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Sixes we last noticed what then seemed the in credible announcement that Baron Bauer was about to become the Emperor of AUSTRIA'S First Minister, the report has been repeated with a degree of persistency in presence of which in credulity was powerless, and at length the nomi nation has taken place. The reasons why the EMPEROR should not make such an appointment lie on the surface of contemporary history. Of the external relations of Austria by far the most im portant are those in which it stands towards Prussia, and of all the statesmen of Germany Baron Bann is the one moat obnoxious to the enmity of the Prussian Government. The hos tility of Count BISMARCK to Baron Beim is not merely real and strong, for in that case it might still be dissembled, but is patent, having been proclaimed to the world last July, when the Prussian Government positively refused to treat with Saxony so long as its old antagonist re mained in the councils of its KING. It appears inconceivable that the EMPEROR should find it for the interest of the monarchy to choose an adviser with such antecedents at a time when his subjects require before all things to be secured in peace and tran quillity. But even if this objection did not exist, there is the further fact that Baron Bsusr has not hitherto succeeded in any undertaking to which he has put his hand. The restoration of the Austrian empire is, by the confession of all parties, the most difficult enterprise which any statesman could propose to himself. In the opinion of many experienced statesmen it is an impossibility. And yet for this task a man is selected whose whole career is identified with failure. By the illiberality of the policy he pur sued at home Baron Benrr alienated the opinion and feeling of the most influential classes in Saxony, so that his Kniu in the hour of need was left without support and comfort in the attach ment of his subjects ; while the Saxon Minister's foreign policy precipitatod the great German crisis, and rendered his Sovereign a fugitive, without the means of returning to his own States except by consenting to the rigorous terms imposed by the enemy. The one thing that is to be said in favour of the nomination is, that it will give Austria what it has long wanted—definitive ness of policy. Baron BEcsr is a man who will either " make a spoon or spoil a horn," and if the owner of the horn likes to risk the loss of the material there is no more to be said. From the time the Baron takes the affairs of the empire in hand the Government will no longer rest in ten dencies, velleities, and other indeterminate states of mind, promising everything and bringing nothing to perfection. He is a man to take a line in the sight of the world and to hold it, and he will be the first Austrian statesman since Prince Sof walzawsuao who has really done so. What may be Baron Bzues views of the home policy moat suitable in the present cir cumstances of Austria we have no means of as certaining, but as to the external policy which he is prepared to recommend, the Augsburg Gazette— s journal accustomed to speak with knowledge on Austrian affairs—has just made some disclosures of much interest. According to our Bavarian contemporary, Baron BETST has drawn up a sketch of his views, in the form of notes, which have been under the consideration of the EMPEROR. Assuming the correctness of the pub lished analysis of this paper, the objections to his accession to office, founded on his former an tagonism to Prussia, are deprived of their basis, for Baron BEMIS recommends the Austrian Govern ment hereafter neither to make nor meddle with German affairs, but leave Prussia to carry her policy of unification into effect without let or hindrance ; to practise conciliation towards that Power, and even to keep up the most cordial re lations with it ; to abandon the South German States to their fate, and not seek to exercise any influence on them with a view to unite them in a Confederation separate from Prussia. He even considers that the ultimate absorption of those States into Prussia would be favourable to Austrian interests. We are not told what he thinks would become of Lower and Upper Austria, Styria, Sala- down to posterity with the Asterism lnanebi fairly Wed lite duty the face, ma of baying 'DAY, mind. not on shifty expedieets or financial legerdemain, but upon an honest resolution to out down ell the expen diture created by the war, end to look to the nateret growth of industry and trade to supplement the savings effected by retrenchment. The statesmen at Washington might have maintained • high level of military expendi• tore, but they preferred to send back their soldiers to the work of the field sad the factory, and their *amen to man the merchant ships demanded by • resumption of trade greater than before. An army disbanded and a fleet laid up explain to a great extent the extinction within a year of nearly two hundred millions of debt. irks Court. BALMOItAL, Oar. 29. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Louise, aceonipanied by the Duchess of Roxburghe, and Colonel Ponsonby, attended divine service in the parish church at (Cathie, yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Stuart, one of her Majesty's chaplain' , officiated. Dr. Stuart arrived at the Castle on Saturday. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon ourable Privy Council, sat yesterday at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, cui the subject of the Cattle Plague. The Lords present were the Right. Hon. Spencer H. Wal pole, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Ste phen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended the committee. The Clerk of the Peace for the county of Cheshire had an interview with the Lords of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, on matters relating to the Cattle Plague. h ue. