The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-31 00:00:00

BENSON, J. W., by Special Appointment to HILL Uri hind of Wales. BENSON'S SILVER and ELECTRO-PLATE. Prize Medal. 1162. TIENSONI3 GOLD JIIVELLERY, Novel - - INFA tlitiNzii:dreetandWestbournagrove:' Steiak Facta and City Show Um.. ' MAPPIN BROTHERS. . A. D. 1810. CHESTS of SILVER PLATE for the COLONIES, CUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for FI7ILNIBIIIIIO. MAPPIN BROTHERB, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPLN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT -8111.6.1T. AFTER WHAT 7—After Mellon's Promenade Coucerta. ItVANS' to map. We shall mast therm eke 11 rarrtol4. TO MAIM PONDEN Tft. dvertleententa Intended for "The Expreep," London Ewan( Par, mast be at the °face, 10, liouvereattreet, by Two edock on the day of publication. PILINCIOWS. TEM ZWIFING, HUGUE.NOT CAPTAIN. Meows. Thing, Ind CL Hooey: Maws Mensal, Augusts Theeomoo, sod Mrs. Ilking.—And QUIET LODGING& BRIT/ Trap Immo, TFIIMUIt;IY AT TIM MORK—Mr. F. Ivan., Mies Rosa Had& Mu Latimer: Mr. H. Maearthy : M rHE C. Woodman Master IL Mandan.—And JACK MLNOO, LONDON Isnuner BOY. HIGH RATIN AT LONDON 13.IDEL MP DAT —morning. 6b. Hoo Aft noon, BIL 37k IDMOi&OV—Morning. OIL Om Ailankoos, eh. 24w. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31. Ammo the graver subjects that occupy the at tention and excite the anxious solicitude of states men who care to look beyond the political exigencies of the hour, our national pauperism probably holds the first place. The far-sighted advocates of constitu tional reform—such as Mr. MILL and Mr. GOLD WIN SMlTH—have, indeed, expressly signalised this as one of the gravest subjects which a Reformed Parliament would have to consider, and for the consideration of which reform in Parliament is espe cially desirable. However this may be, there can be no doubt that the mass of chronic pauperism which, throughout the length and breadth of the land, weighs down the springs of local industry, is a public evil of the most serious and menacing kind—the black and ominous spot on the fair escutcheon of our national prosperity. And, whatever may be the immediate fate of reform, it isan obvious duty, independently of all party coned derations, and on the broadest grounds of pa triotism, to keep the subject before the public, and endeavour to awaken the nation to a sense of its magnitude and importance. If the question cannot yet be taken up as a whole, it may still be possible to deal with it in parts, and make, at all events, some commencement in the work of re form. While it would be premature to expect that the evil will be directly attacked by any imme diate parliamentary revision of the existing system, it may still perhaps be successfully assailed by improvements in the detail of its administra tion. And whatever can be fairly done in this way will be a great public gain, morally as well as materially. Ally enlightened attempt to reduce the class of permanent or professional paupers by well-considered reforms of administration, even though only partially successful, would have the beneficial effect of directing public attention to the weak points of the existing system, and thus pre paring the way for its legislative revision. There is one considerable section of the pauper class, the tramps and vagrants that, after infesting our streets and highways by day, pollute the •workhouse casual wards at night, which it seems quite possible to begin with at once. They con stitute not only a very troublesome but a very nu merous class of professional paupers, the number of tramps and vagrants in the country being, ac cording to recent statistics, upwards of thirty three thousand. This large guerilla force of idlers and vagabonds wages silent but unceasing warfare against settled industry, invades its prosperous fields, levies heavy contri butions on its hard-won earnings, and lives from birth to death at its expense. For the important fact is that with the great majority of this class vagrancy is a profession or calling in which they have been reared, or which they have early chosen as a preferable alternative to daily work. According to the testimony of those who know them most intimately—the master' of work houses and the police—" most of them are idle pro " tiigates—a worthless set of vagabonds that never " work, but tramp from one place to another, stealing " or begging in the day, and applying for lodging "in the workhouse at night." This testimony will be abundantly confirmed by all who have had any opportunity of observing the habits of the class, especially in country towns and the rural districts. A party of tramps scarcely ever passes through a town without some articles of value being missed from the houses they have visited. They are for the most part thieves as well as beggars, the plea of destitution being the mask under which their systematic robberies, often audacious enough, are successfully carried ou. The welfare of society demands that this class should be discouraged by all legitimate means, and if possible suppressed, and it should obviously be the aim of any discriminating system of pauper relief to exclude the professional tramp, or strolling thief front its benefits. Instead of doing this, however, the existing plan of casual ward relief affords this class just the kind and amount of systematic help which enables them to pursue their professional career in comparative ease and comfort. The master of the workhouse is bound to admit indis criminately all who profess to be destitute, to give them a night's lodging, with a supper and a break fast, at the expense of a nominal labour payment, which is at best carelessly exacted, and in many cases not exacted at all. The result is that the number of tramps seeking habitual relief in the workhouse casual wards has so in creased as to have become a serious practical evil, and to have forced itself upon the atten tion of the Poor-law Inspectors, and roused them to consider how it may be most effectually