The Express. — London, England, 1868-10-02 00:00:00

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A SECOND EDITION of th• EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegram,; the Latest City:; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISHICD EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 2. PORTUGAL AND SPAIN. Mkrcturt constitutions are not born for adver sity. They may work fairly and look well while the sun shines, but as soon as there comes any stress of weather they commonly founder, without even a note of warning. When the Revolution broke out in Spain all the machinery of a Parlia mentary representation was lying ready to hand. There was a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies, and the constitution actually contained a provision that an extraordinary Cortee was to assemble im mediately on the Sovereign becoming incapacitated to govern. And yet from the first moment of the insurrection down to the present the Cortee has never been so much as heard of. By common consent it has been put aside as so much useless lumber. It is not a quarter of a century old, but it is already regarded as worn out : the one desire of the Spanish people is to forget it and to make a fresh start. We do not question their wisdom in thus treating their re presentatives. A Parliament which has suffered things to come to the pass they have long since reached is clearly incompetent to exercise any political function. But the fact suggests only too many doubts as to the future of the Spanish nation. It is true that in the way of political privileges, but little has been given to them, but they have put even this little to such poor ie.° that it is difficult to be sanguine as to their employment of greater opportunities. In one corner of the Peninsula a smaller country has for some time exhibited the spectacle of a Go vernment in harmony with its subjects and con tent to rule within the limits of the Constitution. It is natural that the contemplation of this con trast should be suggestive to many Spaniards of a way of escape from the confusion which promises to be their portion for some time to come. A union with Portugal would certainly have much to res.:minuend it. It would dispose at once of all dispute about the succession, since it could only be effected on the condition that the King of PORI UGAL should be accepted as the sovereign of the two kingdoms. It would give the Revolution the credit of giving unity to the Peninsula, and it would introduce into the chaotic polities of Spain the element of stability derivable from a settled government and a popular dynasty. Nor would it be without great apparent advantages to Portugal itself. From a little country of I rather more than 3,500,000 people she would at once become a great monarchy with a population of 20,000,000. She would enter upon the path which has of late years been so po pular with energetic and rising governments. She would be following the example of Piedmont and Prussia, and supplying another instance of that tendency towards the consolidation of states which is so prevalent at the present time. We are quite clear that if it should please the two nations to coalesce in this fashion it will be nobody's business to prevent them. We do not mean that there are no eiretunstanoes which can justify a third power in interfering to prevent the union of two others. " Live and let live," is a maxim which in politics has two sides to it, and if one European State insists upon living under conditions incompatible with the life of another, the latter is no longer bound to let the process go on undisturbed. But a successful union between Spain and Portugal would threaten neither the safety nor the indepen dence of any other nation. On the contrary, it would give another member to the family of great powers, and thus supply additional means of com bination against the dangerous ambition of any one Of them. Even Prance, which has been so much THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1868 . disturbed by the consolidation of Italy and the aggl andieement of Prussia , coul d hardly allege that the addition of Portugal would make Spain a too formidable neighbour ; and if French suseeptibilities can be kept in check, there are no others likely to be aroused. At the same time it is impossible not to see the Ivry great difficulties which would precede and follow such a settlement of Spanish affairs. So fur as can be judged at present, the Portuguese are not favourably disposed towards it, and though a strong power may occasionally annex a weak one, it will hardly find it possible to insist upon the weak power annexing it. If the Spanish people wish to overcome this alleged roluotanoe on the part of Portugal they will have to offer very attractive terms ; and it is not unlikely that, as the necessity of doing this comes to be felt, the desire for union will be proportionately weakened. The gain of Portugal by the transaction must lie altogether in the future. If the Spaniards can compose their internal quarrels, and submit loyally to the government established by the insurgent leaders, the accession of so large a ter ritory would be a great source of strength to the throne of King Locus ; but as that benefit would be altogether neutralised if the political habits of the Spanish people remain unchanged, the Portuguese Government will naturally re quire very large immediate concessions before it undertakes to run so great a risk. For that union with Spain would involve very great risk to Portugal hardly admits of doubt. The parallel ease of Piedmont and Italy