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial oMos from the Governors of Malta and Labuan. ^ AY-4' OCTOR LAT iitTELLIGEN nir THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. An ordinance, dated October 11, has been pub lished in Berlin. This document notifies an in- Geese of the army in consequence of the incor- Oration of Hanover, &c., and the treaty of alliance with the States of the North. The army will be immersed by three corps d'annie (Nos. 9, 10, . 11) the head-quarters of which will be Schleswig, Hanover, and Camel. Sixteen regiments of infantry, whiCh is equivalent to two corps d'arm6e, will be recruited from the annexed pro vinces. Twelve regiments of cavalry will also be formed because in the Federal contingents this branch of the army was always insufficiently repre sented. The third corps-d'arm6e will be supplied by the States of the North, which by article 4 of the treaty of alliance of the 18th September have placed their troops under the special command of the King of Prussia. These th ree corps, however, will not be composed exclusively of men belonging to the new provinces. Some of the troops of the Federal contingents and of the old Prussian regi ments may form part of them. This project will begin to take effect from the bth of November next. THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY. The New Free Press of Vienna says that all the Austrian ministers, including the Aulic Chancellor of Hungary, Herr von Mailath, appear to have re ceived orders to repair to Prague, where the cabi net will probably be reconstituted. ITALY. The following reply was sent by the King of Italy to the address presented to him from the clergy of Mantua : The interpreter of the sentiments which the language of the address from the clergy of Mantua has produoed in the mind of his Majesty, I have been directed by the King to thank the reverend signitaries of the address for the noble example which they have given to the Italian priesthood. Great national works like that which has just been accomplished in Italy cannot be realised azoept at the price of many acts of abnegation which every honed citizen ought to be ready to make for his country if he desires to see it rich, united, and strong. These gene rous aspirations, which were always the motives that guided the policy of the King , foun d lar g e support amongst the most enlightened portion of the Lombardo-Venetian clergy. This circumstance has given a lively satisfaction to the King, who finds in it likewise a proof of devotion to hie pereen. The King is confident that the prayers of the clergy of Mantua will be beard by Gal, NA that Eteemly blessings will contribute to increase the happiness of the Italian nation. (Signed) FRANCISCO VERASIS CASTIOLIONZ, Private Seastary to the King. (ILECTZeIf TZLIGRAMS.) ROME AND ITALY. IMPORTANT ALLOCUTION OF THE POPE• ROME, Ocr. 30. The Pope has distributed to the Cardinals two allocutions delivered by his Holiness in the Conaistory, held yesterday. In the first the Pope deplores the persecutions of the church by the Ital'em government, the sup pression of the religious orders, the secularisation of the ecclesiastical property, and the law of civil marriage. All these acts he condemns and de clares to be null and void, and repeats the censures of the church against their authors. Nevertheless his Holiness declares that he accords his benedic tion to Italy. The Pops further protests against the invasion and usurpation of the Ponti fical provinces, and against the revolutionary project of making Rome the capital of the new kingdom. He states that the temporal power is indispensable to the inde_ pendence of the spiritual power, and declares that he is ready even to suffer death for the mainte nance of the sacred rights of the Holy See, and if necessary to seek in another country the requisite security for the better exercise of his apostolic ministry. Finally, his Holiness prays that Italy may repent of the evils which she has brought upon the church. In the second allocution, his Holiness states that the Russian government has violated the Con cordat of 1848, and recalls the persecu tions exercised against the Archbishop of Warsaw, the suppression in the dioceses of bishops of their legitimate jurisdiction, the abolition of religious orders in Poland, the confiscation of ecclesiastical property—all acts tending to the destruction of catholicism in Russia. His Holiness concludes by offering up a prayer that the Czar may put an end to the persecutions of catholics within the Russian dominions. ,_4 .c. T :DM , •i - S NVA . IN • all the Sou* ion, ancl4o dc h _.l wily a blemis. his fame. Pregja. Thug mooonam 'Seam- gem Sr. id'Oaliselt, ti ill interegthig; muc h secretary, the full praise of laving on of an able and expe- of the United States government in .