The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

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PROCESS'S. IMILIMO, THE 111:7GUiVOT CAPTAIN. Magri. Vining, B et rUng. H And Warr LODGMOoney; Slimes Neilson, S. Augusta Th omson, snd Mrs. BRITANNIA. THIS EVENING, THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN.—The Mothers Vlctorelll ; The Great Vaulting Troupe . H. Wardiel ; The, DeLs. vantl. And GUNPOWDER TOM : OR , THE GIPSY MOTHER AND HER BAILOR SON. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. TMII DAT —Morning, ffi Um Afternoon. Sit Ilrn. TO-MORROW—Morning, Sit 32t Afternoon. 3h. 53m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. FOLITICIANB are asking one another what is the real import of this rising in Candia, with the simul taneous commotion in Epirus and the adjacent provinces of Turkey ? Do they signify the immi nence of that Eastern question which hangs like a thunder-cloud over the future of Europe'? or are they to pass away after merely reminding us of the stores of combustible elements laid up in Turkey for some future explosiou ? These are interesting questions which re certain to keep attention alive until events which cannot long be delayed shall bring their solution. We venture, however, to think that wo need not go so far as the frontier of Turkey to find au Eastern question in many re spects more embarrassing, and, at the same time, more urgent than the fate of Turkey. There is a great Empire which not very long ago WAS the type of political stability, and was popu larly regarded as the great conservative Power of South-Eastern Europe, which now glides from its old foundations, and threatens to cover vast countries with its ruins. The Austrian Empire is just now in a condition more precarious than any recorded in its history. Without ex . - - aggeration it may be said that its friends were better entitled to hope well of it a week after the battle of Eladowa than they are now. That was a great and terrible blow: but greatdefeats have before now given Austria an opportunity of astonishing the world by manifesting her wonderful power of recovery. The stroke may have been heavy, but the reaction was prompt, and behind the ramparts which sheltered a retreating army, tho wisdom of statesmen has combined anew the elements of ' national force, while the I% ell-known voice of the Ears nos, heard in tones of encouragement, has revived the hope and confidence of the people. Looking at the history of the last two months we are led to acknowledge that military defeat is not the wont misfortune that can befall a State. That which moat strikes a distant observer of the events now taking place in Austria is the mute and passive demeanour of those to whom the people of the Empire have a right to look for a signal. Public opinion in Austria is troubled, but no one speaks a word to calm its fears : it is uneasy be cause it is in the dark, but no one offers it light. The Government is dumb, and leaves its subjects a prey to the evil spirits which are always busy in seasons of doubt and obscurity. The most natural thing in the world is, that in tiles,: circumstances the inference should be drawn that the Government is silent because it has no thing to say; that it has no clear views, no chosen aim, no settled purpose, no definite plan. It would be a mistake to suppose that this is the language only of hostility or cynical indifference ; it is just as often the lament of sincere friendship. We are, indeed, told that such an inference would be wholly erro neous. Our Vienna correspondent assures us that as soon as the work of peace is concluded it will be plainly seen that the vessel of the State is not so hopelessly adrift as it has lately seemed to be, but that it has a chart, a pilot, and a port. We trust that this confidence is well founded. It is a matter which it concerns the EMPEROR more than any other person living to leek to There are some Governments so happily placed that they have only to remain quiet and let time make their fortune. There are others who are bound to regard time as an adversary, and to out strip him in the race, lest he carry off the golden opportunity on which success, and, perhaps, exist ence depends. The Austrian Government is in this critical situation ; it has not a week or a day to lose if it would retain its hold on the peoples of the Empire who, daily acted on by new attrac tions, feel the whole bond which held them toge ther more and more weakened and relaxed. Action, however, implies a policy, and has anyone in or out of Austria the least conception of what the policy of the Imperial Government really is ? We hear indeed from Vienna of the preferences of this and the aversion of that statesman, and the likings and dislikings of an unnamed courtier, whose irresponsible counsels outweigh the well-con sidered advice of the wisest and beat of the public men of the empire ; but no one can tell us what is the Imperial policy. This is a fatal state of things. The great NAPOLEON was accustomed to say that one bad general was better than two good ones, and it would be well if the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH could seize and hold the truth which underlies this paradox. Those who know the Emperor of AUSTRIA best affirm that he has nothing so much at heart as the welfare of his subjects, for whom he works by day and watches by night. At Vienna everybody acknowledges the accessibility and openness of this Sovereign, who is often re garded here as one of the most exclusive and re pellant of rulers. It would be nearer the truth to say he is far too open to those who offer advice without assuming any responsibility to the public. His MArzsry, it would seem, has yet to learn the great lesson, that counselling the Sove reign is a public function, the highest that can exist in a free State. It is impossible that Austria