The Express. — London, England, 1859-08-24 00:00:00

jalylcAD-BAND PLOMFORTILL—CRAMER, Wierasi=====ibmsom-Ilt else OxpreiglS• oMMIMAP~ We freidiEnii. .11te azLirss ed. , lig Pm , Ewa be at the CM" 14 Witte e ea the So et pthilswica. Two Swam. ?ig mama? DAT OT IT LITT. Kr. Ormirsa• sod lin CONTEST/1D lILBOTIOII. AIL riod Ira C. lailk••••-01..lt Or 1110 LIT Orr OP gr. 0. liarilion.—AM MALLOWS U. P•INONOWN. Tar trinle,lllß SWOT. Kr. IN len C. Kam— erl • 111D•1:11111 flour" 10113•11.—Virminor se 1. Tin IMense. wr i la ir dall.—TWlßD CL*M AND Min CLUS-11ad JACK AND JACIII DILOTRIUL Maws A. Weed sod W. Oirshrt a wimp 11110116. alell wasis - h- iz. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24. Ins anticipations we recently expressed have proved but tee well founded. Open war has been declared by the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland against the system of National Education so long established there. We have no desire to disguise from ourselves the width or depth of the abyss that lies between impartial and enlightened education, conducted ~by the State on neutral prin ciples, and any systems of instruction guided and governed by exclusive and intolerant ecclesiastics. Nor are we disposed to dispute the accuracy of the allegations made by an evening contemporary, re a?ecting the designs long harboured against the inability of the National Board. Bat we cannot help expressing our regret that want of are and foresight on the part of those who were bound to exercise superintendence and control over the work ing of so valuable an institution, should have allowed defects to go unamended and inconsistencies to spring up which now afford its enemies just sufficient ground whereon to base plausible arguments for its total re-construction. Sooner or later we have no doubt the trace of toleration established in 1832 between hostile sects would have been broken; and the passionate desire of exclusive clerical control would have broken filth. Bat the amend duty of Government in a mixed community is not to exor cise the principle of evil, for that is beyond it, power, but to check and modify its influence, and if it can do no better, to postpone its overflow to the latest possible hour. In times of progress every day saved from the returning flood of clerical fanaticism is a de] gained. Eight and twenty years, happily for the laity of Irelsad, have thus been secured ; and who will say how much of the improvement of that country as It now stands, compared with what it was in 1831, is referable to the beneficent influence of a humanising and liberalising system of Primary schools ? Looking at its intrinsic value, and to the latent enmities with which it was beset from opposite quarters, we are compelled to say, we think it was unpardooable in those who have held responsible office in Ireland of late years to suffer the balance of opinions in the Central Board to be lost, and deviations from the original rules of nen trality,on which the system was hued, to become permanent and habitual. Considering the repug nance and contumely shown from the outset by a ma jority of the Established Church, nothing could be more unwise or unfair than the large proportion of Commis sioners selected from that communion. It was but natural and just that the Presbyterian body having given in its adhesion should be fully represented in the Board; but regard being had to the numerical proportions of the population whose intellectual wants were to be supplied, it has long appeared to us sheer infatuation to allow any jest ground of com plaint to exist mute( the number of Roman Catholics taking part In its deliberations. It is no use to tell us now that three or four noblemen and gentlemen were kept upon the list for ornament long after it was ascertained that they either could not or would not take any active part. It was the business of the Government of the day to see that the in stitution was in heathful working order, and to that end to replace ciphers and nonentities with active and influential men. If, after the advent of Archbishop CULES, it became evident that no Roman Catholic bishop would be allowed to sit at a mixed board, it was all the more essential to supply their place with an adequate number of enlightened and influential lay cue, whose names and whose numbers would have been a guarantee against all suspicion of partiality, and a practical answer to the sinister imputations too likely to be circulated. Instead of this the Roman Ca tholic minority of the Board has unhappily for some time been suffered to consist of persons one-half of whom notoriously seldom took any pert whatever in ito proceedings ; and the consequence has been the gradual accumulation of a set of petty grievances and alleged partialities, not one of which, desperately investigated, may have been really worthy of senses consideration, but the a4gregate of which has pro duced a state of feverish irritation net easily allayed. Still more to be regretted, we think, have been the gradual sononsione made to prejudice and impor tunity with regard to religious instruction. At first all was to be rigorously neutral and colourless within the walls of the Government schools. By degrees religious teaching came to be permitted out of Mega Dour to the ehildn n of various sects by their re spective pastors or persons acting for them ; and at last the schoolmaster war authorised to teach their various catechisms to his pupils of various denomi nations. It is not surprising that a scheme so utterly devoid of every semblance of reverence and earnestness should have encountered serious objections. The only wonder is how the ex periment should ever have been made. It now affords the eltremoodanist party on one side, and the ultrs-Anglican clergy on the other, common ground for usaalt and invective, which neither of them am slow to occupy. Both demand, see that an end should forthwith be put to all possibility of teaching children of one faith by mas ters belonging to another. Both demand that the