The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

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Evans, NW Boss Lind et Wm Whiner ; H. Kaoarlby ; Mr. C. woodman; Afar K. Bendara—AmE JACK. MINOO, rill LONDON STREET BOY. VON WATIDI AT LONDON DZIDGZ. Tim DAY —Unrning, 6h. Om Aglimkoom. 4OL tOs. To-llossow—Xorning. eh. Gam Aftenows. 7b. 190. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. To make war with rigour and success, and to make peace with generosity and sincerity—is not this the mark of a great Power t Austria has not, we believe, abandoned the rights or titles of a great Power, so far as an ancient and proud dynasty, and the maintenance by military force of a rale over various and disunited races, and unbending pride and unsurpassed diplomatic skill, and fortunate marriages, and the supersti tious reverence of statesmen, can make a Power great. Yet there is none of the old-established Powers in Europe thathas madewar with more con stant ill-success, or peace in a meaner spirit than Austria. All the world sees and says that it must be for the evident interest of Austria, having rid I herself of the distressing burden of Venetia, to be come thoroughly reconciled with Italy, and to leave in that blood-stained soil not a seed of the old enmities and grievances of long servitude and oppression to germinate and fructify into future wars. Italians have often remarked that there is nothing to prevent the Austrian' and themselves from being fast friends and close allies, when once the cities and the fields of the Peninsula are free from the stranger. That the well-understood material and moral interests of the two countries should cement this friendly intimacy and mutual good will is beyond all doubt. Why, then, at tho close of a war which liberates the Peninsula from the Austrians, should a lasting peace between the combatants seem almost as remote as before, and the present paci fication look like a hollow truce? Within the last few days we have heard from those who are friends of Italy, and certainly not enemies of Austria, that the relations between the two Governments are becoming since the armistice more frank and cordial every day, and that at the Court of Vienna there is a manifest disposition to deal handsomely with the Italian Government and nation, to acknowledge their existence, titular and corporate, to meet them at least half way on the frontier question, and to make reasonable con cessions in a generous and even friendly spirit. We heartily trust these welcome rumours may be confirmed when the negotiations for the final treaty of peace begin. That it would be to the permanent interest and advantage of Austria to atandon once for aB that policy of infatuation to which she owes a suc cession of disasters—loss of territory and prestige, a bankrapt treasury, and arrested progress—no dispassionate observer of events can doubt. BuL it is difficult to believe in these sudden conversions. Those military and ecclesiastical traditions of the Austrian Court, over which a flood of destructive and irreparable change has swept, survive dis comfiture and defeat, and are still to be found in the ante-chambers of the Palace, if not in the councils of the Crown. Better instincts and impulses may occasionally prevail ; visions of an empire recon structed by freedom and sustained by loyal and devoted populations may visit the dreams of a Sovereign whose earlier education, divided between the sacristy and the corps de garde, with courtiers, aides-de-camp, and priests for tutors, has been finished in the school of adversity. FRANCIS JOSEPH has undoubtedly surrounded himself since 1859 with statesmen of a new era,who have honestly striven to emancipate him and his dominions from the fatalities of long misrule. He has made advances to free trade and to liberal institutions, and has given up the theory of restraining the dis content of rival nationalities by dividing them one against the other. Yet, at the very moment when he hid most need of the confidence of his subjects, he suppressed the constitution; on the eve of a war for which he had afforded some sort of colourable pretext when he summoned the German sovereigns to meet under his patronage in the Imperial city of Frankfort, and at a later date, by consenting with Prussia to supersede the action of the Federal Diet and to attack Denmark, whether as an accomplice or as a dupe, mat tered little to the stronger and clearer purpose ' of Count BISMARCK. If the recent campaign in Germany has not been lost to Austria, like the Italian campaign of 1859, if Sardinia has taught a lesson which Solferino could not teach, it may be hoped that the Court and Cabinet of Vienna are beginning to regret that they did not accept from Prussia the price of half the provinces of the Elbe, and from Italy a far more honourable compensation for a spontaneous amnion of Venetia. Blinded by pride and obstinacy, the Austrian Government persisted in detaining its share of the ill-gotten spoils of Denmark until it could no longer give them up with honour ; and it would not so much as listen calmly to pro posals for a peaceful and honourable. cession of Venetia to Italy until, in a tit of amazement and 66. THE EXPET # S44ATURDAY, EVENIM, * SEPTEMB 1 : ; , 1866. dismay at the crushing defeats in* the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH, to wn tVpotpry of Custom-a had given a golden opportunity of a chivalrous renunciation, ceded Venice (by tele graph) to the Emperor of the Fassen, in the hope, as * seem, of destroying at one blow the two great alliances of Italy. Thanks to the discretion of the Emperor of the FRENCH and the goodwill of Prussia, the base design was not destined to succeed ; but that obscure transaction is net yet cleared up. Is Venetia at this moment Austrian, or French, or Italian property t It was ceded to the French EMPEROR, it is occupied by Italian troops ; it is ceded, at the demand of Prussia, to Italy uncondi tionally by the