The Express. — London, England, 1862-07-31 00:00:00

HARMONIUMS. —NEW MODEL. csAium UAL; sad WOOD. 101, Issuitatreet Elie erlireoo. TO 002.126POND1DITS. dvertlaementa intended for " lite ft:prime Loudon Evening Paper. mutt be et the olio% 10, goeywrieetzeet, by Two o clock on the day of petditatton. TEO Itrognno, TH E B M AL M EST . NCE AOF COMFORT:-0M AMERICAN COBBIN.MeaIeu SAW% Beekotono Itra Young, lglasOUTer.—LA CONTILABANDINTA- Pena Nona and Senor More—kad DEAF Al A PO T. Mr. Compton. FRlNciourk Tim RYMER. ERZ RENDEZVOUS.—KING HENRY Tali LOUTH. Morn. Multi Rasa, Jordan. Potter. Raymond. J. P. Cathcart. ivarett. Garden. and Meadows : Yrs. Charles Kean and Mimeo Ctiaposaa—Mid MIMI HAMLIN& BT. JAIIIBni THIS EvEtuno. THE C tPTAIN 07 THE WATCH. Mr. George Vining and Ulan Tooter.-70/tt T WINES. Mr. George Vining anti Idnot &Mine Camp. —ENDYIIIO`4. Mesdames Herbert, R. Rauoe, and C.Bt. Cars—And CINDER TUE HOSE. BRITANNIA, Tun Rymer'''. THE BLUE DWARF. Mews. J. Reynolds, Drummond, Blewood ; Mrs. It Yarnold.-B.l.bibk, by Mr. sydoey. Mr..l. Plumpton , sod as . George .— THE HARVIST STORAL —And A THOUSAND NAPOLWSL—Oosonsinos AS 6e. TIIIV EN - INTIM MAZEPIA.-After which SCNNES IN TER CI Rt'LE. Ydlle, Iheet.O.—To conclude with. cootie BALLOT In which the Nimes Gunnies will appear.—Colassemot at 7. NIGH WATER AT LUNDOS BAIDOL Tins DAT —Diablo& 411. 401 a. .... Allosses. 511. Os. TO-MORROW—MOISIag. 5b 10•..... Attabocs, fb. 37n. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 31. THE House of Commons decided yesterday that the Union Relief Aid Bill of the Government should be recommitted, in order that • clause might be introduced enabling the guardians in the distressed districts to borrow money on the secu rity of the rates. We are not in the least sur prised at this decision, and can only regret that the necessity of making • formal appeal to the House on the subject should have been permitted to arise. It was naturally expected, from the terms of Mr. ViLmeas' speech on the second read ing of the Bill, that the Government would have voluntarily introduced the alternative of • loan, and if so, the time that has been spent in fighting for the principle might have been usefully em ployed in discussing the details of union loans. The more the measure of the Government has been discussed the more clearly has it appeared that a rate-in-aid, however excellent in principle, is ill adapted to meet the severe practical exigencies of the crisis. Unfortunately, where help is most needed a rate-in-aid is least capable of being worked. It would almost of necessity press most , severely on the very districts where the distress is greatest; and could hardly be worked at all in those districts without pauperizing large classes of comparatively humble ratepayers. Nor are the objections to a rate-in-aid on this ground at all removed by the altered condition of its applica tion introduced by Mr. VILLILBS in Committee. Instead of the first provision, which gave the pariah a claim on the union for relief where the expenditure exceeded by two-thirds the average of the three previous years, the right hon. gentle man proposed "a cut-iron rale," making the claim for relief in all cases to depend on the rates having risen to five shillings in the pound. Mr. COBDEN showed very clearly in the case of the Rochdale Union how such a proposal would work. " The Poor Rates there in 1861 were Is. Id. in " the pound. It was estimated in the account " before the House that in 1862-3 they would be " ls. 81d. Well, it was now proposed that the " Rochdale Union should have no assistance till " its rates had mounted from ls. 83d. to ss. in " the pound. It must, therefore, raise an increase " of 31,000 t. by additional rates upon its amount " of rateable property before it could come upon " the county. He had a letter from the Tree " surer of the Rochdale Relief Fund, in which " the writer stated that there were 85 mills within " a radius of one mile from the centre of that " town, 36 of which were closed, and he was of " opinion that in another month 60 mills out of " the whole 85 would be obliged to atop. He "added that the subscriptions were exhausted, " and he dared not attempt to say how the winter " was to be got through—that the prospect was "appalling in the highest degree, and the Poor " Law Board refused substantial aid." In such a case as this it is clear that • large proportion of the ratepayers in the union would be pauperized before any relief whatever could be obtained from a rate-in-aid. The largest class of ratepayers in these great centres of industry con sists of factory clerks and foremen, small shop keepers, and skilled artisans. These classes suffer almost as much from the existing distress as the ordinary mill hands who are altogether thrown out of employment. But by the help of their own slender savings, and a little temporary assistance from others, they are striving under terrible hard ships and privations to keep themselves above the condition of paupers, and if their ordinary burdens are not artificially increased great numbers of them will in all likelihood succeed. To dis courage them in this noble effort, and, above all, to render success all but impossible by unwise legislation, would be a moral cala mity almost as great as the material distress that already afflicts these unhappy dis tricts. There can be no reasonable doubt, how ever, that in such cases • rate of five shillings in the pound would effect this. It is hard enough for this humble and suddenly impoverished class of ratepayers to have to meet a call two-thirds in excess of the ordinary demand. But if this de mand is multiplied fivefold at the very time when their ordinary means of support are so seriously reduced if not altogether withdrawn, their utmost efforts to tide over the terrible crisis will be una vailing. Multitudes who might otherwise have struggled on successfully would inevitably sink into the slough