- Vii., i ~ burg, sad the Tyrol, after German States had joined of Baron Bauer's opinions as it exhibit. the opinion __ rimmed German statesman m to the magni- We lOC completeness of the revolution which has taken place in the affairs of his country, and also as showing the facility with which a truly political mind can adapt itself to circumstances. But this is a merely personal kind of interest. Moreover, the recommenda time of Baron Bauer, as thus explained, do not constitute a programme of Austrian policy ; they form only the preparation for such a scheme ; a clearing of the ground for the future fabric. It remains as doubtful after the publication of this paper as before how the appo'ntmeut will affect the relations of the Cabinet of Vienna with that of Berlin, since it by no means follows that Prussia will renounce its dislike of Baron Bauer because the latter professes to re nounce his anti-Prussian crusade. As far as domestic affairs are concerned, the publication of these notes makes the nomination of the late Saxon Minister more than ever inexplicable. Baron Barn becoming Premier of the Emperor of AUSTRIA to effect that, by means of the poli tical prestige and military strength of a great Power, which he vainly strove to accomplish s:th the limited resources of Saxony, would occupy an intelligible position. But what has the great champion of German unity to do with a nation of Czechs, Magyars, Croats, Poles, and Ruthe nian', that he should want to preside over their polyglot squabbles OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THLS DAY.) TEL ALABAMA CLAIMS. Having urgently remonstrated against the license given to the Lairds and Bullocks during the heat of the American war, and endeavoured to show the wisdom of an impartial sad high-minded treatment of the Alabama claims last year, the Daily News is not likely to object now to any proposal which would tend to replace the political and diplomatical relations of the two countries upon a sound basis, but it points out the disadvantages which attend the discussion under present circumstances and the vanity of supposing that we can now at will take up the points in dispute just where we left them. The course which we pursued with respect to those piratical I vessels had the sanction of the highest lege; sad political authorities in the country, and wit sustained by the sen timent of the great body of the upper-middle class. Any. thing was thought permissible against a people who were engaged, according to a dignitary of the English church, in the most cruel and unprincipled war in the history of the world. The protests made against these opinions were as voices crying in the wilderness, scattered, unsup ported, and utterly without power to stem the torrent of passion which swept all before it. The reasons given by the Times for reopening the case are not founded on ideas of international duty, but on con siderations of self-interest. But though it is better to confess the truth at the eleventh hour than not at all, it is preposterous to represent our present demeanour as digni fied; and when we are reminded that we have the advan tage of possessing a new foreign minister who is not bound by his predecessor's views, it must be remembered that Lord Stanley is only one member of a government which numbers the bitterest and most notorious enemies of the United States among its supporters, and, indeed, among its members. Even the Premier, the Earl of Derby, only two months before the fall of Richmond, with this Alabama case before him, de clared that our neutrality had been such as to entitle us to the gratitude and goodwill of the United States, and denounced Mr. Lincoln's government as wanting in a proper sense of its obligations to us. If, notwithstanding all these difficulties, proceeding not only from his oppo nents, but from the antecedents of his cis n party, Lord Stanley can settle this dangerous question, we do not say with dignity, but quietly, and on a basis of justice, he will deserve the thanks of the county. TIM MILITARY ORGANISATION OF FRANCE. The Times assumes that the commission which has just been appointed in France relative to the mod;fications of the military system is called upon to examine a scheme suggested by the Emperor himself, and inclines to be lieve that the object is the inauguration of such a reform as might indeed increase the real strength of the rational armament, but would also better adapt the means to the end ; • scheme which would enable the state to keep up the largest possible army at the least possible cart. For this purpose the Times proceeds to argue that hardly anything better can be suggested than an adapta tion of the Russian system with modifications. The absolute equality of the Prussian law and the liability to service for nearly a lifetime would clash with the habits of the French people ; still the princ ple that only half or one-third of the army need be under arms, and the rest may be kept at home as a ream ye, may be found easily compatible even with the present French period of service ; all that is required being simply a re duction of the period to one-half or one-third of its present duration, and a dismissal under contrition of a possible r eca ll for the remaqider of the term. Instead of 100 con scripts, all bound to nine years' full service, for instance, let the draught be of 300, with the obligation of only three years' active sers:ce, sod with six more years' liability to be called upon. The rimy does not believe the Emperor contemplates any addition to the already terriflo rate of expenditure or mustering • larger army, but he may hope to find • more efficient means of insuring the defence of the territory and maintaining the political influence of France by an armed nation, and when that task is accom plished the occasions for and the incentives to aggressive wars will be found to diminish, together with the num bers of the standing armies. lIISCILLANILOUS TOPICS. Sir E. Head, late governor-general of Canada, urges through the columns of the Tines that a movement be set on foot by which contributions in aid of the sufferers by the great fire at Quebec may at once be made available, and our conternporm) supports the suggestion. The disaster has been so sudden that it seems likely the local charity, and