Treaty of Prague. And all the while we hear of Austrian Commissioners at Venice busily engaged in packing up and sending away to Vienna treasures of art from the churches and the galleries, muniments and archives from the libraries, historic relics and arms from the arsenal of the Republic of St. Mark. We trust the new generosity of Austria is not represented by this petty spoliation, which at such a moment has a most disagreeable air of private robbery. On the other hand, it is but fair to mention, provisionally at least, to the credit of Austria, the reports which reach us from Vienna and from Florence that the Cabinet of Vienna is giving signs of a kindlier spirit towards Italy, and even of a desire to make the formal instrument of pacification a true bond of friendship and alliance. Nothing ought to be more probable than such a story if we could suppose the very nature of the Austrian Government to be changed, and that, instead of pride and infatuation, prudence and justice were to be its future characteristics, and its principal ambition to obtain the confidence of the money markets, to give securities to the peace of Europe, to contribute a great example of self denial to the cause of civilization. At all events, we shall not have long to wait to know the truth of this conversion. If Austria gives up Venice to Italy undespoiled, if in the negotiations as to frontiers she of her own free grace and unso licited hands over to Italy the " keys of her ' " house :" that is, so much of the mountain frontier as commands the passes into Italy, and is peopled by Italians in language and in heart ; then, in deed, the world will cheerfully and gratefully own that Austria has well deserved to enter upon a new and brighter era of prosperity, and happiness, and power than the aggres sive policy of a Mirrrsasica or a Somalia:ix- ZERO could ever dream of. As towards Italy the military pride of the Court of Vienna happily is not inflamed by any loea of prestige ; while Italy, though betrayed by fortune, has, by the testimony of the victorious Austrian army and navy, so well deserved success that we need no more fear that the honourable defeats of Cmstozsa and Lissa will interpose an obstacle to a lasting peace between the reconciled foes than that the memory of WELLiscrore's and Nsiacces victories must some day or other call for vengeance, and once more plunge the civilised world into a chaos of blood and fire. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) >1 4 . . kica.tigation th - aaliay that calf* retie; =au 4 dealt Vat MOM= by • • ' • the cireunsManoes of tie Ire i th election to show that, after all, Manchester and • m have something to do with the frightful example which Mr. Bright quoted at Birmingham. If " landlords" em ploy foul means in counties, manufacturers are not fax behind them in towns. The corrective which Mr. Bright would have us apply, theta adding so many voters taken exclusively from the poorer clues, has, in the cue of Yarmouth, been tried already, and the condition of the borough is not the bettor for it but the won.. After all these disclosures, admissions, end ooefeuione, the Tines asks if any person will tell the world plainly what is to be done with Yarmouth and such other boroughs in order to accomplish a fair and genuine improvement in the repre ss:teflon of the people. LATASt - pIitELLIGENCE. 4.! UNITED STATES. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE PRESI DENT AND THE CONGRESS. ' • IMPORTANT SPEECH OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. The following is a report of the speech deli vered by President Johnson Co the committee of the Philadelphia Convention : _ . Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee, — language is inadequate to express the emotions and feel ings produced by this occasion. Perhaps I could express more by permitting silence to speak and you to infer what I ought to say. I confess that, notwithstanding the expe rience I have had in public life and the audiences I have addressed, this occasion and this assemblage are well cal culated to awe and to overwhelm me. As I have said, I have not language to convey adequately my present feel ings and emotions. In listening to the address which your eloquent and distinguished chairman has just delivered the proa►linga of the convention as they transpired recurred to my mind. Seemingly I partook of the inspiration that prevailed in the convention when I received • de. sp•tch sent by two of its distinguished members convey ing in terms the scene which has just been described of South Carolina and Massachusetts, arm and arm marching into that vast assemblage, and thus giving evidence that the two extremes had come together, and that for the future they were united as they had been In the past for the preservation of the Union. When the despatch in formed me that in that vast body of men, distinguished for intellect and wisdom, every eye was suffused with tears on beholding the scene, I could not finish reading the despatch to one associated with me in the office, for my own heeling. overcame me. (Cheers.) I think we may justly conclude we are moving under • proper inspiration, and that we need not be mistaken that the finger of an overruling and unerring Providence is in this matter. f Loud cheers.) The nation is in peril. We have just period through a mighty, a bloody, a momentous ordeal, yet do not find ourselves free from the difficulties and dangers that at first surrounded us. While our brave men have performed their duties, both aims •ud men (turning to General Grant, who stood at hie right)—while they have won laurels imperishable, there are still greater and more important duties to perform ; and while we have had their co-operation in the field, we now need their sup• port in our efforts to perpetuate peace. (Loud cheers.) So far as the Executive Department of the government is concerned the effort has been made to restore the Union, to heal the breach, to pour oil into