The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-29 00:00:00

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A COURT-MARTIAL trial, of extraordinary length, and which has excited unusual interest in India, has just been brought to a close in a manner which will probably attract to it an equal public attention at home. Sir Wm. MAN/WIELD, the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was in this case the public prosecutor ; but it happened to be in regard to transactions in which his own pri vate affairs were those chiefly concerned. He charged Captain Janvm, his late aide-de-camp, and who had held the office of his housekeeper, or steward, with having " appropriated to his own " use, and for the entertainment of his own guests," stores belonging to the Commander-in-Chief, while entering them in his books as expended on his Excellency's account. He further accused Captain JEavis of having, on two specified occasions, charged sums in the accounts to his principal, which were really spent by him for his own private behoof. It need hardly be said that no more serious offence, none more " scanda " lons," or more " unbecoming the character of " an officer and a gentleman," could be brought against one holding such an appointment, and we cannot regard the five-and-twenty days occupied by the Court-martial proceedings, nor the labours of a previous Court of Inquiry, and Committee of Audit, as having been wasted in investigating to the bottom the affair on which such imputations were based. But we are happily spared the necessity of troubling our readers with even an abstract of so voluminous matters of account ing, by two circumstances—the first is, that Captain Jsavis admitted having used the stores in the way charged, that is to say in giving entertainments, according to custom, in conjunction with his brother aides-de-camp, to which Sir W. MANSFIELD was himself invited, and at which therefore he had the satisfaction of un consciously consuming his own property. But Captain JERVIS defended this practice on the ground that it was done with no fraudulent intent, but only for the convenience of supplies, and with no fraudulent result, since the articles used were replaced by others purchased with his private funds. The second and more material fact is, however, that his conduct in the matter of both the stores and the money charged in the accounts has been found not in correct by the Court-martial, which has absolutely acquitted him on all ',these charges. But pending the investigation he was subjected, at the instance of the Commander-in-Chief, to certain other and supplementary charges. The first was : With having at Simla, on the 22nd May, 1866, neg lected to obey the orders of hi■ Excellency the Com mander-in-Chief, communicated to him by the military secretary, to attend a committee of audit, which had been assembled by order of his Excellency for the purpose of testing the accounts kept by Captain Jervis, on behalf of the Commander-in-Chief, the said committee having been ordered for the purpose of affording Captain Jervis an opportunity of relieving himself from the imputations olt his character as an officer and a gentleman, contained in the lit and 4th instances of the Ist charge, with which he (Captain Jervis) had been made acquainted, at a court of inquiry held on the 14th May, 1866. The second was : With having at Simla, on the 9th of June, 1868, he being at the time in military arrest imposed by order of hi 4 Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, disobeyed the lawful command of his superior officer, Colonel D. 11. Stewart, Deputy-Adjutant-General, to deliver to him his (Captain Jervis's) sword. And the third was based on the " highly in "subordinate expressions" contained in the following protest against the Court-martial which had been ordered to try Captain JERVIS on the charge of embezzlement of which he has now been acquitted : In reply I have the honour most solemnly and empha tically to protest against this proceeding, as unwarranted by law, principle, and justice, and to state, with every respect to his Excellency, that nothing short of physical force will induce'me to be present at the court, and that if dragged there as a prisoner, by violent means, I shall take no part in the proceedings, save to reiterate before the court my protest against the illegality and injustice to which I have been subject, and warn every member of the grave responsibility he incurs by consenting to take part in the proceedings. On these supplementary charges Captain JERVIS, though acquitted on the original charges, has been found guilty, and sentenced to be dismissed her MAJESTY'S service. But the court added a re commendation to mercy. The COMMANDER-LN CHIEF, however, at once a defeated public prose cutor and a successful personal complainant, become now the judge and the executive, refused to regard the recommendation of the court, and has confirmed the full rigour of its sentence on his late aide-de-camp. English justice and English honour will scarcely • applaud such a singular exercise of military au thority. When a Commander-in-Chief prosecutes on his own private account, he ought to feel that his own private opinion should be distrusted. Ho might be expected to recognise in so exceptional a case that the tribunal he has appealed to not only is the final expounder of strict justice, but, in all that is favourable to the accused, is the safest guide to substantial equity. A recommendation to leniency ought in such circumstances to have THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, '1866. been held imperative. It was a inagMent on'the pert of impartial men as last a maw sully partial man oughi to: do, and when the sole question was esti: 'involving a personal quarrel, an honourable man would have rejoiced in having such an indication of the con duct he ought to pursue towards the opponent who was found technically culpable. We cannot but