even the organised aid of government, will be insufficient to give prompt relief, end those who contribute would have the pleasure of knowing that their benevolence would tend to the national advantage by increasing the goodwill which at present exists between the cook nista and the home government. In • few months the province to which Quebec belongs will pro bably be a member of a great confederation, and it is to be hoped that in course of time this confederation will I take its place among the independent nations of the earth. In these shared political circumstances acts of mutual kindness will be remembered. The Post gives its readers some account of the war which is going on in South A 1116110., a war which in such regions may go on indefinitely. What the ono side lacks in popu lation seems to be counterbalanced by superior organise. tion and the good fortune of having to act on the defen sive. Even the most signal success on one side or the other would be but a barren triumph. The Times tells the ironworkers they must extend their reign and issue their mandates over the whole continent of Europe before they can destroy the competition of non union hands. They will have to try whether their writs will run in France, Belgium, Prussia, and a few other countries. If they do they will soon learn the difference between a free country and one that talks of freedom. They will find that a foreign government is too 1610 to allow any laws except its own. Our mercantile marine is bringing us every day articles ready for use. Trade, always free as air, is once more flying from tyranny. It sought refuge here centuries ago, and found • home. It will as easily find a bona* elsewhere. The Daily New suggests that Mr. Johnson, after all, may yet admit 'he reel meaning of the popular verdict against him. He has thrown away several chances, mimed more than one tide in his affairs, but yet one more seems to offer itself in the opportunity for full. free, candid oar septum of the declared will of the nation. He may yet redeem his administration from failure, and by cordially renouncing the repudiated policy, and executink that on which the people have resolved, may yet be the President THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. NORWICH, TUESDAY E♦IXING. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, and the ladies and gentlemen of their suite, viz., Lieutenant- General %polity, and Major-General Grey (in waiting on the Prince of Wales), the Hon. Mrs. Stonor (in waiting on the Princess of \Vales), the Countess Reventlow (in wait ing on the Queen of Denmark), and Captain Cruscenachield, left Sandringham-house this afternoon on their visit to Lord and Lady Stafford, at Costessy-hall, near Norwich, whose guests they will be until Thursday morning, when the Prince of Wales leaves Norfolk for St. Petersburg, for the purpose of attending the marriage of th 4 Csailwite2. with the Princess Darner. Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark has declined with thanks the presentation of an address from the Norwich town council. The present pro posed to be made to the Princess ofWales by the ladies of Norwich is a recherche album. THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY FROM SCOTLAND. The royal party will leave Balister at 2.10 p.m. to morrow, and arrive at Windsor at 8.45 on Friday morn. ing. The royal train, provided by the London and North Western Railway Company, will be under the charge of Mr. Charles Mason, the assistant-general manager, Mr. S. M. Martin, the electrical engineer, and Mr. R. Bore, the carriage superintendent. Her Majesty's saloon as well as the other vehicles of the train will be fitted up with Mr. Martin's system of communication, in which her Majesty has evinced upon former journeys during the present year so much interest. THE COURT AT BALMORAL. — On Sunday morn ing her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Christian, and by the Princess Louise, attended divine service in the parish church of Crathie. She was attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duke of Buckingham, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Sm. The Rev. Mr. Stuart, from Edinburgh, preached. The day was bitterly cold, showers falling as interval', and the church was more thinly at tended than it been for nearly three months. The higher hills are covered with snow.—Scotsman. His Excellency the French Ambassador, who was expect'd to arrive at Albeit-gate House last evening from Paris, was detained at Calais owing to the rough weather. On Thursday the Earl of Onalow reached the great age of 89 years, and the event was celebrated with rejoicings at his lordship's estates at Riohmond and Clan don. The marriage of Mr. H. A. Herbert, M.P., of Muckross, with the Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord and Lady Keane, was solemnised yesterday at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Edward Wright, the resident clergyman of Muckross. Mr. H. Lowe, M.P., sends some sharp criticisms upon the Public School Latin Primer to the Times, in spired to do so by a strong conviction that a vast amount of preventible human misery lies bid behind the-e uncouth words and phrases and interminable subdivisions :—" I am not," he says, " insensible to the merit which Dr. Temple claims for this Primer—that of being accepted by the principal schools of the country. Ido not, therefore, ask that it should be altered. Let an abridgment be pre pared for the use of little boys, leaving out the metaphy sics, the subtle subfiv isions, the new words, the involved phraseologar—the obccuruer per °Orreries. Let it be limitril to a few simple rules and examples, and