checked. One of them, Mr. Dort; has very seasonably recalled attention to the scheme for the purpose suggested eighteen years ago in a cir cular issued by the late Mr. C. Bolus. In that circular Mr. Boum stated, what is still more true now than it was then, that the casual wards were almost monopolised by the habitual tramp, who simulates destitution, while the most fitting objects of public charity were subjected to the discomforts that were in tended to repel the worthless. The great point of course is to devise some scheme for disconnecting the deserving from the undeserving objects of pnblic relief—the destitute labourer or artisan travelling in search of work from the professional THE yaI,,PRESS, FBIL,AT EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1866. vagrant. Mr. Bu LIAR suggested for this pu the refusal of relief to all yoyng e-liticlied 11 t itaik actually destitute, the exislio bile work, the employm en t o f I talica oers'aa assigiant relieving officers, and • system of passes or certi ficates to be givesito the - eadiwal poor for produc *pp at their next place of sojourn. Two of these suggestions—that of giving certificates to the really deserving, the casuals travelling in search of woik, tested jy the actual length of their day's journey, and exacting a heavy labour test from all others—if universally adopted, would perhaps go far towards meeting the evil. A scheme founded on these suggestions, and embody ing them in a modified form, is about to be tried in Gloucestershire. According to this plan, any able-bodied vagrant is to receive a night's food and lodging, but is roquired to do four hours' work in the morning, unless he can show that he has travelled from fifteen to twenty miles towards his place of desti nation on the previous day. These are the main features of the scheme designed to check the growing evil of public and indiscriminate vagrant relief, and they are sufficiently promising to justify • hope that if faithfully and wisely carried out the plan may prove to a considerable extent successful. It is high time that something should be done in the matter, and the progress of the new scheme will be watched with special interest by all who understand the magnitude and me nacing character of the evil it is designed to combat. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) fidelity mid exactuali which vould ;Wight the philo sophical ilkii-carpe in `teeter " 4yond mesiminvrWak P confisigOilei oomploosa, re -lazing Set: screw, ding out facilleiea and irotting about like Fagin with pockets tern ly open ; eager public, sanguine and expectant, folloWing on ifs heels with beaming countenance and new blossom hopes —a charming and encourariug tahlitetz Then Bank Parlour, with unpleasant previsions rising in its mind, enhanced by gloomy leaders in monetary Journals, feels its gold slipping away from it, and rushes to its screw, which it works with frenzied vehemence and frantic unreason ; terrified public grasps at every bank note it can get hold of at any price, and buries it as a dog does • bone, and with about as much reflection, and about as much insight into what it is doing. Thus, • universal stagnation, a diminution of reserve, and money will be as if it were not ; terror and darkness, and every body will lose except those who are purely dealers in dis count. Bad and gloomy tableau ! That will be the course if the problems of commerce are to be worked out under the machinery that was created twenty-two years ago. LATUST INTELLIGENCE. banners LETTER. —sErz raw - AND 1,0- SECUTION OF THE " UNITA ITALIAN The Unita /taliana, of August 24, contains the following : His Majesty's Attorney-General, seeing that the Unita Motions of this day contains in ite first article, filling the whole foes °obtains of the first page and more than half of the second, and signed by Giuseppe Mazzini, a provo- e ition ►gainst constitutional institutions—seeing that the article which immediately follows contains the same offence, and moreover, excites to hatred between the different classes of society—seeing that an article entitled "A Proposition," in the same number, contains an offence against the sacred person of the King, and is ciloulated to expose him to contempt and dislike, orders under Articles 13, 19, 22, 24, of the hues law of the 26th of March, 1848, and Article 471 of the penal code, the seizure of the said number and the commencement of a prosecution against the manager of the said paper, Giaainto *lisped con behalf of the Attorney-General, ZINDRINL CANDIA. The Late of Syrs publishes the following procla mation : August 11,1866. To all Cretans residing in the Island or out of it, and to all Christiana. The General Assembly of Cretans taking into ootuddera lion the critical situation of the country, and trusting in the sentiments of the whole population of this illustrious and sacred land, as well as of all Helenas, appeals by this proclamation to their patriotism, and invokes them in the crime of our common and unfortunate country for help by wards and deeds in order that the aim which we all have in view, and for which so much has been sacrificed, may for ever be secured. (Signed) ALUALS DU TD2BUM44I DZ CtDONMVL (uvraa•s Trxraiwca.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Atlol7Bl. 31. On account of the unsatisfactory state of the finances, the Emperor has ordered the amount fixed for the court expenditure in 1867 to be re duced from 74 million to 5 million florins. A large portion of the imperial retinue has been dismissed, and considerable retrenchments are about to be made in the salaries of the chief court functionaries. THE ELECTOR OF HESSE. BERLIN, AuGun' 31. The semi-official North German Gazette of to day contains an article alluding to certain rumours which have been current here, that the Elector of Hesse had abdicated in favour of the King of Prussia. The article says :—" Nothing is known of these rumour s in well-informed circles. The Elector of Hesse could not, however, in his own interest do better than adopt such a resolution. Austria and the other German states with whom peace has been concluded having already recognised the new organisation of Northern Germany, no prospect exists of a change taking place in the position of the Elector." THE BAVARIAN CHAMBER. MUNICH, Auousr 30. The bill for a loan submitted to the Chamber of Deputies to-day is accompanied by a motion to the following effect :—That a dose union with Prussia would be the only means de finitively to bring about the unification of Ger many by the co-operation of a freely elected parlia ment, endowed with the requisite powers, and effectually to protect the national interests, and repel, in case of necessity, any attack from abroad. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, At Cat'ST 31. The Emperor has given a banquet in honour of the American Embassy, at which his Majesty drank a toast to the prosperity and consolidation of the United States. The official Northern Post states that certain journals have greatly exaggerated the number of Polish insurgents in Siberia, and denies that the revolt has spread. The imperial sanction has been given to the statutes of a joint stock company established for the purchase of landed property in the western provinces. The government advances to the com pany without interest the sum of 5,000,000 roubles. Baron Kneaebek, who arrived here on a special mission from the King of Hanover, has had an audience of the Emperor. SPANISH FINANCE. MADRID, AUGUR? 31. It is officially announced that the Spanish float ing debt amounted on the ht July to 1,545 million reels, and on the ht August to 1,606 million reels. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA. The Royal Mail steamship Java, from New York on the 22nd inst., arrived at Queenstown at 9.30 a.m. to-day (August 31), with 48 passengers and 40,000 dollars in specie. She landed all the mails, consisting of 125 sacks and 22 passengers, and proceeded to Liverpool immediately ; all well. ( Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 22. . President Johnson has issued a proclamation declaring Texas restored to the Union, and that peace, order, tranquillity, and civil authority now exist throughout the whole United States. A committee have visited the President to pre sent to him a copy of the proceedings of the Phila delphia Convention. The President made a speech, reiterating his determination to maintain his po licy, and declared that the convention was more important than any that had sat since 1787. The declaration made by the convention was, he said, a second declaration of independence. General Grant stood at the President's side during the delivery of the speech. A convention of soldiers and sailors has been called to assemble at Cleveland on the 17th Sep_ tember to endorse Johnson's policy. The political pressure to bring about Mr. Stan ton's retirement increases, and his resignation is daily expected. The Federal Attorney-General has ordered a note prosequi to be entered in the cases of the Fenian officers concerned in the Fenian raids. No hostile demonstration was made at the Fenian picnic held at Buffalo yesterday. The Fenians are reported to be demonstrating at Malone and along the Niagara frontier. The commanders of the Canadian Volunteers in the Brookville division have been instructed to issue 60 rounds of ball cartridge to each man. General Sweeney has issued an address, waiting the Fenian against using the organisation of the Brotherhood for the purposes of American politicians. Two Federal war vessels have been ordered to Rio Grande, in accordance with President John. son's proclamation ignoring the blockade of Matamoros. The commander of the American Pacific egnadron has been ordered to detach a force to take care of American interests off Magadan Guaymas. A terrible patrolman explosion has amused at Long Dock, opposite New York. Six lives were ' lost and numbers injured. Propel .y to the amount of 1,000,000 dole. was destroyed. _ . „ . Cholera Is still raging severely throughout the western cities. (n ASIAN/10 TII-2613.1P11.4 NSW YOB.K, Ammer 30. President Johnson has visited New York and met with an enthusiastic reception. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Ammer 22. The Rio Grande Courier of the 7th inst. reports that the French had retaken Monterey, capturing Escobedo, numerous officers, and 1,400 prisoners. Cortinas had captured Reynosa from the liberals, and had pronounced for the imperialists. V. lhirszno. &T. W. lto il LI D. — Nate .... 29.70 56 W. 1 1 N.W. cb 1 - Leith . c— 1 Ardroosan N.72 S.S. N.N.W. tb OreencmcDo 29.71 56 S.W 2 3 N. NW. re &I? V 4166519 29.77,67 W.N.W. 2 4 &W. cc ow 1 _ _ 2224 B.& Z. 1 4 W. N. W. cb 6.02 2 Holyhead 29.77, W. 3 3 W.N.W. t to 90 56 Z. 0 2 W. cb Brag_ 55 N. 3 5 S.W. r 01 6 Goriest_ '29.76 50 N. 2 4 8. co 0.16 locbefort 29.86 64 W.S.W. 5 4 &W. Co 0.06 ZP 4 ` 4 " : : 2,32 22 I 0 N.W. g . 1.24 2 Portsmouth 29.87 67' KN.& 1 6 B.W. ro 6.03 Loudon _ 49.97 59' S.W. 2 6 N.N.W. crb - T _ armooQi. '29.87 57, W. 2 . N. ; c;— ' 1 karborouck 155.91 56 W. 1i 4 N. Icb 2 naiads 129_8166 1 S.W. , 2is NAL I c._ 3 Holder Naiads Holder ! THE LORD CHIRP JUEITICZ AND HL DIALER. The Daily News thinks it is to be regretted that Mr. Beales did not relieve the Lord Chief Justice of the burden of withdrawing his appointment by spontaneously renouncing it in obedience to higher claims as an advocate of public rights. Nothing can be more creditable to his taste and temper than his part in this oorrespondanoe, which, indeed, reflects the highest honour upon both the writers. And while the Daily News joins with Mr. Beale. in accepting at once, is the full assurance of its truth, Chief Justice Cockburn's statement that he is actu ated by no other motive than a conscientious sense of public duty, it is too deeply impressed with the importance of preserving the judicial office in this country in all it. grades beyond the reach of political suspicion, to re gard Mr. Belles u a victim in this instance of his prin ciples, or r►ther of his outspoken and