think that in defying this recommendation, Sir W. MANSFIELD has been betrayed by an irri tation of temper which he himself will speedily Butwhen we look at the actual charges on which Captain Jaavis has been convicted, and, on the conviction, condemned by the utmost harshness of the military code to dismissal from the ser vice, we are filled with no less astonishment. The first of the supplementary charges seems to amount to nothing more than that he neglected an oppor tunity of clearing his character, a matter surely for his own sole discretion. True, it alleges that he " neglected to obey the orders of the Corn " mender-inC-hief to attend the Committee of " Audit." But we may fairly ask whether the Commander-in-Chief is, or ought to be entitled to enforce by such penalty any such orders. Even before a Court of Inquiry the attendance of the accused is optional. Is a " Committee of Audit" between a General and his aide-de-camp a military tribunal known to and recognised by the law military as one on which attendance is to be com pulsory at the General's command ? It may some times be a very convenient, occasionally an amicable, method of preliminary investigation. But it is absolutely informal, and the accused is certainly entitled to deny its jurisdiction, and to reserve his defence for the regular court-martial, to which alone he is amenable. How, then, does he deserve dismissal from the service for merely insisting on his legal rights, and " neglecting to obey" an order which would deprive him of them *I The second supplementary charge, respecting the sword, involves a curious but certainly very minute point of military etiquette. When an officer is placed under arrest it is usual to require him to give up his sword, and Captain JERVIS admitted that if then demanded his sword would have been surrendered. But the officer making the arrest forgot to ask for the sword, and only some days after sent to ask for its delivery. Then Captain Jxavis, considering himself already under formal arrest, refused to comply with the addi tional formality demanded. It is a nice point, on which we desire to reserve our judgment till it shall be more thoroughly and gravely debated. And our reluctance to form a premature opinion is increased by the fact that Colonel STEWART, the arresting officer, declared on cross-examination that he was not aware of any law or regulation on the subject. But in the meantime we are constrained to say that to dismiss an officer from the service because his opinion is formed that the delivery of the sword is not essential to a valid arrest, is an exceedingly violent way of vindicating the opposite opinion. For clearly, if it is not an essential element, the order to give up the sword was beyond the power of the Commander-in-Chief or of any other authority. Lastly, the Court bad to consider the culpability involved in the strong protest made by Captain Jzavis against his being brought before it at all. This protest may have been well or ill founded. There may have been matter calling for investiga tion by such acourt, though the investigation proved that there was nothing culpable. But at least to protest against being charged, to protest against the jurisdiction, although it may be a blunder, has never till now been considered a crime. If a civil culprit, on receiving a magistrate's sunirrwus, were to reply that he must protest most strongly against being brought before a court, and if dragged by force, would repeat in its presence his protest against its illegality and would warn its members of their responsibility, we might perhaps think him a fool, perhaps a constitutional patriot, but we should never dream of s. bjecting him to punialunent for the protest when acquitted of the charge. Yet, such is one of the three accusations on which the Indian Court-martial has decreed that an acquitted prisoner must be subjected to the severest professional penalty it has in its power to inflict. We do not care to inquire at this stage whe ther this judgment can be supported by tho mili tary code or not. The common sense of the , public will insist on its being set aside. It is out of all reason that an officer should be dismissed and ruined for life because he fails to obey com mands that have no legal authority, or whose au thority is doubtful, or because he protests ener getically against what he conceives to be illegal and unfair. To inflict such a punishment for such offences is to remove every protection against ar bitrary authority which an officer enjoys ; it is to lower the position of the service below that of a Cossack private. Not only in the interest of jus tice to Captain JERVIS, but in that of the who'e body of the army, we must hope that the convic tion and sentence in this case will be uncondi tionally quashed. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) • The Times characterises the late insurrection at Palermo as a mere anachronism, taking place just three months too late. It was at the utmost an armed demonstra tion in a monsistioo-democratic sense. Had the insurgents conquered, their provisional government, with princes and barons at its head, would probably have republicanined th e city and the island ; but, as it happened, they disputed the ground inch by inch, behind barricades and convent walls, and, when resistance became hopeless, they seemed to vanish, merging again into the orderly and inoffensive population out of which they had sprung. The task before the Italian government is to wean the Sicilians from priests and monks, to educate them, to give them a taste for settled and orderly life. The grovelling, idling, beg ging, Franciscan spirit is deeply ingrained in the whole Italian race. Let a new religion spring up in the land, the only dogma of which shall be compliance with the rev first commandmant laid on Adam's descendants. Though we are jauntily told at the Mansion house that everything is going on well, the Times can see no palpable