denomination prine:ple, which admits of specific and exclusively sectanso teaching in every Khoo!, should be substituted for the Neutral or Mixed principle. Both require that the inspection of their schools should be strictlj sectarian, as well as the choice of books and of musters ; and both, with a strange mis apprehension of the facts and possibilities of the elm, ask impatiently-11 by not deal with education in Ireland as in England? We desist from entering here Into the details requisite for a suitable reply to that question ; but the answer to it, as everyone knows who has taken the trouble to camper* the circumstances of the two countries, is conclusive and complete. The Right Rea. the Secretary of State for Ireland, Mr. Manta. M.P. ft ♦teeadce ke., woos nisetolobsel by Juno. MonedL &q.. at Caltaita, at tamer, as Viands, ”olutit last. The parry ccenprieW 'easy of the civic audio n nee asd saddest, .4 Oohed, which city the tight bcn. pr llama& WM cts court. OSBORN', Atom 22. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Pthc Hakes, GO Risers Louisa, left Osborne to-day balli-past iss &eine is, Aliandeott Canty. Ms Oa im Oohs= omit= of the Marchioness CI Ify, Om Moe. Lads Ilisplord, My or-Omni the Hon. C. Om Goma MPhil. Ms* Cosell , and the Muter of tbs Basta-old. Royal Pavilion, Aletrahott-csaap, Angora 23. Her Majesty, the Priem Casson, and the royal dmity, 'Mild at the ?mem yeiterdty at half-past ose d'elech. At a little before Wee o'clock her Majesty left the Pavilion as amigo ea four, secoespaniei by Priecem Hakim mid Prisms Leaks, sad drove to the migkbeenhood of Caws Camp, to Meuse the owed= whirl were anted ea there by the divirke =dor Lleat.-Gesural Imam. The Prime Cowart, with Priem Alfred, ateemmeiad her Majesty en hambeek, weeded by Coped' Du Plot sad Major Cowell. TM Qum wma attameltd by the Msechimeate of Ely, the Roe. Ramis tkoyderd. th• Ectarriso - ta - Witt* beg, the Quartarmeler-Gmeral of the Foram the Reply. Adjamet.Omeral, sad the Staff of the Camp. Nat Majesty reSideed en the roma tiff pest 6 eidock, end Imported the works carried on, whisk consisted of the Ilerseeke of so intreoched map, made by inching parties eneeneles from the different brigades. The Mowing had the honour of dining with bee Ma jesty is the evening Llenteeant-Gentral Kielty', Melor.. GUMMI en Richard Atrey, Ceertermanter.Owawrel ; Major- Genetel Former, Depetty Adjutont-Neerel ; Colonel C. Kennedy, Aenetsat Quartermeeter-Genenil ; and Colonel Chersen, B. E ._ The bend of the Royal Eatbreere played daring dinner. Hr blikieety end the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Prin• one Heins, end Prioress Louisa, left the Pavilion this manias at a quarter before ten, and again visited the leireiched ersap. The Qum ;ad the Prince were attended as yesterday, std temslaed till age **sleek inspecting the deism thrown up, endwise pseud dewing the manoeuvres executed. The Queen, Pries, r• royel Leerily left the Royal Pavi llon at hal-past thres o'clock, and returned to (reborn,. Demotefro were mot from the Coleolel-.lice yesterday to the Governor of Comte, reel the Gomm:lei of Ur Settle mato so the Welt Cant of Africa. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24. 1859. RETURN OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE. PORTSMOUTH, Arorsr 23. Haw Majesty the Qum, his Royal Highness the Priam Cowart, the royal faintly, and the ladies and gen darme of th• enart, arrived at Gosport this mato& at about 20 miaow to 6 o'clock. The royal party sunbaked es board the Fairy, and proseedeit to Osborne amidst the onslookery palates of the writhe, the shire in herboer, end et Spth heed. The royal nitit to Aldershott, which terminated yestinday, Is the lest width her Majesty will make to the camp this seeme, bet at heat two more grand field-days will take pleat in the prearner, and most probably under the can mad, of the Deka of Cambridge ere the final break-up of the warm amp. The latter event Is not likely to take place balers the beginning of next Oetobw. At present than are la camp two and a half regiments of enmity, With two Matthew of the military train, and ti nes t roops ./ h em ertilhey. Of infantry there are sixteen regiments with lee kid Wades. This form will be redueed to tee regiments ' of cavalry, one troop of bone mangey, twelve regiments of infantry, ant three field batteries, at width strength the camp will remain throughout the winter, The Staffordshins militia sod 47th Regiment are under orders to have camp In a few days for Shorneliffe end Portsmouth, but both than area will be replaced ere the summer amp breaks sp. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales returned to Edinbargh on Tuesday morning from visiting Mr. and Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton at Areherfield. In the fore noon the prince attended a lecture at the Uoiveraty. Her Serene Highness the Princess Hobenlohe- Itekllkegfurst and the Prima Wittgenasin have arrived at Loag's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. . _ The Marquis and Marohiooess of Lothian have left Claridge's Hotel for Brkkling Hall, Norfolk. The Marquis of Bristol has returned to town from riatlag Lady Molesworth at der wat, Pei:marrow. la Corawall. The Earl of Howth aod Lady Emily St. Lowrance Mee lat CLAW. Hotel for Germany. - . _ Lady St. John has arrived at tha Quetn'a Hotel, Upper Nunrocd, from St. Loo. Bus. _ _ Mr. Roundell Palmer and Lady Palmer and Emily bare lef: London for the °glands Hotel, Welton on-Themes. Among the company now at Brighton are—Lori Ai!Amok, the Earl and Counte - se of Monster, the Countess of Ileaborougb, Lady Elisabeth Smith and Lady May, Lady B411I:Ma sad faintly, Mr John Kirkland, the Hes. Mae. Russell, Field Marshal the Earl of Stafford, LIM sad Lady Pete &c. Lord Brougham is at present staying at Tyar mouth, esjoying the fresh bre. zee of the North Bea witkis sweep the teisalsnd. It is the intention of' seessel if the Meanie& Institutes sad Working Men's institutes an the Tyne to Fervent addresers to his lordship. _ . The Hon. Mice Edina Campbell, daughter of Lady B:rathedett, mill shortly bo married to the Rev. Yr. Amok worth, me of Sir I. T. Dacarreeth, Bart. