The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

01JE EN'S THEATR E, Long-acre. 7il naoge.-Mr. W. H. LISTON. LANCASIIIIIE LAM% by Henry J. Biron, having bees received throughout ite performance with the prreatest Eenthu mama, by_orowded and excited audience.% will l be repeated VERT EVENING. eta quarter to a eoneluding minetnally at 11. RE LANCASkiIItE LASS, at a quarter to 8. T demon.trations in favour of ' The Laneashire Lois are loud and unanimong.--Time, THE LAM:AS/111CK LASS. "At other the enthit-nron Ptirg«l lip beyond enntrnl. and buret , . of applemot, etIPITA, and WAVing of handkerchief* prteted the suer of the her., and her nm•."—The hohoee from the (Aube. THE LANCASIIIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . "The piece throughout was e,ffeetively meted. and the stategen. Rational nature of the plot keeps the audience in a perpetual of exeitenient.”- IlloArated London News. - - • - --------- - - THE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a q uarter to 8. "The plot a erteetir e and simple, minced with highly dramatic Ineddentehich rrv.tet intent intereet. heightened by exce ll ent emenery."- w Weekly Tune. _ . WILE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. "one area,. when a riser Mesmer appear' to float bodily on the stage, ematisla dorm of applause. 'The Lanesehire Last' will enjoy a lengthened run."- Illuatrated Sporting NPWR. THE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. Byron wne recalled, and bowed his aclmowledgmenta amid vocif ere , . from all accts of the theatre." -Standard. - _ HE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . T ita arrow! repereentation wan reweivut with even greater applaww than no t It. olina "1 prortuction."—Dsily Telegraph. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Three B.llet . Promonado Conoert. Band of 00. Beata at a la Bon-ofttro opon from I I to 4. WILLIAM CHURTON and SON, HOSIERS and SIIIRTMAKERS. LADIES' UNDERCIA)THING. PI and PS. OXFORD-STREET. IN ENV L TON WILSON and Co.'s SEWING MACHINES. PARIS EXHIBITION, TWO PRIZE MEDALS. 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To-Y.asow—Yersimg. 9` 4m Jaterhoon. 9b. 44m. NOTICE. INOTICOS of BMWS% 111•1111107.11, and DEATOO, MO 110080141 until it o'clock for insertion same marinn. lA:Saba I& A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sportiag, and General bitelligsace, is rusussib EVEItY L'VENING% LONDON, WEDNESDAY, A uo. 26. THE MARRIAGE LAW REPORT. Taz Report of the Marriage Law Commiaak . . whether it shall form the basis of legislation or not, is at least a very valuable document. Its chief importance will be found to be in its disillu sions. Whoever has hitherto believed the English law of marriage to be perfection, and that nothing required amendment save the provisions of the law in Scotland and Ireland, will find his ideas entirely overturned by the propositions of the Commission ers. Except as regards registration it may almost be said that there is nothing in our present system that they leave unaltered. Any religious body may still impose its own religious ceremonial on its members, but nothing of all this is to be essen tial to the marriage. Banns are to be abashed, and bishops and archbishops are no longer to be enabled to grant either common or special licensee. Celebration in a church is to be immaterial. Any registered minister of religion, or any registrar of births, is to be entitled to perform the sole material part of the proceedings. Marriages are to be permitted at any hour by day or night. Above all, a mar riage once performed by a person ostensibly enti tled, and which is duly registered, is to be for ever unimpeachable. It would seem that even the correct names of the parties is a matter of no mo ment, if only they can be identified pereonelly as THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1868. isaii,.....man those who wore registered. A certain period of notic' is to be required to be givelfo the distriet registrars, and in the case of minors the consent of parents or guardians is demanded. ;But failure is these particulars, provided that the nogieetbr error is not discovered in time to stop the marriage, is not to invalidate it after it is performed. If, however, to anyone those changes seem too sweeping it will only be because he has not paid regard to the magnitude of the evils by which the present more stringent system is attended. It is obviouslyimpossible to confine the place of celebra tion to a church when every year it is found neces eery to pass an Act of Parliament to declare mar riages valid which have been during a series of years solemnised in edifioes commonly supposed to be churches, but in which some unknown error in the registration or consecration is, after a long in terval, discovered. It is equally impossible to maintain the system of banns when common ob servation teaches that they are utterly useless as a means of ensuring publicity to those who are con cerned. For example, it is only a few weeks since there came to light the case of a footman who ran away with his master's daughter, and was married to her in his native parish church after publication of banns, the marriage being only dissoluble - afterwards by the lucky accident that he had blundered the spelling of his intended wife's name. Equally impossible is it to allow the system of license to survive, in virtue of which every element of publicity may