The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-20 00:00:00

THE LOCH, MOOR, and MOUNTAIN TOWLES' andThAVELLING NITS, Three Guineas, In all the new materhth, Better than ever and more than ever," at ALFRED W3lll MILKS, 73, Brook-street, Ilaeovereqoare. Armored from Boodetreet. Established 1841. ght erarto,o• TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisements intel - dea7l 7 TbWicpross London Evening must be at the (Mice, 10, bouveriestrod, by Two O ' ' m cCit on the dad of pablieation. DEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise z I advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts afterwards to EVANS', COVENT-GARDEN. hear some charming singing, order one of their capital chops and magnificent potatoes, and that is the best advice I can glee you. CANDLES. —PRIZE MEDAL. the mili PA tap BAFFINE.—Adogted k &falsetto 00•81111311111tict stations. J. C. and J. FIRLD,I the 'Menai mann! acturers and holders of the 19 Prize Medal, caution the nubile against any spurious IrMtstions. Their label in on all whets and boxes. Selo oy all dealers throughout the klAgdsm * LAW" and far exportation at th e Wert, uprzs MARSH, H, LONDON. S., where also may be obtained their calibrated United Berries Soap Tablets. NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S Ono Drina aad Two Galan FIRLD GLLSSICS and TILNICOPES are war ranted u unrivalled for power and Main* EL. and 41s. In IMO coniplate.-1, Hattoo-garden. W. ILC. , 1220 flegent-atreet. W.: 153, Fleet-aired sad Crystal Palace. JOHN BROODEN ' S PARIS FIRST CLASS sad LONDON MIZE KlDALL—Wannfactory, 16, Nen riettantrest, Covent-ganien, London, W.C. This estsblislunent is dosed at Land on Saturdays at 1 o'clock. HAYMLEICIT. THIS Erzsmo. BACCIIVSANITABIADNL—THE CASTLE OF ANDALUSIA. Mewl. Webs, Farm, Rnekatone, Compton : Rim 1.. Keeley and Madame Wetaa—TRIIND WAGGLES. Mr. Compton. - And A KISS 11.1 THE DARK. PILINCIMVS. Tun EVIIINTIOG. BORN TO GOOD LUCE. Mr. D. Murray, And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mews. J. W. Ray, David Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. and H. Mellon; Mn H. Marston, Misses Barnett and Gwynn.. EWOMss. THE HARLOTS ?MGM:St.—Singing by Messrs H. Clifton and Louio Lindsay Madame Pleoa.—Mr. O. W. later.—Concluding with THE MUTINY AT THE NOEL HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tiit6 DAY Morning, 4b. 43m....Afternoon, sb. 4m. To-monsow Morning, sb. 25m....Attamoon, sb. 4555. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. Tarim is not a prettier city in all England, and there are few prettier in all Europe, than the city to which, with a very little research, it would be easy to give several fancy titles, but which, with a due regard to the patience of our readers, we will content ourselves with calling simply—Bath. Nature has done, in the way of scenery, every thing for this charming capital of the county of Somerset, and Art has done something in the choice of a situation in the bosom of the wooded bills, in a soft, rich valley, where the winds breathe gently, and the stream of a quiet river flows through meadows fat with peace and plenty. Art has quarried out the delicate stone and garlanded every brow and shoulder of the hills with a wreath of terraces. We have heard Bath called the English Florence, perhaps rather from a certain general softness in the look and air of the place, than from any very distinct likeness in form and features to the Tuscan capital. There is, however, a certain reminiscence of Italy—of classical Italy— in Bath, something perhaps of its own Roman birth and youth ; but the classical Italian is that of a Pagan temple in a park, and the Roman is terribly overlaid with rococo. It must, we fear, be con fessed that the general effect of Bath in our days is somewhat dingy, faded, and washed out, like a coquette who at the age of remorseful virtue and despair has taken to cards, scandal, and'pulpit-fol lowing. Bath, however, has had two long fashion able seasons, one at the opening of our Christian era, and one as late as the last century, in the days of our grandmothers and great grandmothers. There was • long interval between these two seasons of fashion and prosperity a dreary " glacial period ;" and such are the changes of the social crust which cities of hot waters undergo —a second glacial period has succeeded, in which only one species of animal life—the Dowager—is found to exist, except for some three weeks at Easter. To what particular causes this undeniable desertion of Bath by the marriageable world. is owing we cannot pretend to say, but unquestion atly it would be difficult at this present time to discover a city more delightful for aged and invalided residents, or more dull for visitors who ' are not yet sick of life. There is, we suppose, an ebb and a flow in the social life of watering places ; Bath has had its turn, and we cannot but believe itwill come to life again some future day. Meanwhile the meeting of the British Association has restored for a moment animation to those Pompeian streets, and actually awakened the ghostly echoes of the Pump Room. Nothing could be more flattering, nothing more graceful and urbane, than the terms in which Sir WILLIAM ARNISTRONI: in taking leave of the President's chair, did homage as a man of the North to the superior attractions of Bath, though it is true he stated their attrac tions in negative quantities, as " less noise, less dirt, " less smoke" than at Newcastle. And the Presi dent of the year, Sir CHARLIS LYELL, both in hie admirable Address of inauguration, and in his speech at the banquet, was more than complimentary to the claims of the fair city. He spoke of Bath as a place of " no ordinary interest to the cultivators of physi " cal science." Indeed Sir CHARLES conferred the highest honour on Bath by devoting a great part of his opening Address to • most interesting account of its antiquarian and geolo gical features and characteristics. How long it is since the Association met last in Bath Sir Cassias did not mention ; the Association itself is only in its thirty-fifth year, and it is some twenty-eight years since it held at Bristol • meeting the interest and importance of which have notyet been surpassed. But it is easy to imagine that a change from the lopulous and murky Northern centres of manu facturing industry to the calm clear air and leisurely serenity of a city like Bath is wel come alike to the workers and the loungers of the Association. And the selection of Bath has been entirely justified, not only to the gratification of all the Members and Associates, but to the satisfaction of the Treasurer. It was doubly sad that such a cloud of gloom should have fallen upon the meeting of the Ass,ciation in