mem tion. Finally, after dark, Moodie crossed and re-crowd the high rope over the fountains, :which played up, to the gleaming of the rising moon, amid the blaze of blue sad red fire, and the brilliancy of a pyrotechnical display, worthy of the old days of the now defunctend.being.trailt upon VauxhalL ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. —We are re quested to state that the international show of owed', roots, vegetables, and gourds at South Kensington will ces• tintie open this day and during the whole of next week. We read in the United &nice Gazette rumour has reached us to the effect that disturbsnets, somewhat similar to those which some time since gained so unenviable a notoriety for Woolwich, have recently broken out amongst the cadets at Sandhurst. A great mystery is, as usual, sought to be preserved, both as to the causes and the results of this reported inutile, Lut we understand that a court of inguirroommenced its sittings on Saturd.iy last." Mr. William Dugan, who may be said to bane created a new town at Bray, has added another attractive feature to that fashionable watering•place. He has k; apart an extensive and valuable piece of ground in front of the new International Hotel, the finest building of the kind :a Ireland, which is to Le devoted to athletic sport*. fordo benent of the inhabitants. It will also be used for :kart shows and bazaars. The ground was formally opened on Thursday, when the Lord-Lieutenant was present. A numerous party assembled to witness the inauguration aid the foot mole and other sports which followed. "Ragged Life in Egypt," by Miss M. L Whately, daughter of the Archbishop of Dublin, is an• nounced. A biography of Father Mathew, founded on In, diaries, letters, dm, is is extra° of preparatioa, by yr• Maguire, M.P. for Dungarvau. Sir George Cornwall Lewis has in the pn' ,s a new edition of "An Essay on the Origin and Formation ..! the Romance Languages; containing en Examination of Mr. Raynouard's Theory co the Relatiou of the tam Spanish, Provencal, and French to the Latin." Miss Margaret Goodman, the author of the well told "Experiences of a Sister of Mercy," bane volume is the press on " Sisterhood. in the Church of EnglauL" Among the wurke that way be looked for early next year (says the dthemuns) is a history of the Eughl stage, from the Restoratioo to the death of E Intend Kea, under some such title as "Her Majesty's Servants bef° and behind the Curtains," by Dr. Doren. A little comedy by Schiller, the very etistentv. 4 which had been carefully concealed by its owner—hitherto unpublished—has come to light, and is in the hail& of he surviving daughter, with a view to its brio; given to the public. Professor Do Morgan will deliver the introduc• tory lecture in the Faculty of Arts and Laws at the ors. hag of the session of University College, Loads', on Tlt6 . day, 14th of October, at 3 o'clock. To this lecture law will be admitted. Mr. F. T. Bucklaud gives a curious account. la • weekly periodical, of a French giant, M. JeeePh Brice, who is now exhibiting himself in the me trepans. He is so tall that when be called Mr. Dockland, at the Albany-street Barracks, " the troop horses shied and snorted at him, though they sir !well well accustomed to tall men." Lifeguanlsinea of as highest stature can walk under his outstretched arm sell not touch it by some inches, and when his win , are el• tended his stretch measures no less than i oche.. 31 ' Brine n "a joli Pertme"--a very " nice" giant indeed — possessed of the best of good tempers, and wine the rear* of the disagreeable, quarrelsome monsters that gisets OP: geeserallyeupposed to be. His exact height is said to be feet 6 inches. Wiirmin ALL, Orr. 9.—Tire Queen has been plene`i to present the Rev. James Elgar to the church arid Par,'h of Durbog, in the presbytery of Caper, and county of hi":. vacant by the transportation of the Rev. John GliehrN.• late minister thereof, to the church and perish of Owl , msaalui-6eette. r . I