differs in FO many respects, that no very consolatory con clusion can be drawn from it. As far as mere figures go, the resemblance is close enough ; for Piedmont, which, in the beginning of 114,39, had • population little larger than that of Portugal, found itself, by the end of that year, the ruler of a population somewhat more numerous than that of Spain and Portugal together. But it must be remembered that the Italy which annexed itself to Piedmont was not one country as Spain is, but a number of separate fractions which could become a whole by no other process. In accepting the King of SARDINIA as their Sovereign they gave up a titular independence but not even a titular greatness. It was no sacrifice to the Tuscan or the Neapolitan to become un Italian; it would be a very appreciable sacrifice to a Spaniard to become a citizen of a new Iberian kingdom. Nor are there any traditions in ex istence the revival of which might help to soften the change. The great memories of Spain are in no way identified with the brief period when it was ono country with Portugal. The Portuguese Government would not find the jealousies of one section of its new subjects balancing or neutralizing those of some other section ; and it would consequently be a hard task to prevent Portugal from becoming so ab sorbed ID Spain as to lose all power of guid ing or influencing it for good. And upon its being able to do this depends the whole success of the Union. The very proposal, supposing it to come from Spain, is tantamount to an admission that she needs external help in the work of reor ganisation. If that help, when it is given, turns out to be insufficient for the end for which it is asked, the result will be that Por tugal will lose without Spain being the gainer. She will have undertaken a task beyond her strength, and from which at the same time she may find it impossible to withdraw. Whether, indeed, Portugal will have the choice given her is as yet wholly uncertain. The wishes of the Spanish people, if they can once be effec tively expressed, may point in quite another direction from that indicated by any single loader. But there are obvious reasons why, if the offer is made, Portugal should hesitate before deciding to accept it. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) P . O=R §IGN NE NV S.l (THIS DAY.) - e , SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.—ALLRGED OPPO SITION OF FItANCE TO A UNION. The Liberti of to-day mentions with re serve a report that the French government will not look favourably upon the Iberian union, of which it said Prim and Ologaga are the warmest advocates. It is stated that in the government circles at Paris the Lisbon cabinet are openly accused of having favoured the enterprise of the Spanish insurgent leaders, and that a coolness has arisen between the cabinet of the Tuileries and the government of Portugal. The statement, how ever, that the government has interfered to pre vent a Portuguese loan from being contracted is contradicted in to-day's Corestitationnel. (Taaovoz sivrate .tozwar.) PARA oor. The Moniker of to-day publishes the following telegram : MADRID, Oar. 1, 1 PAL The Generals who were expected have not yet arrived. Marshal Serrano sent word that he feared disturbances would occur if he left the troops. General Prim is said to intend going to Catalonia, whore Count Chaste held the command. The capital yesterday and last night was quiet. The national guards and volunteers are disarm ing the mob, to whom arms had been served out in the first instance. The royal palace is re spected. In the course of to-day the election of the members of the central junta will take place by universal suffrage. It does not appear that the different parties concerned have as yet come to un understanding. As soon as the news of the rising in Madrid reached Comma, the troops and the Gallivian population joined in a ;pronunciamouto, and a provisional junta was established. MADRID, Ocr. 1, Evserreo. The elections for the central junta are pro ceeding with perfect order. The candidates pro bably chosen will be a member of the progression -Ist party, a unionist, and a democrat. General Calonge has been captured by the peasants, and n.nt to the fortress of Santona. General Prim has taken the route from Cloths pma into Catalonia. Marshal Serrano is advanc ing on Madrid. Count Cheste is wandering about in the direction of the French frontier. The whole of Spain has now joined the insur rection. The troops hitherto under the command of the Marquis de Novaliches will give in tli. it final adhesion to the movement to-day. - UW" : O-.1•••1/4 'trait ova our FARIS, 'I innains.e Evart to. The disasters whi4 have befallen the o iu.se of , Queen Isabella naturally find more or less sympa- ' thy in /tiktelitssissis journals, according to the inten sity of their political bias. Thus the Moniieur en deavours to disparage lierrano's victory, and to modify the situation as far as known facts will permit. The Constitutionnel sets out in its com mentary by merely remarking that the tele grams from Madrid of last night " present the situation aa very unfavourable for the cause of Queen I,'abella II." It seems like it, indeed; and something more than " un favourable," if the history of the telegrams is not a fabrication. The semi-official journal, however, is quite alive to the reality of the position of Isa bella and her government. It recognise+, the fact of the Queen having taken refuge in France, and having arrived at Bendaye on her way to Pau. Then that journal adds, in a plaintive tone: No one will be taken by surprise at this news. When an