The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-07 00:00:00

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M ILLIAMN, Ltate 4., ~ t. I , II StICIA. I7.::,1)411.11. rri t 1. I.F:l' or SOLI), a Semi-detached VILLA I I. iu .1 I IbdloMay, in t. . awl MN.? with Vrntlian Iliad., gm, and „ .. • a. I.r. a. fa-t parl..nr, (kitchen. and and emiaerralary awl - .• I...trottt tool .1 o room, mast gsni s t t s, and t_ c. attltolol .ittlation, and wen ante. f. 0,111.1.1.1 tar :MIMI.. Apply to Mr. W3l. p ; tjarall l'hettplitie, or at ,o. 5, as abuts. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. EXlllRtrume, ieee. ibis celebrated 041 11:18 % 11188 Y gained the DMILIN FLIZE tIEDAL—It is pure, mibl , mellow, delidous, and very le; wine. sold In bottles, 34 Bd. each, et the retail houses in the seems in the principal towns In !inland ; or et. :,:dc At n, Great Windmill-strict, London, W. Observe the t e i led, pink label, awl curl& branded Kluahan's LL Whisky.' EA is (.11EAl'Elt THAN EVER-Is. 61., 2a., T . per P 4.111111 we the prhais at whk - k PHILLIPS and pi i hams. s Kim! City, London, E.C., go...lima tine liL 1C K TEA. A price current post free. 4 • .• 411 i carriage tree to any railway station or market town In sited Kim:Mini. All carriage free to all parts of . n (Ms.-rec.-1.1111.0 1 . 3 mai Co. have no agents. Sugars 111k' at market prieea VALUABLE PACKAGE of TEA. A fill I N Y:4l. CADDY, cohtui n ing IGlbs. of realty good BLACK a•Ht carriage tree to any railway station or market town In • In• land, Scotian, or Wales, on receipt of 40a., by PHI L. and C.,.. tea merchants, 0, B Lug William-street. City, B.C. 1r UDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. 1 nooks rnit ALL RE:ADERS FIRST uLAKS St LISPIt IPTION, Fur a constant succewdon of New Rooks, ONE GUINEA PER ANNUM, Commensina at any date. t ite.i4ed List of lately added to the Library la now • I). and will lie fierwurilvol, iiiietagii free, on application. 101E's r.ELF:er LI EXAM' Limited NEW OXFORD-ST. City Office—t King.street, liteapside. - - PIJRESHER and GLENNE, OUTFITTERB. Indy establishment to London, neat door to Somerset. .use, Strait'. N.H. List of nauseam outfit forme, purpose ad appointment to land*, China, and the Ottani... will be tor srded on application. U P T E S.—The PATENT SELF ADJ I sT I Nt; (1).:1:NIAN TRUSa, acting effectually without , •tahlicittioot. is r“ onilocnileil by the Vacuity for the cure nil relict of licroia Th, lie. ea quality of a good Trust it an •Inient mkt lon without untiecesam prawn,: on the Irt aftlrt.i. w hich olt.trahlt object la alone obtained In a truss ,r.nrunihert.ll with straws. -tarsi springs, or pads behind.—J. and Co., No. I, 15r, aliily. T 0 PARENTS and GUARDIANS. —Th e re t urn of youth to thoir respective hoaraling4chools inducts a %altitude for their personal comfort and attraction, and ItoW IRV 'AssA ft ni L. for accelerating the growth and im ;no log and boautifylng the hair, Rowlands' lialydor, for lm- Molar the skin and and retooring cutaneous de , and }lowlands' inh into, or Pearl Dentifrice, for rendering teth beautifully white slid preserving the gains, are con red indiVoisalde acconipanintenta.—Suld by chemists and ficriuniers. Ask for Ito hunk' ankles. D• SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, R a never tailing remedy, prepared without any mercurial %Patent, will be found invaluable to all who sager from bilious sal beer complaints, indigtstiou, wind, epsams, giddiness, dial a,u of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveome, as a family Veriest medicine, and as a portlier of the blood, they are truly Indian; mild In their operation and grateful to the stomach, 6is 'nat. appetite, promote digeation, and strengthen the . eerroas system-801d by W. Lambert, chemist, 1, ling tie am-ttreet, Charing-cross, and by must druggists, in to and three times the quantity hi one, 2s. Id. Be sure to Wh: Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pill& ne genuine are In a isais green package, with " William Lambs,'" engraved on the neap, THE LAW COURTS DESIGNS.—BANK in SYDNEY.—The BUILDER of THIS WEEK, 4d., or by I A .4., contains tine V{CM and Plan of Bank of Amaral's, r . r—l.aseription of the Design. for proposed Law Courts, rth rims—Also of the Idesizns for National Callery—Landseer's Artist Life, and other Papers—With all the cog- News —l. York-street, roventßarden, and all newsmen. 3ltsn -AL TREAT TO WORK HOUSE INMATES. `oete of the gentlemen attached to the banking-house of • rrillinown Lombard-sticet firm have recentl a y formed Vienisalves into an ama t eur soc i ety, un d er the morning.- tam of the " Delaware Minstrels." They practise occa tonally after the business of the day is concluded at the bank, and have acquired considerable proficiency upon the intrunients held in so much favour at St. James's talL They are indeed perfect masters of the banjo, the "bones," th e tamborise, the violin, and the !moo, and m oa t o f them possess excellent voices. With these qualifications they have been enabled to afford no small amount of private enter tainment, and on a recent occasion they gave tperformanoe in aid of the lionierton Parochial Schools. Lot night this " coloured" troupe made their second &p -p , riace in public before • crowded and delighted a:khence, in the dining.hall of Bethual-green workhouse. ti- door of the hall was occupied by the inmates, and the 1.1!