The Express. — London, England, 1859-10-29 00:00:00

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RIGS WAT* AT LOMIDOM SUDO& raisigZirallt: ship as the Royal Charter keeping that Welsh lead close on board in the warm of weather, night coming oa, without a pilot, in the hope of finding one, and Ise the sake of laving a few hours at the close of an astonishingly rapid and successful passage. How the klat Charter ever hsd the right to get into that atrocious Dula, Bay, where the rode% stick up like jagged teeth, is a question quite as easy to ask es it Is difficult to understand how t►e Royal Charter should have ventured to pass Holy head in a gale without a pilot. From Holyhead to the paint where the ship struck is all damyer; and Seaga with the wind off the land and • pilot on board the course for • ship bound to the Mersey may be in shore, was it the safe course, it may be asked, under opposite circumstances? Yet it is not to be presumed for a moment that the common signs of weather, or the rules for approaching land, were deliberately set at nought, or that the weather glasses were not consulted, or that the tidal currents and the notorious indraught on the Welsh coast were forgotten or neglected by the lamented com m•nder of the Royal Charter and his officers, none of whom, alas! remain to tell the story. From the moment when it was found that the ship could not make head agenda the hurricane and the indraught, and that it was impossible to make the Mersey, the late of the ship needs no explanation. Blue lights end rockets were burnt for a pilot; but, as no one who knows Welsh pilots will be surprised to hear, no pilot appeared ; and, pilot or no pilot, it was now too late. The ship was hove to, and drifting help- Italy into Hulas Bay. Here she let go her anchors, " keeping her screw working to ease the " cables." One after the other the cables parted with the strain ; at 2.30 she struck, the tide ebbing, sad with the flood she went broadside on to the shelving beach, literally split in two amidships, end was smashed to pieces on the rocks. We are guilty of no presumption in drawing one conclusion, and that is the worse than uselessness, the absolutely fatal mischief of the so-called " auxiliary" screw. The Royal Charter was, it should be remem bered, an iron ship of 2,749 tons, " originally " intended for a sailing vessel," bat transformed into • screw steamer, " with engines of 300 horse " power." The value of these screw engines to a ship of this size and quality seems to us at least pro blematical ; at best it could only serve her in making way across the " calm belts;' and as a set off to this exceptional service, there was the dead weight of the engines and the space they occupied, often to no pur pose. NYhatever may have been the use of the auxiliary screw in calms, it is too cer tain that in working off a lee shore it was not only not serviceable, bat dis astrous; it not only failed to claw the ship off, but It failed to ease the cables, and when the spars were cut away, the screw got fouled, and ceased to work. Is it absurd or unjust to suppose that had there been no auxiliary steam power in the Royal Charter she would have been permitted to hag a hie shore at night in search of a pilot, with a hurri cane dead on her weather bow, and • strong in draught to the shore ? Had she trusted to her sail ing powers only, would she not have consulted her weatherglasses more anxiously, and kept well out to sea ? We do not attempt to answer these questions, but we ask them deferentially, sorrowfully, and under • due sense of responsibility. The Royal Charter, like others of her class, was probably built for speed rather than for strength; and it is no secret that these Australian clippers are severely strained by "carrying on." It is no matter of surprise, then, that the ship "split amidships" after she struck, " letting " her engines and passengers through," and afterwards parted longitudinally "at the fon " hatch." Even the Great Eastern would ha►e been 'only tried by such aan on such a shore. Let as draw a veil of pity over the horrors of that scene. The poet of "The ahipwnek," with all his imagina tion, aided by all his terms of art, has not conceived anything more terrible than the sudden, complete, and indiscriminate distraction of the Royal Charter &VICTIM', SATURDAY, OCT. 29. TIIIR6 is a true savour of esa salt in the grim irony of that couplet in one of Dientres sea songs, where JA. K is contrasting the freedom and security ai life aboard ship with the continual jeopardy to Odell landsmen who walk about streets and dwell in bows are exposed: _ _ While you mid I, Bill, on the deck Are condoetably lying, My eyes '. what tiles and ellimbly pots Around their beads are flying. The recklessness of temperament which nada a lad to sea, and which, hardened and confirmed by conflict with the elements, laughs at real danger,and yet is apt to shriek with • sort of dismayed disgust from the vulgar incouvenieoces of artificial existence. is happily and humorously expressed. The dweller in dims, on the other head, with all his habitual scepticism and indifference, who peeps at the moon as at a raree show, and takes a return ticket to go and gape at an eclipse from some distant hill in the country—your acute, hard-headed, practical man on 'Change, in the Law-court, in the (tub, stares and marvels like a mere baby when he is brought face to face with the terror and mystery of nature in any of her sublimer moods. A fashionable public) at Brighton running out lo Pee the effects of a gale of wind upon " real "water" is merely as sorry and ludicrous a combination as the genius of mockery can devise for the laughter of the stars. Accidents and offences, fires and mur ders, burglaries and poisonings, are es dull and stale as taxation, or aa births, deaths, and marriages they are the " useful and the beautiful" of well regulated society ; and who but a dry statistical philanthropist reads the wreck-l i st, or ponders the significance of the annual catalogue of casualties among merchantmen and coasters ' It is only when the great meteorological staple of Engliak coovereation derives a certain freshness and novelty from • sudden attack of winter upon the rear of autumn, or when a hurricane lute torn up a tree in the park and blown an old woman into the neer or • child into the canal, that our inland world begins to feel that the Universe is sot absolutely done to order yet. Last Tuesday night, when town and country were well abed, and let us hope not without thank• fulness of heart, nor without having taken thought of " all those who travel by land or sea ;"—when even the rancid haunts of vice in London were emptying, and the homeless were shaking off to snatch forget fulness Walt here out of reecho( wind and run:—in the dead hour of • desolate night, desolate enough among street lamps flickering in a clammy fog, more desolate still when • sickly moon peered dimly through a drift of ragged cloud, and the wind howled and moaned with • roar of 'ogle and anguish— in that desolate night and that dead hour one of those terrible calamities which are remembered for cen turies was hurrying near five hundred of our fellow-creatures to sudden death at sea, after • safe and prosperous voyage of twelve thousand miles. within six hours of port, and within stooethrow of the long wished for land. Heartrending and dis astrous is the shipping intelligence of this week all round our coasts, but the wreck of the Royal Charter will be a melancholy fireside tale among our children's children. If, indeed, what is called i The above has been sworn by the executors, progress" be truly defined ea en increasing d em i . I George Robert Stophemea, dell "newer ; Charles Parker, , or Bni:ifiel.danhdCcohas. P sure t ark .. er sßidd er,heets or civ f d engi neer. tpis Dion over time and apace, then England, marching T so b li . citor d at the van. atones for her pre-eminence by many • demi the 13th of August, IMO. The persoetalty% el; rn hostage. We talk of bridging seas by the size and under 400.0001. The principal legatees are the executors. speed of our ships, but every now and then we offer I The coon. of the dammed, George Robert Stephenson, of up costly sacrifices to avenge our triumph', and coo- Wimbledon, in the county of Berrsy, boa bequeathed to him net our pride, the deceased's letterset in the factory at Newcastle, and in the Saitetone Collieries in Leicestershire, which the deceased It would be eery for some glib interpreters of Pre- Inherited from his father, the late Gorge Stephenson. videoce to prottotance homilies on the fate of a ship Th o w o w., also i.ees to the same curia his leasehold laden with the root of all evil, and of men hasting to loam in Olouceater-square, Hyde-park, together with the be rich ; for it is certain that the Royal CAorter I ternitare, pictures, plate, library, win., and other affects; belf of the furniture and effects in the deceased' s had at least 400,0001. on board, and that many Or her passengers were returning from Australia with for- 4111" ,........„ jaCimaiCie""*.treel ' Wistai"ter ' kbe°tharb.ifb.1 " to Mr. George Parker Bidder. Mr. George tunes in their hands. But this catastrophe may further obtains as absolute bequest of point, we think, a osier and more serviceable moral. To s t ook is massy. The other two elevators receive mortal eight human destinies are at best a chute, and IO , OJOI. esch. To Messrs. Robert sad James it is not for mortal wisdom to presume to fabricate Stephenson, two other cousins of the deessesd, rosident is Newaestle-on-Tync, then beensatheill out of inexplicable chances • providential orderer its own. Here, for instance, was a ship touching at t;l:ietb.su'aN f ew 6616:1* each. T h h : de "" • ,.. M's Carlow Queenstown, and landing thirteen passengers, one watt that establishment , t , a an re each t le r ft gen 2, t o:l 4a . c4ru sessd . is of whom left his wife on board to pursue her voyage wed to a lady named Emily Lister, late of Boulogne. to Liverpool, and, as it turned out, to meet death on wer-lier, ant 1,600!. each to her two eisters. Legacies of the way; here were ten poor riggers, just returned 2,llooLimehare left to various civil engineers, including Mr. from working • vessel to Cardiff, taken on board from " Una ailwk of Sydenhern. Mr. Th o mas Eli o t H ur i e s i Mr. W. M. Buidae, of C deceud lapham, Au.% Several Smola a steamtug in the Chaunel, and five of them con demned to perish with • ship that had come all the I deed , swim krpeies o f 2,000 , '" : t Tohet whom aare67. 1. way from Australia in safety. Who will Preum. Ifa left ter lb. mainwaance and education of the to jadge? " The one was taken and the other left. * I caiktrea of the late Mr. &arbor*, of Walbrook. An Let us be content to morelloe more humbly and i sanuity of 100/. is provided for • servant of the deceived, humanely on the fate of oar fellow-creatures. eamt.d Margaret Torolineou ; and th e sum o f 20/, each lt Mrs • M all the other servants who h o d b een w i t h M r. miserable task, while the bodies of the poor castaway aispheases upwards of twelve nx.whe The will further people are still awaiting Christian burial, to look lathlike begun , " to vast philantbroide and educational about for whom to blame, when all but • score are Mediations, the particulars of which have been already beyond the reach of blame or praise. It is easy published; and it concludes by veering the residuary .State for us to wonder and regret that the Royal I equally is the three esecurors. The will Is remarkably simple is Its language, and almost entirely hoe from technical town should ever have passed on from Queens town and sailed up the Irish Channel without a pilot P bram44 "Y' in wild and threatening weather—that without a pilot, and with a northerly gale