of pauperism. This is no doubt what would have happened at Rochdale under the provisions of the Government Bill as it stood. But it must be remembered that the Rochdale Union is by no means an exceptional instance. It is essentially in it main features the case of Lancashire at large. Mr. COBDEIN clearly pointed out yesterday the mistake on this head that per •vades not only the calculations of the Govern ment, but much of what is spoken and written on the subject—the mistake of supposing that the distress is confined to those on whom it imme diately falls, the operatives who are thrown out of employment, or to those towns in which the mills are actually closed. " The fallacy consisted " in supposing that, while that large quantity of " persons would be thrown out of employment, the " rest of the population of Lancashire would be " in their normal condition. But the prosperity " of the whole people depended on the prosperity " of the cotton industry—in fact the employment " of the whole population was like the works of " a clock, and if the main spring was broken the " whole works would be stopped. The people of " Lancashire would be distressed if the cotton " trade was stopped. The way to view the ques " tion was that every part of Lancashire was " engaged in the cotton trade. Some honourable " gentlemen talked of separating the mantifac- 1 " turing parts of Lancashire from the agricultural, " but those parts which were not engaged in the cotton trade were very small Indeed." From the statistics furnished by the Member for Rochdale it appears that the distressed unions already include nearly half of the whole rateable property of Lancashire, add that the remaining moiety is very far indeed from being purely agri cultural. It is asserted, indeed, that only about one-seventh of the whole rateable property of the county is purely agricultural. In the absence of any very recent returns it is difficult to test the precise value of such an assertion ; but if it is at all near the truth, it is clear that the conditions of an equitable and efficient rate-in-aid exist to a very limited extent in Lancashire. If the great towns, in which the distress prevails, were surrounded by rich rural parishes, containing a class of ratepayers comparatively unaffected by the calamity, no plan of relief could be more just in principle or effective in practice than that of a rate-in-aid. But when the centres of distress im poverish the surrounding districts, while the cen tres are at the same time so manyand the districts BO wide as to cover the greater part of the county, this scheme of relief is so ob viously insufficient to meet the emergency that it would be in the highest degree pedantic and mischievous to insist on it to the exclusion of every other. The obvious resource in such a case of wide-spread but essentially temporary distress is that of a loan. Cbe Court. BALMORAL, JULY 29. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, walked in the grounds yesterday. The Princesses Helena and Louise went out riding. The Prince of Wales left the Castle yesterday for Birk- The Viceroy of Egypt left Woolwich in his yacht yestor day for Greenbithe, to have the yacht's composer* adjusted previous to the departure of his Highness from England. Her Majesty the Queen and the Princesses and younger Princes will, upon their return from Scot land, proceed upon the Ist September abroad. Her Majesty will pay a strictly private visit to the King of the Belgians for two or three days, and will subsequently pass some weeks in seclusion at the Castle of Rheinhardtsbrunn, near Gotha, which her brother-in-law, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, has placed at her disposal. Her Majesty will travel in the strictest incognito, under the title of Duchess of Lancaster. The Prince of Wales will join her Majesty at Rheinhardtabrunn a few days after her arrival, and after spending some time with the Queen will proceed upon a visit to his Royal Highness's sister, the Crown Princess of Prussia. As naturally no festivities could take place upon that occasion, his Royal Highness's birthday, when he comes of age, will not be cele brated by the Royal Family, and his Royal High ness will remain abroad beyond that day with his sister and brother-in-law. His Highness Prince Lichtenstein has left Claridge's Hotel for Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Granard have left town for Culls Forbes, Longford. The Earl and Coantes.; of Hopetoutt have left Eaton•aquare, for Unit mat. Hopotoon House, Haddisgton shire. The Countess Solms has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from the Continent. Hie Excellency M. Rouher, Minister of Agricul lure, Commerce, and Public Work' of France, has left Claridge'e Hotel for Park. Viscount Marsham has left Long'e Hotel for Ireland. The Count and Countem de Flera have left the Clarendon Hotel foe the Continent. The Countess de Spaur has left Claridge's Hotel for Germany. Lord and Lady Poltimore have arrived at St. George's Hoiel. Leidy Churchill has left the St. George's Hotel. Lord Hastings has left Long's Hotel for Ireland. Lord Downs; has left Wilton-eresoent on a visit to Sir Joint and Lady Pollen at Redenbam, Haat% cue his way to Ireland. The Right Hon. Edward Horsmau, M.P., and Kra. Hangman lett town yesterday for Esthorpe Hall, Warwickshire. Sir John ftamsden has left town for his seat, Byrem, Yorkshire. Mr. Albert Wodiana, the Baron Atsel, and Mons. Pierre Atwell, have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Scotland. The Count and Countess de Talleyrand have arrived at the Clareodoo Hotel, from Paris. The Prince de Juinville has arrived at the Claren don Hotel from Tunbridge wells. The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the canonry of Canterbury Cathedral. vacant by the resigna tion of the Rev. Robert Moore, upon the Rev. John Thomas, D.C.L., vicar of All-hallows, Barking, and formerly of Trinity