The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

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Jena Price.—With THE 07 RILLA HUNT. Messrs. Reynolds, Pitt, tc. ; Miss Coveney. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To-D4 r aftZirn — oo;, -- 3h. a2m. To-Meanow —Morning, 314. 17m Afternoon, 4h. 3m. NOTICE.. advertisers are requested to - in;ilieql;ir Post-aloe ceders payable to kr. &MAR HAsiusopos, Post-cake, Pleet-stred, NOTIC7II Of Bares, MAIRTAGIM and DZATNIN are received nW 12 o'clock for insertion sane evening. Pries 6d. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 18 YITBLISHID EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, A UG. 5. IRELAND FOR THE ENGLISH. A CORRESPONDENT in the current number of the Specfutor alludes to a childish rumour to the effect that the Prince of WALES is not re-visiting Ireland this year, because of the attempt made on his brother's life in Victoria. The extreme folly of this theory refutes itself, and as few people —per haps not the Plums himself—know the precise reasons for the royal visit not being repeated, it is wiser to regret than to discuss, and still wiser to huggek than to regret. Have we no leaders of fashion who arc sufficiently popular and public-spirited to make Ireland the mode, and Is ho are free to act without follow ing in the wake of the Prince of W.u.r.s The state tnuninels which must always beset, and to an extent hamper, the heir to a crown furnish abundant reasons for his ROYAL HIOHNESS being unable to do an undeniably graceful and popular thing. But are times so altered since the days of BRUMMELL and WORSAY thatwearewithoutsocial potentates of sufficient force of character to lead the crowd ? It is impossible to believe it. Ireland might be made as fashionable as she is popular, as familiar in memory as she has been in newspaper and debate, if a few leading spirits would but set the example and give her the personal homage she deserves. This is the tune of all others for trying the experiment successfully. If a tithe of the people who have the Irish Church on their lips would but visit the churches in Ireland, what a capital season it would be for the country. If the English tourist only knew what was in store for him on the other side of the St. George's Chan nel, it would soon be necessary to put on extra steamers to Holyhead and Belfast. Cross ing the Straits of Dover is a far more familiar proceeding. Indeed the Continent is such a vast and catholic absorbent of human varieties that to dilate upon the merits or drawbacks of Italy or Switzerland, of Belgium or France, would be to weary a large portion of our readers with a tale twice-told. Few there are in these railroad days who have not tasted the joys and suffered the inconveniences inseparable from a foreign tour. Our own kingdom is less known. There are parte of Scotland and Ireland, and even of England and Wales, where an intelligent British tourist travelling for pleasure would be as great a novelty as a Cherokee. Let Ireland once be Sully known, and from the politician eager to pick up the information which nerves for party conflict, to the fashionable butterfly whose actions are. detetaine4 for him by Wien—the Eng- .1 THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1868. bleb will be found there in greater abundance than has been the case sinoe Pope RI Nbl the invasion organised by HENRY is more charming country in the wort:l 4 re no finer lakes, no more pieturesq • • , , more graceful dells to be 1? • !tin 111 land of the shamrock. Is Vet to had than in her seas and inland waters, or over her bogs and mountain land' Yet, putting aside Killarney and a few other hack neyed, Ishow-piaoes, it is absolately unexplored. Books on Ireland are plentiful enough. The hinnours of TRACEEILIAY'S " Sketch Book;" the hearty fun of the " Little Tour," winch, partly from its literary merits and partly from Laxca's admirable illustrations, won the hearts of the'book buying world some ten years ago ; the " Port night," of Sir Flaxen HEAD, whose painstaking observations made the experience of that brief period fill a bulky octavo volume ; the ingenuous raptures of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. HALL ; and the tribute of public journalists out of number—have all borne testimony to the merits of the sister country. We 'Lever yet met a visitor to Ireland who has not come away ()harmed ; we never heard of a tour being made through it which did not more than satisfy expectation. For this favoured country unites many and diverse attrac tions. It appeals to the sportsman, the artist, the lover of character, the dilletante inquirer, and the philosophic politician. It has good shoot ing in many parts, and better fishing in more. Its hunts and steeplechases are proverbial for " go" and dash. The exhibition of the Royal Academy would be incomplete without the baffled shrewdness, the humorous glances, the half-an noyed, the half -amazed, half-amused look of the can ventional frieze-coated Irishman Mr. NiesOLLs paints so well. But those who wish to see this original in the flesh should visit Ireland BOOR. The aboriginal race, in all its native freshness, is becoming rare ; and the artist who has studied it most successfully, and whose reputation