generous advocacy of the rights of his fellow-countrymen, who have no higher recompense than their gratitude to bestow upon their dis interested advocates. Although the Herald brings no charge against Mr. Beale", in the capacity he has hitherto filled as revising barrister for the county of Middlesex, it must congratu late the Chief Justice of England upon having acted with a clear senile of his public duty bmiisplacing him from that office. It was impossible that the electors should have continued to trust him ; no voter struck off the lists would have believed that he was justly treated ; and here was an amply sufficient justification of the measure which has been adopted. The Lord Chief Jaatioe's letter to Mr. Beale', hi, re marks the Past, a lucid and kindly statement of the grounds on which he felt compelled not to reappoint that gentleman to the office of revising barrister. It may or may not have been vise for the Chief Justice to go so fully into his reasons, but the intention does not admit of misapprehension. The letter is more than courteous; it is friendly. Still its logic is inexorable. There isno escape from the argument that, if the judge is known to be a man of extreme zeal and ardour in political matters, there will be a tendency to suspect, however unjustly, that his decilions, if not absolutely corrupt, are, at all events, in fluenced by party feeling ; and it is begging the question to refer to justices in petty sessions trying poachers, al though one wrong does not excuse another, and there may be much to be said in favour of a stipendiary magistracy. The same remark will apply to the constitution of the Supreme Court of Appeal, and to the circumstance that the chief judge in the courts of equity is a political minister. RAILWAY COMPANIES. The Times, commenting on the recent meetings of the Great Western and Gras* Eastern Railway Companies— the first of which declared onlya dividend of two per cent., while the other declared no dividend at all, and wan unable, indeed, to make provision for all its preferential obliga tions, says that the secret of the novel unanimity and eon • tentment with which the amounts and policy of the dime. tors were received by the shareholders lay simply in the policy of frankness and honesty which the directors bad adopted in dealing with their constituents, and in the wisdom of the courses to which they promised to adhere. A comparatively small fraction of even the net returns of • line remain as available ultimately for dividend. The returns of the Great Western an reckoned by millions. For the year ending last July the revenue was 3,610,000/. ; the expenses were 2,175,0001., and the balance 1,443,0001. When it came, however, to the actual dividend for the past half•year it was found that a mere excess of 40,000/. in a particular item of outlay had reduced the dividend from three per cent. to two. In the case of the Great Eastern, again, the chairman explained that the default of the COM. pany in satisfying the preferential claims upon it arose from a casual and unexpected increase of charges to the amount of h 7,0001. The mass of the money earned goes away to debt, fixed charges, and mortgages of all descrip- tions, until the divisible residue becomes so small that a few thousand pounds will affect the rate declared. The Tilftell trusts that by this time railway companies have seen the error of their original ways. It is positively dis tressing to think what opportunities they have thrown away. Let any reader imagine what would have been the profits of these enterprises if the whole difference between actual receipts and working expenses had been available for dividend. Yet that would be only a natural state of the case. So great is the elasticity of the traffic, and so immeasurably have railways outstripped all the calcula tions made of their usefulness, that the adoption of a wise and pacific policy will possibly bring back prosperity once more. Symptoms of this wholesome revival are not want. ing, and it will be a happy thing for all when the recovery is complete. la. LAINCS SPEECH AT WICK. . '- The Daily News, referring to Mr. Dung's speech to his constituents at Wick, observes that it is not strange that the worthy electors of the Wick boroughs should not know what to make of their gifted member ; and if, with every respect for his character, they are unable to put any trust in the stability of his intellectual convictions, no one can be very seriously surprised. Mr. Laing's votes contradict his speeches, and his theories are in direct opposition to his practical proposals. He de precates a uniform reduction of the suffrage, and announces his intention of supporting a measure of which such uniform reduction will form one of the main provisions. •He alleges that a 6/. householder in Wick is better than a 10/. householder in England, and favours a uniform qualification of 71. for both England and Scotland. He denounces universal suffrage as fraught with evil ; declares (with confident inaccuracy) that a 71. franchise will in England be nearly universal suffrage ; and winds up by saying that, se part of the bill of the future, it shall have his hearty support, and will give general satisfaction. A man of Mr. Laing's ability could not have involved himself in the contradictions which we have exhibited if be had ever seriously considered the question of parliamentary reform. Talk so random and incoherent has seldom proceeded from the lips of so businesslike a politician. THE IEDOCTION LW THE I.&1 01 irrERIPST. We may now, observes the Pod, consider ourselves fleeted into the current, the set and course of which ought by this time to be tolerably familiar to the monetary and commercial population. Year after year they go up the gold stream and down the gold stream as voyagers go up and down the Nile. The tide is now rising rapidly, fer tilising and giving life as it flows, and all monied nature begins to awake and disport itself in its increasing waters. We are, in fact, fairly in movement again, and shall go through the phases through which we have gone so often, and shall continue to go so long as the act of 1844 remains with out modification. Events will be reproduced with • the Court. BALMORAL, Ammer 29. The Queen drove out yesterday morning acoom panied by Primer Louise. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill, went to her Majesty's Shell in Glen Gelder. WINDSOR CASTLE, Auourr W. _ _ . The Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein received this afternoon the Mayor and Town-clerk of Windsor, who had the honour of presenting an address of congratulation from the corporation to their royal highnesses upon their marriage. Madame Muaurna and family will shortly leave town for St. Leonard*. Madame Munroe has been suffer ing from a severe rheumatic attack, but is now consider ably better. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde left their residence in Stratton-street on Wednesday to visit Mr. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, at Allenhead, Northumberland. The Marquis Conyngham, at the close of his visit to Lord and Lady Londesborongb, at Grimrton Park, went to visit Captain and Lady Cecilia Brinckman at their temporary residence in Nairnshire. The Earl and Countess of Durham have left Lambton Castle for Scotland, for the shooting mason. The Earl and Countess of Beasborough have ar rived at their seat in Ireland from Buxton. The mortal remains of the late Earl of Craven are to be brought to Coombe Abbey, near Coventry, to day from Scarborough. The funeral, which is to take place to-morrow, will be attended by the nearest members of the family and the tenantry. Viscountess Hohnestlale has left Pencarrow, Lady liolesworth's seat in Cornwall, for Viscount Holmes dale's shooting lodge in Scotland. Lord John Manners left town yesterday for &num, Dunksid. The Hon. Charles R. Carington has joined the Prince of Wales at dhergeldie Castle. The Right Bon. Sir John Pakington, the First Lord of the Admiralty, together with the other Lords Commissioners (excepting Admiral Sir C. Decree and Rear- Admiral Sir John D. Hay) and Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., left town yesterday morning for Devonport, on an official tour of inspection. Deputations of various kinds still wait upon the Marquis of Abercorn to present addresses of congratula tions, and receive the vice-regal assurance that the in terests of Ireland shall not be neglected under the new (Morning Herald) are able to state that the Chief Commissioner of Works has decided upon the plans for the new buildings of the London University at the back of Burlington House. Mr. Pennethorne, architect to the Board of Works, having furnished two designs, one in a classic style, the other in what is called Relics Gothic, Lord John Manners has chosen the latter, snd in the course of to-day or to-morrow Messrs. Jackson and Shaw, who hold the contract for the works up to the street level, will commence the excavations._ WILLS AND Bstwasrs.—The will of the Most Exoetient Count de Ferreira, Joaquin Ferrier'. doe Santos, late of the city of Oporto, where he died in March, 1666, was proved in London under 50,0001. personalty in g land. The executors appointed are his nephew, Antonio Ferreira dos Santos, Jose Guipar da Grace, and Msnoel Gualberto Soares. The will is translated from the Portu guese. It was his excellency's desire that, on his Quitting this life, his body should be clothed 111 a Knight of the Orderof Christ, read • general three days' mass be observed.* He has made large bequests to charitable institution' and hospitals. He leaves a complete suit of clothes to each inmate in the infirmary of the Santa Casa de Miserioordia of Oporto, there being not less than twenty patients under the homoeopathic system. He leaves a sum to build 120 houses for preparatory schools for both sexes, with masters' residences. Bequests are made to the Consultorio Homoeopa thic° Portuense, on condition of opening the same to poor people on Sundays and holidays. He bequeaths eighty dowries of 500 milreis each as marriage portions for eighty honest and virtuous girls ; and alms to thirty honest widows of 100 milreis each ; likewise alms of fifty milrets each to the head' of 50 families who have insufficient means to support themselves by labour. Bequests are made to the members of his family, to each of nis godchildren, to friends, and also to each of his servants ; and he appoint" as universal heir his nephew, Antonio Ferrara doe Santos. —The will of Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Hamp den Nicholson (Grenadier Guards), of Grosvenor street, Hanover-square, was proved in the London Court, under 33,0001. personalty ; the executors being his brother, Gilbert Nicholson, k.sq., and his nephew, Wil liam Newcome Nicholson, Esq. The wills dated Jan. 15, 1863, with four codicils, and the gallant colonel died Feb. 21, 1866. He has devised his landed estates at Newnith, Curraghtown, and Howrath, in Meath, Ireland, to his nephew and executor, William N. Nicholson, subject to the annuities uuder the will ; also leaves him all his books, in whatever language they may be, and appoint' him residuary legatee. There are liberal annuities ; also numerous legacies to his nephews, nieces, and other relatives and friends, and likewise to his servants ; all legacies to be paid free of duty. There are also many specific bequests of valuable articles and relic*. His silver-gilt dagger from Grenada and his Damas cus sword mounted in silver-gilt be has bequeathed to his brother, Gilbert Nicholson.—The will of Kenyon Stevens Parker, Q.C., formerly of Lincoln's-inn, and late of 49, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park, was administered to in the Loudon Court by his eon, Kenyon Charles Shireoliffe Parker, Esq., one of the residuary legatees, by reason of the executors therein appointed having predeceased the testator. The will was executed in 1843, and he died June 2, 1866, aged 76. The personalty was sworn under 8,000/. He had directed that, in the event of his surviving his wife, the whole of his property should be divided equally amongst their children.