the wounds which were consequent upon the struggle, and, to speak in common phrase, to prepare, as the learned and wise physician would, • plaster healing in character and co-extensive with the wound. (Loud cheers.) We thought, and yet think, that we had partially succeeded ; but as the work regressed, as reconciliation seemed to be taking place and the country becoming united, we found a disturbing and marring ele ment opposing us. In alluding to that element I shall go no further than did your convention and the distinguished gentleman who has delivered to me the report of its proceedings. I shall make no reference to it that I do not believe the time and the occa sion justify. *e have witnessed in one department of the government every effort, as it were, to prevent the restoration of peace and harmony in the Union. We have seen hanging upon the verge of the government, se it were, a body called, or which summed to be, the Congress of the United States, but in fact • Congress of only part of the States. We have seen this Congress as sume and pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tend to perpetuate disunion and make • disruption of the States inevitable. Instead of promoting reconciliation and harmony its legislation has partaken of the character of penalties, retaliation, and revenge. This has been the course and the policy of one de partment of your government. The humble individual who is now addressing you stands the representative of another department of the government. The manner in which he was called upon to occupy that position I shall not allude to on this occasion ; suffice it to say that he is here under the constitution of the country, and being here by virtue of it. provisions he takes his stand upon the charter of our liberties as the great rampart of civil and religious liberty. (Prolonged cheering.) Having been taught in my early life to hold it sacred, and having prac tised upon it during my whole public career, I shall ever continue to reverence that ormititation—the constitution of the fathers of our country—and to make it my guide. (Enthusiastic cheers.) I know it has been said, and I must be permitted to indulge in the remark, that the Executive Department of the government has been tyrannical. Let me ask this audience of distinguished gentlemen around me here to-day to point to a vote I ever gave, to a speech I ever made, to a single set of my whole public life, that has not been against tyranny and despotism. What position have I ever occupied, what ground have I ever assumed, where it can be truthfully charged that I failed to advocate the amelioration and elevation of the great masses of my country men ? (Cries of " Never," and great applause.) So far as charges of that kind are ooneerned, I will say that they are simply intended to de- oeive and delude the public mind into the belief that there is some one in power who is usurping and trampling upon the rights and perverting the principles of the constitu tion. It is done by those who make such charges for the purpose of covering their own acts. (Cries of " That's so," and cheers.) I have felt it my duty, in vindication of principle and the constitution of my country, to call at tention to these prooeedings. When we come to examine who has been playing the tyrant, by whom do we find that despotism has been exercised? A. to myself, the elements of my nature, the pursuits of my life, have not made me either in my feelings or in my practice aggres sive. My nature, on the contrary, is rather defensive in its character ; but I will say that having taken my stand upon the bread principles of liberty and the constitution, time is not power enough on earth to drive me from it. (Prolonged cheering.) Having plaosd myself upon that broad platform, I have not been awed, dismayed, or intinti dated by either threats or encroachments, but have stood there in conjunction with patriotic spirits, sounding the tocsin of alarm whenever I deemed the citadel of liberty in danger. (Great applause.) I said on a previous occasion, and repeat now, that all that was necessary in the real struggle against tyranny and despotism was that the struggle should be sufficiently audible for the American people to hear and properly understand. They did hear, and looking on and seeing who the contestants were and what that struggle was about, they determined that they would settle this question on the side of the constitution and of principle. (Cries of " That's 6o " and applause.) I proclaim here to-day, as I have on other occaaiona, that my faith is abiding in the great masa of the people. In the darkes. moment of the straggle, when the clouds seemed to be most lowering, my faith instead of giving way loomed up through the dark cloud far beyond. I SSW that all would be safe in the end. (Cheers.) My countrymen, we all know that, in the language of Thomas Jefferson, "tyranny and despotism even can be exercised and exerted more effec tually by the many than the one." Wei have seen • congress gradually encroach step by step upon con stitutional rights, and violate day after day and month after month, the fundamental principles of the govern ment. (Cries of " That's so.") We have seen a congress that seemed to forget that these was • con stitution of the United States, and that there was a limit to the sphere and scope of legislation. (Renewed cries of " That's so.") We have seen • congress in a mino rity assume to exercise powers which, if allowed to be carried out, would result in despotism or monarchy itself. (Cries of " That's so," and enthusiastic chasm given for the President.) This is the truth. And because others as well as myself have seen proper to appeal to the patriotism and republican feeling of the country, we have been denounoed in the most severe terms. Slander upon slander, vituperation upon vituperation of the most villain ow character, has made its way through the public press. What, gentlemen, has been your and my sin ? What