example of disobedience and want of discipline is given by those who are entrusted with power; when the representatives and natural defenders of the mnear chical principle become negligent et their duty, and suffer the dignity of the throne to be assailed, there is no lougor any hope that on the day when the monarchy is in danger the props of the dynasty will remain firm. But let us jibe under no delusion as to the actual character of the insur rection ; ct is before a military and aristocratic rebellion that Queen Isabella has fallen, and not in consequence of a national riming. The people had little or nothing to do with the events of the last ei;;ht days; they left every thing to the generals and th, heads of parties, and male no decisive more ment on • w.iy or tic of ler. The first act is played ; who n ill b bold n ush t pr :diet the nature of the dit,otm mind That is, indeed, tl e Tiestion. In the meantime, tie He 1e and other of the liberal journals mike no secret of their satisfac tion at the immue of this short and decisive struggle. So far as I can observe, tl:e fe. ling prevailing in Paris is one of conerCu'ation at the triumph of the revolution ; but there is evidently groat un certainty as to the course which events will here after take ; and a certain admixture of fear and doubt on this head obviously tends to check the degree of exhilaration which would otherwise be felt at the overthrow of a corrupt government and political system. A liberal journal whose sympa thies for the ineurgents have been emphatic and undisguised concludes a short review of the late events thus : Well, the revolution triumphs. From this day the Spanish people bold their destinies in their own hands. In this solemn hour. which will be blessed in the memory of nations for the joy which has been given to everybody, we have no advice to offer to the conquerors. They have 1 eon energetic and moderate in the strusgle ; they will know how to exercise the same qualities in victory. The Queen of Spain arrived last night at Pau with her family. The Prefect of the Basses Pyri•- ni•es accompanied her by order of the Emperor to the chiteau. The Bourse was firm to-day from the opening to the close. The Rente finished at 69fr. 39c. ; the Italian Fives at 52fr. 85c. ; and there was a rise in almost all the principal securities. Railway shares very firm. THE BISHOP OF OXFORD OH SISTERHOODS." Among the eubjects discussed yesterday at the Chweh Congress in Dublin was that of authorised and systematic lay agency. In the course of the discussion, The Bishop of Oxford said they had tried the lay agency in his own diocese and in one or two others with very good effect. They selected laymen to whom the bishops, with prayer, have given a license to assist in whatever pansies where the clergy of the parish desired their aid. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that this work would be further carried out, because it seemed to him to coin base two elements—a burning zeal, with an active .:ystein, for they all knew that a work undertakeu under the impulse of individual feeling was too commouly weak and moot lax, and short in its duration. (Hear, hear.) His lordship said the next subject on which he wished to my a few words was concerning those Christian sisterhoods which had been spoken of. Now, he thought they laboured first of all under Pais most natural imputation, that they were an attempt an our reformed church to ini tiate the nunneries of that church which the necessities or the Gospel obliged them to part with. (Applause.) It seemed to him the greatest possible waste of means if a thing itself be a thing of great usefulueis to throw it aside because it had been misused elsewhere. (hear, hear.) In these sisterhoeds there were things to be avoided. They should avoid those vows of perpetual en gagement made by women. (Hear, hear.) There should not he such TOWS, for he thought instead of such life being • higher life, it was a lower lite. What would the service of these women be if they were for one day continued perforce by vows contracted when they were in a different state of mind, if the services were not to be from day to day the free will offering of redeem ing hearts to the Lord our Maker. (Hoar, hear.) Closely connected with this subject of perpetual vows was the re ceiving of very young women and almost girls into such societies. Now, he thought the primary obligation of a Christian woman was distinctly laid down by the pen of St. Paul--" Let the younger women marry." (Ap plause.) The vocation of • Christian woman was family life but they knew in a highly civilised state of society many women were denied the advantages of family life, and that they wasted the energies of loving hearts upon "pets" and favourites. (Hear, hear). They daily saw the tragedy of a life whose sympathies were wasted on more creatures who became pets and favourites, instead of being spent in the service of Christ. (Hear, hear). When the hand of (lod has set a woman mails from the work of family life, if she is encouraged to give her life to the work of Christ, surely there must be a great gain. It was es sential to the success of this work that they should not be taught to do acts of charity and religion for their own irreligious life, but that their reli gious life was cultivated by works of charity. Per petual retreats begat a miserable morbid feeling, which would not be the case if the woman was connected with active work. of charity done in the Lord. (Hear, hoar.) They were not to let their females retire iuto dark places. Give them a home in which they can work —a home with