-ry by a numerous party of pirishioners. Both sec -441 of the audience appeared thoroughly to enjoy the tltertaitiment, which of course embraced all the leading .4 LITeII of the Christy repertoire, interspersed with Irsorous dialogues, taking • local turn, and the amount of energetic illustrations bordering ii the grotesque. Mr. Massingham, the brother of one +f 'he gentlemen, is a guardian, and it was at his solicita a,. the Lombard-street society were induced to contri :t:, two Lours' mental relaxation to the poor inmates of a Ntliouse. whose numbers represented every age, from 4 -;Ling youth to extreme manhood. At the time the r' -.. rtainnient was being given there were 1,300 paupers house, of whom 5110 were on the sick list of the in 3'^rY. A word of praise on behalf of the debutante •-•1" are not only clever instrumentalists, but sing with 4 ••••• harmony, arid pathos. Hr. I)IsTEEss is THE METROPOLIS,—The coin :Ake met yesterday at 2 o'clock, under the presidency the Lord Miyor. ''here were several deputations apply ; far relief from di ff erent districts, and among th e m on e from the East London Central General Com frmu the Itatclitf Soup Kitchen, from St. Philip soup kitchen, from Canning-town, and Plaistow .4,4. • from Tower-hill, introduceitby Mr. John Young, of the Common Council ; from the hamlet of MNew.town, from the Old Ke n t- roa d district, tu , i.itdfields, from the Poplar Working Men' s Com „ 'y • ",. from the p ar i s h o f St. Thomas, Stepney. It -,401 from a statement that was made by Mr. Ball, that the total amount received at the Mea t- up to 1 o'clock yesterday was 7,75 W. 1841. 44, ha , l in addition bee a n about 3 ,400 f. received at ` 4 :gborent honkers, making total of 11,2601. Of this P .' . , n,0541/. had b e en expended in different grants, Lalaace of 1,20'1. remained at the disposal of the "tie.. It ;Tears to be generally felt that the , the fund had been pretty well carried out, and • with the approach of spring, there will no longer be ""' s 'it ,. for the continuance of the committee. The .1”" 11, q, yesterday occupied more than three hours, T the sums th a t were gran t e d were one of 300 f. os,chill disti ict, this being the second grant, , re of lisp , . to St. Thomas, Stepney. The greater of the remaining applications were rejected by Aoittee, on the ground that they did not come I. ultimate scope of operations for which the .1 created. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE STRIKE IN BELGIUM. DRUSSEI.ti, FELL ~ EVENING. Tlw following despatches are published here : Marchiennes, Feb. 6. _ . Four hundred miners employed at the et )al mine of St. thvh at Montigny-on-Sambre, have struck for higher wages. They are marching in a body to the coal mine of St. AndrtC, in order to induce the pitmen there to follow• their example. Charleroi, Feb. 6, Evening. The men belonging to the Mambourg coal mines, at Is slelinsart, have gone to Montigny-on-Sambre, to join the miners on strike in that locality. At Moutigny some crowds had assembled, and as sumed a menacing attitude, but they were dispersed by the troops, and several arrests were made. The Bt.fge of this evening, alluding to the riots, sa.. :• -" We are of opinion that these dis turbances will last 801110 time longer, for as soon as the traps move to the scene of the rioting dis turbances break out elsewhere." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FEB. 6, EVENING. The announcement of the decision of the go veniment to renounce the assembling of au ex traordinary Diet will, it is said, be communicated I to the ordinary Diets, which meet on the 18th inst., by an imperial message, which will explain that in consequione of the settlement which has been ar rived at with Hungary such an assembly is not needed. The message, it is added, will further an nounce that the Emperor will convoke a constitu tional Ileielisrath in accordance with the February constitution, and that to this assembly will be submitted the now law for the reorganization of the army, and also a government bill proposing an amendment to the February constitution in conse quence of the arrangement made with Hungary. The opening of the Reichsrath will take place about the middle of March. The government bill for the amendment of the constitution will, it is believed, propose the suppression of paragraph 13, and the introduction of a law on ministerial re sponsibility. It is considered certain that Count Andrassy will be the President of the new Hun garian ministry, and M. Longay, Minister of Finance. INDIA. tar DIRECT OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.) BOMBAY, JAN. JO, 2.34 P.Y. Shirtingi and mule twist unchanged. Cotton steady ; New Oomrawuttee, 300 r. Exchange on London, la. no. CALCUTTA, JAN. 29. Shirting and mule twist unchanged. Exchange on London, ls. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1867. AMERICA. (BT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Fn. 5. AMERICA. The House of Representatives has passed a reso lution instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill to prevent the further con traction of the currency during the current year. The Inman steamer City of Paris arrived out to day. (I 'ROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, JAN. 26. There are seieral symptoms that the Republican party is now in danger of a reverse of • similar kind. If it escapes it, it will owe its eicape mainly, if not altogether, to the profound distrust of the democratic part) which prevails, and the fear of the effects of ita return to power on the question of reconstruction. The impeachment ques tion, for instance, already begins to work something very like a schism. From various tests, which to my knowledge have been applied to small bodies of representative men within the last two or three weeks, I think it is safe to conclude that the party is about equally divided on this question. The rigidness of party discipline prevents thisidiver gene° of views from showing itself amongst the regular politicians in Congress as yet. Moreover, the impeachment question has never fairly come before Congress. The vote which has excited so much sensation in Europe, and called forth such lofty generalizations from the Times and Pall Moll Gazette, meant nothing, as people here know very well. Tho largeness of the ma-' jority may have been due just as much to • desire not to impeach