improvement, not even the beginning of the end in the scene of desolation presented by the works of the Thames embankment. It is said that the contractor cannot corn. plete the work without assistance. But, till more light is thrown on the subject, we must consider the board itself to blame in allowing so great a work to get into such a mess. But there is a fatality about our metropolitan im provements. They start with a considerable impetus• they slowly exhaust themselves, come to a dead stand' collapse, and remain for years in • mined and hopeless state. Despite a distrust of Mr. Johnson's wisdom and pru dence, the Daily News does not believe that he will attempt, as some suppose, to get in the Southern members of Congress by a clever stroke of tactics almost amounting to • comp ditat. The scheme is one which is at once defeated when it is avowed. If there were previously any danger that the republican majority in the fortieth Con gress would be seriously diminished, it is now entirely re moved. The telegraphic intelligence we print to-day shows that tie alliance between the democrats and conservative republicans is already broken up. So vast a majority will be net the vide of Congress that Mr. Johnson will either yield with a bed grace or will necessitate his own removal; at any rate he will never succeed in forcing his mistaken policy upon an intelligent and united people. The Daily News contains a communication this mom:az from one of the delegate; who are now in England en • mission frees the vane= provisoes is British Meth America. The delegate famed to sst• teeth many reasons in favors et the propeW confederation, bat the Daily News complains that he does not show th►t the people of Nova Scotia, which colony has a defensive system quite inde pendent of that of Canada, are desirous to bind up their political fortunes with a country which from its geographi cal position is believed to be incapable of defence, and whose people may be led to believe that their interest lies in annexation to the United States whenever we are tired of paying the price they now meet for their loyalty. No doubt with a little management this confederation ,theme may be passed through the imperial and provincial legis latures, and its promoters may then persuade themselves that they have achieved • great moons : in the opinion of the Daily News the experiment will only then have begun. The Post disputes the efficacy of Mr. Bright's remedy for corrupt practices, and in other articles deals with Prussian politics and with ses-fishieg on the British coast. The Herald argues that there is really nothing serious in the idea just now paraded for the amusement of the popular mind in France, that Belgium and Switzerland have anything to dread from French ambition. It defends the House of Lords against Mr. Bright's criticism, and contends that our peerage is the reservoir of our purest in telligence, information, eloquence, and wisdom ; that it is inseparably connected with our social system ; and that, in a high degree, it constitutes our State. The Herald also condemns the machinery of grand juries as altogether useless, and ill adapted to secure the ends of justice. The Telegraph warmly supports the claims of Lord Alfred Churchill, the liberal candidate for the suffrages of Brecon, and in another column lectures in solemn terms Americans and Canadians upon the servile and debasing habit of drink which penetrates, it says, into their highest circles. The Mar is amused at the rapid conversion of the Times to the republican aide in American affairs, and quotes the declaration of that paper in favour of negro suffrage as • proof that the reform agitation is doing its work. Such an announcement from such a quarter would not have been made had there been any hesitation about the line to be adopted in home politics. A surface consistency must at least be preserved, so as to save the country from the spectacle of a powerful organ recommending the enfran chisement of negroes just released from slavery, and de nying the right of the English workman to the same privilege who has been free for centuries. In the matter of Jamaica, the Star tells Sir Samuel Baker that the question before the public is whether Mr. Eyre was or was not justified in hanging, shooting, and flogging a certain number of unarmed men, women, and children in Jamaica. That is the point to be settled. Can Sir Sir Samuel tell us anything about it? A question of English law cannot be settled by any precedents from the regions of Victoria N'yanza, and the right to hang a British subject without trial does not depend at all upon the size of the cranium common among the Fans. into the heads of persons who could nal cape with it. The firm exemplified an unhappy peculiarity of joint sleek concerns that if there has been any grave mistake, and if that mistake is known, as in general pea; ems are, a set against Ike —shares may destroy first its credit and then itself. Even in liquidation the company is and exempt from calamity. The liquidators ought, upon the figures, to have made • call months since. It was sure to be needed, and the depositors were waiting. But the impolicy of delaying the call is proved to be worse than the miscalculation of it. A calk of 51. five months ago, would, without litigation, have been paid by all the shareholders, and when they bad once begun to pay with. out resistance, they would have gone on without resistance. But now the payment of the retarded and severe call of 101. is contested ; it is painful in itself ; it is plainly not all ; it is but the beginning of other calls. A considerable number of shareholders think they shall better themselves by a legal defence, and if the case is decided against them it would be a conclusive case, for • barer prospectus than theirs cannot be found. The projectors relied not upon the effect of their rhetoric, but upon the effect of an old name, and the Economist does not doubt that all the