the West country capital, as the cruel fate of Captain SPEER, the pride of au old Somersetshire family, and in whose triumphs the whole county claimed a share. But for this most distressing incident we should have nothing but congratulations to ad dress to Bath. For " if," as Sir Wituam ARM STRONG gracefully said, "it were the least eligible " place in all England for a meeting of the Anemia " tion, the presidency of Sir CHAIILDI LYELL would " confer upon it the highest distinction. There is " no higher authority than Sir CHARLES on the " science which will probably furnish the prim " cipal subject of the address he is about to " deliver, and there is no one more competent to " impart the charm of lucid and elegant language "to his communication of ideas." How accurately and truly these words anticipated the admiration which has since been felt and expressed where ever Sir CHARD Larttes address has been read, and the enthusiastic attention with which it was received by the audience at its delivery, there is but ono uuanimous testimony. And yet we dare ~~..i ./ THE vi'IMPS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1964. say many of that audience who werwattlicted by the name and fame of the President, aidcharmahy the calm and abundant wisdom of his discourse, scarcely realised at the moment the extraordinary privilege of receiving from the lips of one whom all the chiefs of European science acknowledge as a Master, as the Mayor very happily reminded them, " the varied results of long experience, of " extensive travel, of accurate observation, of genial " communication with other minds, of quiet, " truth-loving, impartial thought." It would be impossible to characterise in juster lan guage the perfect type of the true man of science, and the distinguishing qualities of Sir Cammis LEELL'S mind, and, if we may so say, the temper and method of his genius—its breadth, its boldness, its subtlety, its exquisite finish and refinement, its laborious patience, its large tolerance, its perfect calmness and self-respect. Perhaps it is not the students of science only that should profit by • careful study of the tone and temper of his Address. And yet a leading contemporary, in deference, no doubt, to what it considers • respectable and powerful prejudice, has been disposed to hint a sneer at the comparative inconclusiveness and un certainty of Sir Cassias's conclusions ; as though authoritative dogma, and not humble and re verent inquiry, were the province of science. Surely this is a fundamental misconception, and • mischievous confusion. No lifetime of a man of science, however eminent and learned, can qualify him to pronounce upon • few fragments from the divine book of Nature as if he had read that book from the first page to the last. Shortsighted and presumptuous ignorance which, while it denies the POPE'S infallibility, affirms its own, is continually urging what it impiously calls " religion" into conflict with science, instead of learning from science humility ; and it starts from no other fallacy than forgetting that there is no finality in that unwritten but everlasting and divine revelation called Nature, because there is nothing final in Nature's processes and operations. It ispre cisely the sense of contact with an infinite unknown beyond any man's discoveries of • moment on this pin's point of eglobe, that impresses opon the great students and teachers of Science that humility which is not always • conspicuous virtue in the , spurious dogmatism that condemns as heresy and unbelief the reverent study of the laws of the Divine economy. By the latest intelligence received from Potsdam we learn that her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia and the infant prince Cr. progressing in a very fa vourable manner. Oa Friday evening the King of Prussia paid a visit to his royal daughter-in-law, and on the pre- vious day the Crown Prince received the congratulations of the royal family. The ministers and principal military officers paid their congratulatory visits on Friday. Yesterday afternoon Prince Humbert of Italy, attended by the Italian minister and Genera Revel. visited Mr. Anderson's paddocks et \Silleeden to view biz fine stud of horses. It was !stein the evening when the Prince and General Revel returned to the Italian Legation. In the evening the Marquis d'Azeglio entertained the Prince and his suite at dinner at the Legation. The Duke de Chartres and the Baron Marochetti were also preeent. The intended visit to Woolwich Dockyard and Arsenal yesterday Ina been postponed. This morning his Royal Highness Prince Humbert will loess town for Windsor. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brusnow left the Russian embassy, in Chatham place, yesterday, for Brighton, when they intend to stay for several weeks. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg left the Palace Hotel at 8.15 yesterday evening, and travelled by the South Eastern Railway to Dover, at tended by Baron de Schleinits and Colonel Du Plat. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Glourester.bouse yesterday, attended by Colonel Clifton. for Bretby-park, Derbyshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, where a select party will meet the royal duke. The Marquis of Dowushire, the Marquis of Abereern, Lord Aeneas', Lord Erne, Sir Hugh Cairns, H.P., and a oonaiderabla number of other noblemen and members of parliament, an at present in Ulster. . . Lord Brougham, who is about to leave Brougham Hall to attend the Social Science meeting, completed his 1 4 6th year yesterd►y. The noble and venerable peer was born on September 19, 177 g, and is in full possession, not only of physical vigour, but of unimpaired mental faculties. His brother and nephew are staying with, the noble and learned lord at Brougham Hall. The Right Hon Chichester Fortescue, M. P., and Frescos Countess Waldegrave, who came to town yesterday from Somersetshire, have left Carlton-gardens for Red House, Ards., county Louth. Ireland, for a few weeks. The Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., has arrived at Gibirida, near Gateshead, on a visit to tJut Bight Hon : William Hatt, M.P., and Mrs. Hatt. The following appears in the obituary column of the Tines :—" On the 16th inst. at the Craven Hotel, of chronic dysentery, brought on through exposure and hard ships dujog the toiliantee expedition, at which he was from the commencement till the withdrawal of the troops from that pestilential climate, Capt. George Thorne, 4th West India Regiment, fourth son of the late Capt. Wro. Thorne. The deceased hu left a widow, child, relations, and a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. Friends will please ac cept this intimation." We regret to hear of the death yesterday at West bourne Lodge, Harrow-road, of a gentleman long know. se the guiding power of the Gnat Western Railway direction, Charles Alexander Saunders, Esq., late secretary and gene ral superintendent of th►t railway. He was in his 68th year. As the ordinary assizes will not be held for Sre or six months, a special commission will be leaned early next month to try the persons in prison on charges arising out of the late oar:Acts et Belfast. There are Si persons now in gaol, of whom five are charged with wilful murder, and upwards of 30 with aggravated and malicious amanita. The remainder are charged with riot sod with having arms in their possession in a proclaimed district. Mit. Gotbw • ty SMITH.