cowing on, she should have pawed by Holyhead, and kept hogging • dead lesshore at night along the most dangerous line of all our coast. Any one who knows that coastor who has even glanced at a chart, cannot fail to be struck with consternation at the bare thought of such a with her four hundred and seventy souls on board, and her chests of gold—all going down together in that hungry sea, and torn to pieces by these cruel rocks. Yet even a ca lamity like this has its compensations; for all ea board, from Captain TAYLOR—who by his stead fast devotedness and unalterable courage preserved discipline to the last, and died like a British mansua at his post of duty—to the poor seaman who volun teered to carry through the blinding hurricane and the foaming surf a hawser to the rocks, and the good clergyman who calmly said the last prayers for the dying, all met death unflinchingly, and in their lut moment' left an example to the few who survive, and to all who mourn them. THE INDIAN MIITIMY.—The Gaztite ofyestertity pallitahon a report, submitted to the Secretary of State for lode in Council by the Governor•Geneeal, from Lieutenant G. Hawthorn, commanding kid &tic:Moroi 24th Bombay Natty. Infantry, of operations usenet the rebels at Gonda, on the 19th of Juno lreS9. Hot Becelkoacy M Council desires to record hie sppr, al of the manner to which them opera. time wan conducted, and odors Ilia thanks to all engaged on ecostioa. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1869. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE KING OF SARDINIA. The second edition of the Times contains a letter addressed by the Emperor of the French, on the Roth inst., to the King of Sardinia, the perfect au thenticity of which the Paris correspondent has no hesitation in guaranteeing : Monsieur mon Prtra—l write to-day to your Majesty •a order to set forth to you the present situation of affair., to remind you of the par, and to settle with you the tonne which ought to be followed for the future. The circum ishinoes are grave; It is requisite to lay wide illusions and sterile regrets, and to examine carefully the real state of affairs. Thus, the question is not now whether I have done well or 11l in making peace at Vithdrinca, but rather to obtain from the treaty rosette the most favourable for the pacification of Italy and for the repose of Europe. Before entering on the discussion of this QUedtiol2, I am anxious to recall once more to your Majesty the obstacles which rendered every definitive negotiation and every defini tive treaty so difficult. In point of &et, war has often fewer complications than peace. In the former two interests only are in presence of each other—the attack and the defence; in the latter, on the contrary, the point is to reconcile • multitude of interests—often of an opposite character. This is what ✓itually occurred at the moment of the peace. It was sec's suy to conclude • treaty that should secure in the best sum" possible the independence of Italy, which should satisfy Piedmont and the wishes of the population, and yet which should not wound the Catholic sentiment or the right' of the Sovereigns in whom Europe felt an interest. I believed then that, if the Emperor of Austria wished to come to • frank understanding with me, with the view of bringing about this important result, the causes of antagonism which for oenteirim had divided these two em pires would disappear, and that the regeneration of Italy would be effected by eommon accord, and without further bloodshed. 1 now state what are, in my opinion, the essential con ditions of that regeneration : Italy to be cootposed of several independent Mates, united by federal bond. Zech el theme States to adopt a particular representative system and salutary reforms. The Centedevesion to then ratify the prisoiple of Italian nationality; to have bat one em, but one system of customs and one currency. The directing metre to be at Rome, which should be composed of representatives named by the Sovereigns from a hot prepared by the Chambers, in order that, in this species of Diet, the 'senesce of the reigning families mo nocled of a lasing towards Austria should be counter balanoed by the element resulting hom election. By granting to the Holy lather the honorary Presi dency of the Confederation the religious sentiment of Catho- lic &trope would be satisfied, the moral influence of the Pope would be increased throughout Italy, and would enabN him to make coucesalons in oonformity with the Medinae wishes of the populations. Now, the plan which I hid formed at the moment of making peace may still be carried out, if your Majesty will employ your influence in promoting It. &sides, a considerable advance has been already made in that direction. The cession of Lombardy with a limited debt is an accom plished fact. Austria has given up her right to keep garrisons in the strong places of Placenta, Ferrara, and Commeeblo. The rights of the sovereigns have, it Is true, beat re• served, but the independence of Central Italy hos also been guaranteed, inasmuch so all idea of foreign intervention has been formally set aside; sad, lastly, Voiotia is to become a province purely Italian. It is the reel interest of your Majesty, as of the Peninsula, to second me in the develop. meet of this plan, in order to obtain from it the best results. for your Majesty cannot forget that I am bound by the treaty ; and I cannot, in the Congress which is about to open, withdraw myself from my engagements. The part of France Is traced in forehand. We dem►nd that Parma and Piacenza shall be united to Piedmont, because this territory is, in a strategical point of view, Indispensable to her. We demand that the Ditched* of Parma shall be called to Modena ; That Tuscany, augmented, perhaps, by a portion of ter ritory, shall be restored to the Grand Doke Ferdinand ; Ilia a system of moderate (sags) liberty shall be