has been the cause of our offending ? I will tell you. Daring to stand by the constitution of our fathers. (Loud cheers.) (The President here approached the spot where Senator Joluteon was standing, and said) :—I consider the proceedings of this convention, sir, as more important that those of any con vention that ever assembled in the United States. (Great applause.) When I look with my mind's aye upon that sollection of citizens, coming to gether voluntarily, and sitting in council with ideas with principles, and views commensurate with all the States and co-extensive with the whole people, and own ' trast it with the collection of gentlemen who are trying to ' destroy the country, I regard it as more important than aniionvinttion that has sat at least since 1787. (Loud cheers.) I think I may shoe my that the declarations that wenthere made are equal with the Declaration of Indepen dents itself, and here to-day I pronounce it a mooed Declare' Lion of Independence. (Criss of "Motions I " sad most en thusiastic and prolonged applause.) Your address and de clarations are nothing more nor lees than a reaffirmation at the constitution of the United States. (Cries of "Good' , and cheers.) Yee, I will go further, and say that the declarations you have made, that the principle s you have enunciated in your adagios, are • se cond proclamation of emancipation to the people of the United States—(renewed applause)—for in proclaiming and reproclaiming these great troths you have laid down a constitutional platform upon which all can make common cause, and stand together for the restoration of the States and the preservation of the government, without reference to party. (Cheers.) The question only is the salvation of the country, for our country rises above all party considerations or influences. (Cries of " Good," and cheats.) How many are in the United States that now require to be free—that have the shackles upon their limbs, and are bound as rigidly es though they were, in fact, in slavery ? I repast, thee, that your declaration is the second proclamation el IMAM cipation to the people of the United States, and stars a common ground upon which all patriots ma stead. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. Ist MI in this connection ask you what have I to gain more than the advancement of the pablic welfare ? I am as mash opposed to the indulgence of egotism as any one ; but here, in a conversational manner, while formally receiv ing the proceedings of this convention, I may be permitted again to ask " Whet have I to gain, consulting hams• ambition, more than I have gained, except in one thing ?" My race is nearly ran. I have been placed in the high office which I occupy ander the constitution of the country, and I may say that I have held, from lowest to highest, almost every position to which a man may attain in our government. I hare passed through every position —from an alderman of a village to the presidency of the United States—and surely, gentlemen, this should be enough to gratify • reasonable ambition. If I wanted authority or if I wished to perpetuate my own power, how easy it would have been to hold and wield that which was placed in my hands by the measures called the " Freedmen's Bureau BilL" (Laughter and applause.) With an army which it placed at my discretion I could have remained at the capital of the nation, and with its fifty or sixty millions of appropriations at my disposal, with the machinery to be worked by my own hands, with my satraps and dependents in every town and village, and then with the Civil Bights Bill following as an auxiliary—(laughter)—in connictioa with all the other appliances of the government, I could have proclaimed myself Dictator ! (Cries of " That's true" and "Three cheers for the President.") Bat, gentlemen, my pride and my ambition have been to occupy that position which retains all power in the hands of the people. (Great cheering.) It is upon that I have always relied—it is upon that I rely now. (A voice— " And the people will not disappoint you.") And I re- peat that neither the taunts nor jeers of Congress, nor of a subsidised calumniating press, can drive me from my purpose. (Great applause.) I acknowledge no superior except my God, the author of my existence, and the people of the United States. (Prolonged and enthusiastic cheering.) For the one, I try to obey all His commands as best I can compatible with my poor humanity ; for the other, in • political and represen tative sense, the high behests of the people have always been respected and obeyed by me. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Ch ,irman, I have said more than I intended to say. For the kind allusions to myself contained in your address and in the resolutions adopted by the Con vention, let me remark that in this crisis and at the period of my public life, I hold above all price and shall ever recur with feelings of profound gratification to the last resolution containing the endorsement of a Convention emanating spontaneously from the groat mass of the people. (Loud cheers.) I trust and hope that my future action may be such that you and the Convention may not regret the assurance of confidence you have expressed in me. (Cries of "We are sure of it.") Before separating, my friends, one and all, committee and strangers, please accept my sincere thanks for the kind manifestation of regard and respect you have exhibited on this occasion. I repeat I shall always continue to be guided by a firm and conscientious conviction of duty—and that always gives one courage—under the constitution which I make my guide. On the conclusion of his speech three cheers were given for the President and three more equally earnest for General Grant. The President and his suite then withdrew to the door leading into the main hall of the mansion, where he stopped, General Grant standing on his left, and the membero of the cabinet extending the line to the left of General Grant. The members