should make head against the dangers I which surround her, much less recover her place among the nations, until this function shall be much more honoured in that empire than it is at present. It is absolutely necessary that the Sovereign 1! MINNIM I ! I MMF ./ " .1..1 TIIE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1866. sellers who are attending the sale agree among themselves not to raise the prim by bidding walnut each other. The book gees for 61., and that is all the seller obtains ibr it. But apparent buyer does not necessarily obtain the book, nor is it really obtained at that price. After the public sale, a " knock-out" is held by the book sellers who had previously combined: Here the book is again put up, and goes, we will say, as its true price, 301. The excess which the book thus fetches above the price realised at the auction is then divided as so much profit among the booksellers present. Another correspondent tells us of a pair of Sevres vases which went at a public auction for 13/. A " knock-out " was afterwards held at which they went for 1801., and the balance went to about 20 dealers, who had combined, and who received. therefore, more than 81. apiece. It needs no argument to prove the iniquity of this system. It amounts to a device for robbing the seller of the true value of his article. If the vases in question were worth 1801. to the dealer who ultimately obtained them, they were worth that sum to the owner, and the " knock out " simply inter cepted 1671., and transferred it to the pockets of those whu combined in the transaction. It is as direct a swindle as if the money had been taken out of the owner's desk or purse. The sum afterwards divided can only be considered as a bribe die. honourably obtained for complicity in a discreditable fraud. It is astonishing to be assured that the system is openly practised even by apparently respectable dealer ' , and in all kinds of auctions. If a gentleman ventures to bid at a public sale, he is at once so annoyed and browbeaten, and the article he bids for is run up to such an extravagant price by sheer malice, that be is at length compelled to retire, and either to leave the sale altogether or employ an agent. If auctioneers did their duty the Times does not hesitate to say such practices would not be possible. It is obviously in the power of an auctioneer to stop a sale if he sees that it is being unfairly conducted, and the public will expect the auctioneers to find a remedy. should choose advisers who Ow ogres-11ra some public policy, and, squally so that he should openly acknowledge and - trust them. It is in this way *tat in coniiikutiOnal countries the person of the monarch is preserved in reverence by being kept aloof from the passions engendered by the conflicts of opinion. When those who surround the throne are known to take different views of the public advantage, and the Sovereign follows the counsel, now of one and now of another minister, it is impossible that the responsibility of the ultimate decision should not be referred to him, to his great prejudice, as often as an untoward accident brings the Government into discredit. A true system of ministerial respon sibility, on the other hand, upholds the Sovereign in a region far above the strife of parties, and leaves him free in days of difficulty to call to his side statesmen who have had no share in the events which have brought the administration into dis favour. We trust that the EMPEROR may be con vinced of the necessity of breaking with the system of the last few years, and that he will adopt the only one which can give stability to policy, and energy to resolution. Other things are important. It is necessary that right views should be taken of the vocation and corresponding interests of the Austrian Empire under the new circumstances in which it is placed, and that the ends of the Government should be chosen in accordance with them. But the con dition of this and every other reform is that the practice of irresponsible government should come to an end, and that the EmrEitoit should place himself in the hands of known advisers and give them his confidence. Thus we may hope that the old vacillation, and hesitancy, and weakness way disappear, and that instead we may see signs of unity of purpose and steadiness of aim, while the Government labours to regenerate Austria by the principles of public liberty. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) MR. BRIGHT'S SPEECH AT MANCHESTER. Premising that the obviousness of the chief argu ments fur au improvement in our electoral system tend to give reform tlenionArations au ail of sameness, and that even Mr. Bright is unable to avoid something like repeti tion, the Time. proceeds to characterise the unusual ve hemence of the hon. member for Birmingham against Lord Duoy as the most striking feature of his address• For this there must be some special reason. Mr. Bright> who can be polite to noblemen when he pleases, is not likely to go out of Lis way to make au invective on the chief of the conservatives unless with a definite object iii . • .