fellows of their own kind and rank. Lot them form themselves into a sisterhood which will give them en opportunity of going forth to do those works of charity Which will be a blessing to themselves and to all aura. ago, no; hear, bear ; awl applause.) At the Theatre Francais there is some talk re eding anew d atua from the pen of If. Julia Ami k ritea 'Mailed the faelta el Jong it. Great success has att ndkx: the protliction of Alexandre Dumas ploy of th Cemsriesm. M. Laterr.i.r.! haa taken the part of Edeusul Ituhborg, which he mato his own in 1834. At the Cluny Theatre the success of the Inutile* im so great that the manugum-nt lus been compelled to conceit the orchestra into supplementary stalls. Richard Wagner is now at Stresa, whence he will return to (lenses. Thorn M announced at the Fantaisie,-PArisiennos for to-morrow the that representation of Gerrasar, comic opera in one act, the words by MM. L'Aebvre and Bouvier, the music by M. Frederic Barbier. Them is also in preparation the &,Mat Makri Lei, a comic ropers in two acts by MM. ('hivot and Dorm the magic by M. Barbier, f u r the fi rst appearance of Mdll e . Flachat. " Indications of the winter season:* writes the Paris correspondent of the ibst, " are dawuing upon The court ret-irus from the last bolting place of tie' summer programme. Itiarrits, early in October. Tr.iveliers ate passing through Paris from Germany and Switzerland the hotels are more animated; the trees of the Tuileries are yellow and brown, and show their brauche,.; the drapers advertise their auteanal and winter fashion+. the hands uo longer play in the public places the W . " . titer is windy and stormy, if not cold. Theu again the Dalian Opera, newly decorated, opens to-morrow 'welting with Luria. Patti is with us once more, and Praschini, Dello `odic, Onivai, the handsome contralto, Verger, Agnesi, &c. Tumberlik is to come, and some new prime dance new at least for Paris--are promised. The manager has done his best to revive the name, fame. awl fashion of the TliAltre Hellen at Paris. But, as iu Lou don, the Italian Opera here does not attract the sines class of audience which made it the temple of fashion owns ltd 7ears ago." THE SPEAKER'S COMMENTARY. WHAT has become of the BrnaxEs's Commen tary ? Five years ago the work was promised amidst a flourish of trumpets, but it has not oven yet seen the light of publicity. In the spring of 1863, when Bishop COLEN3O'I3 criticisms upon the " Pentateuch" were disturbing the ecclesiastical world, the Right lien. the SPEAKER of the Rouse of Commons conceived the idea of inducing a number of our bishops to pub lish a commentary which should be regarded as the judgment of churchmen upon the points that had been raised. There was a dinner or two we believe, over the matter, and the dinners were followed by the announcement of a plan. Every body was in a glow. Mr. Mt azty was to bring out the work, the Rev. F. C. Coox was to edit it, and the names were made known of numerous scholars who had been appointed to write the several portions, as well as of the right rev. bishops under whose authority it was to be issued. Two years rolled by when a correspondent, a biblical scholar probably, one who was yearning for opponents who should be worthy of his lore, sought information through the columns of a contemporary respecting the work. Ile was quieted for the time by the assur ance that it was making steady progress, and that some part of it was already in type. This was in 1865. Two years later, in the autumn of last year, that is, Dr. CoLraso, either in earnest or in irony, complained that the threatened answer to his criticisms was kept neck. Stray shots from volunteers and adventurous amateurs were flying about, but the great guns were silent. had they been spiked % The official editor assured the world through the Time, that the Commentary was really in hand, and that the Pentateuch was the part that would be published first. This is October, 1888, and we are still at the mercy of " unauthorised " I productions wherewith to overwhelm the heretical bishop. The Commentary, says rumour, has been written, and has been printed ; but the patron bishops refuse to sanction it in its present form. We should like to know how far this is true. If the gossip is substantially correct, we have in it another illustration of the divided state of opinion in the Church and of the folly of expecting, as things are, effective declarations from ecclesiastical juntas in matters of exact criticism. At present the laugh is unfairly against tho SPEAKER, whose sur prise and disappointment must be as complete as anybody's. We read in the Etoile of Namur :—" About 20 years ago a young curate of the province of Namur fell in love with the daughter of a rich proprietor, at whose house he visited. The two young people fled to England. There the young priest embraced the protestant religion and married her whom he loved. Me obtained the curacy of a small village, the income being exceedingly limited. Children were born and have grown up, and the parents, finding in their love the necessary courage and resignation, nobly supported their poverty. The mother of the lady desired long ago again to see her exiled child, while the father would never con sent to recognise the marriage. The latter recently died. The wife of the clergyman desired very much to return to her mother in Belgium, but with a recognition of her married state. It is said that the former abbE in tends to demand this from the tribunals of his country." THil PUTOSII OP IMAM. Tin. Times observes that the political material which Queen Isabella leaves