be evaded by any one who chooses to pay il., and in the case of marrying a minor, to swear a false oath. Again. whoever has considered the exceedingly painful cases in which an error in the names, per haps unwittingly made, perhaps assented to by one party at the suggestion of the other for some nefarious purpose, has been made the means of overturning a marriage supposed to be good, will assent to the proposition that we must regard the persons and their intention, and must disregard the names they choose accidentally or temporarily to assume. And, lastly, considering that we have gradually been obliged by piecemeal enactments to permit dissenting clergymen and registrar!, to perform the essential part of marriage, we cannot help now admitting that it is in substance a mere civil contract, in which the State must confine itself to prescribing rules of evidence, and cannot enact any ecclesiastical direction. In searching for the forms which shall best meet the exigencies of modern society, the Commis aioners adopt as their own the enunciation of the requirements of a good marriage law which were given in the evidence of Mr. BOYD Emma, one of the Scottish witnesses examined, and who seems to have been one of the only two witnesses who were at once Scottish advocates and English bar risters. This gentleman stated the problem as being the disoovery of means by which the maxi mum of simplicity could be combined with the maximum of certainty, and he proposed as a test what the Commissioners also adopt—that " the " provisions of a marriage code ought to be such " as every woman not only can understand by " study, but is correctly acquainted with through " the common understanding of society, while the " security should be such that all persons, if " honestly intending to marry, ehould be able to " place their contact, by adoption of the ordinary " means, beyond the reach of doubts." It will, we think, be generally acknowledged that the new code proposed by the Commissioners would, to a very large extent, fulfil these de siderata. Every man and woman would know that an ordinary marriage must be celebrated in presence either of a registrar or a clergyman, and these officials would give all needful in formation. To make it indisputably valid, it would be well known that it must be registered, and once on the proper register it would not signify whether there had been any previous blundering in notices, in names, or in official authority of the celebrants. This would be an immense gain. But then it is to be kept in view that this certainty and this simplicity so far apply only in the cases in which both parties wish to do everything in regular and valid order ; and the serious difficulties of a marriage law arise only when we contemplate the cases in which the parties are not able, or do not choose, or one of them does not wish, to proceed in order. Such a class of difficulties the Commissioners themselves recognise when ttey deal with the matter of notices. Ordinarily they propose to require a fortnight's notice and residence in the district. But they admit that there are cases in which the parties cannot comply with such a requirement, and they therefore propose that the Bishop or district re gistrar may dispense with it and marry them without notice " on reasonable cause." This is a vague enough latitude, yet nothing less could be conceded to domestic exigencies, in the face of such recent facts as the marriage of a gentle man in Berkshire on his deathbed, celebrated in virtue of a special license, granted by the Arch bishop of Caraznatinv ; the marriage the other day in Scotland of Earl BROWNLOW'S daughter by her father's bedside, when he was suddenly struck by mortal illness; or the act of the Cape legisla ture, legalising in that colony the marriage of some dozens of our Crimean German Legion, who were ordered thither on too short notice to allow of banns being put up in England for their mar riage with girls to whom they bad become en gaged. Here then are inevitable irregularities, not blameworthy but laudable, which must break in ' upon the Commissioners' simplicity of scheme. But its certainty may also be impugned. Sup posing a man loads a girl to elope, and carries her before a fictitious registrar and a false registry book P Nothing could be easier for him to do, nothing more difficult for the girl to disoover fraud in, however well aware she might be that • registration was the one essential. The Commis sioners say that a false registrar shall not invali date, but that a false register must. The Scottish, people say that in such a case the honest intention of at least one of the parties, and the express de clarations of the others, arc the real things to be considered, and not the book in which the inten tion is expressed. We cannot but fear that in such points as these the scheme of the Commis sioners will fail to satisfy them that, in spite of the immense improvements proposed in the En glish system. the new code would embody in a fair sense either the maximum of simplicity or of certainty. It seems to us that, on this point, the 4recom mendations of the Commissioners, in so far as they hope to achieve a uniformity of law, will make shipwreck. It is obvious, from the Scottish evi dence, that that nation attaches great weight to the moral advantage of their system in turning many irregular connections into legal and valid marriage; and in removing, so