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Ix his opening address as President of the Ma thematical and Physical Sciences Section of the British Association, Professor TYNDALL discussed with singular ability a subject that is occupying many able thinkers and agitating many earnest minds at the present moment—the relation be tween the physical and moral sciences, which in its higher aspects includes the general relation of science to religion. While Professor TYNDALL naturally looks at the question mainly from a scientific point of view, his treatment of it is at the same time marked by a bseadth and compre hensiveness that will probably surprise many, and which we ourselves were scarcely prepared to ex pect. In this respect, however, he follows the ex cellent example set by the President, Dr. Room, in his noble inaugural discourse. In some respects, indeed, Dr. TYNDALL'S statement of the relations between these two groat branches of inquiry is wider and more accurate. For Dr. 11001[111, while urging that both branches should be dili gently pursued, suggested, or seemed to suggest, that the facts of the one rested on a more solid and satisfactory basis than those of the other, that physical evidence was better than moral evidence. Dr. TYNDALL TOCOgintiee DO such inferiority in the relative authenticity and directness of the ulti mate data on which the physical and moral sciences respectively build. He asserts distinctly not only that they are co-ordinate and independent branches of knowledge, but that they must always remain so, that the one cannot be resolved into or absorbed by the other. He draws a sharp line be tween the facts of consciousness and physiological facts, between thought, feeling, and volition, and the molecular groupings and motions in the brain that may constitute their physical :conditions, and justly maintains that, however invariable may be their connexion, the one set of facts does not in any way help to explain the other. After referring to this connexion, Professor TYNDALL says :—" Granted, however, that a " definite thought and a definite molecular " action of the brain occur simultaneously, " we do not possess the intellectual organ which 0 . would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning 4 ' from the one phenomenon to the other. They ." appear together, but we do not know why. g‘ Were our minds and senses so expanded, " strengthened, and illuminated, as to enable us to " see and feet the very molecules of the brain, wore " we capable of following all their motions, all their " groupings, all their electrical discharges—if such "there be—and were we intimately aiximiated " with the corresponding thought and fooling, we "should be as far as ever from the solution "of the problem, How are these physical processes " connected with the facts of consciousness?' The " chasm between the two dames of phenomena would " still remain intellectually impassable." Towards the close of his address Professor TYNDALL recurs to the same point, summing up his general exposi tion in equally emphatic language. " In affirming " that thought as exercised by us has its correlative "in the physics of the brain, I think the position "of the materialist' is stated as far as that " position is a tenable one. I think the materialist "will be able finally to maintain this position " against all attacks, but I do not think as the " human mind is at present constituted, " that he can pass beyond it. I do " not think he is entitled to say that his mole " minr groupings and his molecular motions " explain everything. In reality they explain " nothing. The utmost he can affirm is the woo " dation of two classes of phenomena of " whose real bond of union he is in absolute " ignorance." This is the language of true science which sepa rates things that are distinct, and deeignates dif ferent sets of facts by significant and appropriate terms. Such a clear discrimination of provinces of inquiry so closely connected in experience, yet so distinct in their essential characteristics, contrasts, moreover, very favourably with the confused phraseology and statements not only of many physiologists, but of many psychologists of the narrower and more positive type. In quirers of this school not unfrequently attach an exaggerated value to physiological research. They imagine that it may not only illuminate conscious nees but supersede it, and in the end afford an ade quate explanation. the only explanation that can be given, of mental facts and processes. They fall into the mistake of supposing that when they have illustrated in detail the familiar proposi tion that the brain, or rather the nervous system is the organ of the mind, they have explained the mystery of thought. Hence the abundant and licentious use of physiological terms in describing mental facts, the constant and confusing employ ment of such phrases as " nerve currents," " nerve " waves," " nerve shocks," the volume and density of an emotion, the momentum and impact of an idea. Were such phrases employed simply as metaphors, though still open to criticism on the score of taste, there would indeed be less objection to their use. We have in com mon use a number of effective physical metaphors for describing moral facts, such as the term " mass" applied to a body of individuals. Used loosely to designate a large aggregate, the metaphor is appropriate enough. But if interpreted in the sense of an inert body, acted on from without, and moving in obedience to some blind force, it would convey a radically false conception. However united in feeling