is based upon its faithful portrayal, is already complain ing of the increasing difficulty in finding the rich simplicity of the old costumes. Tipperary, Conne mara, or County Kerry, will, we are satisfied, furnish artiste and lovers of the picturesque with groups and " bits of character" and national attire for some time longer ; but the pro fessional comment is significant, and the sooner those who have promised them selves a trip to Ireland redeem their pledge the more artistically productive will their visit be. The phases of character to be sees there are end less. It is not true that every car-driver is a JOE MILLER. It is not true that the humour of RABE LAIS is combined with Mr. &atm. WELLER'S power of familiar repartee in every peasant the tourist meets. It is not true that sayings in which BACON'S profundity is tempered by ROCHEFOIT CACLD'S polish and point flow spontaneously for the benefit of the casual visitor with a note-book. These are travellers' tales, and every Irishman is not funny any more than every Scotchman is pru dent or every Englishman phlegmatic. But there is more humour and more genuine freshness to be met with in Ireland than in any other country in Europe. Exaggeration and flattery may have distorted this simple fact, but its inherent truth re mains, and the observant humorist who is of a genial turn is certain to come away from Ireland with his memory crammed with a thousand indescri bably quaint and amusing reminiscences. The Dublin playgoer who prevented a culprit being hurled summarily from the gallery of a theatre into its pit, by the advice " Whisht, boys' don't waste " him—kill a fiddler wid him !" has prototypes all over the country, and you cannot chat with a peasant or spend an evening in a inn without ac quainting yourself with customs, with habits of thought and feeling, and with turns of expression which carry you further away from the current of everyday ideas than months in Anglicised Switzer land would achieve. Let those to whom Cbamouni and Geneva aro hackneyed and stale, resolve to see Ireland before they die, and to see it now. Glen gariff, with its noble natural harbour dotted with hundreds of moss-grown islands, its tangled path ways and secret dells, its mountain barriers and lonely wilds; or Dingle Bay, with its mountain road, suggesting of the famous one on the Mediterranean, its bold sea-coast scenery, and its magnificent range of bold bluff hills ; the Gap of Dunloe, its black valley, and its wild striking combinations of rock and wood; MaeGillicuddy's Reeks, the Purple Mountain, and the Eagle's Nest are but types of the natural beau ties to be seen in the rest of Ireland. The angler who visits Athlone or Ballyshannon, the geologist who takes his hammer to Wexford or Lough Neagh, the botanist who looks for Flora not to be found in England or Scotland, are all certain of their reward. In short, " the wind sits " fair for news to go to Ireland," and the British tourist cannot do better than avail himself of the propitiousness of place and time. and hissing wooden abutters. They were evidently put on for a purpose, as proper third-clasa carriages wire always befo ir.r.. tie I find outh .." ~. ie not . ran' ' of a ` s South e . sys ror c ...\3lr. T. t, t,, writ' • si • th . !. ewe of Mil don; 4 1 , '''''+, am; ;• . - '"Dov. ** ' •.y Penge, denies that . e railway :* is any advantage over " a slow-goingomni:•..." With few exceptions (he writes) the trains do not pro fess to aocodiplastHi.the distance tram Pepe to Atalsafsit hill in leas than half an hour or five-and-thirty minutes. It would not tali ntaelMote time fo teveftlitlltillk road; amli it must be laimemberet *Ai daMa 'WO often/ five minutes over than eve minutes under the advertised time. Other writers suggest OU-operative societies for the purchase of season-tickets, and all complain bitterly of the conduct of the companies in " putting on the screw " directly Parlia ment is up. Borne of the grievances , are of old standing, and only come to light through the general indignation caused by the directorial raid. But it is evident that the companies will be hoist by their own petard. They have endeavoured to carry matters with too high a hand, and their policy will inevitably defeat it self. Nothing is move needed than searching railway reform, and it may be that the "last " straw." added in the shape of unreasonably augmented fares, may lead to a clean sweep of a host of petty nuisances and burdens under which the travelling public have groaned for years. APORARIKS. DAY.) NONOPOI.V. s. something w erf Railway Ki So 'yes that the' derta are so perfect and complete that they will never a have to recur to parliament for supplementary acts. But with what face will they then come before the legis latjure They 'essinet pretend that pa treatment to which they now expose the residents along their lines is 'wane than it would ba►e been bad their Analgesia,- tion Bill been passed, for it is certain that they would not have been content with lower fares. They have, however, done all the 'mischief they could to their own caw* with the most short-sighted disregard of conse quences, and, in truth, these simple giants have done their best to kill their golden geese. They have not only made a false move by