directors thought that the guarantee of the vendors would be sufficient to oover all loss. Either the credit of limited companies is at an end, or their shareholders must in every event—no matter what the allegations of the prospectus, no matter what the provisions of the articles of association —be held responsible to their creditors. If, however, in " Overend's" case it can be found that the directors of the company did not take good heed—that they did not enough investigate the bad securities of the old firm, that they were negligent in this way or in that—they should be made to pay for it. The shareholders should first pay their creditors, and then recover compensation from those whose fallacious representations induced them to incur these liabilities. the frisurt. BALMORAL, ?Um 27. The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by Princess Christian; and drove in the afternoon, ac oompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, to the Lynn of Dee. _ _ _ Princess Lomb* rode in the afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mee Cathcart and Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Wed India Islands. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote has arrived in town from Pynes, in Exeter. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GARIBALDI AT FLORENCE. Garibaldi has arrived at Florence, accompanied by his daughter, his son Menotti, and General Fabrigi. An immense crowd awaited the general at the station, and accompanied him, with accla mations, as far as the Porta Romans, to the house of the deputy Crispi, who has offered apartments to the general. Garibaldi has received visits from a great number of persons, and among others from Cambray-Digny, syndic of Florence. A placard announced that Garibaldi would go in the evening to the Nuovo Theatre, which would be illuminated till daybreak for the occasion. At noon all the places were taken—some at fabulous prices ; but the general, finding himself temporarily indisposed, waa not able to quit his chamber. Garibaldi ap pears, however, to enjoy general good health. His intention is, it is stated, to set out for Caprera after the official announcement of the signature of the treaty of peace shall have relieved him from his command of the Volunteers, the decree for the dissolution of which body has just been published. THE AUSTRIANS AT VENICE. The following proclamation of the Austrian Mi litary Commander of Venetia will show with what impatience the Venetians support the dosing days of a foreign rule : Ordinary measures of safety have snared up to the pre sent time to maintain peace and public order. Recent events have made the &law of those measures doubtful in the actual state of things. The distribution of proclamations of every kind, the placarding of announce ments, and the mobs of men which they occasion, and the contempt of the official* who have the supervision of such things will not longer be tolerated. Disquieting demonstrations of this kind are entirely useless, since no person thinks of preventing the population from express ing in a convenient manner the desire of being re-united to Italy under the sceptreof King Victor Emmanuel, when the governments shall have fixed the time for that to take place. But, in any ease, it is necessary that the population should await with tranquillity the day that it will be possible to establish the fact. It will be painful to me if, after a peaceful sojourn of nearly eight years among you, conflicts should now be provoked with the officials and the Imperial troops, and if the latter find themselves compelled to make use of their arms, they will be ordered, and it will be their duty, to do it with the greatest energy. CONFISCATED PROPERTY IN RUSSIA. General Kaufmann,commandant of the Lithuanian provinces, has addressed to the governors placed under his orders a new circular relative to the forced sale of confiscated estates, the proprietors of which have been exiled to the interior of Russia—estates which, as is known, can be purchased only by persons of Russian origin, and who profess the orthodox religion. He calls s he attention of these functionaries to the tervices which the loan society recently founded by the government is called to render to the Russian purchasers in the western provinces. In order to prevent persons of Polish origin from acquiring any property in these pro vinces, the government has already 3 efused all assistance on the part of Polish capi talists. It goes on to promise the Russian purchasers divers privileges or immunities. A loan-office is to be opened very soon at Wilna, an office to which besides a subvention of five millions of roubles government awards the product of many special dues ; also the sale of real property, that is to say, confiscated estates. Finally, in order to render the transactions more easy, the Governor- General has organised at Wilna a bureau of information and of negotiation between the actual proprietors, the vendors, and the Russian purchasers. "It is now for the local administration," General Kaufmann goes on to say, " to redouble its efforts to carry out quickly and exactly the will of the Emperor on the subject of the introduction of Russian proprietors into the country. At the desire of his Majesty, he has taken, in all the branches of the administration, decisive measures, in order that the country may become thoroughly Rus sian, not only in the historic point of view, but in all the conditions of its life and in its local institutions. And as the landed pro prietors will be able more than any other class to restore and to consolidate in the country the Russian character which formerly pre vailed in it, it is necessary that the chiefs of the provinces should apply themselves with all their energies to find the means of attracting Rus sian proprietors into the western provinces. Besides these forced sales they ought to encourage friendly sales and to exercise a rigorous