adt;pted In ell the Bates of Italy; That Austria shall frankly disengage herself from au in esmant case of embarrassment for the future, and that she shall content to complete the nationality of Venetia, by creating not only a separate representation and aritniaiatra. tin, but aboo ea Italian army. We demand that the fortresses of Mantua and Patchier& shall be recognised as federal fortresses. And, lastly, that a Confederation based on the real wants, ma well as on the traditions of the Peninsula, to the exclu sion of every foreign influence, shall consolidate the fabric of the independenoe of Italy. I shall neglect nothing for the attainment of this great result. Let your Majesty be convinced of it, my unticoents will not vary, and so far as the interests of Franca are not opposed to It, I shall always be happy to serve the cause for which we have combated together. Palace of St. Cloud, 20th October, 1869. TURKEY. The following translation of an Imperial Haft, read to the Sublime Porte on Saturdai, the 15th October, in presence of all the ministers and high functionaries of the empire, has been received at Mr. Rester's office: "To the Illustrious Grand Vizier. " Tne first basis and the foundation of all the strength and all the prosperity of a Suite is its financial position. Without credit and without con fidence progress becomes impracticable. Notwith standing the material expenses of the country, it Is incontestable that if order was introduced into the, administration of the public money, and it wu em ployed usefully, the country would in a short time arrive at the realisation of this strength and this prosperity. It has, however, been proved to be true for some dampest, and from different causee, that the blow that has been given to the credit of Turkey has thrown the country into the abyss in which it is now plunged. Powerful and daily calla on the govern ment have necessitated the contract of loans from the merchants of Galata on heavy and ruinous conditions, as likewise the issue of different kinds of paper money, and all confidence has been destroyed, as well in the interior as in the exterior of the State. Disorder in the expenses has on another side increased the evil, and brought matter, to the situation that they are now in. " With the aid of the Most High, I am about to employ an incessant zeal in ord. r to anticipate the dangerous effects of this state of things. My sovereign and absolute will is that my ministers, on their part, should spare neither pains nor efforts, and should devote themselves to the development of those means which will insure the well-being of Turkey, without allowing themselves to be led away by considerations of personal rivalry. He who would act in opposition to this end would have to render an account of his conduct in this world and in the next. And as it is only by the adoption of energetic measures that we can draw ourselves from the abyss in which we are now plunged, and likewise save the credit of the empire, we must examine in a terious ►nd profound manner, both in principle and in detail, the great point—namely, the abandonment or change in those customs and acts which have occasioned all these expenses, and, with God's assistance, re-organise the general administra tion of the country in a manner that will give confi dence to the world. I command that the result of the examination which will be made into this im portant question shall be submitted to me." The minister of jimmies lately made his report on crime in France, sad gave the abetnict of it In the columns of be Xonitewr. Tile minister took this occasion to make some instructive contrasts between crime in Franca and crime in England, in the course of which the Lord Chancellor was described se presiding st the Old Smiley : EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ()1011 OVA OWN COI PARIS, FRIDAY JOINING. . ' M. Orandguillot publi s h es in the Constdutionnel No. 1 of a series of articles on the coming congress. What the writer is instructed to aim at will perhaps be developed more clearly hereafter, but the present production is so transcendental, so cautiously ob scure, that I can namely venture to offer an obser vation upon it. Of Italy, to settle the affairs of which we have hitherto understood the congress is wanted, there is not a word throughout the article. The main point insisted on is that the treaties of 1816, which were made against France, must be revised. Well, they have been revised very considerably in practise; and I suppose no statesman in Eng land now cares to swear by them. But in what respect these treaties are a present grievance to France does not appear. There has been a ru mour afloat that the Emperor wants a congress for mally to revoke that clause of 1816 which proclaims the Bonaparte dynasty incapable of reigning in France. This point is, however, not alluded to, at least intelligibly, in the present article. What good the Emperor would derive from compliance with this whim, now that all the powers of Europe have recognised him for years, I scarcely see. Of course he cannot expect England or any other power to guarantee the throne which he owes to universal suffrage in France, if ever universal suffrage should change its mind. But, as I have already said, the arucle is too vague to be worth much com ment. We must await further explanation of the Idle Napokowieme. The Journal du Sarre says that the Xing of Abyssinia has made over to France the isle and port of Masionah, in the Red Sea. One of the most splendid public buildings in Paris, the Palace of the Luxembourg, the old Cham ber of Peers, and now the Senate House, has been in great part destroyed by tire. The alarm was given at 1 o'clock this morning, and in a few minutes afterwards several fire engines arrived on the scene of the disaster, but the flames had then made a great head. The fire had broken oat immediately under the dome