—The New York Time of September 5 0,01101.111001 t►e arrival in America of Mr. Goldwtn Smith, observing that :—" It would be a satis faction, we feel assured, to very many of our loyal citizen*, to tender him a cordial greeting, and bid him a pleaaant sojourn." THE CONTINUANCE OF PARLIAMENT.—TiIe pre sent parliament was " begun and holden on the 21st May, 18.59," and will not legally expire until the close of next year. The last was the • . sixth' sessioe, and, as perils mint is septennial, "seven C can be holden. According to the usual practice the dissolution will take place next spring, and the new parliament assemble in November fol lowing for • abort time, and then adjourn to February or March for the transaction of (Gomel business. THE Cuas-maaagr Miebios.—The Rev. William Baird, LA., having accepted the curacy of Bt. Bartholo- mew's Church, Cripplegate, the Clare-market Mission, in • very poor district of the parish of tit. Clement Danes, has been placed usder the charge of the Rev. W. R. Cosecs, M.A., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, secretary of th e Addi. timid CO2llolBociety. The room in which tireservices are held wee formerly a casino, but is now fitted up in very ex cellent style for church purposes. The services are choral. THE BISHOP OF LONDON IN DANGER. —The Bishop of London and family have lately been residing oa the banks of Loch Fyne. They recently made an expe dition to the Island of Arran in • mall steamer, when they spent the day. When returning in the evening, the sky became overcast, the weather stormy, and the ei g ht dark. When oear the entrance to Loch Fyne they wen suddenly startled by the cry, " Breaken ahead sad, b-fore the steamboat's course could be altered, they ware aground upon rocks. The captain informed them that, We h ea t bei n g iron, it would be dangerous to back her off, for fear she might have received Duch injuries as to make it impossible to keep her afloat. They were there fore obliged to laud in the small boat. When the party reached the shore • new difficulty presented itself. They discovered that they had landed, not apart the mainland, but upon • reek which might possibly be covered by the flowing tide. They soon, however, found that they ware safe at lout from that danger. They were able to construct • tent by means of some tarpaulins, awl under the shelter which it afforded they spent the night. Whim day dawned they were soon relieved from their disagreeable positioa, and we are glad to hear that none of the party ban suf fered from exposure during a night of somewhat stormy weather.—Record. AMERICA. 4 --...__ (ucax% nusewL) REPORTED SURRENDER OF MOBILE. NEW YORK, Barr. 10, MORNING. (VA GreeDeasUe.) The World contains a report "that according to news received from deserters Admiral Farragut'a fleet passed Dog River bar after a brief shelling, and Mobile surrendered, the Confederates with drawing to the interior." THZ SUSPENSION OP THE LEEDS BANZIIII COMPANY. I (From the Leeds Mercury of this day.) The announcement which we made in yesterday's Mercury of the suspension of the Leeds Banking Company, conssen c t:pon the refusal of the London spate to cash its was confirmed during the morning by the patina of an notice to that effect on the doors of the bank in Albionatreet. The rumours which were current on Satur day night and during Sunday prepared the public for such a proceeding, but there wee, notwithstanding, wide-spread ex citement, and et 10 o'clock, and for some hours afterwards, the neighbourhood of the bank was thronged by groups of shareholders and creditors, many of them strangers, who anxiously discussed the position and prospects of the corn pay. No information, however, could be obtained until late in the evening, and the groups had ultimately to dis perse, and to rat satisfied with the announcement that a meeting of the shareholders would be held on Wednesday, and that an attempt would in the meantime be made to organise a new company under the Limited Liability Act. It is difficult fully to estimate the effect of this rupee sine upon ell classes ; it has come so suddenly, so unex pectedly, that the shareholders are stunned, and, whilst in dulging in vague alarms, they fail as yet to realise the ulti mate result. or to decide clearly upon the hest noun to be pursued. The history of the bank itself gave no indication of unsoundness to the general observer, and the high post tioe it has held for many years secured foe it the utmost con fidence. The company was formed in 1832, with a proposed capital of 1,000,000/. in 1001. shares. At that time it was placed under the management of Mr. John Smith, and its first opeeatiooe were so successful that it was not deemed neces sary to call up more than 151. per share, which was done by three calla of Y. each, extending over five or six years. In the wane of a few years Mr. Smith retired from the ma nagement, and Mr. Greenland, the present manager, was appointed his successor. At first the bank paid only com paratively small dividends, but these were gradually in creased, and for a long period the dividends and bonuses have been from 15 to 25 par met. Nothing occurred to shake this confidence until the discovery of the defalcations of Radtearn, the cashier, five or six years ago. Three defalcations amounted to 10,0001., but so little effect had they upon the bank that at the next annual meeting the directors again declared a high dividend and bonus. Public confidence was thus teetered, sad, as the high dividends mentioned above were maintained year after year, whilst large sums were at the same time added to the reserve fund, the shares rose in the market, and last week they were quoted at 46 to 48. At the last annual meeting, held on the Ist February, the directors reported that the profits of the bank for the previous year amounted to 44,6331. 