or conduct a crowd may be, it is made up of individuals, each endowed with reason and will. So in mental science, when physical terms are used metaphori cally, there is less ground for serious complaint. It is only when they are employed, con sciously or unconsciously, for the purpose of confounding two provinces of inquiry essentially distinct, that the use, or, rather, the abuse of physiological terms is fairly exposed to the charge of being unscientific. Professor TvatiaLL's clear discrimination of the two pro vinces emphatically condemns all such confusion of thought and language. It is due to Mr. J. S. MILL to say that ho is never guilty of this inexact and misleading use of terms. He always deeribes mental facts in psychological terms, and physical facts in physical terms, and this, of course, is the only really scientific method. The reverse of this process, however plausibly dis guised, is in reality absurd. It would be quite as rational to talk of dissect ing an emotion, or preserving an idea in spirits, as to talk of consciously associating molecular currents, feeling the logical connexion between two nerve shocks, or perceiving the elec tric discharge from contiguous ganglionic centres. Professor TYNDALL appropriately closed his in stinctive distinction between the two great de partments of human inquiry, and his exposition of the little light they threw upon each other, by pointing out the limits of our knowledge and the lessons it teaches. " The problem of the " connexion of body and soul is as in " soluble in its modern form as it was in " the pre-scientific ages. " The attempted explanation may change from age to age, but the great facts of thought and life, the realities of nature and the supernatural, are as fresh and prolific in their manifestation, as inscrutable in their depths, as of old. The limits of our know ledge feelingly instruct us what we are. Even scientific ignorance is not simply humiliating. ' The mystery is not without its uses. It ' certainly may be made a power in the human soul ; but it is a power which has feeling, not knowledge, for its base. It may be, and will ' be, and we hope is turned to account, both :in ' steadying and strengthening the intellect, and ' in rescuing man from that littleness to which, in the struggle for existence, or for precedence in the world, he is continually prone." THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1868. COMMERCIAL MORALITY. A PARLIAMENTARY return was published this morning which is nob very flattering to the metropolitan shopkeeper. It is a " black list" of the number of persons in the metro politan parishes convicted during tie six months between July, 1887, and January, 1868, of practically defrauding either themselves or their customers, the latter being the greatest suf ferers, by the use of false weights and measures. The return contains a list of noless than 666 offenders of this kind, and the practice, according to this statement, seems to have been most rife in the dis tricts of Westminster, Deptford, Lewisham, and Woolwich. On the other hand it would seem that the Paddington, Hanover-square, and some of the suburban divisions, have either enjoyed complete immunity from offences of this kind, or have not the advantage of a zealous police service for their detection. In the return for the division of St. Marylebone, which had thirty-four offenders, the names are entirely suppressed, on the ground that many of the offenders were not proved to have had a fraudulent intention. Tnß COLONIAL. EPISCOPATE.—A correspondent of the Zeus calla attention to some facts connected with the present state of the colonial eepipsecoooppaate. About the middle of last year, be says, Dr. Dougall resigned the bishopric of Labuan, and some time attar wee ap pointed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster to the vicarage of Godmanthestes. Re memo' has b een and the diocese has long been without an head. Last year the Bishop of - Mauritius came to resigne d his see, and was appointed to the arcbdeaoonry of uf folk and the rectory of Thwaite. Nothing is said aboat his successor, and that diocese, tee, is without episcopal nibs. So mei months ago the Bishop of Bom bay came to England, and resigned his see. It is said that it has been offered to the Dean of Capetown, but there has been no official confirmation of the fact. Two years ago the see of Dunedin, New Zealand, wa s consti tuted, and a bishop consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral, but he has not yet gone to see his new diocese. The bishopric of New Zealand is vacant, and as there is no endowment there may be some difficulty in filling it up. Bishop Selwyn, who has gone out, will , however, probably make the necessary arrangements. The bishopric of New Westminster, which was announced two years ago as in course of formation out of the diocese of British Colombia, and for which Mr. Poetlethwaite gave up a Yorkshire living on the understanding that he was to be consecrated forthwith t seems to have come to nothing, and the bishop nominate is still only a priest. For the see of Grafton and Armidale, New South Wales, vacant by the lamented death of Dr. Sawyer, no steps appear to be taken to pro vide a new bishop. LeeoM7 AND PROPINTY Taff .