College, Oxford. Mr. Thomas graduated RA. in 1833, was exhibitioner of Wadham College, 1829 ; scholar of Trinity, 1830 ; Craven scholar, 1829 ; Latin verse prizeman, 1832; and Yunnan scholar. Was fellow sod tutor of the Durham University from 1836 to 1841, oommisaary of part of the archdeaconry of Richmond from 1847 to 1857, and has been examining and domestic chap lain to the archbishop for the last fourteen years. The rectory of Arthuret, near Longtown, Cum basked, bas become vacant by the death of the Rev. William Graham, M.A. The late Sir James Graham, Bart., M.P., who was the patron of the living, left directions by hie will that on the next avoidance of the benefice, which has now Ulm place, it should be conferred upon his second sou, the Rev. Mahas Reginald Graham, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and he will, therefore, be the new rector. The living is worth 1.2001. a year. MINISTERIAL WHITE BAIT DINSTER.—Her Ma jesty's Ministers proceeded down the river yesterday even ing, on board a Citizen eteamboat, which was gaily decorated with colours, and disembarked at the Trafalgar-stairs, Greenwich, at a quarter to seven o'clock, for the purpose of attending the annual white bait dinner at the Trafalgar ,Tavern. PARLIAMENTARY CHAROLS. —The standing orders' of the House of Commons, as revised by the select com mittee arpoioted last month, have been altered in some per timbre relating to private bills. The committee also report that they are strongly of opinion that • reduction in some of the fees of the house and other charges paid in respect of private bills may be made. and should take effect as early as possible; but they have abstained from suggesting altera tion lo the schedule of fees, from • conviction that it is desirable that it should be considered in conjunction with the scale of other parliamentary charges, and these did not come within the scope of the inquiry delegated to the com mittee. Among the fees paid to the house are, 5/. on the deposit of the petition, the bill, plan, or any other docu ment ; 5/. on the presentation of the petition for the bill ; 15!. on the first reading. 15!. on the second reading, 154 on the report from the committee, and 151. on the third read. iog. These are the lowest fees; they rise with the sum to be spent on the execution of the work authorised by the bill ;if that sum be 1,!i00,0001., me th 151. fee beemo es lsol. An inquiry into the su bject will doubtless be instituted next sciesion. ADDRESS To Ma. LLINO.—At a meeting of the directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce yester day. a sub-committee was appointed to prepare • congratu /story address to the Hoe. S. Wag, oil his return from India._ It is our painful duty (says the Dublin Evening Mein to annoence the seddea death of seethe,, probably the last, of our eminent Irish scholars. Professor O'Curry hes sot keg survived his fellow•bibourer, Jobe O'Donovan. , This wood sad event haves a blank in the ranks el Irish 1 archeologists which will not readily be up. Two each men as O'Donovsa sad O'Curry are not again likely to ap pear over the berme of Celtic literature. In transcribing sod celiatiog the Etrehow law manuscripts at. the British llnestun, and in the Bodies' Library, O'Deeovaa sod Merry worked together with a deekeleeee white pro voked the highest melte far waive Irish Inuning. OVarry's Lege work, lately published, redoubt overinzed his strength. Ile, like O'Donovan, leases • Mally, we believe wholly an provided far. Carsraa Pat aas.—Orrs Builmrita DAL —Ww. JOLT 30.—I41sairioos ea 10,663 ; ditto by swam lists% 1,196 ; total, 11, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY BVENING JULY 31, 1862. LATEST IN ThLLLUENCK. ITALY. • TRIM?, ilyr 30. The Chamber d Deputies has adopted Abe bill which concedes the canal for irrigation which is to be formal from the Po tc Chivas's; for the benefit of the country in the neighbourhood of Vercelli, Novara, Cwla, Lomellino, and Stamps. Garibaldi has left for Messina. The Official Gazette publishes the following note from the Swim Legation at Turin :--" A journal having published a Swim letter relative to a pre tended plot formed by . Boo Swim for surprising the town of Naples, the Envoy of the Helvetic Con federation has received official information, from which it results that the plot in question is purely imaginative." Notwithstanding the contradictions given, recent steps have been taken at Rome by France, Russia, and Prussia to induce the Pop to give up the tem poral power. Neither of those powers, however, indulge in any great hope of succeeding. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JOLT 30. An explosion of a powder magazine took place last night. The Chamber of Deputies has voted nearly all the chapters of the budget of 1862. The total of the expenditure in the budget amounts to 382,627,336 florins, exclusive of the subventions, guarantees of interest, and losses on exchange, amounting altogether, according to the government estimate, to 14,750,0009. Several chapters have been augmented in the budget voted by the Chamber. The service of the public debt, for instanoe, has been raised from 106,237,0006. to 112,666,3809., but the majority of the items have undergone reduc tion. The military expenditure, as proposed by the government, was 143,340,27711., but the Chamber has voted only 136,300,0006. The draught of the budget of 1863 presents a total of 396,527,1003., of which 115 millions are for the public debt and 127 millions for the army. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JOLT 30. The Chamber of Deputies pronounced yesterday against the opinion put forward by the Chamber of Peers, that the present session was only a continu ation of the preceding one ; and decided by a large majority that it would not deliberate on the bills transmitted to it by the upper chamber. The Cham ber of Deputies also reduced by 16,033 thalers the vote for the fund set apart by the government for the press, reserving to itself the right of suppres sing that vote for 1863. POLAND. A journal called the Howe/nest, that is printed and circulated clandestinely in Warsaw, contains an article on the recent demonstrations of Scandi navian nationality in Sweden, hailing them as ad ditional proofs of an increasing hostility to Russia. It says that the Poles regard the anniversary of the battle of Pultowa as the memorial of a defeat, not for Sweden only, but for Poland also. SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 30. M. Gonzalez EwaLuite is named Consul-General for Spain in Paris. It is not true that the court of Madrid has the intention of recognising Don Juan as Infante of Spain. THE EASTERN QUESTION. MABSPIII.F% JCILT 30. Letters from Constantinople of the 23rd state that Sir H. Bulwer has announced that England has induced Austria to sit at the conferences on Semis with the Italian ambassador. The first sit ting was occupied with the affair of Belgrade. The Sultan's government positively refuses to agree to the demolition of the Turkish fortresses. The superior officers and the pashas of the garrison of Constantinople are to receive eight months' arrears of pay. They will be paid in securities, losing 30 per cent. Three battalions are about to be sent to the Servian frontier. Omer Pacha has requested to be allowed to take up a position on the Berrien frontier, leaving the Montenegrins to be dealt with by Dervisch Pacha. The Turkish army in Monte negro are to receive medals. (agorza's TIZIGIUM& ) FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 31. The Moniteur of this morning announces that K Rouher has been entrusted ad interim with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ITALY. TURIN, JULY 30, Emma. The contract made by the Italian government with Messrs. Palmer and Co., of Newcastle, for running postal steamers between Italy and Egypt, was approved by both chambers to-day. The steamers are to commence the service in October, and will open the most expeditious route for communication with the east, and for the passage of the India mail. NAPLES, JULY 30. The Pungolo of to-day says :—" At the dinner given in honour of the Marquis di Pallavicini, at Palermo, Garibaldi proposed a toast which con cluded with the words, ' Rome or death ; but at Rowe with Victor Emmanuel at our bead.' " PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jou 30. The government has reduced the interest of the floating debt to 6 per cent. THE HERZEGOVINA. TREBIGNE, JULY 29. Early this morning the insurgents attacked the Turkish militia at Zubzi. All the Turkish military officers in this town have hastened thither. Fight ing is still being briskly carried on. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Jinx 31. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, from Lisbon on the 25th inst., has ar rived here. She brings 13 passengers, 6691. in specie, 2201. worthof diamonds, 136 packages of eggs, lemons, and tomatoes. On the 25th inst. the Tagus spoke the steamer Vasco de Gams, and on the 29th a French line-of battle ship. The British steamer Meander and a Dutch frigate arrived at Lisbon ou the 23rd inst. The wreck of the American ship Joseph Howe, which was picked up 200 miles north of Finisterre, waterlogged and abandoned, was in Vigo harbour. The Portuguese gunboat Same sailed for Italy on the 23rd, and the corvette Bartholomew Dias, for Madeira, with troops, on the 25th inst. Exchange on London at Lisbon, bn ; on Paris, 5.30 ; on Hamburg, 4.800 ; on Amsterdam, 4,250 ; on Genoa, 5.27 ; Three per Cent. Rental., 461; Coupons, 451; Deferred, 43 ; Lisbon Bank shares, 658 milrais ; Oporto Commercial and Mer cantile Banks, 258 milreis, lOXYIU SS leltolll PARIS. (viooa owx comustimmw.) PARIS, WIDIMIDAT Emma You will /lave seen that the Monitear &Blades to, but does not think it expedient to lay before French readers, the text of the correspondence be tween General de Lorencez awl General Zaragoza, which I forwarded to you three days ago. The miraculous success of two companies of the 99th Regiment against 2,000 Mexicans under Ortega, whom they surprised on the heights of Mount Bor rego, afforded Lorencez a fine opportunity, which he was not slow to avail himself of, to speak with scorn of Zaragoza's summons to capitulate only two days before. I noticed what I called the "subdued" tone of Lorencez's answer to that summons. That I had rightly con strued it is now officially admitted, for the general's report, published in the Moniteur, says that in consequence of the low state of the garrison of Orizaba he thought it prudent to "conceal his indignation" and give an "evasive answer." There is a celebrated definition of an evasive answer which greatly resembles the nwt of Cambronne, but General de Lorencez's reply was nothing of that kind—he merely said that he had no diplomatic powers to treat on the footing proposed by Gene ral Zaragoza, and referred him to M. de Saligny, the French envoy. lam quite sure that Lorencez was as much surprised as his enemy at the brilliant triumph of the 99th, which now enables him, with the laugh altogether on his aide, to treat his letter, which the Moniker does not publish, as a joke. "We learn," pays the Gazette des Hdpitaux, "by a letter from Mexico, that two medical men of the French troops, Drs. Verjus and Bintol, were taken prisoners in the combat of Puebla." A letter from Vichy of the 28th gives a few par ticulars of the ball given there on the previous evening by the Chasseurs of the Guard : The locality 'elected for the ball was the camp close to the town, and for a week past the soldiers h►ve been busily engaged in preparing and ornamenting the ballroom in the open air. Two large stands were erected for the ladies, acid another for the orchestra. The space intended for the dancers warn surrounded with festoons of dowers and bril liantly illuminated. Most of the