15a. 2d., which they had appropriated as follows: —By paying a dividend of 15 per oast. or 45e. par share, 16,5151.; by paying &bonus of 10 per cent., or 30e. per share (both free of income tax), 11,0101. ; by adding to the reserve fund (making that fund 90,0001.), 10,000/. ; and by placing the balance (7,1081.15 e. 2d.) to contingent fund. Another circumstance, showing the apparent prosperity of the bank, is the well-known fact that th e company made an offer for the old cowl-house, and are currently reported to have made arrangementato occupy the premises now used by the Branch Beak of England, on the removal of the latter to the new premises in Park-row. Whilst, however, the confidence of the shareholders and of the public generally was maintained, there is reason to believe that in some quarters suspicions prevailed that there was something wrong, and unfortnnatel these suspicious have proved to be only too well f ounded. The present number of shareholders, according to the lest official return, is Ell, holding 7,340 shares, and the author ised note circ2lation of the bank at the commencement of the present month was 21,084/. The paid-up capital is 110,1001., and the reserve fund at the last annual meeting was stated to be 90 0001. The list of ahnreholders was pub lished in February last, and whilst it contains may gentle men of wealth and high commercial honour, it also we regret to say, includes the names of many widows, maiden executors, and others, whose capital is wholly invested in the beak, and whose position ammo' be contemplated without the deepest pain. We may state that either at or immediately after the last annual meeting, it was decided to issue a number of new shares at 301. each, the old shareholders having the option of taking them in certain proportions to the original shares held. These shares were to be issued in October, but allottees paying in the amount of the shares in whin patios were to be allowed interest on the amounts paid, and is many cases the full value of the shares was paid is. As showing the public confidence in the bank, these shares were eagerly sought after, and non-shareholders thought themselves exoeedingly fortunate if through the influence of friends they could get any allotted to them. . . Various meetings ic7oonnexion with the affairs of the bank were held yesterday, at the office of Mr. Ward, the solicitor of the company. The Ent wits • meeting of the larger shareholders as • company, who, who after various explanatioes ma to the state of the bank's affairs, generally agreed to a recommendation to form a company under the Limited Liability Act, the shareholders of the existing company to have the opportunity of subscribiag in the first instance—their estimated interest in that company being credited to theta, subject to future roe tification--and the new shareholdua paying an equivalent amount. A 'woad meeting was held of depositors end creditors of the bank, who, after • long discussion as to the prospects of the company, ediourned their meeting foe one week to allow time for the making of further state ments or proposals as to the carrying out of the formation of the new company. A third meeting was held of the larger customers of the bank, who concurred generally in the arrangement for the formation of • fresh company, and promised their utmost endeavours to cry it oat. We have been unable to obtain ea official statement of the liabilities and assets of the company, but the following is given on what we cannot bat eocaider most reliable authority : Assets £1,045,749 Including due from misiornees Liabilities including deposits 255,000 current aaeounte 278,000 A circolZ, signed by Mr. °reechoed, the manager of the bent, has been sent to the shareholders, calling a meeting for to-morrow at noon, in the music hall. As considerable interest is felt upoe the question as to who are the parties liable in the event of a deficiency, we believe the law may be stated to be generally this That the *rising proprietors are responsible, jointly and severally, for the debts of the company, but that after their means have been exhausted (but not till then) those who have been shareholders within three years are liable to be celled upon for the difference. ETON Cottrin.—The election vacation terminates on Wednesday next, the Flat inst., when the lower boys return. The fifth and sixth forma return to the College ou Thursday and Friday, when the whole of the scholars will have re-assembled. __ ------- ROYAL SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITSCITTRE, Solna KLIISIDIGTON.—The Committee of Council on Edna lion having appointed Dr. Woolley u inspector and director of studies, and Mr. C. Merrifield as principal, have named as vice-principal Mr. Parkins, the maser wrangler and first Smith's priseman in the pretest year. A YACHT FOR THE SCLTAN.—Yesterday the trial trip of the Itseddin, a yacht for the Sultan, took place at the measured mile on the Maplin Send& This vowel has been built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Com pany at Illackwall. She was designed by Mr. George X . Orow, the naval arehitect of the company. Her dintemions are —length, 230 ft. ; breadth, 22ft. ten. ; depth, 18ft • and her nudes 1,076 tons. Her engines, manufactured by Messrs. Jo hn Peon and Son, are of 300-hers. power. The builders were represented by Mr. Peter Holt, Mr. Benjamin Bell, and Mr. g'Crow, and the engineers by Mr. J. Matthew • Mr. Gadhan , Turkish Consul in Leedom, represented the Turkish government. There wen also pre not Captain Hassan Bey and Captain Ahmed Boy, com manding two fine Turkish frigates now receiving their engines on board in London, nod a numerous party of visitors, who lunched oa board after the trial. The torahs were u follows :-Ist run, 3 min. 27 see. =-17191 knots ; Sod run, 3 min. 47 tee. =15929 knots ; 3rd run, 3 min. 36 sec. =16167 knots ; and 4th run, 3 min. XI see. =16901 knots. The mean of the four rano was 16T22 knots per hour, which is equal to 191 statute miles. The vessel had 120 tons of coal on board. The indicated power was 2,264 horses, the revolutions 41, and the pressure of steam 26. The engines worked admirably. Tim Sross.