far as possible, any inducement to sham marriage when it cannot be openly proclaimed or delayed. We certainly agree with the Commissioners that it will not be possible to persuade the English mind to take exactly this view. But if the difference on this point is irreconcilable, we do not see that the Commissioners' recommendations will, therefore, be fruitless. The law may be made uniform as regards all regular marriages, though Scotland is still left in poseession of her own populist and loved, though to Englishmen incomprehensible. *stem ,of irregul icAlls t risg O tot Akfamiti ressonshie penaltois vitm o rswrefs 1- commend, • .1 nail& CONTEMPORARIES. , I I.' H IS DAY . ) •,%-. . ' • =c, ;1 1 T ire MT Milk ... The; Veep . muses that it ia sin le arldeqvilcdge Jigging been hoaxed, but is. ertheims., bound to adneit the fact. It is equalfiglexpleamso to relinquish the belief is a pleasing dream, sad there 'sir something so simple, so direct, and moreover, so exalted about Mr. Stuart Wortley's Lowestoft letter that it is with the utmost reluctance our centemperary recognises It as a hoax. But there is no escape from the amolusion, and the Times proceeds in a bantering way to remark upon the absurdity of supposing that, after a prolonged retirement, Mr. Stuart Wortley should have suddenly been visited with twinges of compunction gaper induced by a mere lay sermon. Who could have dreamt that the late governor would befriend throwing overboard Mr. Albert Grant, the masaging director, sad acknow ledging that imaginary profits had been m ade the occasion of conferring real commission on the board of direc tors I' Who—wildest Sight of the imagination of all —could believe that a - sum of 16,0001., or rather of something over that amount, was about to be returned M soon as the necessary pecuniary arrangements could be made for that purpose )* The Times makes confession of its errors in the eyes of the world. It is prepared to do penance as publicly as it has offended, and submit to dust and ashes in token of abasement. It was an incredible folly. The announcement did not, the Deily News believes, greatly affect the market value of Credit Fowler shares. The whole aspect of the letter was irregular. Mr. Stuart Wortley has done nothing so unhandsome as " poaching" upon his colleagues. The shareholders are but where they were—no bettor and no worse than before the pub lication of this letter, and the same may be said of Mr. Albert Grant. To sceptical obt , ...,rvers, says the Telegraph, there was about the whole arrangement a nebulous uncertainty that was not at all removed after the outspoken remarks et those dreadful City fellows, to the effect that the chair man of the Crklit Fonder could not have received in that capacity half the sum he announced his resolve to restore. To a keenly critical eye there were certain defects about the letter which in most cases would have suggested caution. But who could be cold-blooded enough to be critical in the presence of such a noble act of eelf-sacri- Bee I' The Herald /nits with some curiosity to know whether Mr. Stuart Lane will follow Mr. Stuart Wortley in his re pudiation of the sentiments attributed to him. nit SUPPLY 01 NUS 1000. Estimating the effects of the drought upon the cattle food of the country, the Daily News arrives at the conclu. sion that there is no real prospect of the flood of cheap meat, expected with so much dread by the British graziers when six and twenty years ago the ant step towards free trade in food abolished the duties on foreign live stock. It is not only a cattle plague, sweeping away a million head, succeeded by a year of drought, that has diminished both the meat and the food that makes meat, egainst which those who sigh for cheap beet and mutton have to contend ; there is the formidable difficulty of a great and increasing demand for better food, the result of higher wages throughout Europe--a demand that is felt in Vieana and Berlin, as well as in Paris and London. am CORZANCE'S sauna Pos siaIIOTINO THE nun= It is apparently to the principle of 00-operation, ob serves the Timer, that Mr. Corrance chiefly looks for the remedy of the existing drawback in the condition of the English working man; but our contemporary fears that some time must elapse before he can derive much best& from it. Them are, no doubt, many classes very ill paid in this country : some more deserving of our compassion even than the labourers of our most backward and benighted western counties. Myriads of the human race have thriven and prospered, both in body and soul, upon much worse fare in all respects, and under much harder conditions of life, than those of the English labourer with his 9s. a week, a few allowances and casual gains, and a certain provision against sickness, accident, or old age. For the present the Vises recommends him not to fling his week's wages in his master's face and enrol himself in an agricultural trades' union. POLITICAL INTRIGUES AT lISSENGEN. Since the Emperor Alexander has been here, this little watering place, generally so quiet, has been the theatre of very considerable diplomatic intrigues. With the single exception of the Grand Duke of Baden, all the sovereigns of Southern Germany have been here in turn to confer with the Czar. It is presumed that the object of Russia is to recommend these princes to make common cause with Prussia, and to impress upon their minds that the protec