of the committee then passed in front of the distinguished party and were presented in turn to both the President and General Grant. Following the committee the delegates who were present were introduced and the swarm of citivens. A vigorous hand-shaking for upwards of an hour ensued— many who had not been able to get into the east room during the speech-making finding their way in at the front door as the crowd filed out through the main hall, and thus improving the occasion to pay their respects to their President. TER LONDON • CHATHAM, AND DOVER NATLWAY. Tho announcement that the directors have just discovered that there has been an over tone of debentures to the amount of 128,000/. must, observes the Times, dc• spite the hopeful estimate of the report, increase the anxiety with which the result of the inquiry of the com mittee of investigation will be expected. Seeing the rapid increase of income the anticipations of the directors in the past do not appear exoesaive, bet while they present us with an estimate of the receipts they fail, singularly enough, to give us a similar estimate of the liabilities, although they need not to be reminded that the prosperity of a company does not depend upon the actual amount of its income, but upon the proportion which this bears to the charges upon it. The directors display insensibility to any other oonaideration but that of simply increasing the traffic and the receipt.. Their plea substantially is that the whole financial management of the line is beyond their control. There is some reason to fear that such a statement is more than half true, and that the contractors have long had the real direction of the company ; but the directors are none the less responsi ble for the duties of their office. In truth a bankrupt railway company is self-convicted. Directors are no more justified than other traders In borrowing money at ruinous rates of interest, and indulging in extravagant schemes when they have not money to meet their ordinary obliga tions. The beard have, no doubt, had the beet intentions, and they offer their co-operation in the present crisis with commendable frankness, but they have shown themselves incapable of observing the essential prin ciples of commercial success. ThE YLN7INA AOAIN. In presence of the renewed threats against Canada by the Fenians, the Times observes with satisfaction that the colonial government has now undertaken an obligation which should have been discharged by the late Admiralty, and has placed gunboats anon the lakes and rivers. A good flotilla of these vessels would furnish the colony with the best possible defence on the American frontier. Nobody supposes that the Fenian' are going to conquer Canada, but the " senseless movement," as the address of the Canadian parliament termed it, is throwing heavy expenses on the colony, and making some demands upon the government at home. The Telegraph attributes the new activity of the Finites to the apparent leniency of the American authorities, which has had the unfortunate effect of encouraging the beads of the faction in a belief in the secret complicity of influential personages in the rnited States. Meanwhile the government at home is taking the necessary steps to grapple with the danger effectually. Two infantry regiments, the 63rd and 61st, are under orders, and will start at once ; a cavalry force, consisting of the 13th Hussars, and probably another light regiment, will immediately follow ; while three additional batteries of artillery were despatched some days ago in prudent an. deipation of the emergency which has now arisen. Mere prudential motives, the Telegraph thinks, would prevent any American statesman at the present moment in his country's politics from conniving at any enterprises hostile to England. Ma ILECTION COI Lancaster seems quite worthy, the Daily News remarks, to take its place by the side of Totnes or Great Yarmouth. It does not come up, indeed, to the former borough in the magnitude of single bribes, but in the general diffusion of corruption it can hardly be surpassed. In regard to the pries of single votes, Totnes may bear itself more proudly than all the rest. A ducal borough should do things handsomely, and the Duke of Somerset must be exacting indeed if he wants Totnes to be more eminent than it has become during the last two or three days. In this small but aristocratic town 1001. scarcely goes so far as 101. in any other place. The Daily News confesses I. looking forward with curiosity to the views of the last elections for Totnes and Lancaster respectively that will be put forward by Mr. Pencier and Mr. Schneider when they come to give their evidence. Did they pay their election bills without looking at them, after the manner of Sir E. Loon, or make up their minds to the worst in the fashion of Mr. Brogden I It is some mail consolation, in the midst of the disgraceful impunity which bribery generally enjoys, to reflect on the extreme diecoroposere with which these gentlemen are probably looking forward to the agreeable ordeal that awaits them. Meanwhile it is easy to diafranchise Totnes, or Lancaster, or Yarmouth, and we shall rejoin to see that small wrap of justice meted out ; but it is the gentlemen—so called— the members of the Reform or the Carlton—who are re sposndbie for the causes which necessitate diefranchise. meat, whom we wish to see visited with some more effec- THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review s unable to see in the peat meetings at Birmingham any fresh reason in favour of the expediency of abolishing the British constitution by the preetioal et the edtteated and middle elaniies. Mr. Bright cannot possibly believe what he says, and there is something contemptible as well as hateful in his malignant epigrams. It is scarcely worth while indeed to examine his arguments, as outside the House of Com mons he invariably appeals by implication to physical fere. ; bet however alarming the enema of agitators