surveillance over all that is done." The Governor-General adds that catalogues indicating exactly the number and the importance of the estates to be sold in each government will be distributed throughout the empire. The Invaliele Russe of the 18th September states that General Kaufmann publishes at Wilna a sort of manual for the Russian purchaser ; it is a collection of all the decisions relative to the acquisition of estates in the western provinces by persons of Russian origin. Purchasers in it will find directions as to the steps to take, the forms to observe, and also the privileges and the assistance accorded to them by the government. The circular in conclusion calls the attention of the chiefs of the governments to the values already put upon pro perty which is to be sold. These estimates are made by the police and the military authorities. (Brumes TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, SETT. 29. The waters of the Loire and Seine are falling. The railway service on the Bourlonnais line has been restored since yesterday. FRANCE AND GREECE. TRIESTE, Barr. 27. Advices received here from Constantinople state that the Marquis de Moustier had received a Greek deputation who presented him with a con gratulatory address expressing the thanks of the Greeks for the protection of France. The marquis, in his reply, said that France had the moral and intellectual development of Greece at heart, but that the general state of political affairs in Europe did not permit her to support any revolutionary movement against Turkey. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Szer. 29. The Bank of Russia has raised the rate of dis count on bills and advances to 7 and 8 per cent. respectively. The Criminal Court has found Privy Councillor Gavivsly and the Councillor of State Jakowlem guilty of embezzling the public, money, and has sentenced them to transportation to Siberia. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, S. T. The Empress of Mexico has paid a visit with great ceremony to the Pope. Her Majesty had a long interview with his Holiness. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-{THIS DAY.) The marriage of the Lady Adine Eliza Anne, second daughter of the Countess Cowper, with the Hon. Julian Fane, youngest son of the late, and brother to the pre sent, Earl of 'Westmorland, was solemnised this morn ing at St. James's Church, Piccadi'iy. The wet:l4 4 4 party assembled at the church at half-put 11 o'clock, the bride, accompanied by her mother, arriv ing at the church shortly after that hour, when the bride was met by her brother the Earl Cowper, by whom she was conducted to the space in front of the communion table, followed by four bridesmaids, namely, Ladies Florence and Amabel Cowper, the Hon. Miss Jocelyn and Lady Grace Fane. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Mr. Ferguson. Among the members of the family present were :—The Earl Cowper, the Countess Cowper, the Dowager Countess of Westmorland, the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Henry Cowper. M.P., Mr. and Lady Rose Weigall, &c. After the registration of the marriage, the wedding party ►djourned to the Countess Cowper's residence in St. James's-square, where an elegant breakfast was proN:ded for about 50 persona. Early in the afternoon the newly. wedded couple left town for Panshanger, the Earl Cowper's seat near Hertford, to pass the honeymoon. THE QCEEN IN THE HIGHLANIOI.-011 Tuesday last her Majesty and party from Balmoral, who were attended by Mr. John Brown and Mr. John Grant, head gamekeeper, Balmoral, drove up the winding vale of the Cluny, intending to visit the lonely rock-embosomed " Loch-na-Nean," or "Loch of the Birds." The weather, however, became so wet and stormy that it was judged prudent not to carry out the project, and after proceeding I some distance up the glen in face of the sweeping blast and deluging rain the royal sojourners returned, and drove through Braemar rid New Mar Lodge to the famed Linn of Dee. After a transient stay they returned rid the Linn of Quoich and Invercauld House on the north side of Dee to the Highland Palace in the evening. The day continued extremely wet, stormy, and altogether quite unpleasant. On Monday her Majesty drove through Braemar and Inverey, and thence along the Altonower Drive, to visit the " Black Colonel's Olive" in the distant wilds of Glenege. —Edinburgh Courant. _ . THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—It is doubtful whether the Prince and Princess of Wales willibe able now to visit Norwich before the Wednesday in the Norwich festival week. It is proposed that their royal highnesses should enter Norwich from Costessy, and that the mayor and sheriff should meet them at the boundary of the county of the city of Norwich and escort them to St. Giles' gates, where a triumphal arch is to be erected. Their royal highnesses will be received at Giles'-gates by the other members of the corporation and magistrates, and will be escorted by them to the Guildhall, where an address will be presented to them. After the presentation of the address it is proposed that the mayor, sheriff, and corpo ration should accompany the Prince and Princess to St. Andrew's-hall, where the festival will be proceeding. It is also proposed that the bishop and clergy should pre sent an address to the royal visitors in whose honour there will probably be a public illumination on the Wednesday, Thursday. and Friday evenings of the festival week. The Duke of St. Albans is on a tour of visits in Scotland. The Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Hastings, Lord Methuen, and Lord Huntingfield have arrived at the St. George'. Hotel.' The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left Brocklesby Park on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, at Eglinton Castle, Scotland. The Earl Cowper arrived at his residence in St. James's-square yesterday evening from Cluny Lodge, his al•noting-box