tion of Berlin and St. Petersburg will prove far more bene ficial to them than the seductive promises of Austria and France. A special bait to the young King of Bavaria was held out in the shape of an offer of the Grand Duchess Maria, daughter of the Emperor Alexander, for his bride. It was not till after he had thoroughly sounded the German princes that the Czar, under the pretext of a visit to his daughter, went to Schwalbach to give an account to his uncle, the King of Prussia, of the result of his efforts. According to what has transpired in Kiseengen, the Czar was able to assure King William that all the southern sovereigns, in return for certain pro mised advantages, were disposed to adhere to the joint views of Rtilleilt and Primate. Every precaution has been taken to isolate Austria in Germany, and to deprive Franoe of the 'lightest hope of finding support in any corner of Germany in ease of war. A great many secret agents from different governments have been . slot to Kiessagen in the hope of picking up some news. stns, a personal agent of M. Bouher, was, owing to his own indiscretion, speedily found out and sent to Coventry. . Re went about boasting of his intimacy with the Minister of Stets. This misadventure is not (Gemming to M. Doubt, ' Mho, in sending this awkward irregular diplo 'leas' usurping the functions of the Marquis de of M. Pinar* The bares of state weigh bbidly upon the Czar, who is growing prematurely al& Whin lest herein 1564, he walked • great deal in thi Wartarten, and returned with visible pleasure the slates of the crowd which Booked about him. Now he eibtely goes out, incept early in the morning, to drink tit waters, sad he has • very sad and careworn look. The litimbia and Bavarian police take the most minute precau tions for his personal safety. Since the attempt to aimed nits him at I. Petersburg and Paris, no sovereign has Nish to systematically guarded day and night as Vie Cass. Ile lessee Insseugen on August 24, to psi vie of some weeb to his brother-blaw, the Grand Dsdte of Hems. Prince Gortchakoft, who is at Baden, will be near enough to take the orders of his sovereign when neoessary. It is assumed that the object of the Czar's prolonged stay in Germany is to consolidate the understanding between Prussia and the southern "einem Twi LATZ OREM Nowa= 110A1.—The Thus of this moaning publishes the following letter from the Bight Hon. J. - 8. - IVorthey, relating to the recent forgery ffir,—ln the Timm of this day, I have read with mitonidiment a foe letter addressed to you and apparently bearing my sigtnre. I have written no such as it is a forgery and the taste stated in it are letter, untrue, an I an only suppose thatiou, smells. myself, have been amide the victim of a mischievous hoax. I was never at Lowed , WV in my life, from which place the letter professes to be dated, and I will only add at present that I never received such a sum as ' 11,000L' in oonnnxion with the Credit Fonder, or any sum in any degree approaching to that amount—l am, sir, 1111, obedient servant , &MAST Worertar.—Wortley THE NATIONAL BABE of IItELAND.—A private meeting of more than fifty_ of the proprietors of e Na tional Hank has been held at Cork, at which a committee has been named to adopt measures to reform the board of directors, owing to the revelations made at the last mixes in the trial of Osmium ")'Kenn v. Ushorne." • • ADMINAIZIT, Aworirr 25. APPOIISTMKNT6. Lieutenant Beery J. F. bail, to the Forte ; Mid. • shipmen T. A. L. Knight, E. Ccike,'44. W. S. Douglas, P. M. Scott, H. P. H. well, and G. S. E. t Harman, to the Forte ; es ffiewart, Frani P. Taylor, Francis ,B. Fild l = ‘ , l and Heort e Kes to • the Plias ; V- Hayes, Jblpi L. ' Waltair7. 'fflosso, Oberlin A. WittersiEderent Stiffiley; 'D. PIA to th e Northumberland ; Naval Henry A. Knox, to the Northimlberland ; Naval Cadet, nominatedi ' MinnW. Palwes. Id =TM OF' CORO:Mit/3' CoNBTABLZB.—Lieet evening, a meeting of coroners' eonstables was held at No. 46, Carey- Lincoln's-inn-gelds, for the of taking intoconsideration the steps it would p be ere urpose advisable to take in order to obtain a reversal of the re cent decision of the Middlesex magistrates, by which the fee for summoning a Jury, and getting up evidence in each inquest, has been reduced from 7s. 6d. towhich it is alleged is totally inadequate to meet the labour and ex. • passes of its#lll4 together a court sad mammas. LIBERALISM A IT is not enough that Libor&Alt is going to lay the axe at the root of our religious institutions; we are now threatened with a fresh danger. It is going to sap our morals ; destroy our health ; fill our madhouses and hospitals ; and, generally, send us to the bad. The Globe of Monday evening asks a terrible question. Beginning by repeating, from " a _French scientific " journal," the report that nearly four times as much brandy is drunk in Paris as was drunk there eighteen years ago, it proceeds to tell us, on the authority of social observers, that this : increase is chiefly among women. By a natural transition, we then oome to our own women : " The number of female cases of delirium tremens' " in the higher, middle, and fashionable classes " are declared by medical men to be absolutely " appalling." Supposing this to be so, inquires the Globe, "is it possible to devise a remedy? Or," — pray admire the writer's notion of an alternative —" Or arc we really, under Liberal leadership, " hurrying down the broad road to destruction ?" This is followed by some more questions, about " our *ices" and " our daughters," which we omit. But here is surely something for the considera tion of " Liberal Leaders." Let them pause in their mad career, v. hile it is yet time. It might prove impracticable to revise the Corn laws, even for the sake of preventing delirium tremens in the ladies of '• the higher, middle, and fashionable " classes." Unfortunately, too, the new Reform Act is in actual working ; but if, under Liberal leadership, we are hurrying down the broad road to destruction, we may at least burke the testimonial to Mr. BEALE.