The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-17 00:00:00

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MON WATER AT_LONDON.ITIDGT. tor DATZiiiiiiiii, 4171o7:7=Aft:rn;Z: 4h. Va. .114i0S101,—.115rabs, a. 505 - -...thernoom. sh. Ma. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. Few, indeed, are the dangers which menace a free born Briton in his course through life so great as those which now attend him during an after noon's walk in the streets of London. It is our happy lot to reside in a city from which science, intelligence, enterprise, and capital have gradually banished most of the evils from which our ances tors suffered. Shameful as is the condition, and squalid as are the dwellings of others even than our poorest poor, there can he no question in the mind of any candid traveller that, for people of affluence, London is, all things considered, by far the most enjoyable city in the world. It is the healthiest, the cheapest, the richest, and the most convenient residence. It is so large that even scandal and evil speaking are lost in it. No sane person of average intellect and ordinary occupations troubles himself about the doings of another, so as to make himself unpleasant. Though we have no organized spy system, we have, on the whole, as good a police as is known iu any country for the protection of life and property. No preventible disease is suffered to linger in our richer quarters. The well-to-do classes take the very best possible care of their health and comfort, and yet, so strange are the contradictions which exist in the best regulated communities, they have suffered an imminent peril to become one of the most familiar things in their daily lives. We are grown so accustomed to this constant risk of life and limb that we do not even estimate the danger which we run as of any importance worth caution or remark. Rash elderly gentlemen, feeble as to their knees and dim of sight, nod pleasantly to their wives and families as they venture boldly out for exercise ; the most absent-minded and unprotected females are sometimes seen on foot without escort. Yet it seriously admits of a doubt whether within a whole week all the mismanaged railways, penny steamboats, tipsy coachmen, garotters, and Fenian put together, could give such a numerous account of doleful mishaps as that which would be produced by a truthful chronicle of the accidents which occur between the White Horse Cellar in Piccadilly and the Bank of England every working day in the year. There are times when a person who may be obliged to go in a hurry from the Temple to Chan cery-lane and back again, or from the Mansion house to the Exchange, and thence to the Monu ment, hazards personal injury more real and diffi- ' cult to prevent than any a navigator need now confront in a voyage to the Arctic Regions. There are days, and especially hours in those days, when it requires nerves as strong, feet as fleet and firm, and a glance as quick, as would snake a distinguished member of the Alpine Club, to get a plate of soup or an oyster patty at Btacir's ; and it ought to be added that no meaner prize should lure a traveller into regions so diffi cult of access. Those hardy and reckless adven turers who will persist in taking a walk in popu lous neighbourhoods, between daylight and dark, upon those November days now coming, when fog and mist combine to smear our streets with in viaible grease, should be handed over to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Little readable tracts might be prepared for their enlightenment, and pretty illuminated cards hung up in the bedrooms and passages of their houses, earnestly calling upon them and all people who obstinately take exercise on foot to insure their lives. Fathers of families should feel bound to hand their wives, or to put in an envelope,carefully addressed to their executors, an accidents insurance ticket ; and if they on any occasion fail to do so, they should be delicately reminded of the omission when presented with their gloves and umbrellas. Such a proceeding perhaps would not add materially to the cheerfulness of the do mestic circle, but it would add much to its secu rity ; and a prudent housewife might console her self when the bread winner was a little too late for dinner, that if much injured, he would be much compensated. She might even cal culate the precise value of a broken leg or a broken ann ; and comfortably dismiss from her mind any anxiety about her tradesmen's bills should the brain or the limbs of the master be for a time disabled. Side by side, however, with this great civic danger, and in the very midst of it, a wonderful personage has grown up. This is the London Crossing-sweeper. Without giving implicit cre dence to Mr. Ti.►cxta.tT's theory, that this func tionary is a gentleman of polite address and elegant exterior, who drives a high stepping horse with a smart tiger, and wins the hearts of the young and beautiful by his delightful conversation and profuse expenditure, it may be reasonably inferred that he is very well off. There are some crossings over which thousands of well to-do and opulent people pass daily, and every day. Now, a crossing-sweeper who has carefully blacked his face with burnt cork and water is often a pitiable object to behold. This is the peculiar mixture which produces a Hindoo com plexion of any tint, without injury or irritation to the skin ; and if to this are added certain well THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1867. known other signs of fabricated distress, and a few mud-bedraggled rags fluttering in the keen cruel wind, an