in Invernesa-shire, to be present at the mar riage of his lordship's sister, Lady Adine Cowper, and the Hon. Julian Fane. Lord Stanley, M.P., leaves town to-day for Knowsley, Lancaahire. The noble lord will return to town on Tuesday next. At the British Embassy, Paris, on Thursday, in presence of Earl and Countess Cowley and other persona of distinction, was celebrated the marriage of Falconer Atlee, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Paris, and Attache to his Excellency the Ambassador, with Miss Maria M'Call, The Rev. Mr. Cox, the chaplain, officiated on the occasion. We (John Bull) have great pleasure in stating that the Home Secretary has appointed Mr. W. H. Cooke, Q.C., of Brasenose College, to the Recordership of Oxford vacant by the death of Serjeant Manning ; and the Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Joseph A. Yorke, the new Secretary of Presentations, in place of Mr. Charles Spencer Pereeval. The Moniteur do Soir, , in its weekly bulletin, says : —" The journals of Canada have raised a warm controversy respecting the extradition of a defaulting =shier of the Bank of France, who had fled to that country. It is known that all the formalities prescribed by the law have been observed in this instance. After inquiry and deci sion by a competent judge the order for the delivery of the prisoner was regular') given by the Governor-General of the British Provinces. The excitement which has been caused by this affair, and which refers to the points of procedure raised inopportunely by the counsel for the ac cused, seems to have arisen from considerations foreign to the question itself. The essential points have been autho ritatively explained in a letter addressed to the principal Canadian newspapers by the lawyer who represented the British crown before the Montreal court." The Havre journals announce the death in that town of Mr. Featherstonhaugh, English consul, in his 87th year, after an Illness which has confined him to his bed for several months. The English vessels both at Rouen and Havre hoisted their flags half-mast high as a mark of re 'Peet The Nein Janne says that the property of Dr. Glan dier, where Madame LIS arge poisoned her husband, has just come into the possession of the Carthusian monks. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Assuming that Mr. Bright neglects to see much that ought to be seen, the Spectator proceeds to remark that in this he is but the sign, the omen, of the political system which he wishes to inaugurate, which would no doubt achieve very great objects which we now leave un attempted, but which would, like himself, simply ignore any modifying influence from the finer shades of political discrimination. Ur. Bright's proposal to get rid of bribery by rendering it numerically difficult by add - 1 numbers, and mechanically difficult by means of secret voting, is, in the opinion of the Spectator, even if succour ful, only a proposal to admit, in such places as these, hosts of persons with no political principles, in order that the comparatively few who have none at present may lose the'r market. That, our contemporary submits, is not a statesmanlike proposal. The only way in which it would be easy to get at the real wishes of the quiet average citi. rens of small boroughs in such masses as to secure a good representation, is by throwing them the counties by county suffrage not under 20/. of annual rental. By that means you will get at the ',dependent small borough citizens, in great numbers, and they will not be swampecl by the class of labourers directly under the influence of the farmer or the landowner. The needful ....... working-class impulse to our legislation v.:11 srrely not Le given by flooding the count'," with a new host of the class of voters who have disgraced Yarmouth and Lan caster, but by going down as low as household suffrage in in the places which, as Mr. Bright pr. udly says, " know not bribery "—those Manchesters and Birmingham. of England which are ignorant of bribe"' not merely because the working people are too numerous for the briber, but because they are too proud and independent a class to furnish bribees. The Examiner, which was on the side of the Con federates throughout the American war, sides now with Mr. Johnson. None can doubt, it says, that the newly emanci pated people of colour will have hard times of it in many ways. They have had hard times of it enough in Jamaica and elsewhere, in spite of all the disinterested intervention on their behalf by British authority. But there is great force in the consideration urged in Mr. Beecher's letter, that their condition must be inevitably worsened so long as they are made the pretext and the plea for keeping their late masters and future employers out of the enjoyment of eivtl rights. No real good can be done, the Examiner believes, to the negro " by the infliction of injustice on the white man." In the late case of a mistake on the past of the grand jury, the Examiner cannot see by what authority Mr, Payne quashed the eon% :ction. The indictment was bad, but, after com:ction and sentence it is surely too late for the judge to discover the badness of the indictment. If it be within his competency to reverse all that has been done, be may, upon simple averment of a mistake, order the release of a prisoner. The Examiner questions whether the judge can revoke his own passed sentence, still more, whether he can render null and void the ver dict of the jury, in the summary fashion alluded to. The Saturday Rerim regards the recent French circulars as marking a highly important point in the history of the French silence. It shows that through ostentatious repetition of our resolve not, under any circumstances, to resort to mates ill influence we have ceased to be respected as a !erne of moral influence. It is denied that England ' has any duties in Europe. It is presumed that she cares not at all for principles, and for customers a great