ladies were in walking costume, and the men in every imaginable style of dress ; there were also crowds of villagers of both sexes. The Emperor, who had declined the honour of am entracte for his special use, sat on a bench in the midst of the crowd, and for an hour or so contemplated the animakd scene with evident amusement. Allot a sudden his Majesty rose and selected a young villager as his partner; his of followed the example, sod then commenced au imperial quadrille not less gay than those which had pre ceded it. It would not be easy to give an adequate descrip tion of the enthusiasm which seized the spectitors of this improvised dance, or the fervour with which all joined in crying " Vive l'Empereur !" When it was over, others fol lowed, and the Emperor meanwhile walked about the camp, The crowd, composed of elements no diverse, the noise, the movement, the illumination, the trophies of foliage aid Dowers, the mixture of the fashionable toilets of Paris with the picturesque costumes of the peasantry, all combined to form a most striking example. The Emperor withdrew early, but the dancing continued long after. The aspect of the Bourse is totally changed to. day. The settlement for the end of the month is going decidedly against the bulls, and the rise of the last two days is more than effaced. Rente fell 30c. both for cash and account, closing at 68tr. 65c. and 68fr. 80c. Mobilier fell sfr., and the Italian Loan 25c. The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 7bc. ; Northern, 6fr. 25c. ; Lyons, 12fr. 50c. ; and the other lines from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. The important question, whether a French priest, choosing to set Rome at defiance, can enjoy the full rights of a citizen, and take unto himself a wife, is about to receive a solemn decision. In the case of the Abbi Brou, who brought an action against a mayor for refusing to marry him, M. Jules Fevre pleaded, some time ago, before the civil tri bunal of Pirigueu 1, with so much effect that the court was equally divided ou the subject. The legal con sequence of such a state of things is, that the cause must be re-argued before the same tribunal, re inforced by an additional judge. M. Jules Fevre excused himself from going down to Pdrigueux a second time on the ground that aa, in any event an appeal was certain, his client would not suffer by his absence. The second argument has been going on for some days at P4rigueux. The public minister made a very violent speech against the priest who wants to be married, hurling at him among other opprobri ous epithets that of " infamous," and stating as evidence of his infamy that be was lately heard to say that if a certain supplementary judge sat he should gain his cause, whereas if a certain other one came he should lose it. The French legal fiction of the absolute perfection of all judges en abled the Imperial Procureur, without making himself ridiculous, to say that they never bad any prejudices, and that it was an insult to allege that they could possibly have any opinion at all on a case before they had heard the arguments on each aide. In England, where the judicial character stands much higher in public estimation than it does in France, and consequently has less need of legal protection, a man would certainly not be stigmatised as " infamous " for the expression of a belief that on a point of theological controversy—the case of " Essays and Reviews," for instance—a judge would be likely to decide, not withstanding all the arguments he might bear, in ac cordance with his notorious preconceived opinions. The Procureur Imperial called upon the court to protect the catholic religion,tbe religion of two hun dred millions of men, the religion of thirty millions of Frenchmen, the religion of Him who eighteen centuries ago planted upon Golgotha and watered with his blood " the first tree of liberty that was ever seen in the world." Judgment is to be given to-morrow. THE VICEROY or Eoyrr.—Every exertion is now being made to complete the alterations of the Vice-Royal steam-yacht, and it is expected that his Higher= the Viceroy, will leave England next weak. Mr. Ward, of Auburn. New York, bu just completed for his Highness seta of the ocean telegraph—day sod night signals—similar to those recently adopted by the Admiralty, and now used on board the 'mak of the channel feet. TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL.—The Opinions of Turin relates the following anecdote, Illustrative of a Dew method of paying for one a diaper. A reverend gentleman of Herculean frame, and endowed by Nature with a magni ficent apparatus of mastication, eat down to dinner at one of the eating bounce which skirt the Italian capital, and partook aboodently of the good things laid before him. But on the waiter's making his appearance with the bill, his reverence declared his inability to meet this exigency of the moment, otherwise than by saying two masses for the landlord. Mine boat, on being called, de murred at first to the kind of coin offered, but eventually, bethinking himself of his many sins, accepted it, and allowed the worthy priest to depart. On this the Ophrione makes the following redaction :—`• If the reverend priest's dinner costa him two mama, dace by the laws at the church be ass °sly say one mars per day, it follows that he can only dies coos every other day !" CAPTURE OP • STEAMER RY THE FED/2AM -- Lrvzsivou JULY MTh, Emile (British steamer), for merly the William &Amok, of Clutriestan, was as the 7th July off Bull'a Bay, sear Charleston. s at r iV voles showed as asserted cargo. but there were reasons for opposing that there were old arms, Confederate binds, sad specie cc board. Reruns's]) Lsrrnns.—The fee for registering letters will he reduced from and after to-morrow (August 1), front sixpence to fourpence, and the time of regietratio• will be extended until the closing of the letter-bag for each dispatch. Letters containing coin must be registered in fraWre, or they will be liable to a double resist:sties fee, 404misse se delivery. MUSIC. --....