„ view. V It is plain that in the radial ranks a reform bill from the present government is expected, and it scents es if it were thought desirable to raise a cry against it beforehand. The Tizno thinks it would hav,. been better if Mr. Bright had followed the example of Mr. Gladstone and declared his readiness to judge any forthcoming measure on its merits, and to support it or oppose it irrespective of party. Fully admitting that the settlement of the reform question can be no longer delayed, and that if the government pro pose any measure justly chargeable with inefficiency and evasion, they will deserve the downfall that will over take them, our contemporary nevertheless maintains that there will be time enough to rail against them in February next. To begin now will seem as if it was Lord Derby's success rather than his failure that was feared. _ . Reform agitation, observes the Dodo News, has already reached limits at which the share in it of individnals, how ever eminent, and their eloquence, however brilliant, are leas important than the general movement, in which mere personal influences and ascendency have become merged. The silent multitudes are more important than the leading speaker, for whatever the exact number / resent it is certain that the expression of feeling on the part of the wlrking men of the district surrounding Manchester was practically unanimous ; Lord Derby, at least, who is nn stranger to South Lancashire, is nut likely to underrate the nuportance of the meeting. The Lancashire operatives understood the bearings of the American war better than Lord Derby and his friends, and not only helped to keep the nation right when its ruling classes would have led it fatally wrong, but proved that they also knew what are the evils which must be borne without a legislative remedy. It must be shown, and not merely asserted, that their discernment fails when it lcials them to political action ; and it is the fact that, rightly or wrongly, they charge the party of which Lord Derby is the chief, and the class to which he belongs, with misgcn can ing the country, either directly or by the exertion of a secret but overwhelming influence. The movement of which the Manchester meeting is • part, is the natural effort of an overwhelming majority of the nation to obtain • Clare of the power from which, under die present system, it is artificially excluded , and the reform party has been forced, 1 by recent e‘ cuts, to look upon Lord Derby's government :dal the House of Commons which placed it in power not as organs to be used, but as obstacles to be overcome. The _ _ demand for umuhood suffrage has not yet assumed the character of an ultimatum, but how long they who ask for it will remain in the present placable mood it would be hazardous to predict. Lord Derby and his friends will do well nut to protract an experiment on the public which is said to have given it a warm support. A CHILD OP THREE YEARS-AND,CRALP nr. " What," says the Temps, " will the shades of the ,y L E A N B T O E u IifED TO IMPRISONMENT 420- ifoa ••••• Cheops, of Sesostris, and of the Ptolemies say to —.... this transplantation to the borders of the Nile of our modern forms and institutions ? (From the Dublin Ercniny Mail of y es 71. The following circumstances relating to s es V disposed of at the head police-office, Dublin, o o g dithl last, have been communicated to us. Shortly after mid-day on Saturday, two obag ru4 Bryan—one a girl aged eight years, the oth er a bye oes three years and six months—were arrested by o constable in Westmoreland-street fee elg o ith e They were taken to College-street poll ee and charged in due course, and wets thee before the magistrate, Mr. C. J. &D o w , We: head police-office. The charge was peon* and ; magistrate made his decision. That &milks was, thug, girl should undergo imprisonment in Grangsge rom tentiary for fourteen days, and be kept t o h u g h i s ; and that the boy, 31 years old, should begat to Rieh ooi i Bridewell—be there detained for 14 days, and kept,* labour ! The next questions were—what cloths he sh a g be dressed in, and to what hard work put? Near amt plating that each a youthful prisoner would be wag gaol, the board of supenntendeuce had made so @ve l i g% their wardrobe for him, nor the inspeeteragemeg what bard work was suitable for his age, Tho vault, that the humane governor was obliged to proms Is alight articles of clothing for the poor creature, s a d 04 bi ro t o th e hospital ward to be taken cue of. Moss* the inspectors-general have been communiratodoitkos (aztrEß's nugawis.) FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 713. Yesterday the rivers Allier, Loire, and Yonne, and other streams continued to rise. The waters of the Lot and Dordogne appear to be decreasing. The river Are, in Savoy, has overflowed its banks. The telegraphic communication between the centre and the south of France is difficult. by their instructions the local inspector has this is / ti warded to the government a report on the ease as % psnied by a copy of the magistrate's committal. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE ON A D00&&114 --.-- INQUEST.—(THIS This forenoon Mr. John Ilutni diesel coroner, held an inquiry at Mayfield-road, Holston, respecting the Nathaniel Trigg, aged 32 years, who committed suicide. Mrs. Eliza Trigg No. 32, Blooostlek widow of deceassd,said that her husband phic artist. On last Saturday evening band by appointment at the come- Barbimn. She had been separated month ag o. On Saturday she spent She left him at ale o'clock in Finshen home. At nine o'clock the deceneed the door-step. He let a bottle fall from By the Coroner—The deceased was spirits when he left her. They had } rate in consequence of his failing Witness was compelled to return t went hack to his. They had nothi Saturday the deceased was very do Mrs. Emma Guillin, sister of tht on last Saturday night she heard a door, and upon going to it she maw t, at it. He was very pale, and he had She cried out " Oh George, what has and called his wife. A doctor was see Dr. William Hewitt, ICingslaat: when he was called to the d ,, eamsed A post-mortem examination of the de the cause of death to be poisonim tassium. The Coroner having summed m verdict that the deceased was ins himself on a certain door-step. MELANCHOLY LEATH OF A HERCBAIifs CLERK IN THE THAMES. An inquiry was held by Mr. W. J. km, deputpooroner, last evening, at the Veetryhall, street, Hoeselydown, touching the death of Mr. Horgan, aged 37 years, who was supposed to ha nutted suicide. Mrs. Amelia Horgan, Upper Pr ' said that the deceased was her hnsl Mr. Barber, the provision merchant, and , at the wharf in Upper Thanimstreet. WiL had a quarrel with him although they had ten years, and he was given to habits el is At live o'clock last Saturday evening the damned wharf to go home. He was then under the ' liquor. 