showing their temper, and so discrediting themselves before parliament, and by causing a diminu tion in the number of their passengers, but them do not exhaust their ernes. Their policy may have the effect of reviving the question of street railways. The legislature, consulting the wants of the many before the pleasure of the few, will par bills authorising the laying down of the rails, let the existing companies oppose them as much as they please, and the earl of the companies to increase their gains beyond lba mat rah limit will end as snob efforts always end—in pro voking a competition which will diminish their income below its old level. The Deily News observes that the specimens it prints of the communication it bas received on this subject are enough to show how general and severe the inconvenience is, and how profound the public indignation caused by the ill-advised proceedings of the companies. Hitherto only the suburban traveller's voice has been heard, but the augmentation has taken effect throughout the whole length of the Brighton line. The taxation imposed is of a kind to which the public will certainly not submit. Mr, Laing and Mr. Watkin may, like the famous Duke of Newcastle, assert the right to "do what they like with their own," but they will surely find in the end that they cannot treat the travelling public like so many sheep. They have surprised the public by a breach of faith, and nothing is more certain than that they will have cause to regret having done so. The Herald says that the mode in which this increase has been levied, and the particular time chosen for extort ing it, just after the close of the session, have tended to produce the impression that the companies are availing themselves of a period during which they deem the public absolutely helpless to gratify their craving for vengeance or extortion. It is sufficiently manifest, however, that the public are impatient of being either bullied or jockeyed, and the companies will get the worst of it. It is the impression of the Star that, na the present tone of the public mind, and considering the sort of general reaction in favour of strong and centralised systems which has been lately setting in, such occurrences will tend to make the public regard with greater favour than hitherto the notion of a British railway system brought directly under State control. v 'O N N E DVS. 1 , !. i(TIOS DAY.) l ‘7 ItIFLEW OUILD. The tollbw• me of the speeches delivered the bnoqn In the Fest-halle, on the Ist of !gust : Mr. Faeai, of Stuttgart, in proposing a toast to the Fatherland, said : - Germans ! whoever like me has for the first time trodden this German Austrian land must be possessed by this on, sentiment —and is this noble land not to I. German ? This land which bean throughout the impress Of German labour and German culture is not to be German ? My friends, if we had it not we must have it. (Bravo.) And now, a ft er having it for a thousand years, to tear it sway, as some people design, is neither patriotic, nor German, nor logical. It is self-murder. (Applause.) My friends, it is not owing to those who promoted the events of 1866 that we are enabled to celebrate this festival with joy and pleasure, or indeed that this city of Vienna exists at all. It was in tended to have a garrison from the Abruzzi here. But you have now a garrison with which I hope you am more satisfied. Men who have German names, but who are not worthy to bear them, have adjured strangers to come and strike this German Austria in the heart. I think we have touched its heart—not " with blood and steel," bat with brotherly love and sincere affection, which shall endure for ever. (Loud applause.) It is impossible In this place not to remember Metternich and his policy. Where is Metternich now ? But, my friends, there is a statesman who has undertaken to sot bounds to the German nation—to prescribe how far its heart shall extend, how far brother shall stand by the side of brother. That man exists, and his pokey weighs upon us with its iron power. But as Austrians and Germans have triumphed over the policy of Metternich, Germans and Austrians by uniting from the Baltic to the Adriatic will triumph over the policy which has brought ruin to (Jemmy, to the people, and to freedom at once. (Much applause.) My friends, let us give a thundering " hoch" to Fatherland which shall be born again to freedom, to unity, and to greatness. Professor Wumauza, of Musbruck, said—According to the tenor of the treaty of Prague Austria no longer be longs to G elmany. The rifles of Bavaria, Swabia, Franconia, the Rhineland, Westphalia, and Saxony stand, according to the letter—verily the letter that kills—no longer on German soil here. Has it then come to this, that the German nation has own to a non-German soil to celebrate a national festival? Has the:German nation sent its children abroad to the foreigner in order to see its children of every stock in unity with one another? (Applause.) No, it cannot be so. There is not one of you who does not believe, feel, and know that he treads the sacred soil of the German motherland, that here he breathes German air, and drinks from German foun tains. (Applause.) Let me tell you on behalf of the great majority of my Tyrolese brethren that we place our fortunes with confidence under the tutelary protection of the fundamental laws of the empire. (Great applause.) And numerous as we are here, gentlemen, we are but a mall deputation from the mass who have remained at home, and who sympathise with us. The cock crow of a new era has been heard in our valleys; the dawn of a new Aurora already gilds the summits of our mountains, from which it will illumine the verdant plains that sweep from their base. (Applause.) I drink a toast to the constitu tion of Austria, the offspring of German thought. (Long and enthusiastic applause.) (THROUGH REUTER'. AGENCY.) HUNGARY. Auourr 5. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet the Army Reorganisation Bill was adopted in principle by 233 against 43 votes, after a debate which lasted five days. The prorogation of the Diet will take place about the middle of August. NTEM •IS D 4 - IT.WIY I e Times, eim of the Ita 'bey • ter themselvo THE RAILWAY GRIEVANCE. THE Times, the Daily News, and the other newspapers of this morning teem with letters, each putting forth the same grievance, but from a different point of view, or with a fresh aggravation of circumstances. A correspondent of the Times disputes the legality of the proceed ings of the London and Brighton Company thus: The Act provides that the MOXiIOIIINi charge shall be : By let class express, 21d. per mile ; by 2nd class express or let class ordinary, 2 d. ; by 2nd class ordinary, 1:d. Now, let us see how this scale is applied in the Brighton Company's time-table for August. One example shall suffice. The distance from London-bridge to Brighton is, ow their own showing, 60 miles and 49 chains. At this rats the maximum legal charge is—lst class express, lls. 7d. ; 2nd class express, or let ordinary, 9s. 4d. ; 2nd class ordinary, 7s. 4td. But the actual charge in the company's tables is—let express, 12s. 3d. ; 2nd express and let ordinary, 10s. ; 2nd ordinary, 2s. 9d. And another protests against the sharp practice which grants a second-class express return ticket in the morning, and prevents its being used in the afternoon by putting no second-class carriages on the most eligible express train. Another gentle man who signs his name says apropos of the policy of the recent increases : I am, more extensively than anyone else, occupied in the sale and letting of, and private agency for, property on the London-bridge lines, especially in the districts ranging from New-cross to Bickley, and New-cross to Croydon and Victoria, including Forest-hill, Sydenham, Norwood, and Beckenham—neighbourhoods of immense population. In these localities there are at the present thee, on the most moderate calculation, upwards of 2,500 houses unoccupied. • • • Under these circumstances, I would ask 11l it possible for railways to benefit when they at an exceptionally ill. judged time force their travellers to pay an increase of nearly 60 per cent. Y I can positively answer for several hundred residents in houses from 201. to 601., that notices to leave will be at once given, and I know very many, whose principal support is in letting their apartments, who complain that already have they received notice to leave by their moderately-rented lodgers, who, as clerks ea very limited salaries, cannot bear the increase of their ex. paws. _ Again, the Daily News prints a letter in which the Brighton Company are thus seemed : On Saturday the third-claw carriages were the old par. liesendary awe. open at the fin" barred with keit ban. VISCOUNT CANTERBURY'S GAME LIONNSE. THE conviction of Viscount CitrraantraY for shooting, without a game certificate, is less re markable than that nobleman's line of defence. Some few months ago a party of distinguished sportsmen were charged before the Marlborough magistrates by the officers of Inland Revenue with shooting without certificates. Considerable asto nishment was expressed at the temerity of the officials. But when the case came to be heard, the Marlborough bench found the defen dants guilty, and Lord AILESBURY, Lord CHARLES BRUCE, and Colonel klatrroz were all fined. How these noble and gallant sportsmen justified the matter to themselves has not been stated. It was subsequently discovered that Vis count CANTERBURY was one of the same party, and believing, perhaps on the principle of " birds of a feather," that his lordship was also evading his proper payments to the Crown, the officer of Inland Revenue had a commons served upon him also. Then comes the curious part of the story. Lord CANTERBURY " delayed the case " in expectation of finding his game-certificate." In other words his lordship pleaded that he had taken out a certificate and paid the dues, but that it bad been mislaid. The ease was accordingly adjourned ; and on its adjudication last week Lord Carrzaenav's legal representa tive could " not produce any evidence "of his having a game-certificate," and as the shooting was admitted, could only ask the bench for a mitigation of the penalty. Against this Mr. DWELLY, acting for the Board of Inland Revenue, urged that by the official records it could be found that Lord CANTERBURY had no game certificate, and that under all the circumstances he must press for the full penalty of 20t. If his lordship can show that he has been treated