the President as to a desire to impeach him. Reference to the judi- I ciary committee would be voted as eagerly by those who want to stifle the movement as by those who want to see it carried on ; for the judiciary committee may, if it pleases, do nothing about it, and, from what I hear, is, I should say, ' doing little or nothing about it. But whenever the impeachment question is brought fairly before the house, so as to elicit the opinions of indivi dual members, one sees all the time that the seeds of division are sown, and that it would not, take much to bring them to maturity. Half the Repub. licana Wolin into the anti-Republican ranks would of course kill the impeachment movement. There are also symptoms of mutiny on the part of the freetraders. Mr. Trumbrell, of Illinois, voted against the tariff last year in the Senate, and his re-election was violently opposed on this ground by the wool-growing inte rest a few weeks ago, but he nevertheless carried the day; and Mr. Grimes, of lowa, also •Republican of prominence, has made a ferocious attack on the protectionists in the house, and announced his in tention not to be bullied by them any more. And the violent language of many of the extreme radi cals out of doors—some of whom have begun to talk now Sf abolishing the Presidency, the Senate, and Supreme Court altogether—helps, in some degree, to shake the hold of the Congressional majority on the country ; for there is not on earth, in my opinion, a " more sober-suited freedom" than that which Northern voters love and cling to, in spite of all the "gas " of orators and lecturers. There is deep in the popular heart a respect for precedent, for law, for expediency, which hardly any crisis, however violent, can shake or impair. The wrangle over Mr. Boutwell's bill kept the house up all night, and ended in a compromise on Wednesday morning, by which an adjournment took place till 11 o'clock, with the understanding that the bill was then to be debated for one hour, and the vote taken at the end of that time. The proceeding has been on the whole one of the most curious incidents of the crisis. The Supreme Court decided in the recent test oath case that Congress had no right to exclude a man from practising in the Supreme Court, or any other court, by ex post . iiieto legislation. An act excluding a person from the practice of any profusion for an offence pre- . viously committed, and for which he had been • neither tried nor convicted, or which the Pre sident had pardoned, the court held to be in the nature of a bill of pains and penalties, and therefore unconstitutional. They decided, moreover, that Congress had no right to tix the qualification of lawyers practising in the Supreme Court under : any circumstances. Innnediately after this decision, , Bradley Johnson, ono of the most notorious and bitterest of the Maryland Secessionists, who had served in the Southern army during the war, was , admitted to the bar of the court without taking the oath, an order of the court which had been made in obedience to the act nearly a year ago being rescinded. All this not unnaturally roused the anger of the Radicals to the highest degree. Taken in connec tion with one or two of the previous decisions and the known leanings of some of the judges, they looked upon it as virtually a defiance hurled at Congress ; and a bill was introduced by Mr. Boutwell fixing positively the qualification of lawyers for practice in all Federal courts. The bill was read twice in rapid succession under the previous question, which of course excluded all debate ; but when it came to be read the third time, the patience and submissiveness of the minority gave way, and they declared their inten tion of making motions of adjournment, and having the " yeas and nays called," that is, the roll read, and each member forced to vote in answer to his name, until the majority agreed to allow the bill to be debated a reasonable length of time ; but this Mr. Boutwell refused. So the struggle began and lasted through the night, and the result was that the minority at last succeeded in securing the concession of one hour for the discussion of one of the most important measures of the session. The temper exhibited by the majority, and some of the expressions made use of by Mr. Bout well, such as that "the Supreme Court existed by the breath of Congress," have, I think, seriously damaged the Radicals with the public, and this violent course if persisted in would certainly end in a split in the Republican ranks, and therefore in the destruction of the party. The majority in Con gress has, as the natural consequence of its great superiority of strength, grown more and more im perious in its temper as the conflict has gone on. Its victory over the President at the recent elections has naturally increased its confidence, and it has now become dangerously indifferent to the rights of the opposition. The system of electoral districts is such that, unfortunately as I believe, neither Congress nor the State legislatures properly represent public opinion. The Democrats are in the country at large in the proportion of three to eight ; in Congress and most of the legis latures they are as one to ten. The result is that the majority in the latter are cheated into com plete forgetfulness of their real strength. At the last election the Republicans everywhere achieved a triumph, but it was a triumph extraordinary rather for the number of States which were carried than for the total majority which was rolled up. In Pennsylvania, for instance, out of 585,000 votes cast, 300,000 only were Republican ; in this State the majority for Fenton, out of nearly 500,000 votes, was only 10,000 ; and in Connec ticut the victory was won by only about 500 votes. In many other States the majorities were much larger; but the general result is that the Democrats have only about one-fourth of the