% and refrain from pushing the Lodger Franchise. We must put on the drag somewhere, if these things make the ladies of the great world drink. And we must drop all laissez faire, and have a stringent Act of Parliament to prevent secret tippling in the " higher, middle, " and fashionable classes." One thing we dare affirm ; whenever a Conservative Government, if a Conservative Government should ever again exist, proposes such a measure; the Liberals will help it on. In the meantime, we have a new election cry—" Vote for Toryism and Temperance! " Down with Liberalism and Delirium Tremens ?' A LESSON FROM BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, which a few years since was accounted one of the healthiest towns in the kingdom, appears to be in a fair way of losing its reputation. For some time put, indeed, its bill of health has been most unfavourable. Aocording to the Rgourrasn-Ozazau.'s returns, the death rate rose to 39 per 1,000 in the week ending August 1, which showed a higher mortality than that of any other large town; and in the week ending August 16, while the death-rate in London was 24.4 per 1,000, it was 331 in Birmingham. Moreover, the difference between the sanitary condition of London and the capital of the black country is still more strikingly marked when we read that in the same week diarrhoea was the cause of death in London to 4.1 per 1,000, and in Birmingham to 16.9. Of course the town coun cillors who held their quarterly meeting last week laid this severe mortality upon the drought ; and the hot weather, according to the safe re mark of one of them, was no fault of theirs. Yet it was acknowledged at the same time that the water supplied by the Water Works Com pany is foul, and contains double the quantity of organic matter it did three months ago, that the water in the wells is equally bad, and that the river Rea has become a filthy and pestilential cesspool. These statements, oddly enough, were made by gentlemen who seemed inclined to let the evil cure itself, since they condemned, as wholly impracticable, the sensible proposal that a medi cal officer of health should be appointed. The undue mortality of the town was admitted, the sanitary deficiencies of the town were admitted also, and yet, strange to say, the policy of in action met with general approval. VISIT OF TUE PRLYCE OF WALES TO THE PlLLN creALrrr.—The Prince of Wales is expected to be the guest of Sir Watkin W. Wynne, at Wynnetay, to redeem a promise made while his royal highness was in Ireland. He was expected to arrive at Wynnstay on Saturday last to be present at the review of the Denbighshire volun teers, but Sir Watkin apologised fox the absence of his royal highnees, and stated that he would pay a visit to Wyanstay and the principality in the course of a month. Yesterday the marriage of Mr. Herbert Hay Lanham, eldest son of NJ. Herbert Laughs" and heir presumptive to Sir James Ray 'Anglian, of Cottasbrooka Park, Northamptonshire, with the Hon. Anne Maria: Prances Sandys, second daughter of the late Lord Sandy% was solemnised at St. George'. Church, Hanover-square.. Owing to the recent death of the Marquis of Downabire,. a near °omission of the bride, the wedding was shier* private, and attended only by the relativse of the bride and bridegroom and a few intimate friends. The brides presents were very numerous and wetly, particularly some lace given by Lady Flbur, the sister of the bride. His Excellency Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the Mi nister of the United States, Me, it is stated, left Fenton's Hotel on a Tint to the Prune Minister in Buckingham. The Bishop of Winchester is, the Post states, raPidli recovering from his late severe MOM, and will shortly be able to resume hia episcopal duties. The Bishop ' of Mauritius is acting for him at present. _ _ The Emperor iramie Joseph arrived at WU burg in the evening of the 20th, from Garatahausen. At the station hie Majesty was received by the Archduke Louie Victor, with whom he proceeded to the Winter Pa. Wm In that residence had also arrived from Ink] the Archduke Modolph and the Archduchess Oisella, children of their Majesties. . The Ring and Queen of Saxony have left the chateau of PiUnits for Lira Ring John will return to Dresden on the 3rd September, in order to be present at the grand military manoeuvres axed for that period, but the Queen will prolong her stay at the watering place. . THE NEw JtnEnte.—The Lord Chancellor has appointed Saturday next to swear the three new judges into office. • Two of them, Sir W. B. Brett and M.r. Clesaby, Q.C., will be forthwith made Serjeants-at-law , and as Mr. Serjeant Hayes hoe a patent of precedence he will rank before Mr. Clesaby, and Sir W. B. Brett will be the senior of the three, and will take the more active part in the trial • steaks petltione.