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a pew days back safely delivered of a piece, who warn laptieed in the items of Alexander, bat did in the evening. On the Emperor and Empress of the French arriving at St. Sauveur, they found a triumphal arch of ever greens erected not far from the Pont de la Reid Hortense; on the top of the arch was en epee .1 the Pythias', en well stuffed that it had the appearance of being alive, sad it held la its beak en olive branch. At night there was a issival 111111X10114011. Their Majesties could not reach St. Saineue nstil just before sight. At Angeles a mounted grid if honour (white padded; blue vests, sad tad asps) uses organteed to sccompaay them as far so hatable. At • esstreur all the Tsang ladles of the brat familia, dreamt Is the socient costume of the country, came forward to pre med a bouquet to the Raper. The house prepared for their Majesties to the least them/than extremity of St. Souvenir, sad ansmande a gas view of the plain of Luz. Plasm, penile b the Zsglish style 'testa below the house. The lespeates saw occupy a boos. in the neighbourhood. Caw Vkitee Wimpffen, lieutenant in the Aus tin's any, are of the Austrian general tf that name, barn fed monied the daughter of Byron de Sins, the banker, reseivieg with the bride (says G•lepans4) • fortune of 25 millions of francs. The library of the late Baron de Humboldt, be queathed by him to hie old valet, bat been purchased for 40,000 ths,rs, the VMS= joarsals state, by Lord Bloom field, raialater of England at Berlin. ME. LIND4AT, AND 11L CONSTITCIDem— Yr. Lindsay met the donors of flendeened en Moeda" mot, tot to maroon of rodeeenles the pledge he made et hie Went= to reins at the end of the sense and give an executes of his stewsedehly. fa coseinJiag hie espiestsoy wannest, the les. esnebor rid that it asythfwg led dose or nil Ind sins since to say emu se ono It is.. thee b. .did Ile nod the eenserisp r E tr. dor sad altasegh way by 112 sett of 3,000 nun, he rest say, wipe he beind et the nano in the paper, it wee !dm eosehtershis pen. II those gestlemen think* bin weep, tbs., bed • right to pro tsey now that they ban mutually sad freshly meted their caftans. Its hoped they would hold out to him the right Load of felloinhip, ea t issued of oppwing meat bid to obtaio those oirmuse• of r4cien which .11 desired. Th• hots. roilerma sat doses, am Saying. " cost:woo to me your co/endears sad I will sew mem from time • nt priaciplee which I ben always prebend." To Chairman proposed • vote of comblesen he Yr. Lfsdasy, wbkh was carried with soclawmtke. Judge Halllbertes, being celled on by the netisisi, is • few numbs paid • hips compliment to Mr. Lisbey's preeskal kn., ledge sad um- Warm a* • member of pertinent. After which • rots of Masks wee pseud to the chafers, sad the seeming con cluded. HERTFORD ELECTION.—Mr. Dimedmie, the ire coarrrive ear ire for Hertford, los herd r rinse to the el-etas, u waieh Le ear : "Al the teratisera of the madras costes Is WWI I her her espied I desire to 111111111111, warmly, my most as sad heartielt thanks ter the asiveral blather which has bar acessdad to me. The bar resat of which I have raved, the frier. ship I have to each p.Ltioal party, sod the atrial ?WWII apoeneat by ray who did not feel at ihetty to rea Oat sr, sosperte, even is this hoar of defeat, far the regret whir serearily attend, upon toy talon. The OW*, yeaev e baud me ado, cats are those to which I shall edam, etwearegod by the entleiketn with which money have ' , spored to them. I bete pldge myself to eons bin you egoist, ae a medidate, So ter the prime of &steer...on mart the airframe terries , of wesilod LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. THE DISARMAMENT. PARIS, WID/MSDAY. The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol lowing : "The Emperor having ordered that the army be placed from a war to a peace footing, the Minister of War has given orders that from the 20th Septem ber those men should return to their homes whine term of service expires in 1869. Moreover, farloogbe of three months will be allowed to those who ate of that elms of exceptial eases provided for by the statute of 1832; and the same has also been greeted to the men who can prove that they are indispen sable for the support of their family." The Monitair farther announces that M. Kolbe Bernard has bean *hated deputy for Lille. THE CONFERENCE. ZURICH, WIDNISDAY, AUOI:I,T 24. Yesterday the plenipotentiaries of Franca and Austria held a conference, which lasted two hours. • SARDINIA. SPEECH OF THE KING. The deputation appointed to present to the King of Sardinia the medal which has been struck by a private society, in commemoration of the wards pro nounced by his Majesty on his opening thesession of the Piedmontese parliament on the 10th of January last, had the honour of an audience on the 20th. Count Mamiani, president of the committee, reminded his Majesty of the memorable words:— " We are not insensible to the cry of grief which we bear from every part of Italy." His Majesty replied as follows: " I thank you for your beautiful present. Ever since it has been in my power, I have consecrated my efforts to the great national cause. I have it constantly before my mind—l live for it, and am ready to die for it. Difficulties and mi►fortunes &rim which must be surmounted, and they cer tainly will, for I have witnessed the courage end discipline of which the Italian. are capable. Under present circumstances, it has been impossible to go farther, as I might have wished. In the midatof past sorrows, I have found great consolation in seeing that the Italians have understood me, and have not entertained a doubt concerning me. The masses, blinded by excessive enthusiasm, are some times led astray f I might have pardoned such false steps, bat I repeat that I have nothing to reproach them with. It seems incredible