effective Regent-street costume is pro duced. Britons are not hard-hearted, and it would be probably far within the truth to assume that one person in every twenty gives something, if only a halfpenny ; while the thoughtless, the extravagant, and the ostentatious give much more when the begging is well done and per sistent. A crossing-sweeper has also many opportunities of rendering small services, taking messages, and directing stray folk upon their way. He seldom does any of these things unrewarded by some token of his employer's esteem in small change. Indeed, it will be easy to perceive from the tenor of his discourse that in such cases he considers his claim on the purse of the wayfarer as a just debt ; and it is not the custom of Englishmen to leave even the semblance of a claim undischarged. We have not mentioned the more popular arts of standing on the head, turning round like a wheel, and singing nigger melodies, by which appeal is often successfully made to the lovers of amusement by youths who have no sense of decorum, because it is evident that anything like activity is considered by its more legitimate members as beneath the dignity of the profession. The true artist, with a right knowledge of what is due to him, never moves from his post but to beg, broom in hand, and adroitly to brush up mud or dust over those who give him nothing. The London crossing-sweeper is, perhaps, one of the last of our really well paid sinecurista. He de rives, as we have shown, from his place an income such as would rejoice the heart of many an edu cated and laborious gentleman. His profession, indeed, is one which is all income. There is no outlay for so much as the value of a brass plate necessary ; and the less ho spends upon his per sonal appearance the larger will be his fees—a fact which has not been observed in any other liberal calling. Even petty tradesmen in the poorest neighbourhood' must be neat and clean ; they must not look squalid or smell of gin, on peril of losing all respectable custom. But the crossing sweeper may stand in Bond-street, or Piccadilly, at three o'clock on a fine afternoon in the height of the season, all in tatters, and with a nose of too bright a red not to have been very recently recoloured. The dirtier, the more maudlin, the more abject and ragged he can con trive to make himself the more numerous will be the kind words, the readier the smiles and the gifts of the flush and the fair. Might not all these things be advantageously altered when we get rather a more sensible class of parish politicians ? Might not a good crossing be given to a respectable, trustworthy man bound to perform his duty, and properly paid ? There are a great many things which want doing in our streets, and which might be well done by such a man. Street robberies, assaults, and insults to ladies, would not only be materially diminished by his presence, but there would be always a witness at hand to secure the legal punishment due to the guilty ; and to tell at once in which area the policeman on duty is lunching when instantly wanted. He might act as a silent crier, going peaceably from house to house giving notice of things lost or dropped in the neighbourhood, such as keys, purses, and handkerchiefs ; mention the rewards offered for their recovery or receive them from the finders in deposit till claimed. He might be bound to go on certain errands when called upon by any resident in his district, such as to fetch a doctor in case of sudden illness, or to give notice of a fire or an attempted burglary. Finally he might do his own business as it ought to be done. Hia chief duty should be to prevent street accidents, and at stated intervals, perhaps once in every ten minutes, stop random cab, and thundering van, private carriage and public omnibus, just long enough to render it possible for timid and infirm people to peas from one side of the road to another in cleanliness and safety. jeet which the bishop. had in view. Nevertheless the in crease ill the number of scholars since the resolution in 194;.: condemning the schools should decide the govern ment in refusing to meddle with so admirable a system. Give the bishops a charter for their college by all means, for little danger may be dreaded from an institution de pending for support "on the parochial contributions" which are so pathetically solicited from the faithful. The Telegraph thinks it strange that the bishops in considering what should be done with the revenues should neglect the education of their docks, and wonders they do not invite us to plant schools in every p►sish, to rear colleges in every large town, and to make the educational endowments large. With the funds at our command we could do all this so completely as to render the educa tional machinery of Ireland better than th►t of any other country. THE BISHOPS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT. The Times has been furnished with a long letter addressed by the Bishop of lowa to the Bishop of London, expressing the amazement he has felt at witnessing the extent of the ritualistic move ment in England. The vestment exhibition et Wol verhampton filled him with the saddest forebodings. An awful responsibility, he says, rests upon those en gaged in this movement, for the present excitement will end in many going into genuine itomanism, and many others into infidelity, rationalism, or indifferentism. The Times objects to any advice on the affairs of our church given as from a member of the late Pan-Anglican Synod. In the same way, regarding that synod ss having no authority whatsoever, it protests against the peremptory requirement of the Bishop of Oxford that the clerg► of his diocese should read the Lambeth encyclical to their con gregations. The majority of the persons who sign this document are bishops of the Scotch, the colonial, and the United States' churches, and these bishops have not the slightest authority over the faith of the people of England. The Bishop of Capetown claims a free church in South Africa. Let us, at least, maintain a national church in England. If we must listen to encyclicals and resolutions, let them, at all events, proceed from our own bishops. We shall be always ready to give a friendly welcome to bishops of the American and colonial churches ; but they must be content to come as friends, and to abstain equally from entangling us in their own disputes and from interfering in ours. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TEE PRINCE AND PRINCESS Or WALES. ANTWERP, Orr. IT. The King of the Belgians and the Prince of Wales have arrived here and immediately went on board the royal yacht Osborne, where they took luncheon with the Princess of Wales. The King will return to Brussels at noon, and the yacht will sail at 1 p.m. THE CONCORDAT. VIENNA, Ocr. 17. This morning's papers consider the Emperor's autograph letter to Cardinal Rancher as a proof that the times are really changed. It revives the confidence of the nation that his Majesty's efforts to carry out the duties he had undertaken as a con stitutional ruler will be realised. These hopes im part value to the letter and render it a political manifesto of the greatest scope. NORTH GERMANY. BERLIN, Ocr. 16, Evinnzio. In to-day's sitting of the North German parlia liament a bill abolishing the import duties upon cattle and sheep over the frontier from Burg, in the island of Fehmern, to Blorbro, in Schleswig, was adopted. NORTH SCHLESWIG. HADERSLEBEN, Oar. 17. The Nordschleawigitii.kncle of to-day asserts that the negotiations between Prussia and Denmark for a settlement of the North Schleswig question are based upon a proposal of Prussia that the Dano- Prussian frontier line in Schleswig be drawn be tween Hadersleben and Chriatianfoldt. ITALY. FLORENCE, Ocr. 17. Prince Humbert has arrived here. The papers deny the statement that Garibaldi had left Caprera. Menotti Garibaldi is announced to have assumed the general command of the Papal insurgents. TURKISH FINANCE. CONSTANTINOPLF., OCT. b. The Imperial Ottoman Bank has published the usual periodical statement of the Turkish govern ment account, according to which 835,000 liras have been received between the 13th of July and the 12th of October, to meet the half-yearly interest of the foreign loan and general debt. THE MAURITIUS MAILS. SUEZ, Ocr. IS. The Mesaageries Imperials.' steamer Emirne, with the above mails, arrived here to-day. She was delayed by damaged machinery. BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, Om. 16. The Ripon and Mazola& left this afternoon. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 19th, and the latter at Southampton about the 25th inst. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN (HEAVY) MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Ocr. 16. The Pera left at 6 p.m. on the 14th. All well. She may be expected at Southampton on the 19th inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Sumatra, from Southampton 12th inst., arrived to-day at 4 p.m., and leaves at 7 p.m. for Alexandria. THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sim 24. Intelligence from the seat of war announces that the position of affairs was unchanged. The siege of Humaita continued. President Mitre had refused to advance, and the Marquis de Cazia s was much dissatisfied. A rumour was current of the death of Urquiza. The Brazilian Chambers are closed. The govern ment, however, had previously obtained their sanction to the measures it bad proposed. AMERICA. (By ATLANTIC TZLEOLLPH.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 16, G rat. The steam-ship Fulton has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing Prices :—Gold, 143 i. Sterling exchange on London, 109 k. 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 ; Illinois, 1221; Erie, 72i. Cotton—Middling Up land, 20. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16. Petroleum, standard white, 34. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) FRANCE AND THE PAPAL RUM. Though the Times thinks there is good reason to believe that a second French expedition to Rome is immi nent, it is still willing to hope that the Emperor has not given the subject mature consider►tion. Fair play is certainly not allowed to the Roman, by their rulers. From France the Papal champion, rush forward openly ; from Italy the insurgents smuggle themselves in singly and stealthily. Non-intervention holds good against the Romans only. But the question has now outgrown the September convention. The quarrel is between all liberal Italy and all retrograde France. Between the Emperor Napoleon and Rome there is no possible reconciliation, let him do what he will, while Italy, on the other hand, has set is heart on its capital. By his hesitation M. Rattazzi has grievously jeopardised the destinies of the monarchy. The republic ought not to he left to conquer or die for Rome. Even if the French are ready to go there let Itattaszi be sure to be there with them, to be there before them. Let him strike first and negotiate afterwards. He need not say in whose name or for whose sake he goes to Rome. He need say nothing ; but just step in and bold hi, counseL Could France suffer it to be said that she does not disdain to