'Mr. Hyde, No. 4, Cherry-prdenatreet, Reid knew the deceased. On last Sunday morning, bet and 1 o'clock, he met him near the European Rotherhithe. He was walking towards the firer. . home did not lie in that direction. He Ilk tipsy, and witness said, " I am sorry to see pica that state." He replied, " I can't help it, I have aid wife. I don't care what becomes of me. is will do me a favour if you will lend no • d." Witness said he had not got it, and nt replied, "I know you have. Get me some ail." Witness, who had been tal k ing to the deceased fa Mill minutes, then walked on, Lut as the deceased tolled him he called a police-constable, and said, "This as wants money and drink from me. He attacked me fa no' lending him money, when I was showing him the ness of seeing _him home." Witness then left to wins police-constable and three men. Witness never in is deceased alive after. James Burratt, a labourer, said that on last Sod s morning, at ii o'clock. he found the body of the domed lying in the river, near Pickled affriligttlia. Hail been drowned. A juror said that the deceased might base fallen don the stairs into the river while intotiated. timid drunken men had been found lying in the river insd the bottom of the stain. They had fallen a disuse eight feet. The stain were very diuigerom Only Is. 4d. was found upon the deceased. He has five children. The coroner said that as there was no evidence could throw any light upon the circumstances of the ceased's death, the jury had better return an mm the The jury, after a short consultation, tanned the follo ing verdict, " That the deceased was loud darnel ; I the river Thames, but how he Mme into th e ttiii there is no evidence to show." WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) WIDSESDAT, SZPTENCBER sa, g Li. 1 111113 ,.._.. 1_! ....„ 1 132 jR. •T.I W. 1 140' IL i f ° 1 I I is. 9. • D. -- -- Nairn se.so 44 , s.w. s; a • 11.5—.177.1., -1? Aberdeen 29.6764 B.W. 4131 I. n,- j• Leith Animalism. Greencastle 29.60 66 /I.W 6 6 N.R.W. f., ill i Valea444 26.67 66' W.S. W. 6, 4 S.W. , c It! Cape Clew_ 29.7162 B.W. 6 4 • B.W. ila OM . • . ' . 1411=°°1014 Peasamos 29.W 117; B.W. 4. 9 I 8.8. W. et 111 1 Brea .. 89.09 66 1 W. ,4 7 I W. 1° Lanese use sal, w. ,6 6 1 s- 0 0 . 12 . 1 . Rochefort .. th •Vrtosth6o' W. j 2 1 6 6W, o r Ili ! Portmemouth 29.96681 W.s.W. L 2' 6 ! 6.6. W. r 43. 1 London _ 10.97 67! S.B.W. 1 2 1 4 SSW. 140 :I i Yezmotath ~. 30.00 66 8.3. W. .2 I SAW. 1 c ''' i ~ S'Arbelengh. 29 . 90 66 S.W. ;2. 6 B.W. I 0 • bideitls .... . 29.8666 .3.W. I 2 4 6.W. I 4 -- BY—MAIMS. ••• The winds are still chiefly smth.weaterir, and coasts rather trap, with s somewhat Waterbed lea • fallen In the meth and west IviroAeters Ore ag—•'" 1./1 the 'bathers and eastern coasts temperatures bme considerably • -- ------- DREADFUL EsrLosioN. —NORWICH, Trrug NIGHT.—Thie afternoon a boiler explosion, attroa° !death to three men named Taylor, Breeze, sad 61 ' 14 „„, occur r e d at Messrs . Starks' dye-works , Norma- '" other persons were injured. The Royal Italian Commission for the Exhilo... of 1867 has posted up at Florence a proclasstuo 44 by the President, M. de Vicenii, APPealint to '''& t th g e reri natio l n t al " p y roe . :— " peri prosperity bccacou:seslh7afiret haTinlim:ii7"t country. We ought to direct all oar efforts go tl a o account the natural wealth which we possess, als° ‘3ll iii, manu factures, and ameliorate t h o se whisk we ~„ battlesru Sto re of o vin ourselves."and which cannot as yet rival those of otter sm'"-•• Th e exhibition which is being prepared idi tel* Atii ct re i y, make ours k n own to other nations , and s ash 0 t° instruction William Mead died at Gillingham, to on the lfith inst., at the age of 90. He Wet " s a ( t. th r e l"' American Myeago emil . ptor) stank of 111 has just arrived in England from Italy, ands / t by the owner, Mr. Stone , M.P., to the LOSS :0, Southampton. C row d s of people an going t° bition daily to ern it. Port orttoNtweynintriza:atabulne.:Odthp,thuboceooo:rtainseat:lintebaratiofpopofb:nuthahhospitationiipmppodaicing: 4: 7 :01r ~.e #140 .1 4,, • both inward and outward at Port Elisabeth , jar,. elusive of goods anetwiee, wu u pwasds of & IP 7OI, ling. Among the exporta were nearly 30, 00 tt s , 01 1 value of its fixed property is upwards of 1,00 0 00 gra mmar school, and 14 places of worship , ii The potato blight has made its sPrefilligi' the neighbourhood of Southampton. , t" othe "drift, may he r a boy to arreeted by a 14 % ke masig ai riet Pollee dad a ; wen a im t ra .l , • &Dusk - a il: 18 , .Prwod. sod de mu, that% Gramettiamese p e . kept to h ar d l owa , i hermit to Rieke/ 1 i alio, and he what clothe he Megd `pmt? Nftilt cede r ear maid be eau ► d made so yrovidm i uteri/earn) & hi Me. The melt ea IN* to procure isa, aor creature, and s o t st cue ed, R ion % mmeniceted rith, eater has this dsy 1 t on the use, au k committal. ON A DOOROD, DAY.) mphseya, the tt the Crown Tun, the death of Mr. Gy p no was alleged to matieldeemet, Deba k üband warn a pito*, ming she toot her to. ner of Itedircumak I from her hulled S two hams with he nry-square,aad retitl e d 1 was fond dyug from blobandset hg was veil *mg i id been obliged to eep Ilk to tot Inkwell to her funky, sad t :hing to lice upon h lionding. te last Intuit, esid th a loud knack at the tai w the demand ataada, had a bottle in his bat has happened,' and e t sent for. aad-Cfeltellt, 'Martha Reed he found Lolled deceased's body peg ning by manila g po up, the jury retried a mane when he pewee oF A MERCILOTS THANES. Mr. W. .1. Payne, i t IA the Veetrylun, Pis the death of Mr. Jai as supposed to VAR • 