let the study of transcendental grammar be reserved for the boys of hillier classes who, hay in had experience of the differ ent inflections and forms of construction, may possibly, in some degree, attain to the understanding of their abstract expmssion in a new and barbarous language." Last night a concert was given at Easthampetead Park, Berke, by permission of the Marchioness of Dosn shire, in aid of the fund being raised to liquidate the debt incurred by the rebuilding of the parish church. The amateurs who took part in the performance included the Marchioness of Downshire and the Lady Alice Hill, the Marquis Balbi, Earl of Hillsborough, Major Palliser, Captain Stracey, Miss Codrington, and others. A Vienna letter, of the 27th, says :—" The night before last there was a Monster Concert' here for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers killed during the war. The choruses were executed with wonderful precision, although 1,200 singers and two military bands were engaged in their performance. The enthusiasm of the audience was great, and Mr. Herbeck, the accomplished and indefatigable capellnisister, has every reason to be satisfied with the compliments he has received from the writers for the press. The concert took place in the great riding-school in the Imperial Palace, and the audience consisted of 2,000 persons or thereabouts. ' On the 14th of November, 1847, Mendelssohn's oratorio I , Elias was given in the Brit sade, and since that time it has not, until the night before last, been used for musical purposes. Poor Mendelssohn was to have led at the first performance of is great work in Austria, but he died at the beginning of the above-mentioned month." A Berlin correspondent writes :—" The Emperor Napoleon a few weeks ago told the Empress of Mexico that her husband bad better cede a couple of provinces to the United States, an expedient which, he said, would pro- bably result in the consolidation of his rule. The Empress replied that she had hoped the Emperor Napoleon would make her husband King of Poland, if he could not main tain himself in America." The Princess Dagmar, on the occasion of her approaching marriage with the Grand Duke, heir to the Russian throne, has resolved to present a dowry to each of eight young Danish girls without fortune, who may be married in the course of the next three months. General Count Philippe de Segur, member of the French Academy, inthor of the " Histoire de la Grande Armke," has just completed his "Memoires." They are said to be full of curious information about Napoleon 1., and the high personages of that reign. M. de Seim is DOW 87 years of age. The Espanol of Madrid publishes the following : —" We learn that the Captain-General, exercising the powers conferred on him by the exceptional state of the c ountry, has suspended the publicatimi of the Oorreepon &mei° for a week, and condemned the director to 200 crowns fine for publishing false news." An inhabitant of Mont-aoua-Vandrey (Jura) has discovered that a brandy with a very fine aroma can be distilled from medlar", which grow in great quantities in that district. The process is as simple and the yield as good as in the case of cherries. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ocr. 31. Count Mensdorff, who has been replaced as Minister for Foreign Affairs by Baron von Beust, will return to the military service. The Emperor has sanctioned the ministerial proposition to convoke the Hungarian Diet for the 19th November. Count Eaterhazy has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. FRANCE. PARIS, Ocr. 30. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the text of a convention between France and Prussia, ac cording to which molasses coming from the states of the Zollverein will, in future, be exempt from import duties in France when exclusively intended for the distilleries. SPAIN. MADRID, 00r. 30. The Bank of Spain has reduced its rate of dis count to 8 per cent. AMERICA. (ET ATLANTIC TTLEGRAPN.) NEW YORK, Ocr. V. Gold, 146. Exchange on London, 160} ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 114} ; Illinois, 1241 ; Erie, 84. Cotton, middling upland, 39. At the French opera, the evening before last, during the first act of Robert le Diabk, a cry of " Fire !" arose behind the scenes. A light communicated to some gauze hanging up in the dressing-room of Mdlle. Lamy, the dancer, and in a moment the whole side of the room was in a flame. She ran out in great alarm, but the firemen had no difficulty in extinguishing the commencement of the conflagration. The audience knew nothing of the in. cadent. I The Russian government has adopted the breech loader model of M. Thierry. The rifles of the entire army are to be immediately changed into the new weapon. The special committee of the Baden Chamber has refused to grant money for a similar purpose, being of opinion that, with or without breech-loaders, Baden will be defenceless unless received into the North German Confederacy. THE Twat. or RISE ALLAH Bay. —The Procurenr- General continued his address on Monday. He dwelt with much force on the evidence which discountenanced the theory of suicide, and brought forward one by one the proofs of that strong interest which Risk Allah had in . 