-- EXETER-HALL. An oratorio, entitled Irate, Return from Babylon, by Herr Joseph Radelph Scbachner, was performed lust evening, in behalf et the British Columbia Female Relive tion Society. The performer* was got up on a very large and expensive scale. The principal solo singers were Mdlla. Tarns, Madame Laura Baxter, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Weis. The chorus was eqaal in magnitude to that of the Sacred Harmonic Society ; sad the instrumental band contained • host of the most eminent per formers, the principal violin being no less a per son than Herr Molique. Mr. Alfred Mellon acted as the conductor. Though Herr Schack:ler is • conspirer unknown here, none of his works, as far as we am re member, having ever been performed in public, the produc tion of this oratorio seems to have excited considerable at tention, for it attracted • large audience, and many persons [ distinguished in our musical circles were present. The music had evidently been carefully rehearsed and was admirably performed, the eminent performers wehavenamed having made strenuous exertions to do it all possible justice, and the result was that the oratorio went brilliantly off. Every air and chorus was more:or ler applauded—some were encored; and at the end the composer wee called into the orchestra and received the honours of an " ovation." We cannot take upon ourselves to judge decidedly, on • single beating, of a work of such pretensions. There is no doubt that it has considerable merit ; but the oratorio belongs to the highest order of composition—it is the epic poetry of mosio—and therefore, in criticising a work of this clue, it must be tried by the highest standard. Mediocrity, in the oratorio, cannot be tolerated, unless in the cams of a young musician whose immature effort gives pre- mise of better things hereafter. The names of all the greet oratorio-oomposers who have ever existed may be written in two or three lines ; and if the author of a new oratorio is not entitled to have his name added to this small list, his work (except in the one case already mentioned) had sa well never been written. We are not prepared to try Hen Bchachner by the standard of Handel, Haydn, Spobr, or Mendelssohn—the standard by which it must ultimately be tried. If int success has really been such as to induce • repetition, we shall probably be in • con dition to form a more manor* judgment on ite beauties and defects than we are able to do at present. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The Derby Day was also one of the greatest days at the International Exhibition ; not so the Good wood, which, combined with the fine weather, seemed to take away a great many people from South Kensington yesterday. The attendance was not considered good—some 58,000 or so—but it fully obeyed the ascending scale which we noticed a day or two since. The company was strikingly respectable, and might have done admirably for Friday or Saturday. The following list of schools and other institutions affords gratifying proof that the teachers of the people have at length found out that a visit to the International Exhibition is not altogether • useless step in popular education. St. Mary's, Christ Church, 21, sent in by Miss Lloyd ; Has tings Union, 28, subscription ; Spitalfields Jews, 16, Mr. Hein. Kilburn (girls), 27, teachers ; Bel grave Chapel, Mrs. M‘Garel, 33 ; Hitcher, Herta, quaker', 30 ; Clare-market Ragged School, 17, C. Randall, Esq. ; St. Mary Bourne, Rev. W. Temple, 60 ; St. John Winibley, Rev. C. C. Layard, 44 ; Baysbury School, Mr. &hole field, 18 ; Alton, Baroness Rothschild, 12 ; Patriotic Fund (boys), 23 ; Queen's School, Wind sor, sent in by her Majesty, 93. The highest temperature yesterday, taken by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers, was at 145 p.m. :—ln the nave, 68. 1 ; in the galleries, 70.8 ; about two degrees cooler than on Tuesday. The following are tie total numbers admitted yes terday, compared with the corresponding day in 1851 : THE APPROACEINO VOLUNTEKR AND LINE Rs. Mir AT •NOOT.—It ie stated that some of the officers of the 29ti (North) Middlesex Corp.. in order to ensure a good muster of that regiment at Asoot, have resolved to reduce the railway fare of the effective* under their commend ou Bata& day from 3. to la., by paying the difference out of thereon pockets. Wore this example generally followed, sad Wks of what is intended given at once through the ordimry channels, the effect would, it is thought, be to make the metropolitan muster of volunteers worthy of the occasion —that of a brigade union between the volunteers and the which o many f era, and act ea. ll • ul b us ly to the: former wi r d of v to aceoire finessed s a teadiseas, diacipline t _and efficienc n y, YI lIRT MIDDLESEX ENGINEERN VOLUNTEER Uoicra. —The annual Mition of this cotes took place yesterday evening io Hyde Ark, and at their drill ground at Bramp ton, before Calomel Irliordo and a numerous eompaay of spectators. At ballast 6 o'clock the corps mustered at the drill-shed, South Kensington, and marched thence to the Berpeutine, under the command of Colonel Wlerod, Major Wright, Captain and Adjutant Barlow, fec. Here Hey went through the operation of pontooning, and is the Seem{ apaoe of half an hour laid down five pontoons. sad about 40 feet of bridge, upon which the married and also drew a waggon. The corps then mark to the drill-ground at Bromptoo, where Colonel ld•Murdo spaded a model sand-bag powder magazine, and five model bastions, thrown up on principles of different construction, with all of which the colonel expressed himself much pleased. After the examination was over, Colonel M'Murdo said it had given him great ple.isure to be agun their is. and a witness of their proficiency. What be saw at Spector e ct Ai r