representation to which their numbers entitle them. The Repub lican majority in Congress is thus easily led into a false estimate of its own strength, and has day by day grown in arrogance, and, I will not say unscru pulousness, but in disregard of the opinions and feelings of opponents. Finally, they have re fused to allow the minority to open their lips about a measure which brings Congress into direct collision with the Supreme Court, and one of their leaders has so far forgotten himself as to say that the court owes its existence to the breath of another branch of the government, whose acts it has every day to pass in review. Now, I am satisfied that the Republican party are thoroughly united in a determination to do what ever is necessary to establish political equality, and secure protection for life and property at the South. If it be necessary to disregard the letter of the con stitutionfor this purpose, they are ready to disregard it, just as though, by no means well assured of the strict constitutionality of the emancipation pro clamation, they submitted to it cheerfully. The proceedings of Congress, as long as it keeps the main object of the struggle steadily in view, there is no disposition to scrutinize very closely. But violations of the constitution which are not plainly necessary, or legislative action which appears in tended or likely to produce nothing but irritation, or which evinces an overweening disregard of the rights of the minority, will not, I think, be long tolerated. If the present majority does not exer cise its great power with more discretion than it has recently displayed, I have no doubt it will go the way of all powerful majorities, and be knocked to pieces by public opinion. The number of thorough-going party men amongst voters is very small. The great majority of electors really vote at each election on the merits of " the issue," as it is called, then pre sented to the country, but they are not to be de pended on for a thick and thin support of any set of measures or of men, and the party in power at Washington is liable, in the absence of constant ; watchfulness and self-restraint, to find itself aban doned by the country. This occurred in 1862, in spite of the excitement of the war. The abuse of the power of arbitrary arrest which characterised the first year of Mr. Lincoln's administration, coupled with the want of success in the field, led to the triumph of the Democrats in most of the Northern States. Seymour's election in this State, for instance, was due to the votes of thousands of Republicans who wished to mark their disapproval of the course of the administration, but who, on most other points, differ from Seymour as widely , SS the poles asunder. Gold, 1374. Sterling exchange on London, 108 i. 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 i. Illinois, 1143. Erie, 58/. Cotton : middling upland, 33c. THE EXHIBITION OF 1867. (nom ors arzam. conzeporcarr.) If the Custom-house officers on the British aide of the Channel were as liberal and courteous as they , are on the French side, even now before the ELM ! bition has begun, the agitation to put in abey ance the regulations for the examination of ' the luggage of passengers travelling between ' England and France during the exhibition period would lose much of its importance. Of late French Custom-house officers have done their spiriting gently. On landing they never peer into bags and reticules carried in the hand. They merely glance at the contents of your portmanteau when in the Custom-house. If you have many packages, they request you to open one. But when the French traveller lands at Newhaven or Folkestone, the scene changes indeed. Nathaniel Hawthorne has said, " Neither the front nor the back entrance of the Custom-house opens on the road to Paradise." But in these days, need it open upon a bear-garden? The disgust created in the minds of our neighbours by the manners and doings of English Custom house officers is universal. They meet not only with bad manners, but with an apparently savage determination to carry out the Customs' regulations to the minutest point. I heard only yesterday of the case of a French lady who, having landed in free-trade England, was subjected to the most un warrantable indignities, and to considerable ex pense, because her luggage contained a plentiful supply of can de Cologne and perfumery for her self and her friends. This lady was asked (I can see the dogged threatening head from which the voice came) whether she had anything to declare. Her answer was, no. Her reason afterwards given was that she had not the least idea we levied a tax on eau de Cologne and perfumery now in England. The scene that ensued was, I am informed on the i beat authority, a violent and painful one. As one swallow does not make a summer, an individual instance does not make a national grievance. I cite the case of this unfortunate French lady only be cause, according to my experience of the custom- , houses on our southern coast—and unfortunately for me, it has been frequent and has extended over' many years—this lady is one of thousands. I Make a day's journey about the hotels of Soho, and I take down the opinion of the French traveller on the British Custom-house. The investigation' would bear good fruit. The first impression made upon the Frenchman travelling in England is, most unfortunately for us, made by the Customs' servants of the crown. Among ourselves, we don't talk , about a Custom-house officer and a gentleman ; but ; our neighbours, who have crossed the Channel, talk about the British Custom-house officer with an irri tation that is inseparable from their remembrance of England. They laugh at our free-trade England, and bid us compare the examination of luggage in Paris—where the octroi as well as the downer has an eye upon it—with the examination of luggage in London. I was discussing this question