1 ly's death. " C'est lui qui l'a tut," he exclaimed, putting the climax on a long sequence of allegations, and rolling his voice in the direction of the prisoner sitting near him. M. de Homy having closed his eddies, IIL i Gnu: began the defence of the prisonen, con • . among other things, that the evidence of Lieutenant Charm bad abundantly demonstrated the fact that suicide 1 I was far more likely than murder. The court sat until I nearly 5 o'clock, and then rose until half-pest 9 o'clock the following day. 31, 1 '4866. :XPRESI FROM PARIS. • THE REORGANISATION Y. O F THE FRENCH AR ••••: (mom ova OWN ooßszarotrozscr.) PARIS, TULSDAT Evlento. The Moniteur of this morning contains a report from Marshal Bandon to the Emperor, proposing the names of the members of a commission to con sider the reorganisation of the army. This com mission, of which the Emperor reserves the presi dency for himself, is "to examine what measures must be adopted to place the national forces on a footing which shall secure the defence of the terri tory and the political influenoe of France." Six ministers (of whom two are marshals), aix marshals, eight generals, the Intendant General, Director of the Ministry of War, and the military intendant of the Imperial Guard (who will sot as secretary), are the persons named. The ministers are M. Rouher and those of Finance and Marine, and the President of the Council of State. The report is not preceded as usual by any de tailed exposé of the reasons for calling the commis sion, and of the measures to be taken into considera tion. The object of this deviation from establshed custom is to avoid a premature divulgation oi the plans under consideration, which are likely to be highly unpopular with the people, especially in the rural districts. It is proposed to effect a large re duction in the standing army, which at present amounts to 480,000 men of all arms. For the future it will be only 250,000 men, but there will be a large increase in the artillery and cavalry. These 250,000 men will form the nucleus of the army in time of war, and a reserve of 850,000 men will permit of its being rapidly augmented to a million on such a contingency. This reserve will be exercised for three months every year, and its organisation will be such that the whole can be assembled with all its equipments complete within a month. This plan will excite great discontent by the rural population, and it is on this account that a commission has been formally appointed to decide upon it, so as to shield the Emperor himself, in some degree at least, from the unpopularity which will follow its execution. Whether the annual manoeuvres be held in spring or in autumn, as at present is the case for the reserve, the farming operations of the rural districts will be seriously affected by the withdrawal of so many men from field labour. There are already complaints of the scarcity of agricultural labourers, and a com mission to inquire into the causes and remedies for this is at present sitting. The system now in contemplation will aggravate the state of things which led to the inquiry now being pursued. One observes therefore with astonishment that neither the Minister of the Interior nor the Minister of Agriculture has a seat in the new commission for the reorganisation of the army. The Emperor was last night, as announced, at the Italian Opera. He drove in from St. Cloud in thirty-one minutes, which astonishes the Parisians little accustomed to go such a pace. The representa tion was for the benefit of the sufferers by the in undation. The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne has taken leave on his return to his post in London. M. de Lavaletto, who has returned from his visit to Perigord, starts for London this evening on a visit to Count de Flahault, his uncle, who is said to be unwell. The Rentes have fallen to-day 15c. for cash and 20c. for account. The report published in the Moniteur, if it did not produce a fall, at least stopped the ascensional movement which seemed probable yesterday. The Bourse hesitates, and it is evident that speculators have at the present mo ment no fixed ideas. Italian, at 56fr. 30c. and 56fr• 40c., shows a depreciation of 60c. and 45c. There is a fall on all kinds of securities. Credit Mobilier is marked 623 fr. 75c.; Comptoir d'Esoompte,9l2fr. 50c. for cash and 915 fr. for account, and so on all down the official list. Paris and Lyons, which rose so rapidly last week, fell to-day Bfr. 75c. for cash and 6fr. 25c. for account, closing at 922 fr. 50c. and 926 fr. 25c. The real feeling of the market regarding the projected changes in the army will only be manifested after the liquidation on Friday. Thursday being All Sainte-day, there will be no Bourse. OPINION OF THE JESUITS IN VIENNA. The New Free Press of Vienna publishes a report of the discussion in the Municipal Council of that city relative to the Jesuits of Venetia. M. 'Corr expressed himself as follows :—Since the Con cordat Austria his lost all the sympathy of other nations. (Applause.) The Concordat is the word with which Austria will be always combatted. It was the country of the Concordat which was vanquished at Bellows! (Here the applause was prolonged during several minutes.) It is the country of the Concordat which has been expelled from Ger many! (Hear, hear.) And if we continue to maintain this regime of which the Jesuits are the representatives — (hear, hear)—if we receive those who are expelled from Italy, Austria will see the number of her enemies increase and witness their efforts for her annihilation. (Loud cheers.) M. Brinuarcs said the great danger presented by the Jesuits is in their schools ; the sons of the first families receive there the lessons of orthodoxy. They leave with • false morality, and when they become men they are called upon to direct affairs. When it was lately said that the Jesuits and the Concordat were the cause of the decadence of Austria, it was quite true, for our generals and our ministers owe all their education to the Jesuits. The account states that these observations were re. atived with the loudest