which conspicuously terminates the Rue de Seine. The circular hall in winch the Senate hods its sittings principally suffered, and, in consequence of the num ber of passages by which this halt is surrounded, it was a long while before the engines could be so or ganised as to play upon the flames with effect. At 6 o'clock the dome fell io, and then the whole Senate House was nothing but a heap of ruins. Two fire men and two servants of the Senate were dragged out from the rubbish much injured, but it is hoped that their lives will be saved. At present I have not heard of any loss of life. The damage is estimated at from 400,000 fr. to 600,000 fr. It is feared that the paintings of Abel de Pujol and Vauchelet must be entirely destroyed. The statues of Colbert, Malesherbes, D'Agueseau, and Mole are not injured. The gallery of paintings is not, I believe, touched. The fire was got over by 8 o'clock in the morning. Nothing is known of the origin of the catastrophe. A judicial inquiry is ordered. The Bourse opened with tolerable firmness, and, after a very slight reaction, recovered for the close to about the opening prices. The last quotation of the Rents for cash was the same as yesterday, 891 r. 40c. For account there was a rise of 10c.; the last price being 139 fr. 46e. Mobilier rose Mr. Railways left off at very nearly yesterday's prices. THE HOIIAGNA. The following proclamation has been addressed by Garibaldi to the municipalities of the Romagna : Among the courageous people of antiquity the wife and children of the patriot soldier were regarded es a moat sacred charge, confided to the faith and gratitude of the citizens. And among ourselves, while we are using all our efforta to call the youth to arms, we do not forget the obligations which we incur when we take them from their families and their work. Would it not be black ingratitude to let the soldier engaged In the public defame km fur hie indigent and deserted family, and :experienoo the cruel tortures of the heart In addition to the fatigues of war ? Should not the love of the citizens coneole the bereaved for the lots of their dear ones by apmetttiog more substantial than mete words It is time, gentlemen, that we should work with all oar hearts in obedience to this lively and undeniable sentiment of justice. It is time that the municipalities should seriously set about succouring the indigent families of the volunteers, as Tuscany has sloesdy done. We do not wish to encounter the sad sight of patents languishiog in misery, solely because their eons have shown themselves generous to their country, 1 implore, thee, in favour of the necessitous families of oar volunteers, the generous tounilicence of the municipali ties and of the wealthy citizens. The chiefs of corps will trensmit to the headquarters of the divisions a detailed list of the soldiers who belong to in digent families, and the staff will take steps to bring them to the knowledge of their respective municipalities. G. GARIBALDI. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Teuton* steamer, Captain Hensen, from New York, October 16, has wired at Cowes, and proceeded to Hamburg. Her advice* are anticipated. She brings 764,316 ;lola. in specie for England, 69,000 for France, and 4,000 for Hamburg; 39 pas_ aengers for this port ; 102 for Hamburg. On the 16'h of October she passed the Hammonia steamer, hence to New York, in let. 40.26 N., long. 67.20 W., all well. On the 17th spoke the British ship Flora, from Genoa, bound west, in lat. 41.19, long. 83.17 ; and on the 27th spoke the British ship Eleanor, from Bombay, for Liverpool, lb days onti l in lat. 49.28, long. 11.20. The authorities at Berlin have opened the Museum and rioters Galleries in the Lustgarten on the Sandsys with the greatest sucrose. Crowds gather to the Egyptian Hall, admire the marble Apollo, an 4 filiservae, pore over the wondroua allegories of Kaulbach and Cornelius, without ap parent Injury M their morals." though," says thesf threatens, " much, it is rumoured, to the loss of the wine cellars sad dancing gardens." _ . . . Among other siT , ctiog incidents of the storm, one - - mentioned by a gentleman who returned from the neigh bourhood of Canway tm Wedeesday night. During that aftentoxa two little bays, one 11 and the other only 9 yearn of age, lashed to a piece of plank or small bit of timber, were wombed sahore at Conway, both still alive. It appeared that they had bees thus launched on the stormy waves by their father, from a little vessel, on Its proving unseaworthy. Our informant adds that the tether also reached the shore in sefety, and that the little ba:is meet have made a perilous Tome of at lame six milts on thew bit of plank. A Belgian, M. Teleophore Loip, or Gembloux, has scorptel the invitation of the Brazilian government to navi gate the Amazon river from its source to its mouth. Y. Lois hes engaged eizty-four bold men to try the adventure with him, and ha, informed the Royal Belgian Aeadmy that, should be perish In tho undertaking, he hid taken met awes M have him manuscripts and collections delivered to the Academy, _ _ . Iu the new number of the Correspondent just published there is a pa?er by It. de Mont.lambert on the peewit crisis In the Papal sitter, It is entitled " Pio IX, et la France en 180 et en 1859," He qu Aes with approval "the rhqutet protest of the Bishop of Orleans," and ea. reeds in violence the prelates who have written so bitterly against Piedmont. However, he thirty finds fault with France, which he considers as respon.itie for the recent policy in Italy, and urges that the recent events in Romagna which have caused DO much irritation among the clergy are to be attributed to France stone. :MB CILINCALLORSHIP OP 6142VBCBGE1 UM VIRBI7I. EDINBURGH, FRIDAY EveNIN.,. The General Council of the University of Edin burgh rose to-day, in the Music Mall, at 12 o'clock. Sir David Brewster, Principal, presided. Professor