• Mr. Serjeant Hayes obtained his patent in 1860, and in 1801 both Sir W. B. Brett and Mr. Clesaby were made Queen's counsel. The new judicial oath is very conchae, sire stating that each would well and tridy serve "our Lady Queen. Victoria in the °See (of judge), ZilMi do r ight to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm without' fear'or favour, alestion or I At the Judges' Chambers Yesterday the newly -appointed Baron et. tie Exchequer, Mr. Cleaa bl , attended tlie hear ing of ruilisioasse by Mr : Junkie Wilier. Either the new bares et Ihr; Justice Manses' WM be The long vacation judge is • • =. o - • ' OH PEOTEETANT CHURCH OF THE SAVOY; The M Of Westminster, the Earl of Radno r , Vis count Folkestone , Sir J. P. Belleau, Sir George Rose, the Bishop of London, and other gentlemen have entered into a subscription for the purpose of restoring the French proteetant episcopal church, Bloomsbury-street, formerly of the Savoy Palace in the Strand. THE RECORDER/LIMP OF MAIDSTONE.—The mayor of Maidstone has been officially informed that the Home Secretary has appointed Mr. Robert Henry Bullock Marabous to be recorder of that borough, in the room of Fir Walter B. Riddell, resigned. (TSIS DAY.) ' N NEWS. OR WAR. -' The kilato ssi.lo9l6iy, commenting on an artit le Jai the CosseNtadionnel, which is redolent of p •nee, and on one in the Pays, which is still more redolent of war, says: One can eaaily imagine the embarrawnwmt of ra . ,ital under these circumstances. Which prophet are we to believe in? the Constifutionnel or the Pays ? Who is really the inepixed P The drat of these journals is surely in the secret of the gods, but the second is credited with the 28010 privilege, and both were decorated on tae 15th of August last. The balance is level between these tFo augurs, which must naturally increase the bewilderment of the good people who consult them. Answering the ap peal of the Comeitutionnel, which invites it to "spread life and prosperity broadcast," capital, like the mouse which risks the top of its muzzle at the mouth of its hole, is disposed to venture abroad ; but, on the detonating bound of the Par, which, like General Bloum, gloats in the smell of gunpowder, it runs buck again. And—what renders the situation more obscure—the provincial jour nals from time to time reveal pithy facts of more or less importance, which it is difficult to explain. For ex ample, on the fete of August 15, the police, if the Totilannals is to be believed, arrested persons in Marseilles for crying " Vive la peix" as the prefect was going to wit ness the fir-minks. If the cry of " Vive la pair" is seditious are we to draw the inference that war is meant t If war is not meant why are per.•ona arrested for crying " Long live peace" instead of bring thanked far being in har mony with the secret wishes of the government ? We should advise the Cons , " mr inane' to ail for fresh informa tion, or at least to inquire of the rays why it believi .• in war, and to communicate to the public inn new preel,.- rnation the result of its inrcAigations. taking the precau tion that it should not be contradicted the next day by another officious journal ; for it can no longer be said now that it is the opposition journals that are piling heavy clouds on the horizon to prolong the evils of une , rtainty. The loyal papers do this work excellently well. (TlllO7Oll REITTICE . B ♦OENCY.) FRANCE. PARIS, Arc sr 26. The Mohiteur contains a report of Marshal Vaillant's speech at Dijon on Monday in opening the Councils-General. After point ing . out the abundant harvest just gathered in he said :—" This abundance is the more appreciated, because it occurs amidst the most reassuring circumstances. The Emperor said very recently that peace must not be disturbed, and that everything promised well for its duration. Indeed, gentlemen, abundance in peace, but in a peace that has not been preserved at the cost of patriotism. You have there in two words the position of our country." AUSTRIA. VIENNA. At(Arai 2G. Telegrams received here announce that cholera has broken out at Teheran. PRUSSIA. DEATH OF MADAME PFEIFFER. BERLIN, AVOITST 26. The well-known dramatic authoress and actress, Madame Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, died at noon yesterday, in consequence of an apoplectic stroke. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST. Avarn 21 The Minister of War has given in his resigna tion, and his portfolio has been provisionally entrusted to the charge of M. Bratiano. M. Arion, the Minister of Justice, takes the depart ment of the Interior for the present. After the return of the premier, further ministerial changes are expected, none of which, however, will in volve any change in the principl e s of the g,overn ment. INDIA. INSURRECTION IN AFFGHANISTAN. CALCUTTA, ArOI7ST 1 (vii Brindisi). The government inspection of 24 pergunualis shows that the crops over a large extent of country have been totally destroyed by floods. The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal has urgently recommended the extension of the Eastern Bengal Railway to Darjeeling. Accounts from the indigo districts represent the prospects of the crop as better, although a moderate crop only is expected. BOMBAY, Aootrer It is stated that Sir Alexander Grant loaves India in October. The sittings of the Bombay Bank Commission continue. Mr. Premcbund