behind her se of no very hope ful kind. She and her instruments gradually censphed each other. Her political education was of the worst, and she "betteted the instruction" in communicating it to the later miles of politicians and soldiers who stood around her throne. All that can be hoped is that the men who have conquered will see it to be their own interest as well as that of the state to hold together, to keep in chock their individual vanity and ambition, and to gain reputation and permanent power by conferring tranquility upon Spain. The Spaniards will have only themselves to blame if they fail in establishing a decent constitutional government, Eligible young princes are plentiful enough, and Spain has ad vanced with the rest of the world sufficiently to supply the materials of a satisfactory assembly, and to furnish ministers who can learn their duty. Five years of good government will make Spain a new land, and the path of prudence and public virtue is in this came so easy that the Times can hardly conceive it to be missed except by wilful dishonesty. A strange irony of fate, observes the Telegraph, decreed that the last two Bourbon princes should be Francis 11. of Naples and Isabella of Castile and Aragon. However the ascetic King and the free-living Queen may have differed in other respects, they had one trait in common—they lacked the courage which has often half redeemed the sine of royalty. Faithless to their friends, disloyal to their people, cruel in prosperity, servile in adversity, without capacity to rule, without courage to fight their own battles, vain-glorious, selfish. and bigoted, prodigal of the lives of others, careful of their own--such are the Bour bons as the world has known them for some throe om turies. TUB DECLINE OE TEE DRAVA. lu the prologue which ho wrote for the opening of Drury Lane Theatre in 1747, Dr. Johnson made Garrick tell his audience that it was for them, To bid the reign coenroonee Of re...cid nature and reviving rue. The Daily Neter ova that we want some one at the present day to speak with equal authority to the audience who flock to see dramas that depend for their at tractions on an appeal to nervous excitement; burlesque that are made up of glitter and slang; ballets that are as indecent as the law will permit them to be (and the law is very tolerant in this respect); and er.hibitions of strength and dexterity which not unfrequently termi nate in fatal, or nearly fatal, accidents in sight of the spectators. In truth we seem just now to have reached a point of degradation in theatrical exhibitions even lower than that which moralists lamented more than a hundred years ago. The Daily News does not say that theatrical managers are to blame for this state of things; for they only provide what they find in demand. The change is to be attributed rather to the fact that whereas the old playgoers were for the most part Londoners, more regular in their attendance, with fixed canon of taste, and educated in a certain critical know- I, dge of the principles of dramatic acting and writing, now-a-days audiences are more fluctuating and erratic, pleasure-seekers from the country, and a constant suc cession of there uncritical visitors encourages the constant repetition of the some piece, a system which is advanta geous to none but managers and successful dramatists. The consequence is that the histrionic art is reduced to the level of a mechanical acquisition, and the author and actor bare sunk to a position inferior to that of the scone painter, the machinist, the ballet master, and the cos tumier. THE CIIANCELLOHAIIIP OF EDINTIPEOII lINTTIOISITT. Referring to the contest for the chancellorship of Edinburgh between Mr. Olad‘tone and Lord Justice- General Inglis, the Star remarks that Mr. Di,raeli will not gain a single point in the political game by the elec tion of the Lord Justice-General, and Mr. Oladatoue will be none the worse for his defeat. The only losers by the tory triumph would be the members of the university, who would be held up to public contempt ►s Breotian dullards preferring the spite of faction to the honour of their " Modern Athons." SOCTR-RABT LLICCABNIIII ILECTION. The Daily Nix's observes that the division of South Lancashire into two constituencies with two members for each, offers an opportunity for the full recovery of liberal ant udancy in the free trade county. Of the candidate' for the south-east division it says that Mr. Peel is as de cided in his opinions as the most pronounced liberalism could desire. Mr. H. Yates Thompson, his colleague, is already well known as one of the younger and of what are called the more advanced liberals. He fought the battle of Lancashire liberalism against overwhelming odds at a previous election, and his gallant conduct on that occasion naturally pointed him out to the electors as their champion in an easier fight. bt court. BALMOJL&L CASTLE, Sur. 30. The Quern wont out yesterday morning, at tended by Lady Churchill, and in the afternoon drove out with Prince Leopold, attended by the Hou. Mary Lamelles. General Sir William, Lady, and Miss Knollys had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. To-day the troops in Portsmouth will parado on South. -common for a march past before his royal highness the Cuwmander•in-chief and for review innpuc tion. Hie Grand Ducal Diglineits Prince Alexander of Hesse, brother of the Empress of Bessie, accompanied by his son, Prince Louis of Battenburg, and Mr. T. M. Everett, private tutor to the latter, arrived at the Star and Garter Hotel on Tuesday last, from London. On Wednesday morning the visitors, accompanied