go to war with the weak ; that she visite on Italy the vengeance she cannot wreak upon Prussis ? The Daily New will decline to believe in the possibility of a second French intervention at Rome until a French corps d'arntee has landed at Cirits Veochia. The evil coun sellors who would instigate the Emperor to the perpetra tion of a folly surpassing even the Mexican expedition are the bitterest enemies of his government. They bold him very cheap, as a ruler without a policy or a purpose which be can call his own. They would despise and hate him none the less for doing their work. While the Telegraph condemns the idea of French interven tion it feels itself bound to consider the exceeding difficulties which beset the French government. Rightly or wrongly the Emperor of the French accepted the mission imposed upon him by the policy of the Republic, and constituted himself for some eighteen years as protector and patron of the Holy See. Three years ago he agreed to withdraw his troops, on the condition that the Papacy should not be attacked from without ; and now, within a few months after fulfilling his part of the compact, be sees an insurrec tion which, initiated and supported from abroad, threatens to depose the Pope from his throne. Should the Italian troops pass the frontier it is to be hoped, nevertheless, the Emperor will consider that enough has been done, The Standard assumes very confidently that another French occupation of Rome will be destructive to the Italian kingdom, and that the abandonment of the September con vention and the Papacy would imply war, and that an immediate one, with Prussia. It goes on to contend that the Emperor cannot abandon the Pope without dishonour, and that Frenchmen with few exceptions would feel in dignant at "the submission of France to the vapouring of Italy." At all events. if Italy is to get Rome France will seek her compensation on the Rhine, and the Prussians will have to pay for the triumph of the Garibaldians. THE PROPOSED ENDOWMENT OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS. The Post defines the position of the Irish Roman church to be a place between the English government and the mass of the Irish people, asking for nothing, declining to accept anything, but so t►king it that the attitude consti tutes an assertion of right that makes conciliation imprso ticahle sad compromise impossible. The Irish prelates would not by any means decline palmation of the church property of Ireland, but they object to endowment in any amount or on any terms. The Herald points out that 'he overthrow of the na tional system of education is the main and paramount ob- TAR BRADFORD aucTinic. Though the issue of the above election is not a subject for party dissatisfaction, both candidates having been libe rals of an advanced type, the Daily News feels some mis giving at the result on account of the claims advanced by Mr. Thompson and his friends, and the character of the objections urged against Mr. Mull. One of Mr. Dickens's earliest sketches describes the election of • parish beadle, and the various claims for support put forward by the several candidates. " Bung for Beadle ; five small child ren " Hopkins for Beadle ; seven small children !" " Timkins for Beadle ; nine small children !" " Spriggins for Beadle ; ten small children (two of them twins) and • wife !" The successful candidate at Brad ford adopted the same tactics. " Thompson for member, in weak health at Dresden, and with an invalid son." This pathetic appeal, with the touching allusion to the sacred names of Thompson's grandfather, seems to have carried the election. Mr. Miall was, we presume, unable or unwilling to make political capital out of his own bad health, or that of any member of his family, or to tell any tales of • grandfather. He may claim that he is the child of his works—his labours stand to him for forefathers. The ground' of objection taken against him were precisely such as would be expected from men who based Mr. Thompson's claims on the family con siderations which we have mentioned. The liability to be assailed by epithets such as local nobodies, knowing no better and meaning no harm, freely cost at each other in their parochial and municipal broils, is one of the reasons which deter men of letters and culture from political life. the Evart. BALMORAL, Ocr. 15. The Queen drove out in the morning with Prim oew Christian and Princess Beatrice; and her Majesty again drove out in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise and attended by Lady Ely. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall. The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the governors of the West India islands, British Honduras, and British Co lumbia. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador has left town for Paris. During the absence of Count Apponyi Count Kaluoky will act as chirp': d'affaires. The Duke of Rutland has left Bute Lodge, Campden Hill, for Chevley, his residence near Newmarket. The Earl and Connteas Granville are in Paris, and will remain there till the end of the ensuing month. The marriage of Lord Willoughby de Broke and Miss Smith Barry Is to be celebrated to-day at Marbury Hall, Northwieh, Cheshire. Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton are enter taining a large family circle at 'Patton Park, Cheshire. The party have assembled for the wedding of the Hon. Hiss Egerton and Mr. Reginald Cholmondeley, which is to take place to-day. - Lord Fitzhardinge is seriously ill at Berkeley Castle. We have to announce the death of Mr. George Campbell De Morgan, M.A., of the University of London, Vioe-Principal of University Hall, one of a family of distin tingnished mathematicians. He was only 26 years of age. He had gone to Ventnor for the benefit of hia health, which had suffered from over work. The death of Dr. Edwin Maddy is also announced. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in and afterwards took the degree of D.C.L. A farewell dinner to Mr. Cluirles Dickers is about to be given immediately at Freemaaona' Tavern, the day fixed for it being Saturday, the 2nd of November. .. -... It is expected that the restoration of Chichester Cathedral will be completed about the middle of next month, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury will attend the re-opening of the cathedral. "The panic that prevailed at the Weat-end on Saturday and Sunday," writes " Argus" of the Poet, " re lative to the settlement on the late week at Newmarket, has abated, and on Monday matters proceeded very smoothly, and outwardly there were no symptoms of any scarcity of the precious metal. The large account to which I alluded was entirely settled, as I assured your readers would be the case, and the ring were as happy as a parcel of schoolboys breaking up for the holidays. Whether matters will mend next week remains to be seen, but if they do not, the race of backers will become pretty near extinct, for the whole season has been a frightful one for them, as the market returns will demonstrate." DEATH Or AN IRISH SPORTSMAN.—Mr. Frede rick W. Kennedy, a gentleman well known in Irish sport ing circles, died very suddenly on Sunday night, at bis re sidence in Limerick. He had for some years been muter of the Limerick barriers, and, indeed, of late maintained the pack almost at his sole expense, but failing health obliged him to give them up, a step which preyed greatly upon his mind, and appears to ha ve increased the physical decadence which necessitated it. Being unable to find any sportsman in the county who could be induced to take up the pack, Mr. Kennedy was obliged tu dispose of the dogs by auction, and they were accordingly brought to the hammer on Saturday, and purchased for the Hunt ing Club of Tipperary. Mr. Kennedy attended the atm , tion, and was so affected when be saw his canine favourites consigned to strangers that he shed tears ; but the animals treated hem to one last performance, which aroused the slumbering Nintrod's spirit and seemed to give him new life and energy. As they were tieing driven out of the suction yard, they perceived a pet deer belonging to the auctioneer, and an exciting chase ensued. The animal sped through all the principal street. of Limerick, followed by the baying dogs and an immense number of the popu lation, whose throats did duty for the huntsman's horn, until it returned to its owner's premises, where it was saved from the dogs. Mr. Kennedy declared that this impromptu run afforded him more enjoyment than any be had ever witnessed. The excitement of the unexpected event seemed to have a very beneficial effect on bim, and during Sunday he was in very buoyant spirits. In the course of the evening, however. sv, be wu walking across the yard of his residence, he fell down and expired without a word. An inquest was held on his remains, and it was proved that be died of dined' of the heart. The New York papers record the death of Izzy Lazarus, at one time a noted English pugilist. THE RISING IN THE PAPAL STATES. There is no decisive news from Rome, but both parties are recruiting their strength for the final struggle. The friends of the temporal power and the papacy are said to be arriving from all parts of catholic Europe in Rome for the defence of the Pope. On the other hand the liberal youth of Italy are proceeding by hundreds and thousands to augment the ranks of the Garibaldians, and strange as it may seem, the whole of catholic Italy appears to be as determined to have the Eternal City for the political capital of united Italy as some of the catholics outside of Italy appear resolved that it shall continue the religions capital of catho- licity. Tho Queen of Spain is said to be anxious for a Spanish intervention, but both Narvaez and Gon zalez Bravo—reactionary though they be—refuse to commit the government to such a proceeding, and the Milan Gazette announces the arrival there of several young Spaniards with the intention of joining the Garibaldians. The most important and serious resolution, however, was that which was taken at the Council of Ministers at St. Cloud yesterday. What it was we have as yet no means of knowing, but it cannot fail to be soon manifest, for the time presses. In the present temper of the Italian nation it would be difficult for either minister or king to resist the demand for the entry of the Italian army into Rome. There is scarcely a journal from one end of the Italian Peninsula to the other, with the exception of those published under the eye of the Papal government, which is not urging M. Rattazzi to take this step. The ministerial, the moderate, and the ultra organs of opinion are at one on this point, and should the minister allow a French force to enter Rome with out opposition, it would be difficult to predict where matters may end. In France itself, while the clerical and Papal party are moving heaven and earth to bring about a fresh intervention in Italy, the liberals hold such a step to be quite impossible. According to the Indipendance Belge the Italian ministers have come to a decision which has been notified to the French government with all the de licacy required in making such a communication, that whilst the Italian government would do