-11/ustrated London New. TIM EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S BIRTHDAY. —The Tagesbericla of Vienna publishes the following :—" The Emperor Francis Joseph, on the day of his fête, appeared exceedingly downcast; in the afternoon he summoned all the councillors of the crown, and, with tears in his eyes, addressed them in the following terms This is my flee day. Such occasions remind • man, even the highest placed, that he has made another "tap towards the tomb, and th a t h e oug ht in future to do his best, accosting to his knowledge and his conscience. If my people have desires which are not yet realised, I will stretch out my hand to aid them : I do not wish my paternal intentions to be doubted. Speak frankly, gentlemen. What is the opinion which predominates among the populations?' The ministers re mained silent, with the exception of one, who replied ' Sire, to speak frankly, public opinion is in despair.' The same mined-et afterwards explained to his Majesty the wishes and fears which had taken root in the mind of the public. The Emperor dismissed his council with these words :—' All that state of things must change, and soon the people shall fête my birthday " A suit of some interest to the operatic world was beard yesterday before the civil tribunal of the Seine. M. Belval, bus singer at the Grand Opera, applied to be released from accepting the part of the Grand In quisitor, which M. Perrin, the director, had attributed to him in M. Verdi's new opera of Don Carlos, on the ground that it is only a secondary one. The company of the Grand Opera includes two first bass singers, the plaintiff and M. Obin, each of whom receive the same salary and are engaged on exactly the same conditions ; the new opera of M. Verdi also contains two bass parts, Philippe 11. and the Grand I Inquisitor. The composer, before commencing the opera, was informed by IL Perrin of tbe names of the artists who would interpret his work, and consequently wrote the music of Philippe IL for M. Obis, whose voice is what is called in professional language • basic chantank, sad that of the Inquisitor for bL Belval, who is • have profoiuk. The latter on receiving his part and finding it to be not so long as that of his colleague, who he considered had been recently too much favoured, refused to accept it, sa not being in accordance with his engagement. H. Perrin argued that the part, although short, was nevertheless that of a first bass ; it °outward some im portant situations ; and to cenide it to a second-rate artist would be to the detriment of the opera. A number of contrary precedents were cited on each side, and the court, before giving judgment, charged M. Ambroise Thomas, of the Institute, to examine ea expert the scorn of the opera to determine whether the part of the Grand Inquisitor constituted that of a first bias or not. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom ova owl( coamroirosre.) PARIS, THURIWAY KVINING. It is announced that the Duke de Persigny, before he leaves the council-general of which he is president, will deliver no leas than three set speeches. It will go hard if in some or one of these he does not ventilate some of his own poli tical ideas. One of these we have been lately in formed is that adopted by M. Henry Martin, of the Sikh, that the Rhenish German provinces should be formed into a separate state. The Duke de Persigny need not be daunted by the remem brances that a speech of his was once visited by the public disapprobation of the Emperor, because Prince Napoleon, who stands infinitely nearer to the throne, has experienced a like re buff, and is now more than ever in favour. It does appear, however, that the present minis ters who do not take their own line of country and scrupulously obey orders, have understood that in regard to imperial politics this year the motto is " least said soonest mended." M. Rouher, the Minister of State at the council of the Puy de Dome, confined himself to an historical essay on the old provincial assemblies of Auvergne, illustrative of the present attributes of the council-general. Marshal Vaillant, minister of the Emperor's household, in addition to some necrological notices of deceased councillors, merely oonratulated the council on the extended local powers conferred by the law of July last, and observed that in the C4te d'Or it had always been the custom to keep expenditure within income. None of the other ministers have said anything important. M. Drouyn de Lhuys and Count Walewski, who are the presidents of the councils-general of the Aisne and the Landes, do not go this year to preside. The Moniker did not yesterday mention the name of the French commissary who it was said had been sent to Venice. It is now known to be General Lebceuf, one of the Emperor's aides-de camp. His mission is to terminate the transfer, through the Emperor, of Venetia to Maly. No difficulty is anticipated in this operation. The Roman legion which, under the command of an enthusiastic French catholic, Colonel d'Argy, has long been forming at Antibes, is about to em bark for Civita Vecchia, to relieve two battalions about to return to France. It is every day considered more certain that France will rigorously execute the convention of September 15, and evacuate not only Rome but Italy within little more than three months from this time. Nothing is now said of an evasion of the convention, at one time thought probable, namely, the maintenance ' after the evacuation at Rome of • strong French garrison at Civita Vecchia. The steam transports Avignon, Gironde, and Calvados are to sail on Monday for Mexico to bring back French troops, and three more vessels are completing their equipment, and will leave a few days later for the same destination. It is happily untrue, as rumoured a few days ago, that these ships were to " take out troops." " It is stated," says the Epoque, " that General Douay, who had been spoken of