Mooing showed him that they had well rtudied their duties. Their pootooning operations were sa rapid as those of regiments of the line. He hoped mat year they would be able to throw • bridge across composed of casks. He said casks, because they could not always be expected to have a complete pontoon bridge with them, and therefore they must adapt them selves to the services that might occur in ram of war. The War Department would next year give them the superstructure for forming a bridge of bangs. They had had Dot much room in the grounds, but they had made the beat use of it. In case of an in vaaioo their duty would be to go first and form the landing place for the troops to debark, and to do it rapidly and well. He hoped he should meet them again weber year to witaces their proper-- (cheers). Three cheers were then given for Cot. Milord°, and the regiment was dismissed. Stioceiten Dr..tra.—On Tuesday Mr. Bedford, the coroner, instituted as inquiry into the eircumetaoces attending the death of John Mason, egad SO, at his lodge intim, 68, Denbigh-stre.t, Pimlico. Mr. William Muse was the first witness called, sad depend that be was a ma gistrate and ideputy.lieuteeeat of the county of Hereford. He ide n tified the body as that of hi brother. Mr. T. A. Hopkins, of 47, Morelos-terrace, said that shortly before 6 s.ra. au Friday lust, his attention was ahrseteg to the deceased by oteerving him in him night shirt leaning out id a smend story window at the heck of the above premises. hilemellellely afterwards he maw him roll, as it "Mt OUt of the wilaings, sad fall into the yard with fearful violence. Mr. 1111111•1•11; • ledger in the house, deposed that be found the oekirtiambe gentleman lying on the atoms in the yard ism- Ale and groaning. He picked him up, and, having mapped a blanket round r 4 conveyed him into the hones. A widow lady, mined Mary Shore, cousin of the dca and so attendant upon him for upwards of 2 0 ate that from excessive study of books the deeesaed had nerd/ biome very nervous and depressed. In comeciesnos he was medically attended, sod she administered. by the =7's directions, cold baths to his head. He em a sligious man, and never she believed. cootersphted sidde. He might have bad a sudden attack of Wan finer. The jury returned a verdict, "that deceased died from concussion of the brain and aback to the einem hf accidentally fulling from his bedroom window." A WOMAN BURNT TO BRATS FROM SMOKING m BED.—Oa Monday afternoon an Inquest was kid el Hull, by Mr. Tierney, corm r, ea the body of Slim bib Doeskin, aged 66, who lived in Great Prate street. The deceased bed suffered from Weir" sod on the evening of tie 19th hit , her little grandson lighted her pipe, en she sat in bed, and left her. It ap pears that the pipe afterwards fell upon her shoulder, and then on to the bed, and she was unable either to retch it or summon assistance. She was burned about the shoulder' and back, and though not severely, the shack it °maimed to her weak system proved fatal, and she died from its offsets. • verdict of Accidentally burnt" was retuned. —Eastern Counties Herald. SUPPOORD MORDER.—EarIy yesterday morning, while some feria !Matron were going to their work, they found a mu lying deed in a wheat6eld close to the high rood near Pliessantaillese, bell way between QUeellb and the Halfway House, ia tbe parish of Minster, in the of Sbeppy, Kest, There were marks of blood io the road, &o w :ly:tared that the body bad been dragged into the Several pwrua were soon on the spot and identified the body am that of a ass named Elliot, a labourer Co pores itT o lva to Wei rail O ws T ri nw ier ßa tim iEw i lY.; , ..!. d es e z ed of , l el ee shete r h ther eaed° : th ir d arii hm ai marb eer ebesf e 7l pe r e eet w t He la ti l i r g e t ra T e g to f th ert har i h d. bienth A e cm appeal from the quir t erst . tt i ons , a te Kuhr . witee, penes Uving near stens tbat he heard the report of a gun trt having be.. , m . tpohe d . The following ere the about Wall *dock on Tuesday arming. The poliosbime eDi--fiouse crates of glas s were not from Dahlia to the diatelY attended and are leaking avert' effort t° dip"ver pidatiff, Mr. C. Russell, by the Great Southern sad tb. ,, a PP pi r , ed re in t ersr us • oolzimuis..... ou t the Western Railway, sad they were foetid to be •"'" sever what they mind at Piusoustovrn. They were at 2666 Riding sad North Libooleshire the raps He ovule. r i s k, he having refused to pay 20 per met. looked better than at preeent. It is true that milleicssal es the carriage, which the °Dempsey require who. th. &nem flaw **Made seeiewbei y they carry at their own risk. Chief Janice Monebeir MM.° always WOO • all•Pnaleg OLIN` eaM, asd i weather said the can was perfectly Dew, and undecided by say bitter era r•Pidl7 Immtrrthe sad H an Mim euthoeity. "Tie law is that, though there be a menial lisibiam they will be may der ibe sickle en shut • fort contract, clear ss language can make it, that the gouda sae Ot Qom is factobarley lsk•sliT being cut to be sent entirely at th e owner's risk, still that i s not the mop have enetained bee malted from valid contract unless the judge that tries the case shall be the Meath ,preva i led id although of °pillion that it was a reasonable contract." He was wan 01 tbe bwireeli esr Lesk d • drenumeee free thin clearly of opinion that it was not remcsiable. The cam, be ••••• le about ait per sera blew* is " 1 "‘"'""' 11 " - said, ay upon the company to show that the balmy had .blehMlf Hat the yield will he at least as &venal in. not hem occasioned by any fault of theirs, ad they bed reel, bolas. sad potatoes's , it se avowed lie* and ly failed to do so. The decree &pipet them was, the dare, were OMIT, Pr•SPS. dead—Tin es. Merkel. 