Chrisdeon nominated, and Sir George Clerk ereciaded, the Duke of Bucciench as Chancellor of the University. The Solicitor-General, seconded by Dr.Alerander Wood, proposed Lord Brougham. The speaking lasted till 2 o'clock, and the roll of 1,393 members was thee called over, which occupied the meeting fill nearly 6 o'clock, the door, of the hall being meanwhile strictly cloud. The numbers as intimated were:—Lord Brougham, 664 ; the Duke of Buocleuch, 419 ; majority for Lord Brougham, 266. The result was received with loud cheers by Lord Brougham. supporters, and s large crowd awned the result outride. In the evening Lord Brougham's election was celebrated by the ringing of the bells of the city churches. At 7 the council again met to elect an enamor to the University court:—Lord Names, seconded by Professor Byrne, propned Sir John M'NeUl ; Dr. Douglas Madigan, seconded by Mr. Morton, proposed Solicitor-Generel Mait land. The mambas were :—For the Solicitor-Oseseal, 272 ; Sir John 184; majority, 88. 4 TIMMS ELECTION. (SY ARITIAN AND !RUIN NAONITIC TELIO/LAIII.) CLOSE Or MIS ROLL. - - --- Foe air J. Farmers .. For Mr. Campbell 1 4wrii7 • • 1.687 1,641 -46 THE WILL OP THE LI rs 301111 T STEPHENSON. nom` gin Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, OCT. 28. The following •isitors arrived at the Cutle yer Urdu aftereoon, and dined with her Majesty In the seeping —The Duke et Cambridge, attended by Lent-Colonel Che ese; the Preach Atubseadoe and Counter de Peralgny ; eel the Hecht Hon. Sidney and Mn. Herbert. The party she leshmled the Princes Alice, the 11011. Mrs. T. AC DMitheb, sad Major Elphinecee, ne bus d of tie f3;emadier Guards performed daring dinar : t=s. " sad &maw" llubdoloongt. arum Iskel""thillsal Tell ...... nera. "Kan Wives,/ Illedur" ..... ... ........ ........ Haw Mojaikes prlvano MEI Ada played the follow ing pions: . Le * sex u 4.. ........... .... Hd. . . _ The Qom walked in ths HUM, Park this morning, at. by the Hoe. Lucy KW. MIMS Helena and Print Louise rode 111 the Riding- The Prince Cowart, soconspanied by the Duke of Cam bridge end the Count de Perim, wad oat .booting. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Pint Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were— Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Her bert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Earl of Elgin, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. lament Pe!mentor, arrived in town yesterday morning from his veal, Woodlands, Hants. The Chancellor of the Er'bequer ham returned to town from Hawarden Castle. Chester. The Bight Hoc T. Milner Gibson has arrived In London from his seat in Suffolk. Deepatchea from the Governors of the Cape, St. Helena, and Natal weirs received yesterday at the Colonial-Glib,. Deepatches were oat to the Governors of Canada and the Bahamas. IHB PRINCE OF WALES' BIRTHDAY. OXFORD, OCT. 28. Ate meek of the members of the tow ' n council, held Ude receeieg, convened by the mare, it Ins nasal mealy reialved to commemorate the birthday of bi. Royal Risher. the Prises of Wales, on the 9th of November, by entertabdee the children of ail the school. with a public dinner, end that the members of the university and city are invited to co-operate in (Grammes of the same. On Tuesday the Prises of Wales was enrolled a member of the Oxford University Boat Club, and on the mane day, accompanied by the Doke of Marlborough, he paid a visit to Ituesers Innis court, in Or id-attest, sad pleyed at tennis there kr nee time. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have left Breeethinde, far their meet, Bt. Giles, Dorset. The Countess of Kenmore has left Finances Hotel, Belgravis, for the Bristol Hotel, Melton. Tn. Counties of Caledon has left Farranoe's Hotel, Belgravia, for her mansion to Carlton Hoese-terrsoe. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Thursday evening, from his seat, Broadlands, Hants, His lordship returned to Broadlands yesterday afternoon, where her lady. ship is entertaining a select circle. Sir Robert Peel boa arrived in town. Lady Emily Peel ta expected In town to-day, train Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Right Hon. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper are staying at Blenheim Hoar, on a visit to the Dab mi Duchess of Msrlborough, and will shortly lases for Broad lands on a visit to Viscount sad Viscountess Palmerston. Sir Peter and Lady Fairbairn h►re arrived at liowehin's Hotel from their u►t, Woodsley House, Londe Sir Alexander Cockburn (Lord Chief Juatice of England) has been the gout of the Rev. C. R. Band, at Coombe Raleigh, near Ratites. On Wednesday his lord ship left fur Dulverton, when thin was a stag hunt. On Wednesday lut, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, with two of his sons, Lords Frederkk and Edward Cavendish, descended the Bpringwell coal pit, situate on Ida grace's estate at Stave*, and travelled under ground kr two mike. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton hu returned to England, and we (Bervtlef) are happy to state that the right bon. baronet is in the enjoyment of perfectly recovered health. The Earl of Romney, who for the lut thirteen years has discharged the duties of Chairmen of the Quarter Sesame, bas intimated his titivation of retiring from that position. Amongst than, whams spoken of as his lordship's probable successor, (fathoms Hardy, Eq., M.P., of Hem- Ned, holds t h e moat prominent plats. . - Lady Peel was the second daughter of General Sir John Floyd, Baronet, by Rebecca, daughter of Mr. Charles Drake. Her marriage with the late Bir Robert Peer took place on the Bth of Jona, 1820, in the drawing-room of her mother's maidanoe in tipper Seymour-street, and was attended with the happiest mull". Her ladyship was remarkable for personal beauty, and among the pictures of the late Sir Robert Peal la a portrait of the deceased lady