as likely to have the command of the expeditionary corps in Mexico after the return to France of Marshal Baraine, has applied also to be allowed to come home, and that it is General Neigre who is to be appointed to the chief command of the French troops in Mexico." The Moniker publishes the following note : Several journals have informed the public of the an. nouneement for a sale at the Hotel dee Vents* of a letter written, four days before her marriage, by the Empress, to M. Borger, Prefect of the Seine, charging him to thank the Municipal Council of Paris for the vote of • sum of 600,000 fr., destined to purchase a trousseau, and express ing the desire that the sum should be devoted to works of charity. The putting up for sale of this precious auto graph, which bears the date of the 26th of January, 1863, was, in effect, publicly announced in • printed catalogue, amongst the various items of which the municipal admibis tr,tion was much mrprised, and at the same time happy, to find this document. The present Prefect of the Seine, who had reported the absence of it from amongst the oftl cid papers received by him on entering on hit functions, had many times ordered a search for it, which was always fruitless. He immediately caused it to be purchased, and at the same time lodged a complaint in the hands of the Procureur Imperial. The Bourse opened heavily to-day in conse quence, as some say, of unfavourable reports of the Emperor's health, though perhaps these rumours have no other foundation than the fact already known that he is not going to Biarritz on Saturday. Quotations were somewhat better at the close. The latest prices of the Rente were 691 r. 60c. for cash, and 69fr. 5i c. for account, with a fall in each case of 10c. Italian fell 20c., and Credit Foncier and Mobilier Mr. each. - - - - - WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY. RUMMY 34 • Li. REMARKS. The winds are moderate this morning, and extremely variable. Barometric pressure is rather unsteady : to the southward of this country, on the coasts of the Bay of Biscay, It Is again diminishing, with rain. Miss Rye has this week sent out from Liverpool, by the government emigration ship Red Jacket, lOU selected young women, the majority of whom OM Rogßah, • considerable number Irish, and a few Scotch, to Mel bourne. They are all girls qualified by physisal health and moral character to take positions in domertic life as servants of various ranks when they reach the osieuiss. Mr. Guinness, who so munificently restored Bt. Patrick's Cathedral, In Dublin, is now expending • consi derable sum in renovating the ansiest abbey of Clong, which stands on his estate on the borders of Mal and Mayo. As it presents some of the ascot specimens or Gothic windows and doorways in the country the restoration al the old abbey is looked en with especial intoned by both architects and antiquarians. It is the burial Waco of many of the ancient Irish kings. THE BANK OF FRANCE it--irait 8141 . (sivrines wages.) PARIS, Atx pi , The following is the return of the Eso France for the week ending to-day, bl e w, the corresponding figures of the prelim ' woo miaow se. rr. e, Capital of the s. 0 1 92,600,000 Pruett in addition to capital (krt. 8, aw of June 9, 1947) . • 1 . 044 ,179 2 te itTh Reserve of the Beak and Bs branches Reserve of landed property •• • • 4.009000 a I PAII Notes is circulation Seat notes to order sad receipts payable at sight 9 9 . 939,0114 71 Treasury sooonet—innvent a kik% ditor .09.371 Current accounts, Yob I6 4SKSIS.nu on 36 448,.0 Ditto branch banks Se.SOS ON o Dividends payable Discounts and sundry interests 17, 41 Re-discounted the hut six 5,636,010 43 5 months Surplus of receipts not distal- 1 .3765 t fated Sundries 1077,793 Q COI% coo in land and In bralichi------.73774A548114:11:3°.411240 4"---;'4.111111.1144141:10197711(1 7 , 33 5,310 0 ismti C°alnbercC°79o4baalLtwciAlial.bibanubWilis ffiridisc°62l4d" ' 3 43 299 133 7 7900: o s o e n! Ditto Advances on deposits of bullion 23,841,000 0 tu t I I Ditto branch banks 11,457,40r 0 Advances on French public as II. , =life' Ditt ) branch banks 7,939,000 • 1111241 Advance, on railway shares Oita 1 and debentures Ditto branch banks M574400 0 Advances on Credit Fonder kW^ 1 _ Bonds Ditto branch beaks 51 0,000 0 41 ,4 I Adven. to the State (conven tion 10th use. 1857 Government stock reserve 1 2400,750 14 Wiw i Ditto& Bootee s r:Orilleees (law hid Jun*, 1857 1 100,000,000 0 likes 1 Hoteland fareitersof * & shank landed proven, branches . Expenses of managenteut Sundries ------ - 1,757,068.9111 di Ulm... calmed by the Depoty-Oevenine of the Beak of Amax (ete) Allo LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOPES AMlglat (THIS DAY.) The twenty-seventh half-yearly_genenl was f o r ma lly opened this afternoon at WerAnsissrwr in hia Hotel ,• but, accordance with a notice head sinsh date of the find advertisement, there was aa sp :l adjournment to St. James's-hall. Th e promsdisgs place in the great hail, the floor of which was to shareholders, and the galleries to debentumkik Upon the front of the platform two tables very*" in line, the one on the left b ei ng oonnisd by thnlbsew, and that on the right by the member of no committee. There was an unusually large shareholders, but the hall was far from monied. iy directors entered the ball at a quarter -put e l o'clock, and were received with some Lord tionnsa (the chairman of the company) va wi t ia ld chair. The report, the substance of which has appoint b Express, was taken as read. The reoeipta crease of 25,8381. 17a. 10d., and the expenses salami 20,955/. 7s. tkL upon those of the corresponding pow 1865. The Ctianues9, after referring to the retirees* ill-health, of Mr. Holroyd, fir C. Roney, and St C. spoke of the increase in the receipts, and reusehias the public utility of the line was shown by tholes' eig 4,901,441 passengers had been carried during the Gays& He regretted very much the position in which theempig was now placed. Owing to no fault of the dieseige,h‘ to the fact of 400,0001. of debentures a period when they could not get them from the state of the money market and 01ir "." 