in promothir discontent, Bagliah freedom secured by parliamentary government is still worth a struggle. i The House of Commons, which Mr. Beale. im pudently calls an unconstitutional parliament, is not yet fallen so low as to !accept the dictation of a Hyde-park mob. In spite of all difficulties, • well-con sidered Reform Bill may be passed in the next session either by the present government, or more probably by the liberal party. The errors of the past ought to serve as warnings for the future, so that no excuse may be fur nished to demagogues for representing parliament as hos tile to the people. Mr. Bright has thrown his politic fortunes on the cast which will decide whether all elec toral power is to be transferred from the present consti tuencies to the multitude. His speech at Birmingham will have separated him from the liberal party, and per hap. it may even have startled Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone. Under the heading of " Butter" the Saturday Resins treats of two or three remarkable after dinner puffs which have been witnessed during the last couple of months ; the most splendid instance being that of Professor Kingsley, on ex-Governor Byre. On that occasion the Professor buttered his country and his anthems, and right gloriously did he butter the Rouse of Peers. If he had been chaplain to a duke—which, indeed, for anything we know, the famous professor may be—he could not have spoken more nobly or more feelingly of that great body, and of what we owe to them, and of how greatly it is to be wished that Mr. Eyre could only be turned into one of the order. A common-sense and unromantic butter manu facturer would have bees alarmed at the idea of depicting the aristocracy at one and the same time as sticking (what ever they may mean) to its ancient blood, and yet taking cheerily and heartily to new blood as well. Stick. lag to old blood might seem to vulgar minds Inconsistent with the notion of the adoption of new. Mr. Kingsley, however, thinks that even such a feat as this can be per ' formed by the nobility of Great Britain, of which he saw bright representatives around him in the persons of Lord Cardigan, Lord Hardwick., and the Earl of Shrewsbury. The Rouse of Peers, according to Mr. Kingsley, has got "all" the genius, talent, and virtue of the country, and "nearly air the beauty ; and any one who has the pluck to utter this remarkable sentiment in a mixed audience, with an air of moral exaltation, is the way man to be made purveyor of butter to the royal family and to the nobi lity and gentry of the greatest nation on the globe. After all there is a professorial savour about butter of this description. Mr. Kingsley's panegyric of Mr. Eyre really strikes one as valueless for all critical purposes. so far as the conduct of Mr. Eyre is concerned, and as chiefly useful to impress on the British public the gallantry and chivalry of Professor Kingsley. All this we are trained by Mr. Kingsley's books to be willing, for the sake of argument, to admit already ; and to have it all over again in the shape of exaggerative laudations of a gentleman whose faults have been both patent and pernicious, and in Pin daric odes about the British aristocracy, seems a waste of time. The Examiner has seldom read an unwiser or unworthier document than the report of the select committee ap pointed to inquire into the working of the Master and Servant Ast. While admitting that " the law as it now I exists is objectionable," the only modifications it recom mends are the concurrence of two unpaid magistrates as necessary toe conviction, or the adjudication of a atipen. diary magistrate ; th►t an alternative of fine or distress should be given before imprisonment, unless their worships shall otherwise determine ; that the court may compel the delinquent to find security for • resumption and fulfilment of the uncompleted contract ; and that in Scotland arrest of wages in liquidation of fine should be discontinued. But the committee dis tinctly refuse to allow that the amused workman should in any case be admitted as a witness in his own case, and recommend that he should still be liable to be indicted and punished es a criminal upon the unrebutted oath of his employer. The pretence set up in the report for this in. suiting and iniquitous recommendation is that in ordinary cases of summary jurisdiction the criminal law does not permit the culprit to be sworn in his defence. The plain English of this dictum of Lord Elcho and his colleagues in the select committee is that because there is a legal prejudice against tempting pickpockets, dogstealers, drunkard., and other ragamuffins to commit perjury, the artisans of England are to be classed with and treated like them. " Violent, venal, and vile" was Mr. Lowe's excuse for refusing them political rights ; " Un safe to be believed on their oaths when in conflict with rich men" is Lord Elcho's reason for refusing them the preliminaries of common justice in a matter of civil con tract. Here is one of a thousand reasons why the men are in the right who thronged at Birmingham on Monday to that great peaceful assemblage, which, by its very numbers, order, and earnestness, showed of itself not only that our working-classes really want more representation in the legislature, but that they deserve it. The Spectator assumes that the Prussian liberals have earned much of the splendid fruits of the present crisis. The German parliament will contain • body of men who have waged • long war, and on the whole won it, against the royal prerogative, and who are yet satisfied to limit and check rather than abolish that prerogative, and to use it as the centre of unity and kernel of administrative strength for Germany. Them men, we may be sure, will command immense weight. The parliament which is to meet will be no mere debating club of wild oratory, such as sat at Frankfort seventeen years ago. Saxony is already fretting at the arbitrary decree which separates her