'ark-terrace, Het iusLand. He Ins clett ant, and he wu es** ;rem. Whom hal arm ,eh they had been mend Intims of tower= ling the deosued Loft di under the hatter a rdenetreet, said the is allay more*, betties% 11 isr the Europese Tame, patience, which has already reached the limits of safety The Herald describes the speech as made up of rtale I figures, unlimited self assertion, and arrogant abut) of political opponents. It has long known what Mr. Bright is, how restless his egotism, how unscrupulous his tongue, how malignant his antipathies. But in proportion as the artificial and rather stagy reform agitation proceeds, he seems to sink, lower and lower, beneath all sentiment of self-respect. What is 11r. Bright reckoning upon ? asks the Post. He cannot for a moment imagine that the radical reformers in the House of Commons are competent to defeat Lord Derby's government, and the idea of a coalition with the moderate liberals on the hula of what he calls a " satis factory" measure of reform is simply preposterous, ex cept on terms which would be equally dishonourable to both parties ; and in that case there must be a compromise. Is Mr. Bright fishing for such a compromise, and are these " demonstrations" intended to overawethegreat body of liberals in the house, and to admit of the construction, on their suppressed convictions, of a platform upon which Mr. Bright and Mr. Gladstone could stand together ? But though Mr. Bright does not appear to see it, the Reform question is passing out of the sphere of his dicta tin°. Two or three months of agitation will deprive him of all command over it, and if he acts up to the spirit of the address which was presented to him on Monday, the country will apprehend, and apprehending, be ready to diu-harge, the duties which may be imposed upon it. The Telegraph finds in the speech of Mr. Bright no abuse of innocent persons or equally innocent institutions, no ill-natured reflections on the highest personage in the realm, but a loyal and generous compliment ; no rancorous denunciation of either church or peerage, but a solemn and weighty appeal to the House of Lords, not less remarkable for its statesmanlike wisdom, than for the tact with which it is expressed. If we add to all this an honest and faithful reproof of the vices and shortcomings from which the artisan class is unhappily the reverie of free, we find a fairness and balance of judgment, which render doubly valuable Mr. Brig' ht's acceptance of the re sponsible position to which he has been summoned by the confidence of his fellow-cltizens. Let the aristocracy help its unenfranchised fellow-citizens to attain their alma, and it will add to its own power. On the ground of fairness, too, we should bear in mind that all the important reforms of recent generations have, in England, come from below, and not from above. Mr. Bright's speech at the banquet last night, which will probably occasion more comment than the one de livered on the previous day, was received in town at too late an hour to be dealt with by the morning papers. AUCTION '' HNOCK-OtTS.'' The Times continues to publish letters drawing atten tion to one of the moot iniquitous abuses ever introduced into a respectable trade. Under the present system, an auction, remarks the Time, is the most ruinous method of disposing of any sort of goods. The knock-out plan, it must be understood, consists in a combination by which, In point of fact, an article is withdrawn from sale at the public auction. One or two ex amples have been given by the correspondents. A book which is worth 90i. is put up. The book- LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WC-ICING OF HANOVER. At Vienna, on Saturday last, the es-King of Hanover gave a banquet to a deputation of Hano verian' who had brought him an address signed by 264,000 persons. The ex-King and the Prince Royal placed themselves amidst 22 members of the deputation and of 60 other Hanoverian resident at Vienna. The ex-King, in replying to the tint toast, said : I am profoundly affected by the love and the fidelity which you have testified towards me in the name of the Hanoverian people. In the past this people have had the occasion to prove its love and its fidelity. At the com mencement of this century it held with unshaken fidelity to the house of the Guelphs, notwithstanding foreign domination, and this fidelity was rewarded. The dynasty of my ancestors was restored and re-united to the people. As the people persevered then so they will persevere now also. I have confidence in the justice of God which will bring again the house of the Guelphs to the seat of its ancestors. I ask you then to drink to the prosperity of our dear country, following the ancient custom of giving three cheers. A member of the deputation, proposing the health of the King, protested energetically against this conduct of Prussia. THE FRXICKFORT PROTEST. The Continental journals publish a lengthy document, consiii*g of the protest of the Frank f ortbourgeoisie igamst their absoration into the Prus sian monarchy. They urge that they have been neither hostile to Prussia nor to the views of M. Bismarck, and contend that a neutralised spot between the north and south of Germany is indispensable. Frankfort, changed into a pro vincial city, will be wholly unable to contribute to the conciliation of existing antipathies. But Frankfort, independent, respected in its autonomy and in its integrity, would have fur Prussia all the more sympathy and attachmentfrom knowing that it was simply to the respect for right and to the love of justice that it owes the preservation of its ancient liberties ; and, even were it unwilling, would feel itself irresistibly impelled to become a centre of propagandism in the work of completing the national objects. The citizens declare that Frankfort isready to renounce itsindependence and its sovereignty