all in their power to prevent any attack on the Papal States they should feel it to be their duty to send an Italian army to Rome if France attempted to plant anew its flag on its walls. Between the humiliation of the country and the certain fall of the dynasty or a war with France, were it to lead to the ruin of the kingdom founded at the cost of so many sacri ' ces, the cabinet of Turin, the organ of the King and of the nation, would not hesitate to accept the second alternative. The Indipenclance adds that it believes the imperial government will shrink from adopting a resolution which would afford so much satisfaction to its enemies, and that Prussia is watching with intense earnestness what is passing between France, Italy, and Rome. The Avenir National counsels the Italian govern ment not to stop short for a single moment. " Be tween the desires of the French government and their realisation there is," it says, " an abyss, and this abyss will not be crossed. The situation may be described in two words—the government de sires to maintain the Pontifical royalty, but it can not. It cannot on account of the close connexion of the Italian question with the German question." The feeling of both parties to the struggle seems to become more embittered as it proceeds. The LiberV reports that the Pontifical government has shot several prisoners, and amongst them Count Pagliaoci, of Viterbo, who was made prisoner at Bagnorea. M. Pagliacci was condemned to death three years ago for political offences. The Italian Correspondence says that the Roman prisons are full of prisoners, and that Count D'Argy, the commander of the Antibes Legion, has directed his officers to shoot all the Garibaldian prisoners, which, if carried into effect, will lead to terrible reprisals. The Liberte inquires whether the ex ample of Queretaro has been forgotten. The Debate replies to the post scripture of Bishop Dupanloup with the following persiflage : The bad temper of the Bishop of Orleans is apparent, and he has seldom been so violent and aggressive —so much so that even La France thinks he has gone a little too far. We think we may declare ourselves, without giving scandal to any one, to be of the same opinion as La France. To talk of the It►lian government as having " lie, in the background," that it displays " insolence " and " incredible audacity," that "it insults all that is sacred amongst men," is somewh►t too sharp; to call General Cialdini "the man of lies and of snares," is of doubtful urbanity ; to proclaim aloud in fine that whoever does not par ticipate in the notion of M. Dupanloup about the necessity of a new French intervention "has not French blood in his veins." is to gratuitously insult • large number of honourable men. These are grand words, not to say big words, which, however, prove nothing. Does M. Dupanloup then put in • claim to infallibility! We really believe that we may have an opinion differ ent from his and yet be a rood a Frenchman as he. His post acription, after all, is but • commentary on the circular of Cardinal Antonelli, and it can have no other object than to force the hand of the government and drive it to • new intervention in Rome, which if it does not take place will make 31. Dupanloup " ashamed for a moment of being a Frenchman." This argument, we confess, does not seem to us to be de cisive. (anima's TV.XGRANA.) FLORENCE, Oc - r.17. . _ _ Telegrams received here from Rome dated yesterday, announce that a fight had taken place at Vallecorsa between 200 insurgents and a body composed of Pontifical gendarmes and members of the Antibes Legion, resulting in the loss of several killed and wounded on both sides. The insurgents were retiring to the mountains. A fierce en counter had taken place last night before the gates San Lorenzo between the insurgents and the Papal gendarmes; details, however, of the affair had not transpired. PARIS, OCT. IT. The Mohifeur of this morning says :—"The advices received from Italy confirm the intelligence pub lished by the Moniker of yesterday. It is certain, however, that new bands are incessantly crossing the Papal territory, many of their officers being in uniform, and that trains from Florence alone have conveyed thither 1,200 Carl baldians. The insurgents appear to have concen trated to the number of nearly 3,000 at Monte Librette, Monte Rio, Romano, Nerola, and Mori cone. Bagnorea has been threatened by the bands with pillage. On the 15th at Vallecorsa, on the southern frontier, a small body consisting of a few Papal squadriglieri, with some pea sants, volunteers, and gendarmes, held in check 200 Garibaldians, and thus left time for the ' Roman column to arrive. The Garibaldians had 10 killed, including their leader and three officers, and several wounded, losing besides 40 prisoners and a quantity of arms and munitions. In several towns in the provinces of Viterbo and Frosinone the inhabitants are calling for arms to aid the gendarmes in repelling the insurgent bands. " Throughout the whole extent of the Pontifical States, the population not only remains calm but is pronouncing more and more strongly against the invaders." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom ous OWN conseronnuarT.) PARIS, WED:MN/AY EVENLNG. The Emperor and Empress and Prince Imperial left Biarritz yesterday morning at 9 o'clock direct for Saint Cloud, where a council of ministers will be held to-morrow. The Empress Eugdnie will preside on Sunday, the 27th, at the distribution of rewards decreed by the Society for the Protection of Apprentices and Children engaged in Manufactures, to such per sons as have by their exertions tended to improve the moral and material condition of children occu pied in various departments of industry. About 10,000 young people will assemble on this occasion, and at the close of the ceremony a cold collation will be provided for them. " The action of this protection society," says the Empress, " tends to the gradual introduction of new habits of life. In this way the law, as too often happens, will not anticipate the progress of good morals, but, on the contrary, it is this improvement which will call forth the operation of the law, the success of which will thus be assured." Letters from Toulon state that great activity reigns in the arsenal and in the military port. The Italie published in its number of the 14th intelligence of a serious check which the Pontifical troops had sustained before Nerola, thus confirm ing the news which has been previously published. The accounts from Florence and Rome equally concur in this statement of the fact. " Garibaldi,"aaya the COnstitutionnel, "continues to launch from his island of Caprera proclamation on proclamation. There is no question either of king or government, unless indeed it is by way of allusions which seem to confirm what has been said for some days past as to the anti-monarchical character of the insurrection of the Garibaldian bands. On this subject let us mention that certain publications now urge the propriety of the entry of the Italian army into the states of the Pope, and justify the step on the ground of the republican demonstrations made by the red shirts." It is well understood in Paris that France has definitively declined to accede to every proposition for any alteration or interpretation whatever in the convention of September ; and the government has made known to Italy that she will resent any contempt or infringement of an act which bears the signature of the French empire. It is clear that the Italian go vernment hesitates to break with France. " Italy," says the Prem., " must adopt one or two alterna tives—either to acknowledge herself powerless to keep her engagements, and allow France, in virtue of the freedom of action which she has reserved to herself, to compensate for her weakness and Inca pacity, or violate those engagements which all:: cannot carry out, and thin; give rise, for the advan. tage of the French government, to the moat legiti mate calms kW." There are rumours in Paris to-day that a note from the Prussian government has been received in this city bearing on the affairs of Italy. The aspect of the Bourse is worse to-day than yesterday. To the unfavourable reports from Italy are superadded information of a disquieting nature as to a less pacific tendency on the part of Prussia. It is said that Saxony is threatened with annexa tion, pure and simple, to Prussia, and that her autocracy will be annulled. However this may be, quotations were all lower at the opening. Thr ees began at 67fr. 80c., fell to 67fr. 64k., and finally closed at 67fr. 62ic., a fall of 20c. from yester day's rates. Italians, which left off yesterday at 45fr., began at 44fr. 50c., went up for a moment to 44fr. 65c., depreciated again to 44fr. 20c., and finished at 44fr. 55c. The intervention of France is a subject of much conversation among the specu lators for the rise. Credit Foncier have gone down 21fr. Very little was done in Credit Mobilier, and prices of all securities had a downward tendency, the market closing very weak. THE STATUE OP THE PRINCE CONSORT AT BALMORAL. is briefly stated by telegraph yesterday, the eeremony of unveiling the statue of his late Royal High ness the Prince Consort at Balmoral took place on Tun. day, in presence of her Majesty the Queen and the other members of the royal family and the tenantry on the royal estates. To erect a statue of her lamented consort at no great distance from her favourite residence, and to make it over, as it were, to those for whom he ever bald • high esteem— the tenantry—has (says the Sotssion) been a favourite idea with her Majesty, and it was fully and handsomely realised by the inauguration of Tuesday. The weather, unfortunately, was very un- favourable, being, indeed, the worst day of the sewn, particularly during the ceremony, when rain fell in torrents without intermission. It was by no means what we are accustomed to call " Queen's weather." In fact, it was remarked that rain fell heaviest during the time of the ceremony, and when it was over the weather cleared up, and remained fair. The attendance embraced, as stated, those resident on the estates, their wives, families and servants, making in all, despite unfavourable weather, some 300 persons present. The site of the statue is about half a mile to the east or the castle, on the south side of the Dee, and almost directly opposite the church of Crathie. Parties who visit Deeside have observed on a wooded eminence, in the line we have stated, an obelisk erected by the tenantry to mark their regard for the worth of the Prince Consort. About • hundred yards due west from this, and on the same level, her Majesty has erected the statue to her husband. Some time ago Mr. Theed received the coin minion to execute it, and it is understood, by the sumps. tion of the Queen, did so in • style stilted to her wishes. Certainly the artist has done his work well. His royal highness is represented in bronze as • Highland chief in full costume, something similar in many respects to the well-known painting by John Phillip. The pedestal, • rough natural cairn of huge granite boulders, tapers to • height of 10i feet, when it appears on the ledge of • rock. On this the