fate from that of the rest of Germany. Even in Baden and Wurtemburg there are popular meetings to demand unity with Prussia. On materials such as these the German par liament, ably led by Prussians who have the fullest con. fidence of the people, will work with no insignificant result, we may be sure. And thus not only for what has been already achieved, but for the extension of those achieve ments in the future, Germany is beholden certainly not less to the noble party of Prussian liberals, who through ill report and good report stuck to their principles in the faced' all Count Bismarck's threats and temptations, I than to the genius of the minister who has found the physical means for breaking down the rotten party wills between state and state of the great German nation. Treating of the Holborn evictions, the Spectator says that the poor outcasts cannot but contrast their own summary removal out of the way whenever they seem to delay for a moment the march of improvement, with the tender consideration for the rights of property which parliament shows when one duke complains that the con struction of the Thames Embankment will disturb hie rest and shut out the prospect from his windows, or when another duke persist, in keeping his town house where it ought not to be, not because he wants it, but apparently for no other possible reason than that it is a pleasure to him to display his power by spoiling the approackee to the greatest public work that has been attempted in London for eentur ies. As far as the Economist can draw a positive conclusion from so difficult and embarrassed a matter, it expects a low rate of interest for a time, but with our foreign and especially with our Americus trade in so active sad ex pansive a condition, we cannot long have very cheap Emmy. CIMITAL PALACZ. - ONE SHUSIXO FRIDAY, AUGUST 31.—kb-ids/ions on payment, 3,832 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,715. Total via tors, 5,547. COUNT BISMARCK'S POLICY. The Moscow Gazette says that Count Bismarck has conceived the plan of once more establishing the alliance of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, in order to be able to ward off the storm which may break forth on the side of France. In furtherance of this policy Count Bismarck would influence the Prince of Hohenzollern to give up to Russia the southern portion of Bessarabia, of which she was deprived by the treaty of Paris, but the Moscow Gazette observes that the cession of a piece of territory which has no political or stragetical importance, would be a poorcompensation for the blow struck at Russia in the Baltic Sea by the events 1854-60. The alliance of Prussia in conjunction with Austria. Never ! That has passed passed away never to return. The Golos of St. Petersburg expresses its appre hension that the war, which is scarcely over in the centre of Europe, will break out with fury in the south-east, to the great disappointment of those who believe in the durability of peace amongst civilised nations. BAVARIA. Herr von der Pfordten, the Bavarian minister, recently delivered an address to the Bavarian Chamber. After referring to the peace with Prussia, he concluded thus: The movement which since 1848 was tending to the dis solution of the Confederation under its previous form, and to the reorganisation of Germany has obtained a violent solution in a negative sense ; the Confederation no longer exists, but its reorganisation *till undecided and obscure. May the good genius of our nation watch over Germany. The government and people of Bavaria have confidence in the future ; they engaged in the straggle in obedience to the commands of honour and legality, and principally to the bravery of the army is due the entrance of Bavaria intact in the new era which is opening, and her ability to cooperate in its development. Fully independent abroad, and free and powerful at home by her ►ttachment to the Xing and country and the benefits of a respected constitn tion, Bavaria will suffice for her own development ; but she will never forget that she is and desires to remain a German country and people, and that her atrength belongs not only to herself but to all the Germanic community. EVACUATION OF ROME. The Silts& of to-day contains the following : Two battalions of the Corps of Occupation is Rome are about to return to Frew.. They will be replaced by the Roman Legion under the command of Colonel d'Argy who are to leave Antibes immediately for Civita Vecchia. The Convention of Sept. Li. is therefore, oa the point of being carried eat. A body of troops in the pay et the Pentilisal govern ment will henceforth have to defend it, and France will be freed from her responsibility—a malt which we look forward to with impatience and which fro shall sin. creel,' rejoice at. The French government has already done _,... too much to sustain that temporal power of which ___„,,,*, people ere weary, and the decrepitude and inanity of eiha are made more and more apparent by the reconstraete ek i f Italy. (mum Traumata.) THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.' • VIENNA, The Pease of to-day says :—We learn that 11*,. peace negotiations between Austria and Italy es s I rapidly and satisfactorily progressing. Th e 02 . 