that some countries that us unfavourable to us, do not or will not believe that there is nothing obscure or insidious in my policy. Frankness and straight fordwardness are its companions—perhaps it is the going straight to the object in view that creates displeasure. The Italian question is very clear, and it is no doubt on that account that they will not understand it. The union, perfect order, and wisdom which the people of Tuscany, the Duchies, and the Romagna now display are admire, hie. I certainly did not think that Italy was in capable of acting so, still the spectacle of such en attitude affords me great pleasure. Have, therefore, faith in me, gentlemen, and be assured that now, as well as in future, I shall do everything in my power to promote the welfare of Italy." THE DEFENSIVE LEAGUE. The defensive league between the provisional governments of Tuscany and Bologna and the dic tator of Modena has been signed by the Marquis Oioori for Tuscany, the Marquis Coompani for Mo dena, and Prince Astorre Heroolani for the junta of Bologna. The object of this league is thus defined by the Italian journals:—To prevent the restora tion of the fallen governments ; to maintain internal order; and to lay down the bases of the assimilation et isistitutious. General Garibaldi passed in review on the 16th, on the exercise ground of Modena, a part of the eleventh division Lf the Italian army, and declared himself mach pleased with its appearance. He afterwards visited the military hospital', and spoke most kindly to several of the wounded soldiers. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF MODENA. MODENA, At GCEIT 23. The National Assembly, in its sitting of to-day, unanimously voted the following decrees : 1. The confirmation of the dictatorship of Signor Parini, giving him full powers to contract a loan of 6,000,000 liras. 2. The erection of a monument to commemorate the votes of the Assembly decreeing the di.cbCance of Francis V. and the annexation of Modena to Piedmont. 3. Th►t the volunteers who served in the late cant- Feign for the independence of Italy have deserved well of their country. 4. That the Dictator be charged to negotiate with the several foreign powers for the restitution of the political prisoner, which Francis V. carried away with him on leaving the country. The Assembly was afterwards prorogued. AUSTRIA. TRIESTE, At ourr 23. The Austrian frigate Novara entered the port of Ragusa yesterday, and the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, with the squadron, has also arrived there. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Jassy, in the Wanderer of Vienna, says :—" The Chamber of Deputies, sitting at Bu charest, has closed its session. At the opening parties wire much disided, but a spirit of union displayed itself by degrees, and in the last sitting but one twenty propositions were voted almost unanimously. Among others it was decided that a loan of eighty millions of piastres should be negotiated abroad, and that a discount and mortgage bank should be 'eta blisbed. The unlimited liberty of the press is not without influence on the administration, and has brought to light various abuses. The government has been rendered more attentive, and almost all the inquiries instituted have proved that the journals have been right in their remarks." MOROCCO. MARSEILLES, At:oust. 23. Letter received here to-day from Tangiers state that the Emperor of Morocco is seriously ill, and the English physician has been summoned in great hut*. Fears are entertained of disturbances taking place in case of his death. The Prince Regent of Prussia his left Berlin for Ostend. A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople of the 20th ainiOnanie that another attempt bat been made on the life of Prises Coils; but for %manly had w e d . Melons have this year been very abundant and of ■nod timelity. Is the seighbonrhood of the little tows of Camillus (Veracities) a. many as 5.500,000 hove been roll. Although the wholonle price of them is that neighbourhood was only about 2fr. 500. the dozes, some growers have mad. a pelt of 26,000 fr. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. from ors owx 0011111PONDIXT4 PARIS, TTEIDAY E,1131/NO. The Adria yesterday complained that the Pays had falsely accused it of advocating the Italian case in such a way as to set at naught the treaty of Villafranca. In justifying the course it has taken, the Patrie relied upon the Emperor's proclamation, which regretted that the stipulations of Villatrine* fell short of his programme ; it felt, therefore, that it wee serving the government• in making the most of every circumstance which might be an argu ment for improving the hasty draught of Villa franca by the definitive treaty to be made at Zurich. Moreover, it took upon itself to re peat what has been very often said already in many European organs, that although the Empe ror Napoleon had promised the Emperor of Austria to suffer the return of the dukes he at the same time protested against the use of force in their fa vour. The Pays makes no reply to this article, but the Pattie has been forced to publish a sort of reply to itself. Ina paragraph—which lam sue is a conintunigul, and which I interpret as, in all but the form, a warning—M. Delamarre, the proprietor of the journal, is made to repeat the cuckoo cry that the "government has repeatedly declared that it has no other organ than the Mosikur." The Patrie serves the government in its own way, but it is perfectly independent, expresses no opinions but its own, and is alone responsible for. them. The meaning of all this, and lam very sorry to say it, is that the Pays and not the Patrie is the semi-official organ of the government in regard to the Italian controversy. The Pays is the deter mined, and unfortunately the authorised enemy of Italian independence. It goes in for the restoration of the dukes and the subjugation of Romagna to the Pope, and will not hear of the Bing of Sardinia, however unanimous may be the wish of the