—The net amount of income and property to for the year ending the 6th of April, 1867, amounted to 6,032,6631. in England and Wake, and 500,2141. in Scotland. Of the former 131101, 3,818,721/. is collected under Schedules A, B D, and E, ' on assessment by the Commiasioners for General 457,3301. under Schedules D and E, on 11111011101287:L x ;g11; Commissioners for Special Purpoeee; 642,0861. on dill den& on public annuities, on interest on Exchequer bonds, and on dividends payable out of the revenue of any foreign state; and 214,4261. under Schedule E on offices and pensions assessed by the Commissioners of ants. The total of income and property tax in Pr e iL art cr for the same year amounted to 390,036/. of which 214,2731. is due under Schedule A, 18,6031. unde r Schedule B, 18,688/. under Schedule C 117,6631. under Schedule D, and 21,1091. under Schedule E. OU R CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) IMILSTIMILL The Trmes has not for some time mot with a more admirable sample of the truly provincial mind than is to be found in the address of Lord John Manners to the electors of North Leicestershire. It is a perfect study, and the effect is heightened by the unoonsciousness of the author that he is in any way amusing. It is scarcely necessary, however, to say that the noble lord has no more intention of being droll than Don Quixote. The whole of his address is en exaltation of the great deeds performed by the ministry of which he le a member—deeds which would have been still greater bad not unthinking and violent men interfered to limit the usefulness of Mr. Disraeli's administration. Having taken credit for the suppression of Fenianism, ho rapidly piles up the memorials of ministerial suocesoes, in utter forgetfulness of the fact that the present government have only completed what either their predecessors, or seceded members of their own cabinet, had begun. ROME ON RITUALISM. ENGLISH clergymen of the Ritualist persuasion would do well to read an article on " Anglican " Sacerdotalism" in the new number of the Month, a very able and interesting Roman Catholic maga zine. The following passage will suffice to indi cate the point of view from which the real Roman Catholic priest contemplates the pretensions of his sham Anglo-Catholic brother. After demolishing the claim of the Anglican " priest" to the " ewer " dotal character," as conferred by his " Orders," the writer proceeds thus : Considerations such as these may not be enough, in the teeth of positive evidence, to settle the question of which we are speaking. We are only claiming for them a certain moral weight on the minds even of thoughtful Anglicans themselves. Such persons have to satisfy themselves in some way or other of the validity of their so-called " Orders," denied by the whole world except themselves, and the first aspect of the question is certainly, to say the /east, very doubtful. This is enough—for no one has a right to act in doubt in such a matter. But we should be glad to know that anyone in such a position had recog nised its doubtfulness, and had set himself manfully and prayerfully to seek for satisfaction in inquiry. We fear that not one " advanced " clergyman in twenty—not one in twenty of those who talk so freely in their pulpits theta the Sacrifice, and the sacerdotal power of absolution, who clothe themselves in the vestments of the old English catholic church and imitate her ritual, who assume all over the country not only the power of order, but that of jurisdiction also—has ever fairly sounded the depths of the controversy. These clergymen must know that their life is something very like a mockery if they are not real priests, and that those who say they are not such are more numerous, and of much greater authority, than those who say they are. Practically, their own " church" speaks a very dubious language at the best, and their own bishops, as a body, are not more satisfactory . Probably we are not doing them injustice if we say that they allow mMINMpiI themselves to rest on the diets of one or two of their own party—men, it may be, to whom they have been ac customed to look with reverence, but of whom it eon hard:) be denied that they are very interested witnesses in this matter, sad that they hare, moreover, more that cone been convicted of groin mistakes beak in theology and in history. • • Here is another complimentary end consoling passage for the well-meaning.but weak Ritualistic Ang' lean : In the course of the last year an attempt was made by certain persons belonging to the Establishment in Eng land to organise a kind of intercominunion between their own religious body and the Protestant communities in Sweden and Denmark. A distinguished American prelate, who was afterwards, we think, present at the Pan-Anglican Synod, actually communicated with the Lutheran Archbishop of Upside. This movement towards • larger measure of fraternisation with Protestant bodies —though by no means unprecedented in the Establish ment—gave great alarm to the High Church party, who were just at the same time endeavouring to obtain some sort of recognition from the Eastern Churches. Dr. Pusey —who seems to bo for ever passing from the use of Protestant arguments against Catholics to that of Catholic arguments against Protestants—wrote strongly against the proposed union, and availed him self, among other controversial weapons, of the probable non-existence of a real priesthood among the Swedes as • reason for inferring that they had no apostolical succession as to their bishops. Ho reasoned very legitimately—though not without evident misgiving that where there were no priests there oould be no bishops, and that the Swedish forms wore insufficient for making priests. Now, we have to remark on the one hand, as indeed was hinted at the time, that the very tame argument applies with great force against the Anglican succession, and on