6• elusion of peace may be an asoompli s h o d fees within 10 or 12 days, since it has b oa agreed to transfer to special oommissions,whi e h me to be assembled after the conclusion of peace, t h e discussion of all the negotiations requiring a he m time for consideration , and only to es t a bli sh k e the present the e principleson these g of ara e z ons treaty. The discussions be rw served to the Commission by an article in th e treaty of peace. THE CESSION OF VENETIA. PARIS. Barr L By virtue of a treaty signed on the 34th August last, between Frame and Austria, for raga. biting the cession of Venetia, the transfer of U. fortresses and territory belonging to the kingdera of Lombardo-Venetia will be effected by as Austrian commissioner, who will hand then ewe to a French eonunissiener, and the latter will arrange with the Venetian authorities for givi ag up to them their right of possession. The pow lotion will be called upon to choose themselves thsir future destiny. On the 11th August, the Emperor addressed, the following letter to King Victor Emmanuel have learnt with pleasure that your Majesty swa n to the armistice and peace preliminaries Irbi l * have been signed between their Majesties the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria. It is therefore probable that an era of tranquillity h about to open up for Europe. Your Majesty aware that I accepted the offer of Venetia M olds to save that province from useless bloodshed. My intention was always to restore it to itself, ht order that Italy might be free from the Alps to • the Adriatic, and mistress of her owes destinies. Venetia will soon be able to e?preas -- her wishes by means of universal wiffrage. Majesty will acknowledge that in these chow stances the influence of France has been again ez• ercised in favour of humanity and the inhales of peoples." FRANCE. PARIS, Bar. 1. The Emperor rode on horseback yesterday in the park of St. Cloud. The Empress and Priam Imperial leave to-morrow for Biarritz. SPAIN. MADRID, Aram X. According to official news received from ths Pacific squadron to the 7th inst. Admiral Reeks Nunes was almost restored to health. INDLt. BOMBAY, Aran & The court-martial on Captain Jervis is not yst concluded. The case for the prosecution dosed m the 23rd July, and the prisoner's defence au to be heard on the 6th inst. He calls no witnesses. Captain Weber, of the 42nd Highlanders, died at Sukkur of sunstroke, while en route to England. Much suffering continues in the famine stricken districts of %nal, and the people are Hocking to Calcutta for relief. Lord Napier is making a tour through the die. Mktg in Madras, which are suffering from the sine cause. The Rajah of Kolnpore died on the 4th indent. He was very loyal during the mutiny. The government of India has sanctioned the establishment of Money Order Offices in the Bombay and Madras presidencies. Extensive floods have taken place in Guest, which caused a stoppage of the railway talk between Bombay and Surat for some days. Car munication is now partially restored. The Indian Telegraph between Bombay and Kurrachee is in a shameful condition, and, in oce. s equence, no direct overland telegram from England of a later date than 29th July has been mesivel here. Three ships have been totally wrecked at Alibi* outside Bombay harbour. Their names are Zenobis, Vernon, and Themis. A Parsee matrimonial court has been established, I and the first sitting is to be held on the 11th inst. The annual general meeting of the Bombay Bank was held on 6th instant. The piece goods market is strong, bat cotton Is dull. Money is easier, although public confides*, is not restored. The public health is excellent. The rainfall exceeds 80 inches. JAMAICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CUBAN. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. I. The steamer Cuban, with dates from Jamsics to the 11th ult., has arrived here. The Jamaica papers eulogise Sir Henry &orb. Crime was diminishing in the island. ARRYVAL OF THE CEYLON. SOUTHAMPTON, Sat The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navtgatos Company's steam-ship Ceylon, from Alexia& with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and Otis mails, passed the Needles at 1146 a.m. to-day. SPECIE SHIPMENTS TO AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, sirt. 1. The Royal Mail steamer China, sailing 1 046 1 for Boston, takes out 163,100/. A communication from Dalenhcim, in the Courrier du Bas-RAin, states that during a thunderskos which Mutt three days back over that piece the electric Avid killed instantaneously M. Funnels Metter, deputy-nee , his son Edouard, and a female servant n amed Hamm& They all, in company with another son of 51. Metter, 1 4 , had taken refuge under • tree. 11ds lastessreed see I' also struck and much injured, but was able t o cree p home . and announce the afflicting intelligence. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the Lords of the Admiralty received on board the Osborne, in 11 "" me, Admiral Yelverton and the principal officers of the Clan , 11 ail squadron now at Plymouth. Their lordship 4 41. witaemed from the deck of their yacht the etercits ci the crew of the gunnery ship Cambridge, Capt. Charles J. F. r Swart, at target firing. FLOGGING AND BILIINDING IN TUE Mott appears from a parliamentary return issued this mend/4 that the number of men flogged in the army and maws Great Britain and Ireland in 1 863 was 518 ; the numbing lashes inflicted, 23,668. The number of prisonen 600 in 1864 was 528, and of limbos inflicted 26,6338. n ° aar ber of persons flogged in 1865 was 441 ; and of lashes flirted, 21,56 L The number of men marked iritk th . letter Din 14163 wee 1,136 ; with BC, 115. In net tittre were marked with the letter I), 1,438; marked B la* , I rs Cin 1866 "cannot be rendered." The number clams I: marked is 1865 with the letter I) was 1,502; ith *. letters B C, 90. Tas JAMAICA °mem. --Colonel Farrell, C. nit of the 4th Depot Battalion, will be President of the ow" martial shoat to assemble for the trial of the J ca C tho carers. Captain Maclean, of the Rifle Dried , . stiff of Aldershot, will officiate as Deputy JudS''— cute ; and Mr. Gibbs, barrister, will be the legal of tie a/art.—Army and Nary Gazette. The Quee drove (41i in le the .1141 oe Pw les mt The Primo* aings , iad 04 A. co mmit Honoutsble counc a.effiee Plague' The the Riglit H md the RIO and lir. Sal liL Sum w i t h um& C tat ; and is Mew Irtth to Beth visite tete for the Deelakala ogee from t The Duk bin • distinf Doncaster ra The Duk f a mily at The Due gam& d'i and Ladies A one Bean boated at T The Ear ieg at Hera The Co , fbibt Norf. 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