at length a few days ago with a gentleman who has done more, I sup pose, to develop the intercourse between the two nations than any living man • and who was, many years ago, a French free - tra d er , when free-trade had hardly an inch of ground in France. It was his firm opinion, judging of the two Custom-houses, after daily experience running over many year*, that there was an insuperable difficulty in the way of putting in abeyance the regulations for the exa mination of luggage during the coming exhibition time ; and that difficulty lay in England. He be lieved that the French government were ready to exempt English passengers' luggage from search at any moment, directly the British government would grant French subjects travelling in England a simi lar immunity. lf, then, English travellers to the Exhibition be detained for weary hours in English and French vacs d'attente,let them carry the blame whither it is due. When a Frenchman's eye peers into Mrs. Bull's bonnet box, let her say, " Drat that Disraeli ! " A discussion has arisen here on the formation and functions of the international scientific commission, which lies within the scope of the Exhibition plan. The task of this commission is defined in an official document bearing date the 20th of September, 1865. ' The commissioners were to indicate the means by which the recent progress in science, the liberal and mechanical arts, could be best represented in the Exhibition of 1867. They were to show how useful discoveries, and such international reforms as uni- ' form weights and measures, could be spread. They [TWOPENCE . NEWSPAPA • _ • t .i fl / t: r "re 4 , •-•:-) id xpirt d • • • --- • . . . I li 1 ,~ a; EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN COREEsPONDINT.) PARIS, WEDNEKDAT Evzlonic. One of the first bills to be brought forward in the Corps Legislatif after the opening of the session will be the one, long hung up, for the entire aboli tion of imprisonment for debt. The Emperor promised this measure in a speech from the throne two years ago. The conservative committee of the Corps Legislatif has hitherto proposed so many provisoes and exceptions as to suspend the execution of the Emperor's intentions. He will now appeal to the whole house against the committee, and MM. Rouher and Ba ruche will be the government speakers on the occasion. I think the inmates of the Clichy prison may safely subscribe their coppers for a new illumination, which will not be a Jack-o'-lantern as the lust was. Prince Napoleon, attended by most of the mem ben of the Imperial Commission of the Universal Exhibition, paid a visit to the building to-day. Although care was taken to announce that his visit was not official, the fact of every one being at his post from an early hour expect ing the Prince led to the rumour that his im perial highness will shortly resume the presi dency of the Exhibition, which he resigned when his speech in Corsica, which incurred the Emperor's displeasure, caused his removal from the Privy Council. Nothing seems to me more probable than this news. The imperial cousins have long been reconciled ; and if the re forms now on the order of the day shall turn out to be as liberal as is confidently expected, there will be no reason why the Prince should not again take his seat in the Privy Council, because most of the ideas, for the premature utterance of which he I was censured, will have become predominant. The Bonne has gone up to-day with a strong im pulsion. Rente rose 25c. for cash, and 271 for ac count, closing at 69fr. 70c. and 69fr. 6711 c. Mo bilier rose 10fr.; Crtldit Fonder, Mr.; and Comp toir d'Escompte, Mr. 50c. Italian rose bc. TEE CATTLE PLAGUE IN BELGIUK.—The vigo rous measures adopted by the authorities to stay the de velopment of the cattle disuse at Huselt have produced a good result. The Echo dr Partra tta t s a ys :—. •On the lit and 2nd no new case occurred. All suspected animals are still slaughtered. Out of 60 horned beasts killed on the 2nd six only had the germ of the terrible malady. The meat of the (4 others was therefore delivered to general consumption." _ Aniaixaury, Fen. 6. Aeromrtimrs. Lieu tenant G. R. Bell, to the Lion, additional, for service in tender. Midshipmen J. L Crawley, to the Cidedunia; F. R. Robinson, to the Racoon, DESTRUCTION BY FIRE Or THE SHIM ROYAL Boon- RtION.—A few days since a melange was received in Liver pool, through the Atlantic cable, to the effect that the ship Royal Sovereign, bound to Liverpool from New Or leans, had been totally destroyed by firein the Mississippi. Yesterday some particulars regarding the destruction of the vessel were received in Liverpool. It appears that after taking on board nearly 2,900 bales of cotton, the Royal Sovereign anchored about nine miles below New Orleans previous to her final departure for the Mersey. On the afternoon of the 22nd nit., however, smoke was observed issuing from the main batch. Measures were at once taken to extinguish the fire, but notwithstanding a copious and well suatained supply of water, the conflagration con tinued to increase, and eventually, when all endeavours to save the vessel appeared to be useless, the crew left her, an d s h e eventually burned herself out, and became a total wreck. The cargo was completely destroyed, and little or no salvage will be secured. The Royal Sovereign was valued at about 15,0001., whilst the cargo, which was pro- cipsilly cotton of very fine quality, was worth upwards of maw. The Royal Sovereign, together with her cargo, is said to be folly insured. [STAMPED, id. ADDITIONAL] were to draw up special papers, setting forth the useful results to the human family which might be drawn out of the Exhibition. The commission was to be composed of Frenchmen and foreigners. Each commissioner might do his part of the work, apart. Meetings were declared not to be indi sp ensable. Lastly, the Imperial Commission promised to pub lish any of the papers or reports which they might deem worth publication. A stranger international scientific conunissi,ai was surely never conceived ! The learned men of the world are invited to submit their ideas for the world's regeneration to the im perial commissioners, who reserve the right of doing what it may please them to do with them ! Down to the present time I believe this great international scientific commission has existed only in the vivid imagination of its author. I cannot think that in England—to put a case—if the leading men of our learned societies were invited to call themselves a commission, on the understanding that they were to work apart, and to submit their labours to the approbation of half a dozen civil servants of the crown, who would decide whether they were worth higher place than the waste-paper basket.