without a murmur when the union of entire Germany is accomplished, but so long as this unification is incomplete the independence of their city is very dear to them. They conclude in the following terms We'are proud to be able to make the aainuanco that the population of Frankfort, with au unanimity without example. is animated with the ardent desire of conserving, under prevent circumstances, her liberty, her autonomy, and her territorial integrity; up to the latest hour, we entertain this hope ; from generation to generation we have transmitted the remembrance of this era of liberty and of independence—of an era, of an epoch inwhich civil • life and communal organisation had for the corner stone the love of all for all. We hold unchangeably to our old right,our old faith, our old affections, and our old fidelity. ITALIAN TROOPS ON THE PONTIFICAL FRONTIERS, A Turin journal, the Prorineia, announces that the Italian government, taking into consideration the approaching expiration of the term fixed by the convention of September 15 for the departure of the last corps of the French army, has deemed it neoessary to conoentrate some troops upon the fron tiers of the Pontifical State, "in order to prevent any act which thoughtlessness or malevolence might suggest." The Procincia adds that these troops, which form part of the fourth division, will be stationed principally at Perugia, Orvieto, Rieti, and at Terni, under the command of General Ferrero. RUSSIA AND FRANCE. The I'n sae of Vienna asserts that Prince Gort chaleff is about to pay a visit to the Emperor Napoleon at Biarritz, and connects this visit with the new aspect of affairs in the East. " Russia,' it says, " considers itself the principal heir to the sick man, who to all appearance has never been so near his end." SCHAMYL, THE CIRCASELANI After his capture in 1859, Schamyl, the celebrated Circassian chief, was sent with his family to Ks lougs. Be seems to have expected nothing but harsh treatment from his conquerors, but the Rus sian policy was otherwise, and he has from time to time, it appears, been loaded with Im perial favours. A spacious house is at his disposal, and an income more than sufficient for his wants. On the occasion of the death of his favourite daughter, a courier was sent to Schamyl in the Caucasus with the body of the deceased. This seems to have touched the venerable chief, who at once addressed an autograph letter to the Czar, which is given at length in the Russian papers. Schamyl here declares himself to be no less vanquished by the Emperor's kindness than by his arms, and begs that he and his children may be allowed to take the oath of fidelity. " I am ready," he says, " to pronounce it before the entire people. I invoke, as the witnesses of my loyalty and of the purity of my thoughts, Almighty God and Mahomet, his prophet. I will take the oath before the body, scarcely chilled, of my beloved daughter Naphisato, and upon the holy Koran." The Czar at once acceded to the re quest,and accordingly on the 7th inst. Schamyl and his sons took the oath of fidelity to the Emperor and to the Grand Duke at Kalouga. After the ceremony the representative of the nobles of the province addressed the exile in the name of the Russian government: " Live in peace, valiant veteran," he said, "in this city where your noble character is honoured, and where your calm and modest life is a theme of constant praise. May you long continue this irreproachable life, glorifying the high magnanimity of your pro tector,onrbeloved sovereign Alexander the Second." The reply of Schamyl, as given in the Russian papers, is full of protestations of loyalty, and reads RS though it had been very freely translated from the original Arabic by a Russian official. A CONSTITUTION FOR EGYPT. The Indipcndanee Belge announced two days ago that a remarkable transformation was on the eve of taking place in Egypt. The fact, says the Temps, is now confirmed. Egypt is about to have a con stitution based upon the French political organisa tion. The country will be divided into 60 electoral colleges, electing as many representatives, who will be invested with the same rights as the French legislative body. All the elements of which the Egyptian population is composed—Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Copts, &c., will take part in the nomination of the members of this assembly. The duty of preparing the laws will devolve upon a special body corresponding with the French Senate and Council of State. According to the Brussels paper this project kept till now strictly secret in Egypt, and arranged by Ismail Pacha with the assistance only of one of his principal ministers, Nubar Pacha, has been during the visit of the viceroy to Constantinople communicated to the Porte, which has authorised its adoption without expressing any opinion upon it. It has also been submitted to tho Monk go/annual) AUSTRIA. vIENNA, Szrr. 26. Baron Baumgarten has been relieved of his functions as governor of Galicia, and has been replaced by Count Goluchowski. Baron Baum garten has received the Grand Cross of the Older of Leopold. Count Rothkirch-Panten has been appointed governor of Bohemia. Vice-Admiral Tegethoff has been removed from the command of the fleet, in order that he may enter upon new duties. He is replaced by Herr von Pokorny. Herr von Wiplinger has been appointed president of the Marine Department of the War Ministry. ITALY. FLORENCE, SEPT. 25. The Empress of Mexico has passed Bologna on her way to Rome. THE DISTURBANCES IN PALERMO. TRAPANI, Sr.E 25. News received here from Palermo states that the normal condition of things in that city is completely restored. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, SEPT. 24. Yesterday a grand banquet for 300 persons was given by the officers of the Pontifical army to the officers of the Roman legion. The French generals were present during the banquet. M. de Sartiges, the French Ambassador, the Duke de Montebello, and Colonel d'Arcy, drank toasts to the healths of the Pope and the Emperor. To-day his Holiness gave his benediction to the Roman legion, which defiled before him. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TCE.DLT EVENING. The long vacation articles of the Patrie, Opinion Nationale, and other journals which seek to alarm Europe by stories of an alliance between Russia and the United States, may safely be classed with the annual paragraphs about big gooseberries and phenomenal turnips. Captain Fox, who went to St. Petersburg to congratulate the Emperor of Russia, in the name of the President of the United States, on his escape from assassination, had no diplomatic mission whatever, and all the infe rences drawn from the cordiality with which he was received are purely idle. The United States have long wanted a commercial station in the Mediterranean, and are doubtless on the look out for any opportunity to get one. But between this desire and the Crete question, and the compliments paid to Captain Fox at St. Peters burg, there is no connexion whatsoever. The Monroe doctrine, which repudiates the interven tion of Europe in the affairs of the American con tinent, is conversely practised by the United States ; and if ever such an unhappy event as a war between the United States and any European power should take place, it will most certainly be provoked by an American and not a European question, and the theatre of war will not be in the Mediterranean. The trial of Berthomit, the cashier of the Sous Comptoir de Chemins de Fers, charged with hav ing, in the coarse of three years, embezzled up wards of three millions of franca, was commenced at the AllB 12e Court of the Seine yesterday, and is going on to-day. This is the case in which the Prince deCrouy-Chanel is accused as an accomplice. Ho is in contempt of court, having escaped to Italy, and will be tried "by default." The allega tion of the indictment is that Berthumd, tempted by his offers of half the estates which he expected to recover by his action in Italy against the Duke of Modena, supplied him with money to carry on the suit, this money being ob tained to Crouy-Chanel's knowledge by fraud and forgery. The third defendant is M. Dupray de is Maherie, the editor of Prince Crouy-Chanel's pamphlet, proving his descent from Attila Stephen of Hungary, Andrew 11. of Hungary, and his title as the " last of the Arpads " to the crown of Hungary at the present day. The prosecuting counsel was unmannerly enough not only to deny the title of prince to the absconding defendant, but to admit his descent from Attila in this sense, that he was a robber and a miscreant. The Bourse was very much better. Rente rose 15c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 69fr. 36fr., and 69fr. 40c. Italian rose 56fr., Credit Foncier, 2fr. 30c., and Mobilier 6fr. 25c. The Paris correspondent of the Times writes : " If very little has been heard of Spain since the whole sale military executions last summer, it would, upon the other hand, be extremely erroneous on that account to suppose that things are going on satisfactorily in that un fortunate country. Spain was probably never worse go verned or more suffering than at the present time." The correspondent then gives a number of cases tending to show that the country is ground down by the most odious tyranny ever witnessed even in Spain since the abolition of the Inquisition. People are arrested on more suspicion imprisoned because their opinions are known to be un , , favourable to the government, and transported without trial. - _ _ . . A St. Petersburg letter of the 19th says :—" A I fact which may at first sight appear trivial is worth notice. Apples have been publicly sold in the fruit shops and at stalls in the streets since the (Ist) 13th of this month only. This is unprecedented in the annals of the city. From time immemorial the blessing of the apples takes place early in August, and quantities of green and unripe fruit are forthwith exposed for sale. This year, however, General Trepoff, director of the police, fearing what the consequences to the public health might be if the practice were adhered to, issued peremptory orders, in consequence of which the apple was a forbidden fruit up to the 13th instant. To our ideas such paternal solicitude applied to • whole city seems very strange, but here people submitted without much murmuring, and can now make up for lout time by eating apples to their hearts' content. News from Rome states that Queen Maria Chris tina of Spain has sold her palace caned " Quattro Fon tana "to her son-in-law, Prince Drago, for 1,500,000 fr., her Majesty baying renounced all idea of residing in that city. M. Gamier Pages has just addressed to the Pre sident of the United States • letter in favour of the aboli tion of capital punishment in the American republic. The Southern Railway Company has just adopted • tariff by which children under twelve years of age, going to or from school, are conveyed at one-tenth of the ordi nary fare on the lines of Bordeaux, to Arachon, Mont de Marian, and Pax. M. Bible, Minister of Public Weeks, has written to the director, of the company to thank them, MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. Referring to the Lamirande case as disclosing a flagrant abuse of the extradition treaty, the Times says it will be fur the Colonial Secretary to take proper steps for the elucidation of the transaction and the punishment of those who may have been implicated in it. Wel cannot, says the Timex, forget that our Extradition Amendment Act was passed in deference to the representations of France, and not without warnings against the unscrupulous prac tices of the continental police. It is much to be lamented that a fresh significance should have