4 gations presaing at the woe time, they were compaile ask the indulgence of their creditors, but the esme made upon the application to Chancery had premed* interruption of the traffic. The line certainly sensiGe interest upon most of it. debentures in the lest ketple. They had now nearly a complete line, and, with the sults which their traffic had already shown, and the esp. rience of the Caledonian and other lines, the dim-Weikel every confidence that the present difficulties would In o •ercome, and that the company would in heart bow permanently prosperous. The directors would rateppie the appointment of the shareholders' committee. Lord HARRIS seconded the motion. -- ---. ---.. -- .—.....--. Sir JOHN Cowrie, from the bodyot the hell, milk thought the legislature was to some extent mpoesiblele the difficulties in which the shareholders now teal themselves. Mr. C. fir ROST moved the appointment of s courites of investigation consisting of Messrs. G. H. Barbary T. A. Hankey, W. Hartridge, F. Heritage, W. B. Mel, G. Hodgirinson, A. T. Hotham, C. Surgey. ad C. C. Turner, with instruotions to report at an adjoined nit log to be held on the 15th of October. The discussion was proceeding when our report ws despatched. THE REPRESENTATION OT BR/COIL—On Moak evening a most crowded meeting took place at the Bea Town-hall. It was convened by Mr. David Mope Thomas, the popular liberal candidate. The leered gee Oman was most enthusiastically received. Is tie course of his remake he stated that by some ere* standing on the part of sonic of the liberals of Meell Lord Churchill bad been invited down under the nese sion that there would be no other liberal candidate field. Under these circumstances the question ma de ther the liberal party should be divided. He (lit. 'll}a{ had beard the explanation and arguments of tie Men committee, and after carefully mundane, degree, and setting aside all personal conaiderataces, bat so to the conclusion that the chance of a tory wee would be augmented by such a course. (Great Though, therefore, he had the prior claim, eel offered to allow a public meeting to decide berme and the noble lord, which offer was not ecesietv* (laughter)—he felt that be should be beet swag* true cause of those principles he profaned if ha per vented delay, urged union, and banded his emus the noble lord to place the liberal cause in a raged perfect safety. (Tremendous cheering.) Had thirties no tory in the field he would have done otherwise; cal when ho could test the opinion of the liberals TiWN endangering the party he might again . coses reeP them. Lord Churchill, who had been invited by mg : Thomas to be present, then came forward, and reseed a high eulogium upon the learned gentleman, ni b shortly after left the ball amidst prolonged end mar emetic cheering. FUNERAL or THE Ray. DE. FlKAlL—Yeeterel. (Wednetelay)morning the remains of DeEdgervere reerlC from Dublin to Belfast by the 8 o'clock train. TM bale fired for the place of interment—Malone Cemetery—no 1 o'clock, long before which time a very great none/ the ministers of the General Assembly fr o m :11 II Ireland had assembled to accompany the fu to the grave. The clergy walked in procession tir= two, the professors of the Theological College bail hi front, immediately after the mourners. In the nerd the pro ..Oons came a long line of carriages. Ted! Presbyteries of the General Assembly were repriented the funeral—those of Belfast, Route, Munster, Gashrs Armagh, Newry, Banbridge, Templepatrick, Ards, mit herafelt, Glendermott, Drosnore, Tyrone, Athletic, Dar gamma, Carrickfergus, Dublin, Down, Derry, sad Mr mena.—NortAern Whig. BROTHER IGNATIUS IN LoNDON.—Last 51(0111 pulpit aitft of ea enormous congregation was assembled in the nestle's' secreted church of St. Michael and All Angels. Sh assdikie as brother Ignatius, of the Norwich monastery. To IS' men the RiLhyjamtheesproL.miciesednerapLpeynneran, forcemies Laude gentleman, who seems a very young win, was &Wail. surplice and black hood, a white scarf (so far a s meld th seen in the distance) being worn Across his implies 81 . 0 left to right. He has a very fine voice, which at tiess!! uses with crest effect, and he preaches extempsrLint fluency, animation, and a fair amount of gestaci uuaa t_M took his text from Acts vii., v. 47, "Put Soloman law him an house." After a Laboured account of the Isreflid in Egypt, and the application of it to Christian , in haii• age to sin, Mr. Lyne entered on an elaborate sampanrid; of Solomon who built the temple as being the Pe" .0! Peace with Christ as the Prince of Peace who bed i bis ede e pe hu:o d h. ent :n uo t in he m cou ca rse ho o lics f 6:66,s:et:on Mr. Lye sail that all who loved Christ were members of the nom — far, tic' would not deny that differences existed, yet * e ra of all who loved Christ should be the praye r' . Caristians. of tho ARISTOCRATIC PRIDE.—III th e attac k . - .sa a me Prussians on Oweleim, Galicia, a snrgeon , while —.— attending on the battle-field to some wounded Alga was taken prisoner by the enemy, the Prussians been compelled to retire. Dr. Fried h a w OW the same of the captured surgeo n —might ba g drawn with the Prussian troops bed his femr o pkg, allowed of his leaving the grievously wounded a soldi c z t r i e lt w u ith p o pe ut , m wsi edica b l ro a t l ig d h . t fa as tely s an prixelf A canea ustri: fior d /g l oom, Posen. It was agreed that he should be ex ..ped *INA captured kind-hearted surgeon, who, w? t wee happens to be a Jew. When Count Lippe awe' "1... A fi# drew back, paying that he did not want to be exceardrj.,,,—• a Jew " Indeed sot r dryly remarked the sad simply ordered him beck to the caerenehn• " aid that the capture of Dr. Friedlander under the ream described was the immediate canes of Aenn secession to the Geneva Convention for widow •••• wounded upon the field.—Jetrie Chronicle. i ; fi 1 for To* vitt kis I II sell ebb sib deb Ka of int ids