—This fine steamer is now almost ready for going on ber passage, and we believe will lean Dundee on Saturday or Monday. She was commissioned of Mows. Gourley by the General Steam Navigation Com pany of London, and is intended, we understand, for the Leith and London passage. She is considerably larger than any of the ships of the Dundee and London Company, being ZIO feet in length, of 29 feet beam, and 161 feet in depth. She is 950 tons builders measurement, and her engines (direct acting) are 2100-horse power, and similar to those fitted up on board the Corea, built by Messrs. Gourley for the Peninsular and Oriental Company. The cabin of the Stork is very handsomely fitted up in maple and cranial; and the state-rooms are exceedingly commodious and conve nient. The maple shines like the finest satinwood, and its lightness of colour gives the cabin a very cheerful appear ance. The workmanship and materiel are of the finest de scription ; the whole of the cabin walls being veneered in maple, instead of being merely painted. Externally, the vessel is of very fine lines, and though her upright stern gives her rather a strange look to than unaccustomed to vessels after the new fashion, still this change of form giros her an appearance of sharpness at the bows which impresses one favourably as to her powers of speed. We may mention that the Corea—which we stated above was in the hands of the Peninsular and Oriental Company—bas arrived at Mauritius oo her way to China, after a favourable plumage ; and that the Grampko, another of the veasels built by them, will be put on the panne between Austrians, and New Zea land in COGIMIZies with the Panama mail serrisa—Dandis Advertiser. EXPORTS or COTTON FROM BOMBAY. —The last advice' from Bombay show that the 0140111160111 from that port since the departure of the previous mail amounted to 33,768 balm, and the exports since the lit January, 726,097 balm apinst 513,227 bales for the corresponding period of 1863, The following ships and the quantity of coital on board bad sailed daring the fortnight intervening between the de. parture of the twolast molts forUverpool : Thunderbolt, with 6,884 hales ; Anew, with 2,258 bake ; Great Austral* with 4,951 bales ; City of Amoy, with 4,808 bales ; Hartoonidts with 3,100 bales ; Belle Isle, with 6,011 bales ; and Our Ufa, with 1,116 bake. bdi.TESONTEOGENCirk THE ROMAN QUESTION.—NEW TRAIXY BETWEEN FRANCE AND ITALY. The Continental journals of to-day, one and all, make reference to a new treaty which it is reported has been signed by France and Italy for the evacuation of Rome by the French troops within a definite period. They throw no doubt on the existence of such a treaty. The Turin corres pondent of the Siecle gives the terms of the treaty as follows : " The Marquis Pepoli arrived at Turin on the 17th, and he brings great and important news. A treaty was concluded on the 15th inst. between France and Italy. It was signed on the part of France by M. Drouyn de Lhnys, on the part of Italy by the Marquis Pepoli, minister plenipo tentiary, and M. Constantine Nigra, minister resi dent at Paris. " The principal articles of the treaty are the eva cuation of Rome by the French troops within two years, so as to give the Pontifical government time to organise an army for its internal protection. The Italian government engages to watch the frontier which divides the kingdom of Italy from the Roman Stake, so that no army either of regular troops or of volunteers can enter the terri tory of the Holy See to disturb its tranquillity. The treaty is also said to contain a pro vision by which the Italian government takes upon itself five-sixths of the Roman debt. There are several articles respecting the relations which should exist between the Italian and Pontifical troops in their mutual supervision of the frontiers. It is said that there are other articles in the treaty for the regulation of what concerns the necessities of catholic worship, vacant bishoprics, &o. The Pontifical government, without taking any posi tive part in the treaty, tacitly sanctions this convention, in so much as regards the transfer ence of the greater portion of the Pontifical debt to the Italian treasury. This news has caused the greatest sensation in Turin, and it is speculated upon in a hundred ways. People ask whether, by reason of this treaty, Italy is nearer to Rome, or whether it is not further from it than ever, in con sequence of the engagements which Italy has assumed. Panic is also spread from the fact that others say that the capital of Italy is to be trans ferred to Florence, the real cradle of the Italian race. " The Italian minister is to inform parliament of that portion of the treaty which refers to the occupation of Rome, and for this purpose parlia ment is convoked for the 11th of October next. If I am rightly informed the session will be very short. The Ring will dissolve the present Chamber of Deputies and convoke the electoral colleges. The new chamber will assemble early in January, and will be immediately prorogued to April, 1865." MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter of the 17th has the following : The movement of the troops which are to take pert is the great mameovres commenced to-day. The regiments are concentrated in the environs of Potsdam, where they will bivouac for several days. The Austrian and Ranias generals, the Princes of Leichtenatein and Tour and Taxis, with General Totleben, accompanied by their suites, have already left Berlin for Potedam, which town will serve as head-quarters at the commencement of the operations. The King will assume on the 20th the command-in chief of all the forces, and will direct in person the move ments of the two corps-d'arme'e, one of whieb, the Guard , will be commanded by Prince Augustus of Wurtemburg, and the other by General de Bonin. The principal =- oeuvres will be performed on the great plains situated between Potedam and Brandeburg, and will end by the siege and taking of the latter town. The cavalry and artillery appear to be intended to play the principal part in these strategical combinations, which have been fixed on by the ' King himself. THE CIRCASSIANS. A letter from Trebizond, in the Monittur, says The Cirousian tribe which has taken refuge in a high mountain behind Gosmia still holds out in its resistance against Russia The number of families which have re treated there is estimated at 500. Encounters take place modestly, and, although the besiegers consist of 6,000 men, the Russians have so far always been defeated. A serious attack was made recently, when the Circassian re sisted with such energy th►t 200 of the enemy, including • colonel, a major, and several other officers were killed or wounded. To resist the besiegers, the Onassis= erect with much skill immense piles of stones of a large size, and, when the attack is made, by novel= one of them, which forms a sort of keystone, the rest roll down iota the ravine, crushing everything before them. The mountaineers will resist so long as their provisions hold out. unless the Russians succeed to turning their strong position. The emigration continues, sad the country is being oantiegally traversed by the bands of people remov ing. About 15,000 persons of the Natookhatch tribe see expeMed at Novmsisk shortly, where 16 sailing vessels, udder the Ottoman flag, are waiting to embark them on their arrival. The chief of that important tribe, • rich and important