by Mr. George Baker, Russian Vice-Consul, visited the dock yard, and paid their respects to the Commander-in-Chief and Admiral Superintendent, and in the evening dined, by invitation, with Sir George Buller. Prince Louis is about to enter the private establishment of Dr. Burney, at Gosport, to go through a course of studies preparatory to entering the English navy. The Eurl of Mayo yesterday ceased officially to be Secretary for Ireland and a cabinet minister. He will leave for India, it is said, early in November. Lord Henry Lennox and Lady Honand are in Paris. The Right lion. Charles Baron 'Leadley (says the No►thern Whig) ham been chosen by a majority of votes to be a poor to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of the Earl of Bantry, de ceased. The committee appointed by the Right !Ton. Sir J. Pakington, M.P., Secretary of State for War, to inquire into the construction, condition, and cost of the and wont' of &stenos in course of erection at the principal military and naval stations, as well as those on the coast, have paid a preliminary visit to Chatham. for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for entering on their inquiry at that port and garrison. _ _ _ The foundation stone of an English church at St. Moritz, Upper Engadini, Switzerland, wee laid on the let ult. by the Archbishop of York. The Archbishop of Dublin, on opening the pro ceedings of the church congress on Wednesday, having remarked that hissing was not a human utterance, and objectionable, because it not only expressed dissent from the speech, but dislike to the speaker, requested that dis sentients should, as heartily they pleased, say " No, no," instead of Liming. Mr. Gladstone's Irish church policy and the report of the commission have been vigorously criticised. The Bishop of Derry has not hesitated to say that, so far from the number of prelates in Ireland being reduced they ought to be increased. The new Doan of Ripon Dr. M'Neile, maintained that the Irish church wassurreunded by special dangers, inasmuch as she was exposed to " political conspiracies directed against the political liber ties of mankind." It was sought to reduce them to a nation of tyrants and slaves—tyrants ruling without fear of God, and slaves obeying from the mere servile fear of man. They must either overcome Rome, or they must submit to her. These declarations were received with ap plause. The Bishop of Oxford, in a more temperate tone, testified to the earnestness with which the Irish clergy were defending the threatened establishment, and inti mated that the English clergy might well act upon the lesson. FRANCE. FARM, Ocr. 2. The Constifictionnel of to-day contradicts a state ment of the Inde'pendance Beige to the effect that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had thrown ob stacles in the way of the conclusion of a Portu guese loan now under negotiation with the Sociak Oenkrale in Paris, and says : "We are, on the contrary, able to state, upon the authority of Chevalier Soreral, who has 'been specially charged with the negotiations, that no difficulties such as those referred to have arisen in the matter, which, in fact, has been most satis factorily concluded." HUNGARY. PESTH, Oar. 2. The Crown Prince Rudolph and the Princess Gisella arrived at Godoello yesterday. AIDMICA. (Arrival of the Russia, via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Sam 23, 3logn:qa. The agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia claims that the whites were the aggressors in the riot at Familia, in that they attacked the negroes on the pre tence that the latter were armed contrary to law. The sheriff of the county reports that he atttniptcd to disperse the negroes for carrying arms contrary to the laws of the state, and that the negroes, provoked at a shot which was fired by a drunken bystander, fired upon the whites, wounding six persons. The President has ordered un investigation into the riot. The Georgia legislature has rejected the sug gestion of Governor Bullock to ask fur the aid of national troops to preserve the peace of the State. A fight took place last night at Now Orleans between the Republicwn and Democratic clubs. No casualties are reported. A renewal of the dis turbances is feared. The prosecution in the Surratt trial has filed a demurrer to the application of the counsel for the defence for the dismissal of the conspiracy charge under the provisions of the amnesty proclamation. A large and enthusiastic republican meeting was held at the Cooper Institute in New York last evening. General Fremont was among the speakers. A letter from General Dix from Paris has been published opposing the election of Mr. Seymour. The cotton reports from Tennessee continue un favourable. Wright's report states that in Georgia, Alabama, and I•lorida the cotton is much da maged by worms and rain. A Paris correspondent of the Nord writes : " The Empress is in despair at the calamity which hat brfallen her former Sovereign. She has shed tears abundantly, but without shaking the resolve of the Em peror to at stain from intervention." A description of a vehicle propelled by the fort, and which exactly corresponds to the velocipede so much in vogue at this moment, is published by the ilowiteur s an extract from the Awl Hal de Paris of July, 1779. The Pays says :—" M. Granier de Coaeagnac, principal editor of the Pays, had thu honour of breakfasting with the Emperor on Tuesday." " A Swallow " writes to Oulignani from Nico that the rains are over, and the sky clear, so that visitors who intend wintering there need not delay their departure. The