in a hat, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and furmiog a companion to Reubens' Chapeau de faille;' for which latter Sir R. Peel gave the large sum of 3,500 guineas. We hay* to announce the demise, somewhat suddenly, of Mr. A. K. 0003, of the Foreign-odice, who died on Thursday night, at Tunbridge Willa, from brosehitia. Mr. Oom bad been attached to the Foreign-Aloe, having been appointed a clerk in the railed British and Spanish Commission in October, 1819, and became one of tbemenior clerks of the Foreign Department is December, 1845. On Thursday night the Gesso( Carlisle delivered, in the lectors-room of the Athenteum, is Carlisle, a lecture upon "Tobacco: its influences, phystcal, moral, and tali- Iri0111." Is the opinion of the dean the weed produas nothizig but nil. A lecture was delivered by Mr. Mellor, M.P., for Nottingham, at the Ideehanies' Institution, on Tuesday evening, in connexion with the Nottingham Y,,uog Men. Christian Aaeocietion, the 'abject being " John Saida*: his Ws and times." Tuesday or Wednesday next is the date at present Axed for the departure of the Omer Beaters for South asuptoo. The course will be made under Noy steam for the Scilly Islands. and a vary general hope le eetartained that Captain Hanioon will give them a suffkiently wide berth to amble the Great Kaaren to try her powers little way down Channel, where at this tine of the year a sea will certainly be met with. It gives us pleasure," says the Nurfulk News, "to meaty the intelligence to the Freemasons of this ceenty, that their Provincial Grand Muter, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., shoes chanties to the diagramed of all chimes in society era generally known and eppv-ciated, is progres sively recovering from his late severe ledimpositioa, though It is painful to add that he has entirely lost the eight of one A oorrespoodent of the Atheneum, writing from Florence, says The government of Bologna has lately obtained proofs of a fact wbieb, to most Englishmen, will doubtless seem incredible, and which would probably appear so even to Italians, if they did not know that the late King of Naples, of merciless memory, Nice used the same un righteous expedient in order to excite anarchy in Sicily ; and that Austria not long ego employed it at Verona to give rise to deeds of violence in Lombardy. A number of galley slaves have been recently releaeed by the Roman govern meet, sad fornuhtd urth pis...pnrts for Acomegwa." Daring l'etaee Napoleon's stay in England he purchased a small steam yacht from Mr. ll.gby, a wall kaowa shirbudder at Holyhead. Is visiting the Great Meatiest at that port the attention of hie imperial highness wee stiracted by the remarkable rapidity sad facility of move mast of the yacht, and having visited It, he was so struck that ha a:premed • trial to parchame It. Mr. Rigby OA 11111Stad to sell it for 7001., the cost prior, and his royal high- WM caused it at once to be taken to tow by the Dauphin, in which ha had pia to England. The Archduke and Archduchess Maximilian, the Austria& journals etas, are about to take a see seclusion which will last eight months. Their latprriol blghwasets intend to eirit Madera, Rio Janeiro, end other places. --- A new operetta by Mr. H. Leslie, to text by Mr. J. P. Simpson, has been 'capitol at Coyest Garden Theatre. Preparstan, too, ie there going oil for tno production of Loris's, by Mr. Wallace. EMMONS FOB 110VILVBAR. (From le Pellet) After having been for some time elternating be tween num& and winter garb, we think we may now es. pert that the cold weather has fairly met in, and, therefore, we recommend to the notice of oar readers some new materials which will be in vogue. A new woollen fabric, with patterns of flowers woven in, or brochem, will be very fashionable this winter. Reps antique . with black or brown ground, sprigged all over with email flowers in blue, pink, green, lilac, &c., ere also in great Grow. This material Is very thick, end is also made in stripes. One of the prettiest of these dengue is narrowdrab striper, with small bouquets of lilac-coloured flowers between. Another is dark green stripe, with Pompadour bouquets. There is slap a new poplin, cillei the Bombix, resembling the woollen poplin, but finer, and much better made. Tae patterns are copies of the silks of the present season. We must also men tion a woollen material used for dressing-gowns, which is both warmer and softer than anything that ►ae yet appeared for this purpose. Rich plain or striped silks, velvets, reps, moires antique, gine grants, and rich silk; in all colones, with narrow stripes of black velvet woven in, are all much worn. For evening dream or for visits of ceremony, silver grey, maize, salmon, and mauve are the favounte colours. Black velvet is also worn for walking and visiting dresses. These are generally made in the redingote form, and trimmed down the front with three rows of buttons, eurrounded by lace or black blonde. This trimming is the most fashionable. Many silk dreams are made with plain skirts. They re quire a very good material, and that the skirt be long. Mount*e are decidedly much less worn in walking dregs. Qaillse are no longer worn, but the front breadth is fre quently ornamented with handsome passementerie, buttons, ribbon, or velvet trimmings. Plaits of gitup, with a tamel at each side, decreasing io sire from the bottom to the waist, are vary pretty. Trimmings to match are made for the body and sleeves. We have seen an ornament of this material resembling embroidery, mixed with hanging buttons, placed on one aide only of the front of the skirts. Bands are again in favour, and sashes, very wide, and tied at the side in large bows. Wide fancy *carte, with fringed ends, are used ea sashes. Possementerie is a trimming in very great favour just now, and almost eclipaes braiding bows, and tassels. Thus are several elegant novelties In