Moyochund is to be examined to-morrow. _ _ It is stated that the Shah of Persia has resolved to occupy Mero. (%) Intelligence from Afghanistan to July 23, an nounces that Jellalabad is in a state of anarchy and insurrection. Azim Shan had fallen back upon Cabool. Ohuzni is being besieged by Yakoole Sian. . OUR PARIS LETTER. Cram ow ow PARIS, TuzeDAT Eviarna. Since the astonishing success of H. Chevy in the Jura, the democratic or republican party, which begins to think itself strong enough to stand alone, is much iess disposed than it was to coalesce with Orleanists, legitimists, and clericals. In stead of the " liberal union," which for some time they were resigned to, their cry is now the " democratic union." The and 4 emir National have been for Dome time preaching that it is not a sufficient qualification for their candi dates to oppose government; but that every effort should be made to choose good men and true, who have positive es well as negative opin ions, and may be relied upon in any crisis that may arise. M. Jules Fevre, in a speech made the other day at Agen, where a banquet was given him on the occasion of his defending the Memager du Suci-Ouest, declared himself distinctly in favour of a thorough democratic union in re gard to all coming elections. At the second ballot he would have his friends vote for any opposition candidate rather than the government one; but he is against any coalition with heterogeneous elements in the first instance. Upwards of a dozen Frenchmen, most of them journalists, received a summons on Saturday afternoon to appear before M. de Gonet, the Judge of Instruction. While wait ing in his ante-room they were lost in conjec ture as to why they had been sent for. When admitted to the presence they were told that letters to their addresses posted in Brussels had been seized in the post-ofiice on the mispicion that they contained prohibited printed matter. They were desired to open the envelopes in the presence of the judge, and sure enough the Lmat4rAe, No. 12, was found in 'every one of them. They wore , „allied whether they were subscribers to the iLanteke, and what was the name of the sender in Brussels, both of which questions they de ;dined to answer. The judge then confiscated ,the copies, and sent the owners away. Extra ordinary activity is shown by the police in search ing for hidden Looter:3es, both in town and country. A jeweller named Fandard, who gives his address 45, Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, says that last week his wife was arrested in her Tlff.y that Dr. /1".1 •-• intoritiov to p..;%••• I I.•zi , t to i-ontitic. it to crownr ,, l 1. • .41. , l that cn tii , • I,y Ns - 'ii , 1, 1... ..-tiator. a l.t•rtr+tit of t aib,J 1i...1-• Stu le,' :t• t n Clark clost.t. I•tt'. r .I.•ry i . • MiSrepreNeUt 3i 1,11 Of 3 (11 cd • picture, Wilieh i, pfls,ll,l• (.!1"1.1!::1: there was a man who c tell afford t•.- dent of the smiles or frownv of (~ Dr. Nelaton iv that man. The titl. ments of a senator could add nothing . either to the dignity or fortune whi, h achieved by personal merit and , likelihood his guiding motive in aeceptinit torship was to gratify and encourage th. 14, ,1.• profession. Some time ago a prize of 100,000 fr. in tier Pv• Bordelais lottery fell to No. 167,160, claimant appeared at the time. and the own the lucky ticket was advertised for in Saturday last a young man, who is a , clerk at Cahors, and is said to belong to a able family in the Lot, presented a ticket the above number at the Paris lottery office, the clerks pronounced it a forgery. !tn.]. the Lear was arrested. At the Bourse M. Magne triumphs all atop: line. The considerable rise of yesterday wt. f lowed by as great a one to-day, and withou• 4 check. Rente closed at the highest quotation. the day, ilfr. for cash, and a Tlfr. 2, 1 ,c. for se. on!! with a rise of sc. and 221 c. Credit Fonekr 10fr. ; Mobilier, lfr. 25fr.; and Comptonl'Es compte, 2fr. 50c. Italian fluctuated a grant !.41: and closed, with a fall of 25c., at 52fr. 5.1. r.hop, taken to the preg•ctur:‘, and det:tin,l en3to4y for more thAn two hoar:, mei , ,ly ehe wore some jnw , .llery Net in th , • twin ]intern. Tho ali , Jpwa.4 R f t“rwards s..3rth,A, the simihr jewels in it taken away. M. F,t0,1„ avaerts that the,e jewel.' have lx•en it, hi, tho lAst five y ar4, and therefore round been ncinufactor-d n ) , .„ Rochefo•d's w!.. not in-, :it .1 -;:, •,,.. mouth, ft,,,CO. The „Prea4, Ft% NI. :t.. drillart's article in yomtorday . % Just a year ago the Emperor, or. the fir- , •oi. L .- tour in tho northern provinces, spoke of Id ~.k the horizon, and thereby caused great alarm. stinftirito,e/ chooses this annivor&ary for :11111.61i:4., peace, which it rcpre-kotA a% complo..ly affirms that ti - warroit, preaches alroloite confidence Sine th e iv . rn deeply initiated in the government v. i , . tell us what were the black points that d - horizon a year ago, and when and In %hat inv••- di-appeared to give place to a elondles• 1:.. • , would poi - Lair- fii. , l in sa di an mole cogent gioniels eonfidena txhortationa of the t, I rmule a similar observation •1, •;: Troyes spivs:lL which I said was v i• . • of such an explanation as the Pr , but it would be ban fur any rn: any quart-r whdever to give 01.11.1. : . a ` , 171 g:gPtlal sign. ANARCHY AT THE DINNER Lint. Example is unquestionably catching in ri.mt. A few days ago we published an account of scene which occurred at the agricultural dinner A similar scene, not quite so violent, has taken vl 0 a agricultural banquet given by the municipality of 'd .