harshly, and that the omission has been acci dental or involuntary, the Revenue Board have the power of reducing his fine. It will be inte resting to know how the matter ends. HER Majesty the QUEEN is expected to arrive in Paris to-morrow morning early from Cherbourg. Her ILuEarE will be accompanied by the Princess LOUISA, the Princess BEATRICE, and Prince LEO POLD, and attended by the Marchioness of ELY, lady in waiting; Lady Brropuun, lady of the bed chamber; Sir TiloB. BLDDULPII, keeper of the privy puree; Col. PONSOMBY, equerry in waiting; Sir W. JENNER, physician ; Mr. DITCEWORTH, tutor to Prince LEOPOLD ; Miss Bowes, governess to the Princess BEATRICE, &c. The whole of the royal party and suite will alight at the British Embassy, with the exception of Sir Thomas BIDDrLPH, who will stay at the Hotel Bristol. The EMPRESS, it is understood, will pay her MAJESTY a visit to morrow afternoon. In the evening, the Qtrimr will leave for Switzerland, where her MAJESTY intends remaining somewhat under a month, and will return in all probability through Paris. Lord STANLEY is expected to arrive in Paris to-morrow evening, and will put up at the Hotel Bristol. His lordship will pursue his journey to Lucerne on the following night. THE TREATMENT OF CONVICTS IN WESTERN AUSIZALIA. This morning certain papers were published for the information of parliament relative to the alleged in diction of various cruel and illegal punishments upon the convicts of Fremantle by the governor of that settlement. The correspondence is based upon a letter addressed to the Colonial Minister by the chairman of the " Howard Associa tion," which letter was accompanied by a petition from the convicts of Western Australia that had previously been laid before the Legislative Council of that colony. The grievances complained of were, first, the severity of the corporeal punishment, the description of weapon used to inflict it, and the number of the lashes given, which, it was said, were double the number allowed by law ; 'secondly, close confinement in dark, unhealthy cells, for indefinite periods, without bedding, air, or exorcise, and ou bread and water diet of one pound per diem ; thirdly, the extension of servitude prior to discharge upon ticket of leave ; fourthly, imprisonment in separate confinement, on short rations, for terms exceeding nine months ; fifthly, the absence of any settled or authorised scale of prison rules. The petitioners, or at least the gentleman who drew up the petition, asserted that the governor and his eon carried out " a system of merciless punishments and secret cruelties, with an avowed object to prevent absconding ;" and another and rather more personal motive was im puted in the assertion that the convicts " feel convinced that the governor's policy in using oppressive measures is to purposely increase crime towards the close of transportation, so that he could parade it in his returns next year, with a view to impress the home authosities with the necessity of keeping a large protective force in the colony, as the stepping-stone to a large subsidy." A copy of this petition, together with certain correspon dence, was published, and it evoked from Governor Hampton a lengthy categorical reply, which he addressed to the Duke of Buckingham, in answer to the charges pre ferred against him. Several abstracts from official docu ments were enclosed. The last despatch of the series is from the Colonial Minister to Governor Hampton, and it is dated " Down ing -street, July 25." The tenor of this despatch is to en tirely exculpate the governor from the charges preferred against him. After noticing the " completeness" of the answers to the gencral allegations, his grace conclude. u follows : I have much satisfaction in observing the complete re plies thus furnished by you to the reflections which were attempted to be thrown upon your own personal share as governor of the eolony in controlling tke administration of the convict system is Western Australia. We learn from Bielefeld, In Prussia, of the death of 14dUs. Marie Cramlli, the ringer, slater of the Baroness vigier. Both had performed with memo at the Oralthd Opera of Pasie. THE POOR RELIEF ACT. The Telegraph has reason to believe that the authorities of the Poor-law Board have it in contemplation, by carry. dugout the Poor Relief Act, to override the resolution which the select committee of Lords specially reported to the house as an essential preliminary to the measure. That resolution was, that the skill of the inspectors should be adequate to the increased powers granted by the bill, and "that a number of such inspec. toe s should be specially qualified by medical knowledge to report as to the relief of the sick poor." Nevertheless, if our contemporary is correctly informed, a departmental minute of the Poor Law-board has just been prepared, which simply evades the demands of the country and of parliament, by adding two lay sub-inspectors to the exist ing staff, but making no addition of "inspectors specially qualified by medical knowledge as to the relief of the sick poor." To cover the omission, a merely illusory provision is made, that, where necessary, the opinion of a local medical practitioner may be taken by the inspector. THE ACCIDKNTS A? OHATIAX. The