the other hand, that the de fence of the latter, as set forth by Dr. Forbes and Mr. Bailey, leaves this most material part of the Anglican position altogether unprotected. As far as these writers are concerned, it is open to a candid Anglican, whose mind has been awakened to the importance of the question now before UN to say to himself that even if everything they have said be true there may yet not be at the pre sent moment, and there may not have been for two cen turies and • half, either bishop or priest in the Anglican establishment. If such a person were to go on to inquire into the question thus raised, he would find himself in presence of perhaps the very gravest difficulty of all those that beset his position. Dr. Forbes professes to have written his book with the active assistance of Dr. Pussy, and Mr. Bailey can hardly be unaware that the objection at which we have now hinted would be one of the very first to occur either to a Catholic controversialist or to a reflecting and well-informed Anglican. We may, there fore, fairly ask how it is that both these gentlemen have left this extremely weak point altogether unprotected ? As long as this difficulty remains, it is simple nonsense to talk triumphantly of the absolutely indubitable validity of the Anglican ordinations ; and the writers who defend these last and yet leave this question nnhandled, are certainly no true friends to the many simple souls who may be led by their assumption of confidence to think the matter closed against all further inquiry. As far as we understand Dr. Pusey's objections to the Swedish ordinations, there is no ground of com plaint urged against them, by him, which does not exist, in principle, in the case of the Anglican ordinations, and he has been perhaps forced by the con sciousness of his own position to forbear from urging against the Swedes the most important and crushing of all the arguments that can be brought against persons in such a position. This argument is to be found in the careful exclusion from all formularies and authoritative definitions of all mention of that which is the very essence of the priestly office—the power to offer the adorable sacrifice of the altar. We called attention a few months ago, in noticing Canon Estcourt's late pamphlet, to the entire elimination of the doctrine of the sacrifice from the communion office in even the fret "Book" of Edward VI., much more Catholic as that book was than the present " Prayer-book." The same remark applies to the Anglican ordinal, in which the sacrifice and the power to offer it are not once mentioned or alluded to. If Dr. Pusey could have urged this charge against the Swedes, he would have done more, from • catholic point of view, to demolish any claim they may set up to the possession of a true priesthood, than he has done by what he has said ; but vox faueilnia lideeit, he knew too well the miseries of his own communion to venture so far. The full argument against the Anglican ordinations which is to be drawn from the fact to which we are now alluding is too long to be introduced into our present article, and we hope soon to return to it. It is enough for the moment to have pointed out that the defenders of the so-called English " priesthood " have left unguarded the very centre of their own position, and that if we were to grant every single argument adduced by Dr. Forbes and Mr. Bailey, the chief difficulties of their position would remain altogether unsolved. The sad and simple truth is, that while the Anglican Ritualists are regarded with indulgent commiseration at Rome, and even with a certain sympathy, as more or less involuntary dupes, their performances are considered as private theatricals. DIRELT LOOOKOTION IN LONDON. The Daily Neves take* it for granted that the next session of parliament will witness a renewal of the effor to introduce tramways into London, and thinks it curious that this improved method of locomotion bas never yet been naturalised in the metropolis. The enter prise has been tried between Salford and Pendleton with complete SUWON ; and the London General Omnibus Com pany would probably find that tramways, for at least • portion of their traffic, would make a difference in their expenditure almost equal to • dividend on their capital. The difficulty is to make a line which would not interfere with the other traffic of the streets ; and the Daily Yews thinks that is a difficulty which may be overcome. The plan suggested by Mr. Herbert Bright is an improvement on the present system, although it may not be the boat discoverable. LORD KAYO AB VICEROY OV mins. The Post thinks there is no reason why Lord Mayo, with his high rank, unblemished character, and long parliamen tary and ofßcial experience, should not prove himself as good a governor-general as many of his predecessors, whether of whig or tory political connection. Those who appoint him must best know his capacity, and brilliant parliamentary talents are neither a security nor indispen sable for a good appointment. HOW TO KEMP THE WORLD WIRT. Annie Rogers lived an abandooed life, and in her de spair plunged into the London Dock, but was rescued. The magistrate before whom she was charged with that offence admonished her in these words : "If you have any good feeling you will load a new life after your nar row escape." Whatever effect this admonition may have upon Annie Rogers, it puzzles the TelegrapA, which cannot discover what is the next step she must take towards liv ing the better life. Although women of her class are not irreclaimable, still the TelegrapA humbly