buinets, suitable for the change of weather, which we will now proceed to de scribe. One very recherche is made of black velvet, trimmed with a plume of four white feather,. The curtain of white tulle, with a rosette of black velvet covered with blmde. In the interior is a mixture of daisies i• white and black velvet. The strings of white ribbon. Another of white royal velvet, with a sc trf of ponesan velvet, the end. falling on ea:h side awl trimmed with fringe. The curtain of blonde. A poncesu velvet plait ornaments the inside. The strings are white. A third—very simple, yet styliah—is of black velvet, and the front has a broad binding of groeeilk dee Alpes. A small Chantilly voilette is worn with this. In the interior • bandeau to match the binding, with a bouquet of daisies, is placed. The colour of the strings is also groseille des Alpe'. A fourth, more dressy than the last, is of white ribbed velvet. It ham a trimming bordered with blonde hanging in drapssy on one aide, whilst on the other it is finished off by two white feathers, which partly fall over the front end join, with a large rose of a rich oolour ornamenting the in aide. White strings. An elegant bonnet of Lily green velvet, with a plaited blonde fiche hanging over a tulle curtain, is very suitable for a dress occasion. Green and white feathers mined trim the outside, and a spray of white laurel the inside. Strings of white ribbon. White crape bonnets are only allowable now when bordered with a broad edging of bright-coloured velvet, trimmed with block lace. For instance a white crape bonnet, bordered with mauve velvet. A Chantilly fenchon. The curtain is to match, and ahoy, also of crap, edged with velvet is placed at the side. White roam, without foliage, are arranged in the middle of this bow, and also ou theedge of the helmet, so as to form one bou quet inside and outside. Ora white crape bonnet may beedged with grossille velvet; Outride flower (always without leaves) is generally white snot black. With blue the flower would be white. Green of all shades is also used as a binding, sad also black ; with this, rose, or poppies are wore. With Leghorn bonnets, feathers or wide velvet are used ea trimmings. One we have seen had • very broad piece of black and pink velvet put across and plaited in three great plaits, covering the crown, and falling in two very wide and pointed ends upon the curtain. The velvet is plain, without any lace. The same ornaments may be t•ade of violet velvet. on • dark green taffetas. The strings should always be of the same colour as the bonnet, and not to match the trim- I min g' . . . . An extremely novel trimming, and one which we MOM mend, jet small bouquet of little feathers somewhat re sembling a large thistle. It Is tinned with the tips of ostrich feathers, cut ordinarily of two shades—the centre of one and the edge of another. Three el thew atv suit mint for a bonnet—two on the outside of the front and one in the in terior, but all three joining so ea to form one tuft. - • Foe Unloads of brunets, a trimming formed of a niche of coloured or black taffetas finely pinked is very becoming; especially suitable for a morning bonnet. Thls ruche is fuller at the top than the side,. They also make these ruches white at the side*, and across the top of coloured crape, matching the Bowers or ribbons. The burnous with name continue to be the shape of the comfortable out-door ...tun. worn this lese',ll, although the size round, far from diminishing, is greatly increasing, in order to °over the enormous am plitude of the skirts. The collar pelerine, pointed behind, replmsa the hood in heavy material, but are still worn with the burnous cf fancy woollen tingle in chelk, striper., or plaid, which are very fashionable in light colours—whits forming the ground. The newest style i. made with a deep flounce, with a heading of the same triennial as the burnous, and edged with velvet; a small rouleeu of velvet hiding the same. A kind of burnotui, or nardesaue with sleeves, is made of black poult de vas formed of eight breadths in points. The pointed collar is edged with a band of flat velvet. The large open pagoda. sleeves are trimmed to ruiveh. Each seam is piped with velvet, and the whole Is bound with velvet. Another, also of silk, is made of four parts, open at bottom, and fastened together with velvet ribbon, cut in deep pans, and live or !MVOS .terse is passeasenteri. The large sleeves and pointed collar are trimmed with velvet. But shawls of all deacriptioss, produced by the tuts and Iskill of our different meitufacteurre, are meetly in demand at presser. The rich Indian shawl is rivalled by the mar yellow. cheap productions. They are reit-Weir thicker, but the Oriental sityle gives them much seeming value. Attar the Cachemin, the woollen tissue. in rho Parisian style are much In demand. The reversible shawls, with double Froints, of drab flannel with black end red stripes, • broad border, striped the same, and covered with red I. sense* encircled with black: the mime style in violet and black, ruby and black, Sr violet and white upon Use drab ground, me extremely pretty. The ground is eon...times red, end the stripes have a gold thread running t 11 1 .011611 them. DRURY-LANE TIIZATRE.—A meeting of the pre prietora of the general sod sub committees of this theatre was held in the building on Thuooday atternoss, when the oompauy's seal wee affixed to • new lease which hat bast granted to Mr. E. T. Snots for • period of sores yeas , sad eight mouths from the I repeat time, at • rent of 4,100 i. per annum. Among tho proprietors present wore Lord Willits Lesson, Sir Wtiliato de 11.olte, Messrs. Rawlinson, Arabia, Captain Spencer, Sr The meeting congratulated theism* on hie past succoomes arid on having been enabled dada& the l ost seven y r+nto t ee upwards of 30,0001. rent. beddeam pending maay thouaoud pounds in decorationand property in the theatre. I.