accounts of the accident at Chatham received by the Post go to show that the officers endeavoured to restrain the eagerness of the men. This was a very difficult thing to do to a nicety at such a place and time, and with men unacquainted with the danger of the position ; but this, adds the Poet, only goes to show how necessary it is to practice and rehearse all the details of real war ; and therefore it is that we always welcome the mimic opera tions of the attack and defence of fortified places, which are the natural supplement of the regular tactical movements in the field. And the Post thinks it is a pity that at such stations as Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Dover, the troops are not more extensively exercised in this style of opera tion, whereby their intelligence would be expanded, and they would become accustomed to the tools and to the means and appliances used on such occasions. ELECTION AEBANO=7.NTS. Betel ring to the importance of due preparation for the new arrangements, the Daily News remarks that many an election within the last few years could be named in which the liberal cause has been lost because the leaders would not invoke the independent exertion., of the electors, who would have been eager and able to carry their own man. Sometimes the joint return for a liberal and a tory is the object of a comfortable arrangement, between the leaders of the two parties, who profess a desire not to disturb the constituency, and it is for the electors themselves to thwart such an arrangement. The essential element of success is the selection of a thoroughly good candidate, genuinely liberal, whose abilities are respected, and whose character is trusted ; and the elec tors themselves should see that the return of such a man is really their own business, if they wish to aid in pro curing the parliamentary measures they desire. To effect this object a united organisation is indispensable. Vie Court. OSBORNE, Atrorer 4. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Prinoess Louie of Hesse and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon (Colonel the Hon. Dudley De Roe being in at tendance upon horseback as equerry in waiting), and her Majesty and the royal family walked in the grounds this morning. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, at tended by Major Grey and the Hon. Eliot Yorke, left Osborne to-day for London. The Prince of Leiningen dined with the Queen last evening. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey, returned to Marlborough-house, yesterday, from visiting the Queen at Oatoorse. The Prinoses of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon. Mrs. liardinge. Duke Philip of Wurteniberg, the Duchess of Wurtemberg, and family, attended by Countess Olga ♦usseperg, Baron Ouftenberg, and a numerous suite, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Scotland. The Earl Grosvenor left London yesterday for Scotland. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., levies next week to meet Lady Emily Peel at Geneva. Lord John Manners has been staying at Cad lands, in Hants, the seat of hie nephew, E. Dranunond, Esq. The Bishop of London proposes to leave town for the Continent on Thursday, the 6th inst.. and will, probably be absent for some weeks. Communications may meanwhile be addressed to Mr. J. B. Lee, 2, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster. Mr. Du Cane left Englund yesterday for Ho barton, Tasmania, of which colony he has accepted the Pv ld ern 'e ci refFe rlhiP i to announce the death of the Earl of Shannon, which took place on Saturday at Dr. Barter's establishment, Blarney. ACCIDNNT TO THE RIGHT HON. 01141RLN8 MAC DONNEL.L.—The Right Hon. Charles Maodonnell, who has been sojourning with some friends in the earth of Ireland, met with a serious accident on Saturday last. It appears that Kr. liacdonnell, while walking en • grassy dope overlooking the crags at Cushendall, on the Antrim coast, missed his footsm, and after a considerable fall came in violent contact with the rocks, whereby be was so severely Wised fa So sib fiat be had to be conveyed tolls tam bireg* imedi:alynernatfel/adadthrry FRIZZIaZ . SPAIN. MADRID, Auorer 4. The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a decree entrusting the Minister of Finance with the Ministry of Public Works ad in/Prinz during the absence of Senor Cabulina. PORTUGAL LISBON, Arousr 4. The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier have landed and taken up their residence in Lisbon. The Spanish frigate Villa de Madrid has left for Cadiz. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Aro= 4. The Sultan's firman promoting the son and heir of the Viceroy of Egypt to the rank of Vizier was read publicly in the citadel of Cairo to-day. Cherif Pacha, the regent, the ministry, delegates from the assembly, and the consular body were present. The Egyptian press is warmly discussing the question of the consular jurisdiction. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Arotnrr 4. The Cunard steamship Scotia arrived ont at 1 p.m. to-day. Closing Prices :--Gold, 1464. Sterling exclumge on London, 110}. 3-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1144 ; ditto, 1885, 1121 ; 10-40 ditto, 109. Illinois, 1501 ; Erie, 58}. Cotton, middling Upland, 301. Petroleum, standard white, 33. Flour, extra State, 8 dole. 95c. to 9 dole. 33e. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 17c. OUR PARIS LETTER. (t ROM Ont OWN COENZSPONDENT.) PARIS, Maus Evzvrsa. M. Grevy, the opposition candidate for the Jura, was this day elected batonnier of the Order of Advocates of Paris. This is entirely a political nomination, because M. Orevy, though a man of great talent and an orator, has not sufficient prac tice at the bar to be placed at the head of the pro fession on forensic grounds only. The prefect of the Jura, to oppose his election ass deputy, haspub lished in three semi-official journals of the depart ment the wild proclamation calling for the assassi nation of the Emperor which M. Paul de Cassagnac Sat brought out in Paris, and the authorship of which has been falsely attributed to IL Felix Pyat. The prefect tells the electors that this bloody facture is the programme of the opposition in general and M. Chevy in particular. The government candidate, N. Dumas (son of the celebrated chemist of the Academy of Sciences), has been returned a member for the Gard by a very large majority. He polled 13,832 votes, against 4,427 given to M. Cazot, democrat, and 4,338 to M. de Larcy, clerical. This is a considerable ballot box triumph to the government, because its candidate scores nearly 1,000 more votes than in 1863. Why, however, if it was so secure of the affections of the consti tuency, did it resort to violence and scandalous measures to put down electoral meetings' There were 12,000 abstentions, and the opposition will now say that it was violence alone which prevented these 12,000 from voting. At the last election, almost all the opposition votes were for clerical candidates ; the republican share in the opposition now is symptomatic. The meeting which for several weeks has been held every Monday in the Salle Pilodo (otherwise called Wauxhall), to discuss the question of women's labour, was dissolved by the police com missary on the watch last night, in oonaequenoe of what he considered a " tumult." M. Horn, the eminent political economist, who was in the chair, admits that there was a great deal of noise, but he attributes it to the hall being tip, an ,i some of the speaskera too prosy. It is vs-) fee... 17 said in Paris, and inainuatNi by swwra! that pi:ibis. agents kicked up the raw in nel.. r to diwredit public meetings. The administration has reful.4 to allov. t!.. Theatre du elatelet to revive Noir, Node th Purt.. The stupidity of this interference with caterer, f,Jr public amusement is idiotic. The Guignol Pop t ,-0 Theatre, in the Champs Elysi.es, which every d represents, amidst the approving laughter of , multitude, adult as well as juvenile--bum-b.iiht, levying a distress for rent being kicked out of tf j , place by the lodgers, is far more damaging to tb. " principle of authority " than any drama of Victor Hugo. M. Emile 01'frier is going to Rome to pry a visit to the father of his late wife, formerly pianoforte player, now a priest—the Abbr %,,, As the Abbt*: is a great favourite with the Pop., and lodges in the Vatican, M. Emile 011ivier sleep under the same roof with his Bolin. ~ ; should the Pope think it worth while to Ri v , him as much encouragement as the Emperor dot a few days before January 19, 1867, thnro no knowing what a defender the Church may full in the French Chamber next year. All M. 011iver, old friends know that he was, when first el-ntol for Paris, and for a long time afterward,, a rsoi Voltairean, and they wore astounded to hear hill] talklunctuously a few days ago of the beauti.•, Popery and the necessity of an alliance bet w.. :n church and state. Extraordinary efforts were made at the It , urn , to keep up the Rente with a view to the loan, but the success was less than yesterday. The highoit speculative price obtained was 70fr. 65c. ; brit thu closing one was 70fr. 50c., with a fall of :et'. Fur cash there were persistent sales which brunb , down the final quotation to 70fr. 35c., with 3 ft:: of 23c. Italian fell 10c. ; and Mobilivr Mr. ATROCIOUS BRUTALITr OF .1 SOX HIS MOTHER. An atrocious case of ill-usage tunic beim-- Mr Richards, deputy coroner, last evening• at the Mark , House, Poplar, where an inquest Was held ou the b.sly Mrs. Elizabeth Brent. aged 52 year , . Before the witnesses were examine,' a yountt twin, of the deceased, and named Daniel steer Brent. was in and told by the coroner that as the evidence wont! possibly implicate him he might listeu to the witnesses at. cross-examine them. He was a powerful young feltw. andvarried many scars on his fare. He had been a e 4 i. digger in Australia, but upon the death of hi% fitls.r. %s!:, left his mother a house, he worked his wAy Cal.- and thence to England. Elizabeth Orifiltlis, a married daughter of the • • deposed that the deceased's son, Daniel, arrived October, and had ill-treated his mother ever siiwe. li • constantly and systematically knocked her ale. it. was always drunk, and he had not worked more th months since the time he came home. He was di Auk his mother's death on Saturday, and he pulbsl her Jli - and out of her coffin, whereupon witnes.