personage, who pommies considerable forest and immense flocks, has already left Novrosisk with 4,000 of his people. The Russian government has placed the cor vette Wolga at his disposal, and to him was paid the greatest attention. He has gone to reside at K . ustendje. (acorn's nucums.) SPAIN. MADRID, Su. 19. It is semi-officially stated that the government will act energetically in the question of Pern, and that in reference to Domingo no definitive resolu tion will be taken without consulting the Cortea. THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Sem 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria, with the heavy portion of the above mails, passed the Noodles at 11.5 a.m. to-day. OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES Stn.. 19. . _ _ The Meeeageriee Imp4riales steamer Peluse, Captain Yoret, left here yesterday with the above mails, 79 passengers, 1,327 packages of merchan dise, and 2,200 in specie for Alexandria ; and 104 passengers, 340 packages, and specie, val ue 496,4401., for India and China. TKE BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, SErn 19. The Ellora, with the above mail, will leave Gibraltar at 7 p.m. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton on the 24th inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL The Ripon, from Southampton on the 12th inst. , reached Gibraltar on the 18th at Ba. 02., and left at 11 a. in. for Alexandria. Horrors of almost every description, when repre sented oa the stage, have at all times a powerful attraction for the Patioiaa public. Lea Mohicans de Paris continues to draw good homes at the Gala ; hut this drama of Alexandre Dumas's is a mere idyl in comparison with the aggionseratioa of murders which characterise M. Poo da Terrell's melodrama, entitled &condole, now performiag at the Ambito. This plea has been drawiag crowded houses for some time pest, and yid its literary vales is decidedly below par : there is not even the shadow of a good character, nor the vestige of a "situation mimes. blable"in the whole composition. The story of Rocandole is hardly relatable. It is a tissue of mimes and horrors, EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Max ous owur PARIS, Moir DAT Evutn. The Minister of Public Instruction has written a report to the Emperor proposing to establish, or, rather, to re-establish a chair of political economy and public law at the College of Law. M. Duruy declares that this science, ventilated by the die cuasions of a century, affects the most vital con ditions of modern society ; or, in other words, the minister finds France a hundred years behindhand. He points out to the most civilised nation in the world that this political science has to do with public wealth and the purest speculations of the mind ; it effaces from the ancient code that most unrighteous maxim that the welfare of our neigh bours is our evil ; it encourages liberty, gives man dignity, Christian sentiments, and a favourable idea of universal fraternity. " This science," says the minister, " which lately enabled a neighbour jog power to pass through a fearful crisis for its labouring classes without peril, has not a single chair in the departments, and only two in Paris of a special character, and where only a few scholars already acquainted with its principles discuss its application. All the young men destined for the liberal professions remain without any instruction. Your Majesty advised that the sound doctrines of political economy should be taught to the working chases, and an English minister, at about the same epoch, remarked that this science had saved Eng land from socialism. Public opinion demands that this want should be supplied, and schools of poli tical economy opened. Volunteers have taught at Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Nice, and Lyons has asked for a foreign savant to instruct its citizens." But for the expense, the minister would recom mend the establishment of several chairs ; at pre sent, however, he will be satisfied with one in Paris, but he hopes that other towns will profit by the example of Lyons and demand professors, which the government will be happy to appoint. The Emperor has approved this report, and has con ferred another liberal measure on France. The creation of this chair has been well received by the press, although its utility at present may be ques tioned ; it would be of little good instructing a man to swim by himself, and then forbidding him to ven ture out of his depth. However, this gift horse should not be too closely examined. The Opinione of Turin says that the treaty, to which I alluded yesterday as about to be signed be tween France and Italy, stipulating for the evacua tion of Rome in two years, has actually been signed in Paris. TLe Opinions gives the names affixed to this document, important if it exists ; but after all the Italian journal may, to use a sporting phrase, only be trying to force the running, and by bringing the question thus before the public oblige Franca to move in the right direction. The Opinion Nationale is satisfied that this news is true. That the wish may not be father to the thought! Prince Napoleon has left Paris for his estate of Prangins, in Switzerland. The prime will be absent about a fortnight or three weeks, ands to be back for the fetes which are to be given next month at Compi4me in honour of Prince Humbert on his arrival from England nil Holland. Lettere from Prussia talk of the almost triumphal entrance of M. de Bismarck into Berlin, and tell how his friends met him at the railway, enthusiastically applauded him, sod escorted him to his residence, in acknowledgment of which admiring demonstrations be made a little speech, deprecating the honour paid him, and declaring that the great recent success of Prussian policy was to be attributed entirely to the King, whose firmness and courage had res dared the task of his ministers easy, and the evening of whose life Providence bad adorned by bestowing viotory on the Prussian army. For the glory gained, the advan tages won, the King, after God. was aloes to be thanked. He spoke of the love and fidelity of the people to their sovereign, but to the national will or to the parliament it is scarcely necessary to say there was no reference made. The correspondent of the Times at Vienna writes ;—" A few days ago • lad named Kober, who is rather more than 14 years of age, was tried here on • charge of high rearm. The boy dropped his pocket book in the street, and the person who pinked it up found in it • document which plainly showei that its author and two other persons intended to make an attempt oc the life of the Emperor. The principal conspi rator and his associates, who bad not attained their 