Cotastitutionnel has unearthed in the prison of Bourget; s peripatetic philosopher. His name is Seneca ; he is about forty, has never done a day's work, and is now undergoing hie eighth condemnation for begging. The following terse summary of his views of existence is neatly tattoed on his right arm :—" Le passe m'a trompe ; Le present me tourmente ; L'acenir ni'4pou vitiate." A competition of carrier pigeons took place on Sunday. Five hundred and seventy-six of them started from Ham at nine in the morning, and a few reached their destination by three o'clock the same afternoon. Several of these swift voyageurs were shot by country sportsmen intent on making a bug. A young man living at Havre went out shooting three mornings beet along the cliffs in the neighbourhood of Etretat, and foolishly went close to the edge of the precipice. The ground, loosened by the infiltration of water, gave way, and the unfortunate sportsman fell headlong from a height of nearly 400 foot to the shingle below. His brains were dashed out, but his hand still clutched the rifle. The Italian government has officially recog- Mead the government of Juarez by appointing ite Consul fleneral at Bt.lgrade Italian Minieter at Mexico. An extract front a private letter from Victoria, Australia, dated July 27, says there is a great rush to the new gold fields in Queensland. They aro flocking from all park' of Australia, and from New Zealand. Thousands lett Ballast in one week. A LADY BURNT TO DRAM An inquest wtaa the body of Mir Mary to death . n the :1113 JO o'clock, the Erskine, commandant ; ja i :7 r u:sii m w h lSb e i hCto i r i Y. ta tir ti sarsw r ; I n; hl tie c:tu r ' i s a Y i edmmiti - 163.. inl iellt - q l datital w a ue w h rdi o , ;l Co f.h w ''ny:l ll 4 :; 4' ,.. bight. An hour the room below, beard a heavy fall above. He, lilt", upon, alarmed another sister, Mies Alice Mater, wl ente►ed the deceased's bedroom and found it in flaw the ran back end called out " Colonel &skis who was in the perms, thereupon ran forward, joie. by Mr. John B. Slater. Rushing into the room, th. found the deceased lying on the floor with her dr•, in flames, and several parts of the room on fire too They pulled a feather bed a the bedstead and laid it up,. her and thus suoreeded in extinguishing the flame, which she had been enveloped. Medical assistance procured, and Miss Slater's injuries were attended to. ' she gradually succumbed to the shock her nets system had received, and died about 6 o'clock yeet day morning. Dr. Walker, in describing the inj•i, sustained by the deceased, said the whole of her bs.. was burned, an were also both arms, and the evt.r , surface of the loft thigh. There wan no evidence s, bow the sad occurrence happened. The deceased not undressed at the time, and it is conjectured that had placed the candle on an ottoman, and at down read beside it, and that while so engaged she had fall• asleep, and the candle had fallen over. The corms. (Mr. Carrick), in addressing the jury. raid the deceased was respected and admired by everyone who knew She was a woman of mod amiable disposition L. exceedingly kind to the poor. The jury returned verdict of accidental death, the foreman (the Rev. Ja- Tasker) endorsing the feelings expresarl by the corn In his own pariah, he said, the name of Mary S!ater a household word, and the poor people had desprea regret the frightful accident which had deprived th. so valuable a friend.—Moreleafer Goserdente. FOUR CHILDREN SHOT Al LL'ICE.Ti: A wanton and cruel caan of shooting ,M,;,,• at Leicester yesterday aiterno4 n. it appears th e teachers and children of the Bi.hop•street Wee!. schools had assembled for their annual holiday in a near the Abbey meadow, which M near canal. Between four and five o'clo.k the te L wero startled by bearing the report of a gun and th • fling of the shota on the windows and roof of a ta bard by, and on going towards the canal they found of their scholars bad been shot by a youth, who w charge of a boat that was passing along the canal. The names of the children are, Edward Brown, 12 ; Arthur Bull, 13 ; Emma Food. 9; awl John sh. 9. Medical assistance was obtained, and it vra that Brown was suffering acutely from nee, wounds in his face, one shot having jut bmeath the nght eye ; another had penctra•• ball of the left eye, one of his front teeth was ;h and nine shots had entered his cheeks. Emms not co dsagerously wounded, ►lthough one of the had entered her face near the right eye. The two boje—Shelton and Bull—were both shot in the but their injuries were not of a charts: The youth who find the gun was .sn•l He appeared the worse for drink. Ho gave th. nar Charles Mitch , U, and suid he came and we; 17 years old. On hearilig the , h ,r~•• a. him, be stated that he wa; pt-:u, the canal by the side of the bed. The hil I r rit , nee at him, and. as they took no heed of h.. r• silences but persisted in annoying him. be t,olc ut• 3. which lay loaded in the boat, and fired amongst their:. Prisoner well brought before the maghtratei a: , minded. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of Sir Claude William Cliampi-i Crespigny, Bart., M.A., J.P., deputy-lieutenant r county of East s, late of Champion Lodge, near Surrey, and Wivetboe Hall, Essex. was proved in don, on the 11th ult., by the executors—tuutit relict, Lady Champion de Crespiguy ; hs l - Henry Other Champion de Cre-purtiy. 1-q.. Rev. Frederick John Champion de t'rosp:_n y of Emmanuel Church, Camberwell. 11-m••• lain to Lord Rodney : and testator'. 