„' beliard to the Agricultural Society of the DouliA. M. Moustier, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, presi.l. , ! Amongst thoae present were his son-in-law, the Mar.', do Marmier; the Marquis de Conegliano and M. Latour Dumoulin, members for the departmen• the Prefect, the three sub-prefects—all in form. After the imperial awl other toa‘t. tt Constant Peugeot proposed the health of the .1. for the Doubs, MM. do Conegliano and Latour • • lin. There were immediate and marked cries •ti •• VI, • Latour Dumoulin." After a short spee,l tli, sentative of the tiers porti, the same cry wis • p•• PFon this M. Parrcau, an official, endeavour, ,1 silence at the table over which he pro- idol. Tin nt , ference had only the effect of intewifying ••, "Viva Latour Dumoulin." It now became nl.llli . that it was intended a. a demonstration. the result was that MM. d.: M.u••tier, Mann..:. Conegliano, the prefects sub-prefects, and may... I .I! •!, room. The other guests remained, and with their it which had not been served at the time of the ”tli - ' secession, they again toasted their favourite deputy. "Truly," says the ...ler.e;: ..Vah'onec authuriti• ought to be on their guard against agricultural banquets. It is no longer possible to allow . 2e perenis to cum together without shouting in one farm n another Ila litierh'. This is indeed discouraging to thm•! don't like liberty." The Stockholm journals announce, the death Count de Moerner, aged 87, who in some sort led to I' introduction of the reigning dynasty, having, of ow, movement, after the death of Prince Cherks Augus.tu , . the heir, gone to Paris and offered the Swedish throne • Marshal Bernadotte. TAX ON BOURSE OreusTioNs.—The ' German Grnette expreesee the opinion that operations on 11. • Berlin Bourse having maimed the character of a •ro7 . 1 occupation, ought to pay taxes like other branches in• Mislay. The argument, says a Berlin letter, is entirely conclusive, but the mere fact that it is lossv ! , ' forward by the Gazed/ confirms the rumour tlut tL Minister of flnaace intends to propose a duty an Boar , transactions. RECRUITING FOR BALI/Tv.—Under the hentlim; of " A Mormon at Saint Mimosa," the .1/,;.w,;ar tL Zaire relates the following:—" Our city has tu j o y ed distinguished honour of having had during the whole . this week within ita walls • Latter-day Saint. He can a missionary from the Great Salt Lake City, and was yet: to France by Brigham Young to recruit alberes for Mormonism and take them across the Atlaut!.. and the United States to New Zion beyond Rocky Mountains. This delegate, named James Kimbal s the brother of John Mamba, some time the under governor of Utah„ and who has lately died, second polite: of the new religion. Re himself also °amines a higD rank in the sacerdotal lierarcly of the state. Mr. - Kimball has spent his time entirely in vain at %W EI/sane. Notwithstanding his eloquent lectures, his r - nisei of the grandest miracles, and the eivree , t"' he held out of a life of hammers', he has been unable'. persuade any inhabitant of this city, male or feria• follow him to the holy land of the elect." " WllO WOULD NOT EN A BOY" IN RUSSIA ? Schoolboys hi Russia hitherto seem to have had 3 lol6V.ll** time of it, According to en official report just there are established as holidays in Russia-Bre , the I . " orthodox days of the Christmas, Easter. Whitson, an., summer meadows ; next, 62 Sundays. 30 church and feast days, apart from 10 further " local " free 'hr. Thus there are 26.5 days to be subtracted in the course one year, which leavee exactly 110 days for in.t.vetior There is, however, to be a generalsionference at St. Peter burg in October, at which this subject is to be ex amiue ! and very serious changes introduced. EXCHANGE OF FARLIAIMTARY PUBLIC tTioN'• —The Meadow mays:—" The House of Lords has 'eat • the French Senate another collection of public aocuracut en suite to those previously forwarded. Au esehange,..: these ParlidueutarY publications has been going tween the two libraries for 30 years past. Tbe Semite now the Lords' Jeanie.% up to rio7 ' C es ea s rd ea 's reports to the present time, as well a the statutes at large from the period of MAP r . Charts to the 31st year of the reign of t/d"" Victoria. In the library of the Luxembourg are likervi , to be found the Journal of the Reuse of Commons, IP • volumes in folio, up to 1848, the whole collection of Soi Un t.. Trials, and an. enormous' quantity of Sessional Papers. Heather band, the Ream of Lords is able to consult a , . tr all e y e documents t rand in tte Pai Min w u neeti" tes of th o e f Fr t t Fre els ' Lom b kg bit l since 1789—those of the Senate forming 100 volume: also, a selection of the great historical p u blications ol France, and many administrative papers ileeincl worthy of presentation.' During one of the late thunder -storms 11. rerratil. • farmer at Chavauges (Aube), was eneagf d • with the aid of his wife and daughter, aged 16, in hellnnie his men to cart some oats, when the electric fluidr the girl and set her clothes on fire. The father riiehl her assistance and put oat the flames. but she liadl killed by the lightning, and her body woe burnt in oo r um places. nrit hay 3'ol P . iv kri w• Let t.. 01 ,te NON Cc 10 1.1.4 1.4 3SI