14th year, were arrested, and, as has already been said, brought to trial. Kober was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in irons ; the other lads ware acquitted. The whole affair has produced • very disagreeable impression hare, and nei ther Dr. Her, the Minister of Justice, nor K. von Lien barber, the Prorcutor-General, would feel flattered if they should learn what is publicly rid of them." The Salut Public, of Lyons, publishes some inte resting news foe embryologists. la ebbing piles far the bridge of Port Holland, which is being thrown over the river Ain, the navvies employed discovered some armour of gilt bronze, swords, and poniards. These articles have been purchased by the conservator appointed by the Empe ror to enperinteed the Museum of Gallo-Roman antiquities which be is forming in the old castle of St. Germaiti.en- Iwye. They are of great historical Internet, as they may serve to indicate the course permed by Julius Cam, when, having entered Briancon from Italy, he pursued the Helvetii, who were slowly moving towards the Annie. An Athens letter says :"Illeasurea are now being adopted in Greece to re-establish the medicinal baths, and turn to amount the thermal waters which that country p ossesses. The baths of Oedipeeus, io the island of Elbow, which were formerly so celebrated for their virtue* io rheumatism and diseases of the liver, h►ve already been restored. Nearly thirty houses have been already erected around the spring, and a physician resides there during the season." A letter from Richmoud, dated the 16th ult., says —" To report that an American July and August are stiflingly oppressively, ezbauotively hot—is to utter nothing but a truism. But it is worthy of notice that the last twenty days are said to have been unparalleled in hest within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Night and day the mercury of Fahrenheit has touched 90, and has sometimes gone considerably above that figure. The effect of the Intense heat is visible in the universal lassitude and pallor which are perceptible in every countenance. Officers and travellers who have lived in Bengal and Madras agree in reporting that they find the American beat much more oppressive than that of the Rut Indies. The American houses are ill adapted for excluding heat or cold, and there are no punkahs. The only mitigating circumstance which makes the summer of 1864 more endurable than its pre decessor in Richmond since the commencement of the war is that we have this y ear an &build/Ace of ice. But the pale shadows which flit along the shady sides, of Riehmead's streets this day, utterly devoid of English rosiness and fleshiness, seem better fitted to reside in the dons. exilis Pisa:midi than to be denizens of the working, tolling, moth. enduring world in which at this moment their lot I. east." Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-Aloe from the Governors of Cacia&, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia. Despatches wen seat to the Governors of Gibraltar, Melte, Mauritius, Ceylon, Hoeg Hoeg, Lhasa. and Australia, • FrHE MURDER ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY. RESUMPTION OF THE INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, at 10 o'clock, the investigatiou tato the circumstances of the murder of Mr. Thomas Briggs wu resumed by Mr. John Humphreys, Coroner for the comity of Middlesex. at the Town Hall, Hackney. Superintendent Howie bad the management of the case for the commissioner of police. The court was crowded by persons anxious to hear the evidence of the witnesses. Mr. T. Beard, solicitor, mtained by the German Legal Protection Society for the defence of Timm Muller, and Mr. Moojen, solicitor for the family of Mr. Briggs, were present. It's unnecessary to give the evidence in detail, al it is bat a repetition d that which was heard yesterday at Bowatreet. The witnesses were the cabman Matthews, Sergeant Clark, Mr. J. W. Briggs, Mr. J. Death, and Inspector Tanner. At the close of the evidence by the last witness, The Coroner said—That is u far u I propose to carry the ease to-day, gentlemen. The remainder of the evidence to be taken is not very voluminous. I shall now adjourn the court until Monday, at Pi o'clock in the morning, when no doubt the cue will be completed. The proceedings were accordingly adjourned until the time mentioned. GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.) This day a half-yearly meeting of aharebolderb was held at the London Tavern, Mr. Law in the ebai r. The report, which lee aheadi been published, was taken The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it was gratifying to meet the shareholders with inch • good statement of their affairs as the report presented. fwo years ago they were draggling with difficulties, bat now in spite of railways and other modes of competition they were in the midst of money and independence. (Chain.) They might look in future years for increased dividends and an increased reserved fund. (Chews.) They had vet to contend with the disadvantage of being subjected to ninepenny mileage duty, while railways paid only a three. peony duty, and steamboats nothing at all. (Hear, he.a.) They would persevere till they got this inequality rectified. (Hear, hear.) The report plead them so fully in poumsion of the real state of their affairs, that it only remaioed for him to move its adoption, and the distribution of a dividend equal to 64 per cent for the year, which would leave 5,0401. to be carried to the next half-year's account. Mr. Carman' sosonded the motion. Mr. DICAELZ entirely approved of the report, and tug. gested some small practioal improvsmant• in the ay stem of management. . . . . Nicuoutou also approved of the report, but he thought that those who did the work should be resident in England. Hs had no objection to Frenchmen being on the board, but be thought the directors should contemplate an alteration in the articles of association, which regulated the proportion of Frenchmen to Englishmen on the board. He wished to know the respective amount of capital held in France sod in Ragland. The Criantmars said that originally the amount held in Franco was 100,0001., in England 50,000/. At present the respective proportions were 77,1611. bald in England, and 68,8091. held in France. But there were 2,000 shareholders in France to 750 in England. The proportion of French. men to Englishmen on the board was 6 to 4. The motion was agreed to, and a vote of thanks t) the chs;rman terminated the business. TWENTY-THREE MINERS CHARGED WITH NEGLECT OF WORK AT SEDOLEY. At the Birmingham Police-court, yesterday, before the Rev. W. Lewis and the Rev. J. Y. Rooker, twenty•three miners were charged by Mr. John Williams