1.7 in-law, William Michael Tuffnell, Esq.. Beld-pace, Chelmsford. The three last Dam , appouited trustees: the wife is appointed solo guard. Lis daughters: and the trustees and wife guardians FOIL% during minority. The will isdatol Feb. 4. two yodiciLs. Jun,. 12 :end 14. and the testator died Au, at the age of 50. The per-onal property w t „, under IS,OOOI. The testat•.r directs that on Jan. 1. or on the decease of his wife, the executors are to I. of hiseamberwell estate an annuity of 3.,01. 1. in equal shades: to his son Philip 150:., and to 1,,. Tyrrell and lleorge an annuity of 100:- in additien other intet este they may take under his will. He api • - 10.4 0 00/. under sett leavnit to younger children. . to his wife his carriages and horses. jewels and ornaments, plate. books. picture.. wines, 411t1 articles. He leaves his freeholds in Surrey and to his wife for life, and after her de.ease to h.s and the residue of Lis property to trustee.. te to t0.:..1 the terms of strict settlement with the mai • The will of Edward Doulbourn. Es./. 10 4irjesnt-at-Liw. late of 62, Upper Say::: .:• Portnian-square, was Crowd in London. 12th ultimo, by his son. the Rev. F.lNr•r' rick tioull•uni. RD.. Prebendary of St. Cathedral. Ineunthent of St. John's. addington. the Chaplain% in Ordinary to the Queen, and law Master of Rugby School: and Henry Edward Ch,' Stapylton. Erg. (the testator's son-in-law , . of S. Lodge, St. Albans, the joint acting executors. The tc was maternal grand-on et fourth Viscount ChetwyL brother of the bite Right Hon. Henry lloulburri. • commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy, and had diarliament as M.P. for Lvierster. The learned ••••. ed August 24 last, at the advanced age of Sl. a wid hating been thrice married. H:s will bears January 9. 1562 it is v,.ry brcf. and tpleun entirely in his own handwriting : tearing to his wit deceased' the Hon. Katharine. daughter of fourth Itokeby, the whole of his property. which he states t • sit then of a copyhold estate at Weatbury. M Iludham, Herta; :JOU:. Bank Stock, ..100:. Con-.:-. Three per Cents., and forty shares in the Oeneral Insurance Company. The personalty w..t under s,oooL—illustrate,/ Loram New .. The Marquis of Westminster has glvct towards the enlarges's, nt of Salisbury Infirmary The Ladybird, the Marquis of Bute', !'• returned to Cower from Cardiff. The number of electors at Witrehtuu, in D, under the new Reform Bill, is 790. The number of , on the old register was 305. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND TUE MAitfilt..- understand that, in answer to a recent address to hi. highness suggesting the propriety of his fraternising the masonic body a. a fitting preparation for the co: ceremonial at the (ilsegow New University buildin, communication, dated I)unrobin Castle. has tem sere (tom Sir William Knotty*, " that the prince dues not pose. at all events for the present. joining a ny em s lodge, and that he regrets. therefore. he is unable to cede to the suggestion in que.tion." It is said the prince's reserve upon the subject of masonry is due I inductive and emituple of his illustrious Lither. dined to enter env eeeret se:Kiefy unless he was first nett...idly made acquainted with its nature. ni)..torie , objects.—Ghtsgote TIIE UNVERSITY OP LONDON ELECTION.—TI graduates of the University of London of COUV.4I standing who wish to vote at the forthcoming electio a representative of the university in parliament, am disqualified from the feet of their not having hitherto the necessary convocation fem. should take notice t meeting of the senate will be held in a few days' Li/ close the list of rulers. It is necessary, therefore, those who now wish to become the possessors of s should without delay transmit to the registrar the co 'lithe' fee of IL, with a request that their names m. passed by the senate. We understand that as nisi 400 graduates of convocation standing have fail qualify us voters.-- Laren. THE LORI) MAYOR-ELIVr Asti rlllt $1 Cauca —We lIININIKLitUti that it is the intent of Lord Mayor-Elect to use the old City coach for his veysnce to and from Westminster on " lord Mari day." It was but last year that a ooniederahle sum money was voted by the Court of Common emitted for i thorough reparation, with new wheels, leathern springs` he., but since that time it has remained covered up in Corporation carriage throe at the City Mew.. An mattes as to the probability of its being required on 9th of November next having reached the mews, bustle now prevails amongst the men, who pleasai joke amongst themselves at the probable all, rem of the ancient custom, and the revival of their addgiei fee. upon such occasions. A court-martial was opened at Devouport terday, on board the Royal Adelaide, guanlahip in mogul. fur the trial of Captain 11. Boys, conuaanding Warrior, on the charge that, on the 14th of August I he did negligently, through error of judgment, orthrou. other default, damage and haiard the lees of her NI jesty ships Warrior and Royal I tak. by allowing them come in eolliaiou. Them are a number of witnesses 0' eausiaed. 9 1.4 au' en, esd n• 8 inn Y too , r. , la nt ea, o 10 e u 1 04, a • et FI •rr, G itl al t 4 j 4 15 lb. I alien nner :vied her Ird t 4'o 0. • ' w 1 E!. a-- " • !I . • C! 7 , • • +. • 1 a 1 d • , 3 I, • an) • • ::-•. 4 :I! 7 • 31..‘ •". H . • ai 1. an • II w • VI • ay M . . • , . ••.1 a •••••!. : - • 1 1.12 1 1 r 31 •. • • r a . w • . , tug's. wet. • ,t asawn tO 3 Ist t • to • • •^.. A Tll •-• • vitt: • . 4 ion • .. ad A'' ,• th • ant,` : V. el 6: 3 ,•••• ul iS• may 1‘ tut lea t • irt . , :of t!,..• I* eon- IJnr for ito rings. in the inn- tit.. touch tautly ratans ttotiAl y.. II g the ; brat. rely?' c M - Lint t SO b 0 r_