people of Central Italy to range themselves under his banner. Although the real intentions of the French Emperor have long been veiled in impenetrable secrecy, there are, I deeply lament to say, symptoms that he and the Emperor of Austria are but too well agreed. Hosts of French police spies are now in Italy, drawing up reports which may be produced when time shall serve to prove that the elections of Tuscany, Mo- dena, Parma, and Romagna are only the work of a factious and turbulent minority. The right doc trine concerning universal suffrage is that it is sure to go wrong when left to itself ; a minority of " rhe toricians" and agitators will also coerce the " true people," by which is meant the ignorant masses; but, guarded by bayonet, and protected by the state of siege, the genuine voice of the people is always obtained. You will soon hear a cry raised by the official journals in Franco that all those demonstra tions of independence which the world admires in Italy are bat the howling* of "false liberalism," and that "Italy looks to France to deliver her from anarchy." The Bourse was better, although business wee very limited. The Rents rose 23c. both for cash and account, closing at 69fr. and 69fr. 10e.; Mobilier roes Hr. 2de. Railways improved about 2fr. 60c. The Presse says, in its weekly commercial review : Although commercial affairs have considerably Improved within the last mouth, they are still far from hiving reco vered their normal situation. The difficulties at Zurich in duce traders to Firms that system of °Atoms caution which they have never awed to follow since the United States crisis. There are no speculative purchases of raw materials. anufecturers buy isly whet they want for current con sumption. The eciesignence is that very few bills are die counted, so we may very plainly are by reference to the last Beak of France accounts. There is, how ever, • very mere ezpectation that a period of great activity will follow the definitive declaration of peace. One branch of commerce alone in Perin—the manufacture of imitation jewellery—has never erased to be actively employed even when others have been almost idle, and the ordere makers have on hand are still very con sidenible. The accouhrs from the manufactaring Waal in the provinces era 'edit:cowry. At Rouen, Malheur..3n, Roubaix, end Rbeirca, a rather lap amount of business has been dose, and the menofeeturers have orders on hand scfficient to keep them well employed. There is absolute!) , nothing doing in the Paris oorn market. The weedier °Nabisco to be favourable for the vintage, but proprietors demand exorbitant prices, and prefer keeping their winee In their cellar, to selling thnn at current rates. A good deal of heftiness has, however, been duns at Berry, at hat week's ptice• The Debats says: In the manufactaring districts there Is a notable to be remarked. Several new houses have been recently formed. This lea fact indicating a return of c.nedinoe. Three months since no one would have ventured to launch the ems/lest enterprise. This new feature is now especially roe usnent in serious manufactures of tissues. It must not, however, be loterred that the commercial reports for the week an brilliant. There is as yet Tench indecision, sad various lessons operate to chock the Improving tendency. The harvest and those country pursuits which follow it still keep sway a great many influential men from commercial centres. We have yet a month's holiday before ua. Let as wait patiently for September 23. M. VICTOR HUGO AND THE IMPERIAL AMNESTY. DECLARATION. Personae n'atteudra de moi qua j'accorde, en Oa qui me concern., an moment d'attention a la chose appelee at:inhale. DIM la situation ou est la France, protestation absolue, inflexible, tternelle, voili pour moi le devoir. Fiddle a l'engagement que j'ai pris vie a Tie de ma coescienoe, je partagerai jusqu'au bout I'ezil de la liberte. Quand la liberty rentrers, je rentrerai. VICTOR 1-It7co. Guernsey, flaateville House, 18 Acrat, 1839. (TRANSLATION.) No one will expect that, so far ea lam person ally concerned, I should give a moment's attention to the thing called an amnesty. While the state of France remains what it is, my duty will be to pro:est against it absolutely, inflex ibly, eternally. Faithful to the engagement I have made with my conscience, I shall share to the laid the exile of liberty. When liberty returns, I will return. VICTOR Hcoo. THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION. At Gotha, on the 17th, a meeting of patriots was held on the •' national question," and the following resolution was adopted : If Germany desires to exordia real power, ohs must have a astral government and a representation of the people. At the head of the central government Brunets can alone be placed, Moaner her interests are purely German, whilst thole of the members of the confederation who lit on the throne. of Atutria, Denmark, end Holland are chiefly out of Ger many. By the ertaWiehment of a central government end of a national repneentation, the bond which now rziete would be e .mpletad to Promote and Germany, and the Federal Act would not come to connect Auatre, Danmark, end Holland to Germany. . . . The oth . cial journals of the Southern German States begia to oppose the movement in the sense of federal reform with Prussia at the head of the Confederation. The New Gazette of Munich remarks : From the best Wormed Freeman journale, it appears that Prussia openly favours Ins agitation to promote the forma tion of a Promo-German &dotal elate, and tbsy speak of the projaat as a nations! interest ; but it re precisely before the netaceal sense of the German populations that it will fail. The Carlsruhe (jazette also attempts to prove that Prank Wows the movement. RUSBLk. A dsrpateb, dstsd St. Petersburg, August 14, says The !wade Hum has received a wanting for the pro voking tote in which it has of late discord several political questions. Special instruetbes also have been given to the censors as to the mode of ezarcieing their