deab It is impossible to believe that this is more than a temporary state of national feeling. By the time the new Foreign offices are completed, perhaps we shall have found some nobler puyose for them than being a colossal shrine fur the god of grey shirting*. According to the Saturday Review the late Mr. Feargus O'Connor becomes respectable in comparison with the pre sent leaders of the reform agitation, although it will not do simply to laugh " at the dripping and humid fools and fanatics of Campfield." Under existing circumstances it becomes imperative on all patriots to say that they do not identify freedom with universal suffrage, and that they are not prepared to hand over this country and its destinies to those classes which have the least education, the least intelligence, and the meatiest results of civilisation. Mr. Baines and Mr. Bass decline to recommend uni versal suffrage, and, not liking universal suffrage, they will not attend meetings held to agitate and terrorise for it. This is their view of personal honour. Mr. Bright estimates political duty differently. He thinks it honourable and becoming to egg on to the verge of rebel lion those with whom he has perhaps no sympathy at all. In other words, he does not disdain to use the working man for ends which he has not the candour to avow. Commenting on the Canadian extradition case, the Saturday Review rays it is at least clear that the High Constable has wilfully defied the authority of the highest court in the colony. Upon Lord Munch will devolve the more embarrassing duty of investigating to what extent the colonial law-officers were privy to this extraordinary conspiracy. We have seen that grave suspicion attaches to the Solicitor General, and to the legal partners of the Attorney-General. It is absolutely necessary for Lord Monk's own honour that he should institute the most stringent inquiry into the particulars of the nefarious imposition which must have been practised on him, and visit the authors of it with immediate dismissal from office, and with every possible mark of disgrace. When the act itself has been undone, and the persona concerned in it punished, it will be time enough to consider what fresh lessons are to be learnt from the whole transaction as to the principles of an Extradition Treaty. The Econeetist says the whole history of Overend, Gurney, and Co. is one of warning at every point. It is a plain warning against an hereditary business, coming as it did mainly by accidents of relationship and descent SWITZERLAND AND BELOni t ' B gat IL Switzerland is about to conclud e ßlM, a • treaty with Belgium for litenuY, artistic, ar h i duatrial works. AMERICA. (BT arLazrric Tamura.) NNW YORE, Oc t General Dix has been appointed Linder 6 4 United States in France. The North German Lloyd's steamer arrived out. NEW YORE, eft ir. The New York Times considers the Pr to id egi policy to be s failure. The 'Transatlantic Company's steam-ldriprdls4 Paris bas arrived out. Gold, 146. . __ NEW YORK, Rat 24, bu st Gold, 144. Exchange on London, N 4 United States Bonds, 111 f. Illinois, 124. 14 75k. Cotton, middling upland, 37. EXPRESS FROM PARIS, (vacs[ cos OWN CORIZEPOND=7.) PARIS, FRIDAY ban k Count de Goltz, the Prussian ambassado r , whose the inetan p ce roo f week aHeasks ago Y e Diplornatique was seized, is now publicly a s * to be damages, and fixing beforehand the seatmad the judges. silks that the Aulic Counrilke,th Chevalier Debra= de Saldapenna, shall bets demned to three years' imprisonment foes* that the King of Prussia stole the Cottaimia Mensdorff's Merino sheep. The aforesaid dun% was interrogated to-day by M. Ga aat a, ' judge of instruction. The Pap, a j oga i which, in the hands of M. Grapier de Catalpa preaches the must severe repression viol Nor mere which give false views or speak sail „ I dignities, says that this prosecution gine utmost annoyance to the Austrian asaluasim Prince Richard de Metteimich, and Galls ha only been induced by the urgent perionaltequg of the Minister of State not to make a dipla, remonstrance about it. The news that Prince Gortchakoff is visg Biarritz is confirmed from St. Petersburg, bat will not be there so soon as was medal present statement is that he does not thiak d starting till October 5. Count de Bismarck pkykli forfeit, I suppose for the apartments which he ied taken at Biarritz for September 30, left Betts a the 26th for Pomerania, where it is hoped ssejose of three weeks will re-establish his health. The Morimento of Italy tells the absurd lin that Mr. Odo Russell has promised the Ns* the part of the English government to tarsi kis Holiness with an Irish legion for the sugatti the temporal power, in precisely the liks °mein as those of the French Antibes legion, whisk ips just taken service with the Pope under Caked d'Argy. The Avenir National, in contradiction to Ws. ments by the London journals, Morse,' At, Standard, and Star, reiterates in the most mitts manner its assertion that the Marquis de ie valette's circular did not give rise to any demi from the English government touching the snla tions of France in regard to Belgium. The unusually laconic announcement das death of a senator, which the Moniteur *Wisp propriate in the case of the Marquis de Bay, has attracted notice. The official journal alai says :—" M. le Marquis de Boissy, senator, did on Sept. 26, at Louveciennes." The Bourse was without animation, and thesis scarcely any change in quotations. IS sx I nix el The b Cooke, I *most He had I Bong* Whitest but the. that out 4 down Oa beta . Ai, obp the the jod 4 for • f own r b. 