applause. The journals of Alain (Gard) state that Madame Martin, who was stabbed a few nights since by one of her husband's sons by a former marriage, has succumbed to the effects of the wound. FATAL DUEL IN PARIS. —The following appears in the Evenement :—" There has been much conversation within the last day or two respecting a deplorable event. It is said that • gentleman, well known in Paris, named 9—, has been mortally wounded in • duel fought with swords at night, near the Porte Maillot, under a gas lamp. The details of this affair are so wave that we deem it our duty not to publish them without re ceiving more accurate information." In reference to the same occurrence the Soleil ways :—" Yesterday took place the funeral of M. Seguin, • gentleman of property, residing at No. 42, Rae Taitbout. He was a young man of tall stature, and frank, unembarramed manner . Favoured by fortune, surrounded by friends, everything seemed to smile upon him. lie was in fact living free from anxiety, when • few days since he was invited to dine at • regi mental mess. Towards the end of the dinner a dispute arose between him and one of the gentlemen present, and they went out to fight as in the tune of Louis XIV., under • lamp. Seguin was mortally wounded, and died soon after he was carried home." BURIED ALlVE.—Three well-sinkers named Poi vier, the father and two sons, have been buried alive at Villemolle l'Abbo (Maine-et-Loire), one at a depth of more than 100 feet, and the others at half that distance from the surface. On the afternoon of the 24th one of the sons named Louis was at the bottom of a well they were engaged brother Emile was half way up, and the father at the top, when a slight slip took place about the middle. The father went down to assist the son Emile when • further slip over their heads occurred and entirely enveloped them both. The second son was still at the bottom, but the earth Is believed to have formed as emit over him. Accounts to the morning of the 27th have been received, but up to that time nose of the men had yet been reached. A brother of the same family was killed in the same well last year, and since then the works had been abandoned until recently. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. 1113IFIANLY A,AULT.. - . llama Nod, • low-lookuig fellow, who Ikea la d win's-gardens, Leather-tsne, was charged hi m n" Bah, Wilson with committing a violent wank u; 0 7 11 Connolly, and also with assaulting Police.w w a te - afr Huy Oassolli, whew head was env "'" , t bandies, mid she lived at No. 10, Ho next door to her mother. The prisoner was *h ew t o th e w seeking for her brother, to pi tir. ei r ci l li a 0t him. On the previous night, Weer 9 eolook i be came sad asked her if her brother was L obe said " No." He then struck her on the forlim a 1 44 knocked her down, ' and while she was down he kielosilh o on t h e h ea d and body, and was kicking he r A sa . mu t e up. He had had two months from B eia ,Q; e r e : • a eemw,. and two months from ante nn a for eessal the S ara h aged 14, said that Hrs. 1 41 speaking to her on the door - step o f No. U. wkm w o oer came up, sad, making flee of a wicked 1/014, sttsk her and koosked her down. She had not said him. When she fell he kicked her, and was t w i t when the police cams up. Thomas B ea dl e , TA was called to the aseinewe nth prosecunix. He got a metropolitan conakkic yp w ith m ai* and when they arrived at the ca n t found him Inching her en the bead, and en en of the body, Indeed wherever he could. Thy a i m him in charge, and he was very violent. Heaney inew; down three tillloBsad it took four men to take has Isle statics-hones. Hs assaulted witness on to gy z 4 u s t a tion. Willies. took the woman to the 1 7, she had her head deemed. He had the primmer alb court is April last for swanking him on that got seven days. He then kicked witness on the ha_ and created a sore which he had ever since. The te w i e l was the most dangerous man that came into the Cray o ji lied been several times in prison for assaulting ihe Folios. The prisoner denied that he ever assaulted the mo t or the police. Colonel Wilson mid he must take care that sada me m as he was were not allowed to be at liberty. The sifts of the court was that he should go to prima frei mi months with hard labour for the assault ea the ens, and for two months in addition for the sesseltsaila polies. CLEBIEENWELL. =CAPS OF • r6[SOHsa FROII THI POLIO 00012. This morning it was reported to the sistiotreis tbola man of the name of James English, • Frasehiadimd 4, Chapel - place, Lincoln's - inn fields, who was chargetira stealing a watch from the person, had mate ti escape from the waiting-room of this court. The piing l a a bout 26 yeast at age, 5 feet 3 inches la be* and his complexion is fair. The escape of the wisneres very easily done. The practice at this court is ki s constable to take the prisoner and the sheet into the room, and if then is no one there he has to lean the sonar in the room whilst he brings the into the court. This the constable did, Ali he was in the court the prisoner sods Ve escape. Owing to the bad arrangements st tie court it is only surprising that caste of this sort weal! more frequent oconirence, for the door of the pad room wain at the point at which the public sing and leaving the court meet, and the consequion is id in the rush the constable' and the prisoners get Nippy, and then there is a great disturbance. WORSHIP.STRFIT. CASDALS IN ISHOREDITCIi WORCRORWL Ann Hamlin, with a baby, Miry Couer, and Emu hie, a healthy and good.looking young woman, wore awl with destroying their clothes in Shorediteh•verifiega James Dawson, one of the officials