functions. Latterly the ornsorship has depended a het% on the per mud views of each censor, and, consequently, woe for from being uniform; it will now become much more so, and although the discretionary margin left to the journal, will be tolerably ample, they will, nevertheless, not be allowed Welty things which may create confusion or give offence to (cosign powers. The transformation of our dre-arms Is being actively car ried out; the manufactory of arms at St. Petersburg has been actively at work for this purpose. General Constanti noff, who is at the head of this manufaotory, WA received the grand cross of Stanialaus for hie services in this particular branch. Anukiee of August 12 enanle the peettfbition of exporting hones. A NISS NIGHTINGALE IN ITALY. The English lady alluded to as "Mrs. C." in some recent notiote of the campaign in Lombardy is the same per son who forms the subject of the following letter of gratitude addressed to her, and inserted In as Italian paper (Gesartra del Popoio), by an officer, is the name of himself sad his wounded felloweeoldiere. The lady, we should ob serve, Is Mrs. Crawley, widow of Mr. Ambrose Crawley, of the E.1.C.5., and niece of the present Sir Edward Keredyth, Bert. Mrs. Crawley happened by chance to be travelling within the vicinity of the [eighthl blood shed this going on, and with the spirit of Miss Nightingale she converted her journey of recreation into a course of devoted service to the sick and wounded. Her sid proved most effective after the terrible engagement of Sollerino. The Italian officer in his letter expresses himself them : "la the first moments after the glorious day of St. Martino en immense number of wounded, and amongst the,. eireeral °Moms, were taken to Desenrano, for the first relief; bat there were to hospitals prepared there, and there war a want of everything. 'f he state of things was greatly remedied by the exertions of the odlcisle of the piece, per Avvocato Manfredi and Signor Cerese, who did their utmost to procure lodging for the wounded, and ell that was of urgent necessity, and who themselves attended the wounded. Thor charitable work was ably seconded by many of the good and gentle ladies of the oonntry. " The woundd who were at DemarAno remember with gratitude those permits, but amongst theta they recollect with particular pleasure the sympathising and graceful countenance of a lady, who, though not bona in Italy, was truly Italian in her hea rt, for she took the most vivid interest in the victims of a aces so sacred, and which she had espoused with all her soul. " This lady was the Signora Crawley (Corinna), an Englishwoman. She was an assiduous visitor at the hos pital of Dessetrano, when she passed many hours of the day, sitting by the bed of each wounded, informing herself of thou wants, end providing for them, consoling all with efiee.tionate welds, so much the dearer as they Cahn from the heart. Accept, noble lady, the thanks of all the wounded, in the name of whom the undersigned expresses the sentiments of the elnorrest gratitude. (Signed) "Bum° YALU:MINI, "Caplan* del Besseglieri." ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Mr. F. C. Webb, C.E., who is well-known as having had considerable experience in the testing and exami nuke of telegraphic cables, and who has just returned from Valencia, to which place he wan recently deputed by the directors to proofed, for the purpose of alirding them the necessary Information ea to the present electrical and me chanics' state of the cable, reports :—" I am of opinion, that • serioue fault exists at about 263 statute miles from Valencia, mea•ured along the cable, and that the cable between that spot and this shore is comparatively perfect. No testa from here can now decide whether the cable Is mechanically severed, since all attempts to detect the reception of the moat intense curanta front the opposite shore have long Sinn proved fruitless. Stilt, from the various circurnatanoss attendant on the decline of the insulation, there Is every resins to believe that the continuity both of the cable and the conductor is perfect. Whether any other faults exist beyond the one sanded to it le impossible to ascertain by testa from Valeticis. The fact that the signals received at Valencia were always better then those received at Newfoundland proves un doubtedly that the worst insulation has always been sear Valencia, and therefore it *urns probable that if the fault which exists on this meat, and which very likely forms the principal cause of leakage, could be removed, the insulation would be so far improved as to render the cable again availa ble for signalling, provided the fault which is said by those who have tested from Newfoundland to exist in Trinity Bay warn also repaired.—l am, /to., "F. C. Wren. Valeacis, August 10." From a telegraphic message despatched from Cork, we learn that the Daily Notts of Monday was received is Cork at 7 o'clock a.m., yesterday (rurality), lodged of at 4 o'clock In the afterunon the usual hour of delivery. This rapid delivery was effeceel via Bristol, by the Sabrina, one of the swift packets of the Bristol General Steam Navigation Comprey,which made the pedwege from Bristol in 18{ hours, As the journey from London to Bristol is made by expresa train is lest than three hours, and by ordinary train in five hours, the eolith of 'island!' thud brought within twenty-four boors et the metropolis. AN EXCITING DUEL—A correspondent of the Xt., York Timor gine the following particulars of en affair of honour between the Hon. Sylvester Mowry, delegate from Arizona, and B. E. Crewe, editor of the drisonian. 