been given to these warnings by the lawless recapture of Lamieande, and we may hope that uo time will be lost by:the French govern , ment in repudiating so audacious an abuse of our law. Too Daily Ncacs has the following paragraph:—ln noticing yesterday the case of M. Lamirande, we expressed regret that the Earl of Caruarvon had not felt it his duty to take any steps in the matter. It gives us pleasure to state that this remark was written under a misapprehension of Lord Carnarvon's position in the case. We now learn that, as yet, no facts have been conununicated to Lord Carnarvon, and that. so far from declining to take an steps in the matter, he has twice consented to receive com munications which the solicitors in this country concerned in Lamirande's vase desired to make, and which have not been made only in consequence of the inability of one of those gentlemen, at the last moment, owing to domestic affliction, to keep his engagement. - - •• •-•- - - Comparing the Greek and Turkish accounts of the C.in dian insurrection, the Times concludes that so long as the struggle is localised in the island, it will be of no great importance towards the final decision of the strife. Euro' peas interference, if peace cannot be restored, might well be used to repair the blender committed in IMO, and allow the Cretans to associate their destinies with the sub jects of King George. Inevitable as the solution of the question may be, and at no distant period, the Til4U does not apprehend it is imminent, and thinks it will always be wise to put it off as long as possible. There is but little doubt ..a to the days of the Turkish empire in Europe being numbered ; but it is not quite clear as yet how the gap left by the expulsion of the Moslem is to be fled up. The settlement of the question, in fact, involves gmve general European catastrophe. It admits of no pacific or diplomatic settlement. It will have to be referred to the ultimo ratio. It will be entirely due to President Johnson, the Dad!! Sure says, if the whole republican party is driven into the support of Mr. Stevens and his policy. Violent courses beget violent reactions. Nothing could be inure moderate than the conditions Congress determined to impose on the re-admission of the Southern States. By Mr. John son's encouragement they have refused those conditions, and it will be his fault if harder terms are exacted. Their demand to be re-admitted withouticonditions or guarantees is nit likely to be granted, and Mr. Johnson, in support ing, them in it, has only led them, as Mr. Davis did before him, to inevitable defeat. tEftt Court. BAL3IORAL, Sin. 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday morning ; and went out in the after. noon with the Princess of Wales and Prince Arthur. Princess Louise, sttended by Lady Churchill, went out driving. The Earl of Derby bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family last night, SEPT. 24. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, at. tended by Lady Churchill and the Hon. Major-General Hood, were present at divine service yesterday, at the parish church of Crathie. The Rev. Dr. Boyd officiated. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Queen last night. The Hon. Mrs. Coke and the Est of Derby had also the honour of being invited to dinner. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, yesterday, Lord Tredegar took the oath as Lord Lieutenant of the county of Brecon, in the presence of the Lord President, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, :aid the Right Hon. H. Corry. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, and the Right lion. H. Corry. Mr. Helps and Colonel Harness attended the committee. Tho Prince of Wales . waa out deer-stalking on Saturday, and killed two stags, which were afterwards shown at Abergeldie by torchlight. A reel was danced on the occasion, each of the &ulcers carrying a torch. On Sunday morning, her Majesty and court attended divine service in Crathie Church, when the Rev. Dr. A. K. H. Boyd, of St. Andrews, preached. In the same pew with her Majesty were the Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Lady ChnrebilL In the Abergeldie Peat there were the Prince and Princess of Wales, Hou. Mrs. Cox, Am Occu pying the other pews were the Earl of Derby, General Gray, Mrs. Gray and family, Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Lord and Lady Holmesdale, Sir Edward and Lady Filmer, SirS7- muel Hayes, Colonel Seppel, ko. The church was well filled. .......... Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide and his Highness Prince Tech are expected to return from the continent towards the close of October. The Earl and Countess Vane were prevented by illness in their family from joining the party assembled at Dunrobin Castle to meet their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Countess Cowper awl family come to town on Friday. On the following day the marriage of lady Adine Cowper, her ladyship's second daughter, with the Hon. Julian Ft.na, is to take place at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. . . . . Earl CLirendon and Sir Robert Peel have arrived in Paris. Lord Clarendon had a very bad page from Dover. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ILP., and Mrs. Gladstone, have returned to their house on Carlton honse.terrace, from Cliveden, from a visit to the Dachas' (Dowager) of Sutherland. The right hon. gentleman and airs. Gladstone and daughters leave towards the close of the week on a continental tour. On Moniay evening the Earl of Harrowby, as as president of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, delivered the inaugural address at the opening of the winter 'elision. The Maharajah of Lahore, Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India, has arrived with his suite at the Grand Hotel, Paris. ~"..~' qui t. St an at GI