-1 cannot think, I repeat, that such an invitation would get a cordial reception from the Royal Society or the British Institution. The ghostly international scientific commission has already been relieved of lan important part of the duties allotted to it. The I Minister of Public Instruction has directed a num ber of learned men to trace the history of the pro gress in the exact sciences, in social science, and in /etters, which has been made in Prance during the last twenty years. Two duties, and they are im portant ones, remain to be transacted, when the present ghostly commission shall have assumed the solid proportions of real flesh-and-blood savants. They will be called upon to indicate how useful dis coveries may be beat spread over the world, in the first place ; and in the second place, to push forward reforms of international utility. How a commission is to set about these two tasks—a commission, more over, with the world for an office-table, is, I confess, beyond my comprehension It has been pointed out to the Imperial govern ment that international reforms have been discussed in congresses—ill London, Brussels, Berne, Amster dam, and Liege ; and that free meetings are more likely to hasten sound international action, than any commission subjected to the final judgments of imperial bureancrats. A congress might be held with good effect, in Paris, in the course of next I summer ; provided always that its deliberations might be freely published, and its resolutions might be sent forth, uncontrolled by the dignitaries of the Champ de Mars. The prizes offered in the tenth group, or rather as a supplemeut to it, to those who have promoted the well-being of the working classes, and the harmonious relations of employers and employed, have, at length, found severe critics on this side of the Channel as well as in England. Tho recent note on the subject put forth by the English commission is undoubtedly open to this condemnation—that it is ridiculously late. There is no fair reason why it should not have seen the light months ago ; or at least at the time when I was able to describe to your readers the nature of the prima, and the conditions on which they were offered. The conditions have been altered since I first referred to them ; but then the final alteration is dated November 13, 1865 ! Now, the candidate must have bettered the material con dition of the working man • originally the condition was that he must have ass ured the workman's pros perity. The objections taken to this supplementary hat of prizes ia, that the rewards are in solid cash. The greatest benefactor or social doctor is to receive 4,0001. cash ; while the exhibitor of the finest ox is to have a medal set ins work of art ! The argu ment appears to be that fernier Hodge can appre ciate beauty of form and design ; but that, say, Mr. Mill's mind is own only to the temptation of a handful of lonia. The moral philosopher is• to have his reward in a purse ; while the artist is to reward the grazier. The composition of the jury, it is alleged, is open to grave objection. Political men are not the best judges of familisteries and the like. A strong party man makes a bad commis sioner. M. Ad. Blain), writing in the Liberfl, urges the suppression of the special jury for this supple mentary group, and advocates the withdrawal of the prizes for social and moral reforms into the tenth group, to which, indeed, they naturally belong. He insists that the prizes should not be in money. How many pro jects that appear brilliant over the "beaded brim " of a wine cup make their authors tremble or laugh on the morrow. The Paris Society of Social Economy is composed of sober-minded men, who are very much in earnest about the sine , lioration of the condition of their unfortunate fellow-creatures. Let me note their predicament. Some time back they begged for, and obtained, space in the Exhibition park for the construction of a building in which they were to show a model family of Paris workmen. The idea appeared admirable at first, and they set to work to realise it. But every step discovered a new difficulty. They deli berated, only to find themselves in a more perplex ing entanglement than the last. Finally they ad mitted that they had made a blunder, and aban doned the project, amid roars of laughter. At least, they were wise in time. Yet there will be model families or groups at the Exhibition. We are to see a family of Lapps, in their native hut, in the Swedish department. The Swedes are among the must active exhibitors this time. They have built a house with indigenous wood and iron, mo delled on that of Gustavus Wass. Moldo-Wallachia has also ventured into the model-family department. A Roumain family will be exhibited in a bordei, or farm—at work ! The natural riches of Moldo-Wal- Ischia will be fully represented— and will be very interesting. Already M. Ambroise Baudry is raising a pavilion of pretentious design for the prince regnant, on the model of the Kurtea of Argent. The Seine has been and is very