1 The duel was fought near Tabu., in Arizona. The cor n sT.ondett may a —" They fought with Burnside rides, at forty paces. Three /hots were exchanged without effect. Upon the fourth round the cep on Mowry's riffs did not explode, while Cross's ball whistled harrelesely past Ms antagonist. Mowry held his rifle still levelled, as an in dication that he had not had his 'hot, and many, not underetandiog the code supposed that he designed trying It again. Several peeped their pistols, es if to shoot him down, and there ware Cain Ot Hold your fire!' ' Don't about, Mowry I' Crane stood perfectly calm, awaiting the malt. Mr. Mercer (Mowey'is second) advanced, when Mowry lowered his rifle and handed It to his second. They still claimed their shot se a right ender the code. Mr. Craps unheeitalingly expressed hie willingness to grant It, but his second demurred. After conterneg with several gentlemen familiar with the code, who agreed with Mr. Mowry that be was entitled to the shot, Captain Donald son (Onee's geoend) 'squirmed, end Mr. Cross handing him cis riffs, folded his arms, apparently unconcerned, and faced hie antagonist. At this stage of the pro ceeding., the spectators became terribly excited. Many, perhaps • majority, thought It unfair, and some spoke of panting a summery stop to the whole affair ; but, upon learning that these raiment suppeeed to be beat lie quieted with the duello bed declared him entitled to it, they reluctantly fell back. At the word, Me. Mowry fir e d is the air, and declared himself satis fi ed. Cross tied wood directly teeing box, not knowing that he could rely upon free generosity to decline firing upon an unarmed foe, fully repeating death, and yet not a serve trembled—not a sin gle evidence of fear was displayed. Tears sprung into his eye., and ell tncoi'y vanished before such an exhibition. Mr. /denier (Mowry's second) moored the field, and taking Crosa by the baud, Informed hilts that Mr. Mowry wee mantled. They elected forward to meet Mowry, who was advancing, anti atter shaking hands, they stood for some urinates to receive the congratulalons of their friends." SIN W. AILVETRONG AND THE TRAVELLER.— The annual wire in connexion with Sr W. G. Armstrong's work.. was held et Newcastle-upon , Tyne, on Monday night, Mr. Richard Lambert, in the chair. About 2,000 person. eat down to tee. Mr. Bdward Glynn, who was one of the *ethers, narrated the following I hod the honour al, •car. a fortnight ago to accompany your diminguished chief to the &Huth Dock.. We stared from Corliele In the monitor, and in the same carriage were a gentle men very well known iotheeeighboorbood of Cornet.. hi. wile, hie wifo's sitter, a ray plement old lady, Sir William Armstrong, std myself. Sir William, with that retiring modesty which is so cheracteristic a feature in his behaviour, took his pest silently in one corner, sod before we bed travelled very far, the *meet...non turned, as I dare say it does is nineteen railway carriages out of tw,nty, on the Armstrong run, and the stnticente in the other carper of the carriage related, with infinite sear, a tremendous shot which bad bon made, watch knocked off the head of a wore at 8 mil•. 7 furlongs. Sir William, who had been regarding the beauties of the landempe, turned mood end tweed to sob where was that; upon which the gentleman said that it W. , a veritable face which bad been rusorded in the journal., and be again repeet.d the story for Sir William Armstrong's information. The worthy knight replied with great owlets., • Well, the foot is quite true; there was a wild gates killed, bat the distance resent quite en groat, biting only ssetwhere ahont 600 yards ; but I can t ertity to the fact of tho death of the goats; the artilleryman received hie death with great de light, end roasted him afterwards,' During the remainder of one journey, whenemr a flock of plovers at a distance, or some similar OtieCt preeented it.elf, the ladies were °tying out there was an admirable shot for the At-moron; gum, When we grit t, Moth, I tenet own that I felt a malielons delight in lunette haunt nod informing this gentleman who the quiet individual was that he had oven in the owner of rue railway cordage; epos which, very much taken aback, he said t. me • Gted gr.ciout !—you don't say es Wee that Sir William Armstrong ? 1", , u might to have given ma a wink. (Great laughter.) Why, he eat in the termer of the carriage as though be knew nothing 'brut it; end I have no doubt that for many years to cot.* that gentleman will tell to his friends is Carlisle and the reighbourhood a very excellent story of the Armstrong TEE NIILITIA.—The Marquis of Wieeheeter, the lord lieutenant of the county, has Wined • notice intimating iltes the blempettlre Regiment of Mina latsatry is to be o.llail out ha Heinle" on Tuesday, the 20th of September. Toe men are t t muster a the Matti* Arinswy, Soughgate target, Wataboaer. ADJUDICATION OF THE LNDIAN LOAN. The latest period . allowed for sending in tenders to the India-office for the Indian Loan of 5,000,000/. in a 5 per cent. stock was noon yesterday. The mem bers of the Finance Committee of the Council of India—viz., Mears. Eliot Macnaghten, Charles Mills, and W. Arbuthnot, and Sir Proby Cantley— having previously had an interview with Sir Charles Wood, the Secretary of State for India, proceeded at ten minutes put twelve o'clock to open the tenders, first declaring, however, that the minimum or re served price was 97 per cent. Mr. E. Macnaghten presided, and there were present the heads of various departments in the India office, as well as the broker to the Council of India, Mr. Henry Scott, to whose practical sugges tions upon the present occasion much of the success of the loan is attributed. The total number of tenders sent in was about 800, for an aggregate of 7,550,0001., being half as much again as was wanted. 