ventures to ob serve that religion and love " are the only forces that keep the world sweet," but reluctantly confesses its ignorance of the methods by which they are to be made immediately applicable to such a case as that of Annie Rogers. LIABILITY YOE =PI= WATER SUPPLY. The Star concurs with Mr. Simon in the necessity for making Water Companies legally responsible for the effects produced by impurities In the supply. The ascer tained rules of sanitary science are sufficiently plain and important to be now recognised in our jurisprudence, and it would be a wise change to make those who are bound to protect the public health responsible in purse and per son for wilfully endangering it. NATIONAL That the national expenditure for the currcut financial year will considerably exceed that of the year 1866-67, ie, says the Herald, a fact which admits of no dispute ; but the excess of expenditure out of which " Mr. Gladstone ani his subordinates" try to make political capital is due in part to the necessity of repairing their 'aches, and in part to the new demands made upon the government, the grant of no one of which either Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Childers ventured to contest. ANOTHER APPARENT QUALM OF CONSCIENCE. — The following appeared under the head " Credit Fonder," in the Times of this morning :—" Sir ' —I was a director of the company, but re dg: my seat at the board, July, ISO. lam quite prepared, on my return to town, the end of next month, to repay any sum I received in equitably and am not morally entitled to retain.—l am, air, your obedient servant, Joax WESTWOHLAND.—HoteI de Ruske, Frankfort-on-the-Main, August 26." TEE EAST KENT FICTICIOES ELECTION ADDRESS. —Mr. Loftus Leigh Pemberton has addressed to the Times a letter apparently designed to palliate his authorship of the "sham address" to the East Kent electors purport ing to emanate from Sir John Croft. Mr. Pemberton says he has never taken the least trouble to conceal the authorship. After remarking that he bad not attempted any justification on the intrinsic merits of the question, he proceeds to excuse his conduct on the (a quoyete ground, observing that his reason for refusing any apology to Sir John Croft was founded on his own behaviour during the last elec tion to his brother, who was not only his relative and near neighbour but one of his moat intimate friends ; and that he had publicly charged the chairman of the liberal committee with being the author of one of the most scur rilous squibs issued against his brother during the last election, and this charge he bad in no way met. " Until he does so," Mr. Pemberton adds," I am content that the Eng public should think me no better than he can be. VISCOUNT CANTLEEossE ON THE ABBROELE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. The Mor,mig ihrt publishes a letter from Lord Custlerosee, one of the survivors of the Abergele accident, relating to one copied from the Bersanighant Past, and containing statements which his lordship considers calculated to cause the greatest pain to the relatives and friend' of those who perished. The writer of the letter complained of stated that he was on the spot in about 10 minutes, and added, "From what I saw and heard I am thoroughly eonvinced that everyone might have escaped if the doors had not been locked." His lordship says :—" I was one of the tint to jump out; indeed, I did so before the shock of the collision was over, yet in that moment of time the three that passenger carriages were wrapped in a flame of fire, which, in fact, swept through them, and rendered any e tp4oach to them impossible. No human power could have saved any of the un fortunate su ff erers. I think, therefore, in the face of such an awful calamity individuals should religiously ab stain from writing sensational lettere, only cakulated to har row the feelings of those who are now, alas ! mourning the lose, under such awful circumstances, of relatives and friends. The writer who was on the ground ten minutes after the accident might just as wel4 for any knowledge he could have of the 'Wily of the escape of any pas sengers who perishe have come ten days later. But what chiefly induces me to trouble you is the: follow ing paragraph, in the same letter Lord Castle roses a governess, as she was coming up the bank, heard a lady say, ' For God's sake, let us out' before the fire came to her.' What ha ed was this—My children's governess heard a gent lema n ask the guard for a key to open the door of one of the London carriages, which were never touched by the flames. I do not say this with the view of relieving the company from any responsibility they may have incurred, as I have sufficient ground for knowing that some of the London carriages were locked on both sides." fingorLAß Ifrrsonze PHENOMENON.—On the 17th inst., about nine at night , an extraordinary meteoric whirlwind appeared between Balling° and Ivrea, in Italy. In its passage it spread desolation around, devastating houses and fields, and uprooting the largest trees. Hap pily there is no loss of life to deplore. The road from easemetta to Burolo was covered over an extent of 400 metres with old trees from the fields. At that spot stood a dwelling house, the roof of which was carried off and the walls of the upper storey knocked down. A carriage in the court-yard was carried outside, but smashed to pieces. This phenomenon, observed by many persons, was in the form of an immense cone, of a dark grey colour, with a luminous base. From its upper part issued a smoke similar to that of a locomotive. The whole was about 10 metres in width, and moved at about three metres from the ground, making a sharp noise. It twisted about in various directions and advanced spirally. A 'tumuli PIT= TEE liznarir.