troublesome. It has submerged the works on the banks, and spread consternation among the authorities. French horticulture will make a brilliant figure. MM. Alphand and Barillet's garden in the French section of the park will be a flowery fairy land, lively with rippling streams and flashing falls. In the centre of it will be a crystal palace. In this palace there will be a series of fourteen flower shows, each show lasting about fifteen days. The arrangements are on an extensive scale. There will be fourteen competitive exhibitions of bridal flowers, and of bouquets for the ball room, of flow ers for table ornaments, &c. There will be fruit and vegetable shows also. M. Petit, the photo grapher, has taken some views of the Exhibition in the snow that will amuse visitors who will see building and grounds under an August sun. Among the institutions which have been created for a good season's sport among the Exhibition visitors there are few much more suggestive than ; the Couriers Club. This club is actually installed in the Faubourg St. HonortS, and has fifty members. These are the noble fishermen ; not bourgeois anglers for a frit ere. They despise excursionists, ' and detest Mr. Cook, as having vulgarized the grand tour. Remark them hovering about the Grand Hotel. They wear jewellery in a marked manner ; have frequent business interviews with the people who are going in or out. Quick-eyed, quick-witted, ever on the scent for a gain, they are mighty gentlemen withal, whose club room will not be the smallest scandal mart in the capital. I fear we no longer occupy a high place in their esteem. As a nation we know our Paris pretty well. They may I catch a British nouveau riche or two ; but the tra veller from afar is a more promising bird now-a-days. Such birds will be plentif al in the spring. Paris will have visitors—yea, from China. I have de ' scribed the arrangement for the Chinese depart ment in a previous letter. A few details have just been made known. In the food line, which is to circle the main building—food being the end of all or nearly all the labour exhibited within—will be a portable Chinese kitchen. The latest Exhibition rumour is that some adven ' turous members of English swimming clubs have determined to swim across the Channel on their way to the Exhibitign. They are to be accompanied by umpires in boats ; and are to b e f urn i s h e d w ith planks to rest upon at stated intervals. Drama. PRINONWS. Mr. T. W. Robertson, whose comedies of Society and Oars have owed their well-merited SUCOMII &jetty to the literary excellence of their dialogue, made his first essay last night at this theatre as a " sensational" dra- matist by the production of a three act play, called Shadow Tree Shaft. The stage is remarkably rich in dramas with a Jacobite plot—as rich as it is in comediettas of high French morality—and Mr. Robertson, dropping fur once his originality, has given it another play of the same cuinplexion. The author obtained a " call " at the close of the second act, and would probably have obtained another at the end of the drama if it had concluded at an earlier hour. The house was well filled with the usual distinguished literary and artistic people who now attend tint nighta. CANDIAN REPT:GREW RILLIEI Ft:M.—The com mittee of this fund have received from 111r.Pendeli Thome' Rai, the munificent donation of 1,000/. On Tuesday evening Mr. aoldwin Smith con cluded his course of lectures at Bradford on the Political History of England, and at the close received a cordial vote of thanks. The Freeman's Journal regrets to say that on making inquiries on Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. Darya, it was informed that no improvement had taken place is his health, and his death was hourly expected. Sir J. B. Kerslake, the Solicitor-General, is a candidate for Andover, in the room of Mr. Humphery, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. REFER:SENSATION Or EAST SUFFOLK. —On THlS day afternoon Colonel Mato Adair, who WHMOOSSAM N contested East Suffolk as • liberal candidate in 1843 and 1811, addressed the electors at Ipswich. The gallant on. lapel stated that it depended upon the promisesof support which he received between that day and the nomination whether or no he should then present himself as • candi date. He wanted' the umnistaikeable opinion of the con stituency collected in places of public resort, and what ever that opinion might be—and without it be should not move in the matter—he should accept it with respect and unfeigned thankfulness to the constituency for having taken so much pains in judging and weighing him. THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—A meeting of the sub-committee appointed from among the members of the History of Labour, to select objects for the exhibition, is reference both to their own merit and to the space that may be reserved for their use, was held yesterday at South Kensington Museum. There were present the Earl Cadogan (in the chair), the Earl of Warwick, Lord Hough ton, Hon. R. Curzon, Hon. Ashley Poasontry, Sir Coutte Lindsay, Bart., Archbishop Manning, Very Rev. Dr. Rock, Mr. G. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. J. H. Pollen, Mr. J. C. Robinson, Mr. T. Redgrave (secretary). Mr. Cole, C. 8., Secretary to her Majesty's Commission, also attended. THE LICENSING Qr E.STION.