at that halm% said—Last night these women had food sell idgee and— Mr. Cooke—Were they inmates or canals? Witness—Camas, sir. They all came in for stags and • lodging. This morning when I went late dens where they slept, I found that they had torn all thee* ing into ribbons. Mr. Cooke—Had they asked for any Ake pain t doing this ? Witness—No, sir ; never mentioned a word alaseteldia Bailin—Well, sir, I was waiting for the urea is I never saw a woman all the while I was ihm, gi I didn't think it very proper to show myself to ash My clothes were very filthy. Cotter and Price made the same statement; Wig woman went to them while in bed, and they eseeldinil very improper for Mr. Dawson to do so. Mr. Cooke—But you didn't even ssk for fruit odic there would not have been any harm in tbst—hleg improper. Each of you must go to prison far semi% The women were locked up. ILLORS IN THE WORLD. Williams Pod and William Hawking, with and nearly naked bodies, were charged by the phalli being found destitute in the public streets. Police-constable 119 II add that he fond its Imp sleeping in an uncovered van. Mr. Cooke—What time was it? Constable—Two o'clock this morning, sir. Mr. Cooke (to the eldest boy) — How old en y es? Frost—Going on for my eight. Mr. Cooke—Where are your parents! Frost—l ain't got none—father's dead and solids away somewhere. Mr. Cooke—How long have you been Beeping AMY streets in this way Frost—Oh, about half ayear—No, three moss 111 got no lationa (relations). Mr. Cooke—What do you do for a living ? Frost—l don't know ; I hold hones sometimes. Mr. Cooke—Where did you last see your moths! Frost—At Dalton—she lived somewhere them Mr. Cooke—And how old are you, Hawkins I Boy—l'm all six. Mr. Cooke—And where did you sleep lad? Boy—ln a wan. Mr. Cooke—No, I mean before you slept in I WS? Boy—Jib ? I don't know. Mr. Cooke—Whore is your father? Boy—l ain't got a father, and mother's es she couldn't keep me no longer. Mr. Cooke—When was that? Boy—Abort a month ago. Mr. Cooke—Take these children to the warns and let inquiries be made reirtss= tnto hem. ba These deserted boys again i the h or* sM constable, seemingly indifferent as towhither went. THE IRONWORKERS' CONFERENCE.—At bq workers' conference, at Wednesbury, yestenisli 11 ° decided that the executive offices should be estakkleill Derby. Mr. Kane was nominated pearl* 01 / a , Millington, of the north, and William Chile south, for the Milos of secretary. It the nosiest ts port the men out on strike, and deputation 1 , 0 0 pointed to wait on the trades throughout the WA* FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN'S 808.—C Tuesday last an inquest was held .t Rhodesia. 0 Lowestoft, on the body of Philip Cory, who astlii.6 under the following melancholy circumstances 6 0 in the evidence of the Rev. \Weimer Corti 16 ° 4 I am the rector of Blundeston with Flat" father of the deceased, who was 54 years old Ith ay, fortnight. At about a quarter before 8 in tie iew of that day deceased was coming downstairs te eal ° sister, and when sliding down the banisters Ise 0 11 at about four stain from the top. I think tho was between nine and ten feet. Mrs. Cory' ° picked him up ;he was not sunned . Ba casil any dinner, in about an hour afterwards; hit rfs blackened and his temple was swollen just over thtrffi with that etheption be did not seem muc h the ems told me last !friday he thought he should be Id6l° he felt himself flying through the air. Ws wiliM alteration in him until last Thursday ; he des sill head ached • little, and he lily down on the sob° 5 o'clock and wait to sleep. Ile was real 6 11 was carried asleep up to bed about 7. Oa at about noon, I noticed th a t his mouth sit seemed to be slightly drawn together, wrote a note for W. Worthington. Destw*, a good dinner, and sat up till hislusual tir after that Mr. Worthington's assistant cause. I° ington mune on Saturday, and attended him °1 1 : time of his death, which took place st a guarirM Sunday morning. lie was quite rational up 67 few hours of death. Mr. Worthington sed dash from paralysis resulting from the injury. 16 probably so shaken that it produced effusing pressing upon the brain, causing, in the fird pia" c s of the face, then of th e re qiirstory wake " Accidental death." —Bury and NorrieA Pest. si A CRITICAL POINT FOR POACHERS. --0* day last, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. 1060 Isk brooks and other magistnites, John Selby ws , with night poaching on the preserves of the Esrl,, terfield, at Burton Joyce. A gsure watcher *or ing the primmer dragging • net at 8 o'clock m of the 30th of September. The defence 08 q prisoner's solicitor was that his client wet the donkey which bad strayed from home, prisoner wandered up to the do watcher, who 1 01 . Lauds and lmees, believing him to be the &O W: tion. The magistrates said they ha d ~ no . the offence being committed, and matcoma sone. to a mouth's bud l a b our , and 1 0 ) sureties for twelve months at the mint°. period. The prisoner's solicitor thereupco the elks°, was committed too early in the ma, =poaching. The magistrates inquired of lii d ; Into whose charge the prisoner was 8 1 0 1 1 .• time in the evening when be received the save/ and he replied at half-past 7 o'clock. An 8 6 .7.. brought into requisision to wertain the time the 30th of September, and it was found to The words of the act, Mr. Sherbrooke midi hoer after noneet," allowing for • certain period ...` l 7. elapse between the time of the arrest and t lO . Weeks of the .fence. The ma gistrates tilM too near • thing upon which to convictkj a Wed th eir former decision, both as mem sonment and the sureties, the prisoner M' + Ih F i i t`f _ _ •