with neglecting their work on the 13th of the present month without lawful excuse. The accused were escorted to the court by a baud of music, and there were some huodreds of miners who followed in the procession. At intervals the bend played outside the court. Mr. Underhill, of Wolverhampton, appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Sheldon appeared for the defence of the men. Mr. Underhill commenced by defies that he proposed to take the case against Robert Hodgkin, as representing the whole, and proceeded to detail that the complainant, Mr. John Williams, was master at the Banton Meadow Colliery, and that all workmen were bound by the rules therein tomato give fourteen days' notice when they desired -to leave their employment, and to give that notice on the " papday." On Tuesday, the 13th of the present month, it was the duty of Hodgkin and the other defendants to have been at work. They, however, were not at work that day, nor had they been seen at the colliery since that day. The neglect bad therefore been continuous and Nom vated. The men had certainly a perfect right to leave after proper natio*, but they must be bold es liable to fulfil a stipulated 'Ferret as the master. . . Mr. Sheldon, for the w defame, maintained that the men were really not in complainant's employ, and therefore had broken no contract with him. He ingeniously endeavoured to show that the reduction of 3d. per day without notice had nullified the engagement between the masters and men, and that, apart from these objections, the woikmen were afraid to go to work in consequence of the threats that had been held out to them by those on strike. Witnesses were called both by the prosecutor and the defence. The Bench, having consulted, said that the men had shown no @Wedeln or lawful excuse for their absence from work, and the threats were so simple as almost to amount to no threat at all, and it seemed to the Beech that the men had conspired not t) work. The police were always ready and silti ng t o assist them, and they might all retorts to work immediately, and have the expenses deducted from their er The heerhag lasted three hours, sad the wort wee aro wded all the time. THE SHIP CARPENTERs AND THE "PHARE" MEET nor BELFAST. —Our readers will share the 'addiction with which we announce the termination of the ship tarpons's' dispute, and the return of the protestant artisans to their work io the yard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff. The sane mine given by the catholic workmen that they bad not, by informations or otherwise, been accessory to the arrest of their protestant fellow-labourers Ina removed the wry eel distrustful feeling which an opposite impression bad engendered ; and there is reason to hope that • better understanding, now established, will remain. The asser tion of the catholic workmen is abundantly confirmed by the Rev. Mr. Macnaughtan, on the authority of die of the stipendiary magatrates. With the adjustment of this dispute, to the settlement of which the firmness and disc e. lion of Meseta Harked and Wolff have materially contri buted, the labours of the " Peace" Society may naturally terminate. if need arises, it can be revived. It has aimed to do • good work, which its continued existence may hinder, if the spirit ditylayed In some of the speeches de livered on Saturday as allowed further occasions for its manifestation. The remarks of Mr. Macneughtan were wise and charitable ; and we must in fairness add, those of Mr. Rea were unexceptionable; but other gentlemen. if they did sot dodo to awaken once more the old fend of protes tant and catholic, and so roan distrust in the admiaistration of justice, used language which could scarcely ban any other effect. We can only hope that the moral of the riots has been better learned by the community at large than by some of those who have put themadves prominently forward as peacemaker., with very little, we fear, of the spirit of in their hearts. It is exceedingly undesirable that peaceu opportunities should be given to Mr. Hugh Manna and to Mr. C. H. Word for the expression of their nore• drained partkanship.—iforrAmi Whig. INUNDATION IN INDIA —The Lahore Chronicle repeats an unusual ecoeetricity on the part of the rivet Chenab, which has caused considerable damage to Mooltan, if not to other stations in its neighbourhood. For some time its unusual shallowness bad been remarked by the Lahore editor, and attributed by him to a landslip or glacier which had dammed up the river in some of the solitudes of the Himalaya, when all at awe it burst on Mooltan with • fury it had never been remembered to exhibit before. A correspondent from the latter city writes : —" The water has flowed in so suddenly and with such velocity that we awoke this morning only to find ourselves, as it were, cer an island, every direction as far as the eye can reach being • perfect sea, All communication between the city and cantonments has been completely cut off. The commasioner's house has some three or four feet of water round it. The greeter portion of the suburb" of the city, including Tole Khan and Emam Poore, have been submerged, and the market place baa shared the same fate. The standing crop have all been destroyed, whole villages washed down, and the panic-struck inhabitants know sot whither to fly, or how to amps from the deluge. Woodlands, the property of General Van Courtlaud, the favourite resort of the Ma. dente of the station, is all but • wreck. Its fine walks, itsgarden, containing the choicest flowers, and it. orchar d stocked with the most delicious fruits, are all sub merged. All around is desolation—the flood has ex tended for several miles, as far as the railway line ; ad the destruction of property caused by it must be im mense." Great efforts ware made by the local eteriecers to divert the course of the flood. bat to no purpose ; the water toppling one the brands almost immediately they were erected. FORBIDDING THE BANNS—A scene of rare OCCIII , ream took place is the Manchester Cathedral an Solidity morning. During the readies of beans by the Rev. Mr. Trontbeck, a women roes from her seat, and when two Dames were mentioned, she said in a loud toss of rotes, " 1 forbid that." She was requested by one of the apparitore to make her objection in the vestry after serval*, and she resumed her place. The scene cowed some commotion in the crowded church. _ _ The Northern Whig describes a shod:lug disader, by which a small sailing-boat was upset in Belfut Lough on flatarday, sad four men were drowned. The deolased appear to hare been all more or lees intoxicated. Each of the four was married and had a (may depending upon him for support. 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