—Mr. Gladstone yesterday received • deputation from Manchester, at his residence, Carlton-house-terrace. It consisted of some twenty working men of various trades and political parties, who were appointed at a large and enthusiastic meeting recently held in the Free-trade Hall, to consider the sub ject of the sale of intoxicating liquors on the &Imlay. The deputation was accompanied by the Hon. A. Kin ward, ILP. and was introduced by the Rev. John Garrett, I).D. The subject was opened to Mr. Gladstone by Mr. F. Smith, joiner, who stated various facts, and brought forward many arguments, to prove the isapolicy and injustice of the present system, and, as • working man, appealed to the right lion. gentle man to introduce or at least to support a bill, for extending the preset retractions to the whole of Sunday, in order that the neighbourhoods inhabited by working men may be as quiet and orderly on that day as the localities in which the wealthier classes reside. Mr. Gladstone entered into • senvereation on the subject, which was prolonged for more than an hour. Mr. Ball, and other members et the deputation, brought before his notice facts and figures to prove that them houses are demoralising the people and causing increased crime and immorality, which was well sustained by statistics quoted by Mr. }ester. Mr. Glad stone asked many questions, and requested . to be supplied with detailed information upon three points, which be specified as of vital importance in bringing the matter before parliament, and expressed much pleasure at having received such • deputation. . meeting of the packing held in the alley schoolroom THE PACKING-CASE-MAKERS' STRlEZ.—Yesterday evening an aggrer atj.... -case-makers as w Farrmgdon-street, to hear the report the committee, which, being read by the secretary, stated that more than half the employees belonging to the master? association had consented to adopt the hours claimed by the men—viz., from 6 a.m. till 5.30 p.m. ; and had sent in • notice to that effect to the committee. Deputations from the committee would wait upon those employers who still held back, and there was everyieason to believe they would come tothe men's terms, as they had told their men it had nut been the wish of the employers generally to alter the hours of working, but they had been overruled by two or three of the large employers. Several of the large shops were among those who had given way. After the report had been read a discussion arose as to whether work should be resumed in those shops which had given way before all had done so, and ultimately the following repletion was adopted almost unanimously:— "That the men resume work on Thursday wonting (this day) in all those shopswhere the employers have cemented to the hours of working, being from 6 mm. until 5.30 p.m." The meeting terminated at a late hour by the men giving three cheers for the success which had attended their three days' strike. MR. VANCE, M.P., AND THE John Vance, the newly-elected member for the borough of Armagh, has just been the victim of an extraordinary printer's blunder. He was made to say, by a local paper, during his speech in returning thanks to the electors : " He never tasted liquor ; no doctor could induce him to take it,as he knew more about its evil effects than doctors. (Laughter.) He never paid a doctor's bill nor never had sickness. Water drinking preserved the health. If a man wax true to the pi: 4- , he would preserve his health ; and if he had already bad health it would improve it. He bad never employed a lawyer. Lawyers studied law for those who could not restrain their temper; and doctors studied physic for those who would not take care of their health. Was a man anything the worse for being able to live without • doctor or a lawyer? A lawyer might be useful at first to arrange and settle atfeirs of property ; but if the parties concerned bad frequented the public.in's they would have had no property to settle. He was not himself au isolated case of the good effects of total absti nence. He could point to hundreds and thousands of others who had been receiving the same good results. Then there was this fact which might at first seem strange—that one man might live more in 24 hours than another could in 48." How this language came to be put into Mr. Vance's mouth is explained by the journal itself, which says :—" In • number of copies of our paper of Thursday last a transposition occurred, • portion of the report of &temperance meeting having been made to follow closely Mr. Vane's speech at the Armagh election pro ceedings. Both reports were thus incomplete." ANTI-SLAVERY CONFERENCE.—We understand that the committees of the British and Forein Anti- Slavery Society and the Spanish Abolitionist Society (La Sociedad Abolicionista Espanol) have agreed to • sugges tion made by the " Cumin": Francais d'Eutaneipation," to hold in Paris, in the second or third week in Jane next, a conference of friends of the anti-slavery cause. It is pro posed that this conference shquld comprim, representa tives from Brazil, England Ad the English colonies, France and French colonic., Monona and Mach colonic". Haiti and Santo Domingo, the African republic of Libe ria, Portugal, Spain and Spanish Antilles, Venezuela, and the United States of Aus rica ; amp its im mediate object is to take cognisance of the actual state of the anti-slavery question in these countries, and to con sider what further means may be adopted to promote the abolition of the slave trade and slavery where these evils still exist. It is also hoped that representatives from Chili, Peru, and Mexico, and travellers and missionaries from Africa may be present. The notification of this intention is signed—on the part of the Eugli.h, by 1 Valiant Allen, Joseph Cooper. the Rev. Dr. Massie, and Henry Merry, ' the sub-committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; for Spain, by Julio L. de Virearrondo, secretary of the Spanish Abolitionist Society ; and for France, by Edouard Laboulaye, member of the Institute, president of the Coinite Francais d'Ensancipation ; and Augustin Cochin, member of the Institute, honorary secretary.— Calif/want:. A TERRIBLE CASH Or " STAMPING OCT."—The Dublin Express says—" A dangerous epidemic has broken out among the Portedown farriers. Many have succumbed to the disease. and it has been found necessary to destroy the remainder." 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