figure, 13} feet high, stands. The left leg is slightly advanced, and resting on the edge, while the right leg is slightly retired. A favoured staghound's head is leaning against the right knee, and the right hand is placed on the dog's head. The left hand grasps a rifle near the muzzle. The statue is, in fact, a reproduction of the marble statue by the same artist at the foot of the grand staircase in Balmoral Castle. The Prinoe is role. seated bareheaded, with • Glengarry cap lying at his foot, Better or more commanding sites might have been found, and to some it would suggest itself that the base might have been broader. As it stands, however, with ferns growing out from the crevices of the great boulders, it looks natural, and though at some distance from tha road will form a prominent figure to passers by. Mr. Theed may be congratulated on the completion of his snowed ul labours in representing in bronze the figure of the silent father of " our Kings to be," as he was best known in his outgoings and incomings among his tenantry. The ceremony of unveiling the statue and presenting it to the tenantry was fixed to take place at eleven, and by that hour all had assembled around it. A detachment of the 15th, and the depot battalion of forty men, under the command of Captain Hislop, of the 93rd, was drawn up on the south-east of the statue ; while the tenantry and others formed a semi-circle on • slight ridge to the west. In the hollow, space was left close by the base of the statue for the Queen and royal family. Shortly after the appointed hour her Majesty arrived in • aloes carriage, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Primer... Christian, Loniae, and Beatrice. In the second carriage were Prince Christian and Prince Leopold. The others in attendance were Sir Thomas Biddulph, General Grey, Colonel Ponsonby, Hon. Mrs. Gordon, he. Her Majesty was received with the royal salute, and took her place in the hollow between the princesses ; Prince Christian and Prince Leopold stood on their right. On the call of Dr. Robertson, her Majesty's commis. stoner, the Crathie choir, led by Mr. P. S. Kidd, sang the "Old Hundred," and immediately after the Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Crathie, offered • suitable prayer. At the request of her Majesty the statue was then uncovered, the guard in attendance presented arms, and her Majesty's and the Prince of Wales' pipers struck up • pibroch. The spectators, notwithstanding the torrents of rain which fell during the whole ceremony, and particularly so at this moment, looked anxiously at the statue, a: d few present who had seen the living figure but admired its truth fulness. Dr. Rosattrsow, then advancing to where the loyal party stood, Mid:—" May it please your Majesty,—The tenants and servants of your Majesty now assemble I h ,se r, quested me to convey to your Majesty their humble and grateful thanks for the magnificent memorial of their beloved mas ter which has now been exposed to their view. Permit me to assure your Majesty that we shall look upon that statue, not merely as a work of art, however excellent that is—not merely as a memorial of conjugal love and affec tion, but as an embodiment of every noble and manly virtue—as a model for our imitation. As we look upon that silent monitor, It may wake to our remembrance the love of truth, the love of doing good, cf being useful to our fellow-men—it may remind us o' the hatred of via, the instinctive shrinking from everything selfish, mean, or dishonourable, which characterised the living original: and the lesson to each of us, I hope, will he—' Go ye and do likewise."' The military then fired a feu-dr. joie, and after Mr. Kidd and his excellent choir sang the national iothem, the ceremony ended with hearty cheers. joined in by all. tier Majesty, who appeared to be in exceedingly good spirits, frequently bowed her ackn mledgments. Despite the heavy rain the royal party stood, although it moat be said under the worst possible circumstances, and during the singing of the anthem, almost all the spectators un covered. The Queen was dressed, as usual, in black. Princess Louise bad on a black silk dress, trimmed with cord and white. Princess Beatrice wore a Stuart tartan dress, with black jacket ; and Princess Christian had ou a black dress, with Balmoral tartan plaid. Prince Leopold was in full Highland costume. The arrangements, under the special superintendence of Dr. Robertson, were admirable, and bad it not been for the very heavy rain everything would have passed pleasantly. The ceremony lasted fully twenty II Inutes, and at its doss her Majesty and family guard of ghillies were photographed by special request by Mew-. Downey. Ne c.tstl=. By re quest also, Mr. Thomas, of Landon, a=t lido! for =he pur• pose of sketching the scene for her M. je=ty. Before leav ing her Majesty called for Dr. Robertson, and expressed to him her admiration of the manner in which everything had been conducted. She also requested him to carry her thanks to all who bad taken part in the ceremony. The death is announced of M. F. Dubner, an accomplished Greek *choler. Like most great Hellenists, U. Dubner was a German by birth, but had long settled in Paris. His industry was equal to his learning ; his editions and abridgments of Greek classics for the use of schools were very numerous, but his chief claim to the gratitude of scholars rests in his contributions to the new edition of 0 Stephen's Thesaurus," on which he was engaged con jointly with the late K. Huse, mad his "Scholia on Aria. tophanee." DL Dubner was in Lie 61th year. be ini VII 111, th