378 tenders, representing 4,485,3501., were at prices above 97, and were accepted. In respect of these, the subscribers will receive the entire sum which they have asked for. 191 other tenders, represent ing 1,339,4001., were at exactly 97. The two sums, 4,485,3501. and 1,339,4001., make a total of 5,824,7501., being 824,7501. in excels of the amount wanted. The 191 tenderer. at 97 will therefore re- ceive about 38 per cent. (not 18 per cent., as errone onsly rumoured in the Stock Exchange last evening) of the amount applied for; the exact proportion would be £l9l 8-10ths on every 500/. tendered for. All tenders below 97 are of course absolutely re jected. Below we give a complete list of the results of the accepted tenders, viz.: Per cent. At £97 0 3 „ 97 0 6 ~ 97 0 7 ~ 97 1 0 ~ 97 1 8 „ 97 2 0 ~ 97 2 6 „ 97 3 0 " 97 3 6 " 97 3 9 ~ 97 6 0 „ 97 6 6 " 97 7 6 „ 97 10 0 „ 97 10 2 ~ 97 10 6 „ 97 10 7 " 97 11 0 „ 97 11 3 „ 97 12 6 „ 97 15 0 „ 98 0 0 „ 98 1 0 „ 98 1 6 „ 93 6 0 „ 98 6 6 „ 98 10 0 „ 98 15 0 „ 100 0 0 It will be noticed that the amount between 971. Os. 3d. and 971. le. is 2,483,850/., or equal to nearly one-half of the total asked; whilst between 971. Os. 3d. and 971. fie., 3,849,9501. was taken ; and between 971. 04.3 d. and 971.10 e. a total of 4,188,3501. Apart from the fact, which is not susceptible of any ordinary explanation, that several persons bid 98h 98,t, and, in one instance, even 100, for a stock which was purchaseable yesterday morning in the Stock Ex change below 98, th# foregoing statement indicates that the public end the Council of India had arrived at pretty nearly the same conclusion as to what would be a reasonable price for the article offered. The opinion is retained in many quarters that, had the price bern publicly fixed by the Council of India in the first instance at, say, 98, the entire amount would have been absorbed in a couple of days- Not, however, to dwell further upon this point, or upon the wider question of the necessity of the sacriflos which the withholding of the imperial guarantee imposes upon the government of India, the result of the prevent negotiation is very favourably viewed. From the facility of transfer at the Bank of England, and other advantages, the new stack is likely to become a favourite investment' and the great majority of the subscribers have already the satisfaction of seeing their scrip at a fair premium in the market. The tint that the aggre gate of the applications was 50 per cent. in excels, of the sum asked, whilst on the occasion of the negotiation of the previous debenture loans a con siderable balance was left unplaced, says much for the superior popularity of the arrangements now adopted. Satisfaction was also expressed at the prompti tude with which the arrangements were carried out- Tenders were receivable at the India-office until twelve o'clock, and precisely at one the general re sult of the bidding was publicly announced in the Stock Exchange by Mr. B. Scott. At 10 o'clock lut night trains were still arriving from the Crystel Feline every Ave or tea minutes, freighted with hundreds of the Used excursionists, and sexes of 'axiom relations were stationed there, waiting the arrivel friends and children whom they bad lest in the crowd earlise in the day. The number of visitors to the Palace on the corn responding Foresters itis of last year was 47,700 odd ; bet on this measles it amounted to 62,343—the largest concourse of persons, we believe, that has ever been attracted there on any one day. One of the jury in the Smethurst cue writes:— " In order to remove any Impreseion that may exist in the minds of the public with respect t.f the art:owing op of the judge having a tendency to icfluenke the minds of the jury. I beg to Inform you that at the clam of the defence, end be fore the judge commenced his lamming up, eleven of the jury were convinced upon the evidetce adduced of the pri soner's guilt, and the remarks of the judge confirmed their opinions?' THE PAST LIFE OF The convict who et peewit lise in a position so perilous is the son of a small echnolmaster, and was burn tt. the neighbourhood of Coventry in the year 1804. Tbere 1,, however, no pretext for the Albritton that his tether was tutor to the Earl of Dysart, not does there appear to be any better foundation foe his assestien that he Is a regularly (-located medical man. According to hie own wooly, as detailed in a beard. iner-house where be lived, he married his present wife Don failings of gratitude fur her attention to him when ill during the period of hie career a. a inediosl strident ; but there is no proof that he originally wan more than a chemist, or poo -1 seem a higher protessionil degree than that of tee Apothe caries' Company and a Geruma degree. He nuktabtedly,, however, carried on method praetkv. et S otAwel:. Cam berwell, and various places adjoining London. But it was at Haulegate where he practised limpet and wee beet known; he carried en bosh:lima them for erverul yr ve, and It 4 hat fair to add that, except being coneddered some what closefisted and fond of money, be bore a tolerably respectable character. After residing there fur alma time be left for Germany, with the double view of placing binmelf under the celebrated bydropethi-t, Priestnitz, for the purpose of obteining relief from a lemeneis with 'which he was afflicted, and of acquiring a sufficient knowledge of the system to matte him to practice it. On Me return to Rentegate he not only opened a cold-water care establiebtnent, but yulthshed a both noon the subject. The latter is entitled " droperberia." The honk is rather mem mettle as a oenpiluion, sad ti is somewhat crunchable that worn &Meat in Germany hie 1 victim was at his request taken care of by a gentleman bets., whom he was c rtntually brought at Hichmeid on a claarga of tourkr. But at RICO.. gale he never got Into what is term. d fashionable practice," ant be consequently removed to the eetahlidenient of Moor Part, In Sutrvy. After keeping this for several 'cars be eventually a 4d it to advantage, red led a comparatively pct. Tate life until arrested on the charge foe vigil Ls has re. Gently been ecindetuned. DONATIIIWOK FAZE.—This nuisance wee sop posed to be abolished some three or four yeses ago, bet certek parties have dieovraed a "flaw" in the agreement, and so the fele is continued. No horses or other csttle are legally *old there ea formerly: but the tents, and shows, and drinking, and disalpetion, are still annually lo he teen on the Lk pen. Oa Monday evening no tuner than 10.100 Fir ma ware present participating in the doings of the fah.