—The popula bon in Russia are at this moment being greatly excited by the preaching of an old Muscovite peasant named Alexis Alexandrovitc.h, who, after • seclusion of several years, appeared in the district of Samara, declaring him self a prophet. He is now going from place to place announcing the approaching destruction of the Crescent, and the substitutio n of the Greek Cross for it on the dome of St. Sophia at Constantinople. The Russian govern ment allows every liberty of action and language to this popular agitator, who besides does not attack the laws or the administration in any way ; his doctrines are those of the old Russian party. A series of shocks of earthquake aro reported to have occurred at Time, in Morocco. The first was felt at Bin the morning, lasted about ten seconds, and was from east to wed; the second, in the same direction, was at ten, for about Ave; and • third of a similar duration at bin the evening front south to north. The walls of several hovese wave damaged. FQ,REIGN NEWS. tTHIS DAY.) FRANOB AND BELDIUM. Tile Journal des Debate of to-day thus court tents on the tpeciaL mission of M. de la Gur-rouni.'re to Belgium : According to the if,imerial Dipletnalltss, the mission of M. de la Oarounii.se has for its object t•, induce the government and people of Belgium to duly appreciate the ,ituation, and to point out, as its logical consequence, the oppoitunences of a close friendship, not with the objet of irritating any other Power but to give new guarantees to the consolidation of the peace of the world. This is rornpon.s, but, it must be confessed, rather vague. We can well conceive an alliance proposed and accepted for a definite purpose, but politically speaking, what is a pro posal for close friendship put point blank in this way? If you will be Damon for me I will be Pythiis for you ? What meaning can this have? M. de la Gue'ronnii. , re has, we suppose, gone to Brussels with the title of "Ambassador of Friendship." It is the first mission of its kind. This platonic ambassador is, according to the Mireerial„ 13 im press on the Belgians that the friendship of Franca has become " the aegis of their liberty and independenc a," and that they are not to listen to the organs of the Prussian cabinet, which are doing all they can to sow distrust be tween Belgium and France. If the organs of the Friss elan Cabinet are playing this game, it must be confessed that they are very much assisted by the officious journals here. The Petrie, for example, omits no opportunity of being offensive to Belgium. And the Pays, the moment it has a little Leisure, seizes its arms and enters upon a campaign for the purpose of annexing it. The articles of both these journals would form a pleasant commentary on the declara tion of love which M. de la Guirtonniare is commissioned to make to Belgium, and we hope that this diplomatist will not fail to bring back a complete collection of them in hie carpet bag. (1111017011 110/12 . 11 LOSO(CT.) SPAIN. MADRID, Acrousr 27. The Prefect of hf slags has ordered arrivals from Gibraltar to be subjected to quarantine. The session of the Cortes will probably open on the 10th October. AMERICA. COLOUR EQUALITY IN THE STATES. The royal mail steamship Russia, from New York on the 19th, arrived at Queenstown at 3.10 a.m. to-day, with 40 cabin passengers and 76,000 dole. in specie. She landed 86 sacks of mails, and proceeded at 3.20 a.m. for Liverpool. All well. NEW YORK, Auousr 18, Noov. It is reported that the governors of several southern states have made a requisition to the Secretary of War for arms for the militia. General Schofield, however, has refused to furnish them until Congress shall have legis lated more definitely on the subject. It is said that the governors are preparing an appeal to Congress. The House of Representatives of South Carolina has passed a bill prohibiting any distinction on account of colour in hotels or public conveyances being made for the future. The treasury of that state is empty. Enthusiastic, republican, and democratic mass meetings are being held in reference to the presi dential election throughout the country. Telegrams from Jamaica (via Havannah) state the authorities of Jamaica propose to obtain a loan from Great Britain for the completion of the works now in progress. Mexican advices report that the expedition sent out by.Tnarez for the suppression of the insurrec tion at Alvavada has been unsuccessful. An out break against Juarez is apprehended at Vera Cruz. NEW YORK, Avourr 19, Nom Large and enthusiastic republican meetings are being held at Atalanta, in Georgia. Democratic meetings held in North and South Carolina are largely attended by negroes. The World states that the recent reports of agents of the Freedmen's Bureau:of Louisiana con tradict the statements made by Governor War mouth in reference to the assassination of union men. It is reported that Rosencranz, the new Mi nister of the United States to Mexico, will urge Juarez in favour of annexation. FENIAN DEMONSTRATION IN CANADA. THE VOLIJNTEERS HELD IN READINESS. NEW YORK, Avoca 18, Noon. An assembly of Fenian at Ardenabury is spoken of. The Canadian authorities have called upon the volunteer corps to hold themselves in readiness for any emergency. AuotiT 19. The Canadian authorities continue to take precautionary measures against Fenian raids. OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH CONSUL THREATENED BOMBARDMENT OF PORT • AU-PRINCE BY A BRITISH MAN-OF WAR. NEW YORK, A1701313T 18, Noov. According to intelligence from Hayti, SaWave had imprisoned the Prussian Consul, and also threatened the life of the British Consul, where upon her Majesty's ship Favourite made pre parations to bombard Port-au-Prince. Arourrr 19. News from Port-au-Prince of the 10th instant indicates that the revolution is likely to succeed. Salnave was preparing for flight. His family had been captured by the Cacos rebels. ENGLISH TRIMS IN BIICSSELS. A clever and daring robbery was committed last Tuesday afternoon by English thieves in the shop of X. Coutel, a Brasses jeweller. M. Coutel received family diamonds of the value of 8001. in order to set them as a necklace. The necklace, having been finished, was placed in the shop-window for a few days on show. It was handsome and attracted notice, as well-set diamonds do. On Tuesday a group of English, travellers apparently, and respectably dressed, stopped before M. Canters window, very much interested in the less costly jewellery exhibited, and utterly regardless of the diamond necklace. The group consisted of three men and three women. The former entered the shop, and asked to see some trinkets. After a good deal of huckstering, they bought one. In the meantime the three ladies entered the shop, and ranged themselves near the window, the one covering the others, but all deeply interested in the purchase that was being made by the gentlemen. They ope rated so effectually, however, that the slip board of the show window ran in its groove without the least noise, the diamond necklace was adroitly removed and concealed under a shawl. The group then quietly left the shop. It was only when M. Coutel went to replace the trinkets be had removed to show his English customers that he became aware of the robbery. He went to the door, ran down Rue de la Madeleine, but the thieves were nowhere to be seen. Madame Victor Hugo died yesterday morning at Brussels, of an apoplectic attack. Her illustrious hus band and some of her children were with her at the time. She was the sister of M. Paul Foucher, a well known French journalist. M. Victor Pradier, 26 years of age, a cloth manufacturer at Seamlens (Tarn), was waking in the streets of Toulouse three evenings back with some friends whom be bad come to visit, when he was suddenly stabbed in the right breast by an individual who bad followed him. The assailant was arrested by some soldiers after a violent struggle and conveyed to prison. He has been recognised as a liberated convict named Pierre, 21 years of age, who has since declared that he Ina mis taken his victim for a police-agent, against whom he had vowed vengeance. He enty discovered his error after the blow had been struck. M. Pallier lie, in a precarious state. OUR Trgii: (ram OUR OWN 00SURRPONDENT.) TIitNiDAY I.:VENTWI War rumours are again exciting alarm, and uavn affected the Bourse. The effect of Itaadrilart article in the Cobstitutiortnel, which has lr.en su r . mulled Laikrrmus, is neutralised by lb.. reiterated war proclamations of M. Paul a,• newly-decorated) in the I'ay*. It is 'intl.— I !,y the frau that the weekly political review in terda)'s Monitrur du Soir does not strik.• t Iv. p a :ill note which it has for some time been wont to krp upon, and this silence, it says, can only Fetgln-st the uncertainty caused by the conflict betwomi the Pays and Corisfitationnri. The /),604 print, Berlin letter, stating that, although despatOssi from the Prussian embassy in Paris reprosenl th.. 'Emperor as most pacifically inclined, inforni.ition reaching the Prussian government from oth, d • : sources does not tally with lhe official corunetin. cations ; and that the staff officers in the Cktion t camp talk openly of war as at hand. Althou g h the Prussian government does not take all th ,, s officers ray for gospel, and knows well enough that a camp is not a congress, it cannot overhs.l: t:,.. symptom, and feels considerable uneasinoss it. There was a report at the Hour,. ,1, 4 1. the Emperor was unwell ; but in all the only foundation for it was that bii .1..1, ,rt.,r. for the Chalons camp, announced fur 8:11.1•1. August 30, is put off till September :2 TL., Count and Countess Oirgenti are Fontainebleau on Saturday. The physiognomy of the Reuxie ws, t..' ,:',• different from yesterday. It was found t: were no serious takers for the Rent.. ,t tl. • p n to which it had been screwed up by M. 16 4 1 ) ,... ) able mancenvres. Under the pressure of .•1... t ) realise profits, it fell 40c. for cash; and 3: f•r account, closing at the lowest prices of th, .1 ty 70fr. 80c., and 70fr. 75c. Cridit Fonci r f.. 1! 10fr., and fifobilier lfr. 23e. Italian, iu !...11 there is much speculation, rose 121 c. It was rumoured this afternoon that Ow ',;•••• • had been seized. That is not true, but at :1 k in order was issued withdrawing the porml3,len it has hitherto enjoyed to be sold in the str•rt;. I see nothing in the new number to aPcmint for this severity, unless, perhaps, an article by ',eau Mbach in praise of men who, like General Cavaig nac, " keep their oaths" and leave power poor and with clean hands ; and extolling the " young; rebel Cavaignsc" as a model of the virtue la Mt wanting at the present time. The Figaro by no means carries on a systematie opposition to government. Its queer editor, M. de Villemessant, lets his numerous staff write pretty much as they like, and only a few days yr) one of them blamed the conduct of young Cavaig nac severely. M. Pittard is fast making it a gm.