'alb This ll a raa nt i charged Turner, Rio Hatton Sri went 1 aboeabuwwY on and he there. to the cab an Fran Hottes t DO If 1 dead cab th the fi loner to tak he ga and The whole the 1 he oak him wan SI eta often, CZERLAir m. ad is about to con ß el " de e alit topysoi li Belgium for literary, eru z ik , end n AMERICA. (Br srtairrio rit.acnurn.) Ile 231 This en , In t ne had The be )ix has been apNNWpo inte dYOßE Minister Cooke, w me in France. tieemento h th German Lloyd's eteamer Esan.k i Brom/A* Whitson NEW YORE, tom, b t the r . t York Times considers the prui,kati posed in a failure. It appo ,atlantic Company's steam - 44i rdis4 had rit he w cop 11 rrived out. ite 0.1 6. &woven NEW YORK, Stet td, sm ut that he h It. Exchange on Lo n d on, Id 141 a r a n t ia d ie ,di. Les Bonds, Illf. Illinois, 124 mating ""I )n, middling upland, 37. self frou nation al bankrupi • the PRESS FROM PARIS. rele that ase. The bi obtained. sot owl ows cosersPosolll7.) security PARIS, FEW BUM mitten ii Goltz, the Prussian ambassador e him fic The a Ce ince I told you a week ago the m ert ,, examinsi Fox was seized, is now publicly Mani :at . iIl we • prosecutor. He asks for 11),Cak creditors and fixing beforehand the sentatad d " lin h e i n ! I, asks that the Aulic Conncilke,th 1,,, n Debra= de Saldapenna, shall Mtn bankrupt D three years' imprisonment for Is* Order ang of Prussia stole the Cotillion s Merino sheep. The aforesaid chat% rogated to-day by M. Onset, I instruction. The Pays, a jewel the hands of M. Grapier de Ceram te must severe repression spa* aft , (Before ic ythat this prosecution gives w•••••. that one Y &Ira lo inoyance to the Austrian ambeimin popsies chard de Metternich, and th a t i s i s • induced by the urgent personal !Igen • th St, and says give false views or sp ea k egg p I In the ,rater of State not to make a diplasen I eh: 'rid! ace about it. " for • ft ooacturi rs that Prince Gortchakoff is going 11 or dered nfi frnm Rt. t FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER. for racte Th rises e ten u de m ney ode—a th (F a bo ro im n : e pl Le i al ci l t F , y which de jnet pulaw4 now almost unprecedented in the annals of halm Non elegant dresses are at the watering-places, sothatkestre de ville are for the time but little talked of. Numbs for winter are being made, but are scarcely sufficiestlysi minced for us to speak of in a very decided mane, ea cepting in a few general remarks. One topic of Wet is the fact that all acknowledge the great prolsidily MS short dresses will be adopted for out-of -dews wear, 64 'we believe no lady of elegance will give up Us* • graceful, trained skirt for at-home or evening dna course these short dresses necessitate a very mull net;' so small, indeed, that they cannot be recognise:las * Still a total absence of crinoline would prodme amemb ably mean effect. Just enough is required to peenetth dress from clinging. Another fact may be confidently affirmed, eat peplum will maintain its rank in the realms of Wse! It will be made of satin trimmed with lace, d real embroidered with beads, &c. Speaking of peyhlwad mite, mot omit to describe the peplum eeiniare. lt made to imitate the whole peplum, and is a nry www mical mid convenient fantaisie. Three wi wi de tean iff material are cut about a quarter of a y ard in dth. fid middle one is in a point, forming a V ; three at the ei are the same width and length, but cut in a bile yltd The three ends, or basques, are joined together at tM and fastened to the ceinture. They may be trimmed Id parreementerie, guipure, &c. Long sashes very rids* large coquet or rosette bows, are much worn, With waif I dress especially. They are tied behind. They an 1111 either with the peplum, or with h i g h or low body. er 1 bons for these are made, either plain, watered, w velvet, and of satin for moire or taffetas dresses Cluny lace embroidered with straw is • trimming wit patronised for muslin dresses, rester', or Unique. Ihd charming trimmings are made for these simple MVO Others we may almost mention, such as Cluny matorsifid with dewdrops, on a moire corsa g e ; wide bow broidered with beads, and edged with friar , t° For a saute-en-barque, guipure with white or NA we" hanging ornaments, balls , tassels, silk or swam adwd gold cords, chenille worked with steel, lac. The smzilme edl h y ag a in th einir PAl e favouriteet.6traufchor this in falmit siod . r l spring is decid is no longer, however, embroidered all over wish idf, that has become rather common—but is iriondfd bands of galon or cachemire, worked with bead& 11 : cachemire be of • pale colour, the beads are ffetr i white—for instance, valeta of turquoise NA; white beads—black cashmere with black boas tad meet suitable for morning or general wear. I . Beads have been worked into such • varied d Odd that it scarcely seems possible to m ake any them, though they still are muc h in vogu A fr, of trimming is, however, being manufactured, WO_ " if supposed will be greatly approved of. It is owra. cut cachemire of diverse shades, embroidered in dew; The autumn bonnets have not altered via!, only in the materials used. Thus, a char" L saff eel black lace worked with jet. At the beck a I lace, fastened by a band of jet, forms a own wot io the side a bunch of corn-flowers of ponorau rehdr Mme' spray of silvered leaves. Wide strings of Pad' s ' with black lace. p fd Another " Lamballe" was o ompreed of and poncesu velvet, each square embroidered 1 7" is the poncesu with jet, and the black w ith elle k ,,g k l ieg., of striped velvet poncesu a nd bleak... 70„: at the ears under bouquet* of poppies with I ' 44 . k —well Brides of black tulle. The back of the boort WW74I with a fringe of black and poncesu chenille, w° 1 :; 10 , crystal drops. This is • very original and t i lt 0 01 A " Napolitaine " of white tulle was trimor,..i. with • fringe of white beads ; a scarf of tun t ;,_: l 7,gla match, was fastened at the top under • colww":1,40 surreanded by a wreath of roses, end f a stfood ww"" thin. " Fancionette "of straw was 1110 11141 1 1:il A rice tulle and heather with strings of pink 11 104 _, fare, although so ' wimple, was esceedfwer * l r" .) In tbi doi%g wathl j W-i-U-d -jde,; been ebb cab. Kr. mayln AI out to Zia went thiTt impri taigii but ii laa of for to at moth them she el Tkl took thins the a Dr eZar4 Week ~..a ;