•; "served his face as it could now be seen." Whrii could not get money from deceased for drink it %V i. I. habit to knock her about and take away her thin/. force, in fact steal them, and pledge them fur 1,1, He used to spit in her face and swear at her. and .at said, "I will not be happy till I see you in your gra, in the workhouse." Two months ago he puslusl when scarcely dressed, into the street, and kept I. there all night. He poured two gallows of w e mixed with mud over her as she stood iu the tiara iv She said that was her death, for she never felt warts that night. His treatment of her, indeed, dray.• drink, for she was not a drinker before. She W 3:, • well treated by her husband. The son—Then who broke the bridge of mother's n • • Witness—You did. The son-1o; it was fattier Witness—You know very well it wa.s you broke th• bridge of her nose. And there arc two cuts on her he 3 uow. The sou—l did not give them to her. And then say I put mud in the water I chucked over her; I n put mud in it. But I had a deal to put up with. w, she not a drinking woman Witness—Only since you knocked her about. She u-e.I to tremble at your very knock when you came to the .1,1 Mrs. Charlotte Allwright, 79, Augusta-street, pv corroborative evidence. Mr. A. Nelham, M.R.C.S., said that he was call. J in to the deceased six days previous to her death. She Wl' dying from sheer exhaustion. There was slight Minim' and he thought she had taken a certain amount stimulus. He knew her formerly, and she was. not then drinking woman. No doubt the excessive brutality t which she had been subjected had hastened her en I There were bruises on her legs, arms, and body. In cuts on her head, but they were not recent. and h-• could not say they contributed to her death. T 5• cause of death was effusion on the brain from natural causes. Her son had kept her in a state of on tinual suffering, torturing her " just as a cat weulil mouse," and then she suddenly died out, hut in suili • way that witness could not conscientiously say th it •h died from his brutality. Witness knew all about tli • cause of quarrel. The son thought if he could TuaL , 1,... - give him the mortgage deeds be could raise twaney 'lt them. He was never sober. The son listened to all the evidence with pelted e.,w posure, smiling occasionally, but otherwise unmoved. The coroner said he regretted that on the medical evi dence it would be impossible to send the party whi w(- beyond doubt morally answerable ivr the devea,ii% death to take his trial at the Old Bailey. The jury returned a verdict that deeel,ol aka it effusion on the brain from natural tutu., and the prr consider that the continued and brutal ilt-tr.•atw••ut •1 the deceased by her eon Daniel Steer Brent, a. pro. I .t evidence, deserved the gravest censure. A gentleman said to the jury that last SatuoLis the son bad taken his mother's body out of th.• cuaiii was going to fling it downstairs, until his energetically stopped him. FURTHER LOSS OF PROPERTY BT The firemen of the Metropolitan Brigade will have reason for remembering last night and this (Wean& day) morning up to nearly noon, owing to the number of fires for the suppression of which their services were re quired. The telegraph bells at the various metropolitia stations commenced ringing at 7.50 p.m., and with sigh' intervals continued until past 2 o'clock this morning. One fi re, attended with a great loss of property , t i n ) ` Ede place on the premises belo nging to Mr. Tremearne , sale chemist and druggist, situate at 17, Upper EaW Smithfield. It commenced in the back parlour, and before any attempt could be made to get at the flames they rolled up the staircase and could not be extin guished until the greater portion of the and their contents were destroy e d. Another 11 .11 ; pe.ned on the premises belonging to Mr. W. Wright. R. 3 cabinet maker, carrying on business at No. 27, St. ic a ' n. road, Horton. The premises were a bout fifty het long. and contained a large quantity of finished and Parilv finished goods. The engines of the brigade p rom Pq attended, but the tames could not he exlmigninhed n ilt " the fire had travelled throughout the whole building. A very Gateway" fire also took place about half-pig o'clock this morning in a private residence consg . :!' 14 rooms, tenanted by Mr. Pearce, and situate at - 4, Hermes-street, Pentonvfile. It appears that Mr. Pearce had only removed his furniture to the house on Monday night, and he and his family were not in the premises . at the time of the outbreak. The fire destroyed the entire contents of the 14 rooms, leaving only the tare wall` standing. A fire likewise broke nut in the immense range of premises . belonging to Nichols and Son, the govern ment printers, No. 49, King-street, Westminster. I, began from some unexplained cause on the basement. and rapidly extended to the warehouse and ground-fionr• Before the flames were extinguished the basenrul. ground-floor. sa d the stork in warehouse were canister-- ably damaged. Two niouutaiias are now on fire in Wales, ono in North and another in South Welex They are men snaking by day, and at night they are occasionally in dames. One of them is near Newport, in Monmouthshire. They appear likely to burn until all the furze, herbed% weeds, and peat an them are emutuneil, unless vat weather sets in. •••moillMild I r ■ r