- ral rule to exercise the arbitrary power which the law gives him in such a way as to prohibit the sale in the streets and railway stations of any opp,,,i tion papers except two or three old estabh.li ones, such as the Sie*Tle and Temps. The director of the Maritime Exhibition At Havre, having read in the PeGI Figure that the concern had been declared bankrupt, came to Paris immediately, and commenced a progoontion for libel against the journal. It is suggested that the bankruptcy of M. Annan, the deputy for Bordeaux, may very po.eihly le superseded. He was made a bankrupt by al,' holder of a protested bill for l,2ottir. only, ant about which, according to report, there some mistake. It is unfortunate, indeed, for a gro,it house that such a mistake should have ovourrod. An unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday to lay down the great metallic tube called a " syphon," destined to unite the great main drains on the right and left banks of the Seine. At the• moment when the signal was given, a nunibor of boxes laden with iron, which were plaved on the syphon to sink it, slipped off and wont to the bottom. M. Gouin, the manufacturer of the enormous tube, who was standing on it at the• time, slipped off, and got an unexpected cold bath in the Seine. He was immediately rescii.al, but sprained a foot on coming ashore. This accident, taken in connexion with the rupture of the liar at Nettilly, is very unfortuate. The navigation the Seine in Paris will be suspended for so ur • I time. An explanation offered by the semi-offici,d of the reason why the public is rigorously ex eluded from the War-office is by no means cal. ii lated to dispel whatever uneasy suspicions the news originally excited. The order, we are told, is not a new one, but only the revival of an old prohibition which had fallen into desuetude. Tho,c who believe that Marshal Niel has some terrible secrets to conceal within the precincts of his ministry will not be much reassured by this way of putting the use. The Emperor and Prince Metternich visite! on Monday Count de Gott!, who still remains at the Pavilion Sully, which forms part of the palace. Later in the day the count and some of the guests, among whom were the Prince de Metternich and the Duchess de Mala koff, went on a rural excursion in chars-a-baucs to Thoinery, celebrated for the best description of trained vines known as the cliental, de Fontainebleau. The Emperor was presented with a basket of grapes, several bunches of which weighed each four pounds. A suit brought by the jeweller Harry Em payment against Colonel the Marquis de °stifle.. to obtain for articles supplied, w as heard on Wednesday at the civil tribunal of the Seine. The tradomanappeari to have had two accounts open with the martuis : one amounting to 2,381 fr., the sum claimed in the preseut action, for goods furnished to Madame de ; and the other, for over 60,000 fr. for articles not supplied to the defendant's wife, and which, as the plaintiff's advocate remarked, the jeweller had included in a second bill, in conformity with the practice of his trade, which eNiuns great tact and much discretion on certain delicate points. The larger account had been settled, but the marquis bad refused payment of the 2,381 fr., the bill for which had been subsequently presented, believing that the forms s had been comprised in the sum of 60,000 fr. g i discharge in full of the other claim. The articles were, however, shown to be not the saint as those eX down in the account paid, and a verdict was consequently govea for the plaintiff, with costa.—Grthgeaae. THE VINTAGE DI FRANCE. —The Courri,r Sajwe-et-Loiee sap :—" According to the infonnation which we receive the vintage will commence throughout the Chalons district towards the 10 th of Septemb er . The weather has been variable and somewhat interfered with the crop, but generally the produce will be greater thin usual ; it will be so likewise in the COte-d'Or, the Micen naia, the Rhine, and the Beaujnlais. A fair vintag e will be given in the Yonne, the Marne, Haute-Seise, Jun. Drfte, and Ardiche; but in Provence and Lower league doe the yield will not surpass half an ordinary ono. LM rain and Alsace promise a magnificent crop, but that in the Charente@ will be deficient. In the Bordelais the growers are are satisfied, although they do not anticipate nil exceptionally large amount. On the whole, the year will be reckoned among the good one s, because there Will be at the same time quality and quantity, and, in certain districts, even abundance. ACCIDENT AT CHELSEA PIER. —Yesterday, 311.- Humphrey! held an inquest at the Town of Rainat,ilw Tavern, Wawng, respe cting the death of Mr. Joseph Baum, 34 years. Mr. N. Baum, 58, Lombani-strect , bullion -dealer, said that the deceased was his brother. He was a naturalist. In conse9uence of his being an in valid his family looked after him very carefully. Ne .. 1 !a not know anything about the occurrence which ended in his death. Mr. Thomas Prince, 73, Narrow-street. Chelsea, said that on Friday evening, at 6 o'clock , t he de ceased came to see him. They had a long conversation on the dummy barge of Chelsea pier, and whilst decearl was talking be leant against one of the chains of the p aw ier. He kept swinging backwards and forwards, and the h of the chain suddenly slipped oat, and he fell in t o the water. The tide carried - him down the river. A water fi t man proved the recovery of the body of thedecened returned as floated down the river, off ShadweU. 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