1882. {Season tickets Wednesday, July 80 tickets Payment Total 68,780 18M. Season tickets Wednesday, July SO Total 6a,982 THE MEMBERS POI MARYLERONE AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS. Yesterday afternoon the representative vestry of St. Paocras assembled at the Vestry-hall, Camden-town, for the purpose, amongst other matters, of receiving the borough members, Lord Fermoy and Mr. Harvey Lewis, to hear from them a recapitulation of the events of the maim of parliament just closing. Mr. Churchwarden S. TAYLOR presided. Lord Furor, M.P., said, with respect to the session just closing, there had been no session for the last quarter of a century which if it had not dome much gond had bees productive of so little mischief. As regarded Ammo, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had certainly done nothing. He had succeeded in making both ends meet withal' any over lapping. They had not, it :r e = new taxes, but they hod not the public expeoditure as much as they ought. (Hear.) He (Lord Fermoy) and his boo. colleague bad strenuously I opposed the scheme of the government for expending skives millions on fortifications. (Hear, hear.) He had always been of opinion that our insular position, the courage and patriotism of our people, and our army and navy were ample means to prevent invasion without spending eleven minima of money upon dead walls. (Hear, hear.) But if an inva- sion were to take place the position for British would be in the field, and not shut up behind atone= soil iron fortresses. There had been matters of great local and metropolitan importance before parliament this session, and the first was the Amended Act fee the Local Management of the Metropolis. In all the stages and troubles that bill paced through be (Lord Fermoy) was happy to say that, with the help of his colleegue and others, they had secured the advance rather than otherwise of the glorious principles of local self government. (Cheers.) He felt bound to oppose the clauses proposed by Mr. Ayrton for carrying out direct election of members of the Met rop olitan board by the ratepayea, because he felt it would lead to coofusioo, and what Cm more, no one desired the change. (Hear, beer.) Aootber measure of national, as well as local importance, was the Thames Embankment Bill, which, although that and all other metropolitan parishes would have to pay the piper, was a most important work. and be was happy Way that an attempt to preserve private interest in usurpation of public right had signally failed. Another subject was the preservation of Hampstead. heath and other places teethe recreation of the people. It was true that another attempt to usurp public rights for private interests bad passed the House of Lords ; but the bill laid on the table of the House of Commons without a friend to take it up, and there it must now lay till next ses sion, and be hoped for many sessions to come. (Cheers, amidst which Lord Fermov resumed his seat ) Mr. HARVEY Lewis. M.P. ' said that amongst other mea sures affecting that district had been the various railway bills, which required watching most narrowly to protect the public interest, which he hoped and believed his made col league and himself had accomphshed. They had a hard fight at the beginning of the session with the promoters of the fit. Giles's buried ground, but they succeeded in securing the in sertion of clauses which would prevent building over graves, an d that desecration so much apprehended. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the Metropolis Local Management Bill, although far from perfect, still be believed it had been amended in a way that would work for the public good. As regarded liampsteartheath, it had got through the House of Lords by a side wind, but their attention being directed to it by the speech of their friend Mr. Cameron on that board, they had determined to oppose it, and it must come on de novo next session. Mr. Lewis urged attention to this subject with a view to some arrangement, and after referring to the Education Bill and other measures, resumed his seas amidst load applause. Lieut... Colonel WILLI/MOD remarked that in comemiebee of the previous resolution (onset condolence with the family of the late Rev. R. Eckett, and expressive of regret at his loss) of the vestry, the vote of thanks to the borough mem bers would be deferred till the next meeting, and the vestry then adjourned. THE MURDER OF MR. FITZGERALD. (sr =cram familiars.) LIMERICK. Wensr.soAt. Walsh was indicted to-day for the murder of Mr. Fitgerald, at Kilindleek. He pleaded not guilty. lile. Fitegerald, deceased's wife, identified the accused an the 'snood man present when her husbaud was shot. Delis Deßane, wbo lo charged with inciting Withb an.l Beckham to assassinate Mr. Fitzgerald, was also arraign e d. Be pleaded not guilty. A daring agrarian outrage was perpetrated in th, t ow . of Tipperary tbie day. As Kr. Braddel, agent Bars, wee engaged moseying tepee in Dobbyn's Hotel, be 111111 fired at through the window. The ball lodged w koe abdomen. The swamis is said to be known. DUBLIN, TH t R4DA Y. A telegram from Tipperary states that Yr. Breaidel this morning. No arrest bee yet been made. THE BRITISH BOWES ON THE NORTHAIIE. RICA AND WEST INDIA STATION. The following is • carefully-compiled list of the ships on the American seaboard belonging to the royal navy, together with the statism at the latest advice* received It shows an aggregate of 33 vessels of war, exclusive of 14 others employed in harbour service. mounting 821 guns, of 11,329 horse-power, 53,861 toes, and having a complemeet of 10,062 offices' d men. These ships are owls up as follows :-4 screw ships, 6 smew frigates, 3 screw corvett e ., 15 screw sloop, 1 sailing ship, 1 froe-screw Boatieg battery, 6 paddle sloops, 5 screw gun-vessels, 2 gun-boats, 1 brig, steam tug, 1 anchor boy, 5 receiving ships, 1 coal depot, 1 schooner, and 4 convict strips: Ships. Guns. Men. H.-p. Toss. P.O. Aboukir B6 .. 850 .. 400 .. 3,091 .. Halifax. Agamemnon B9 .. 880 .. 6CO .. 3,102 .. Halifax. Aria,ine 26 .. 400 .. 800 .. 3,214 .. Port ltoral; Harracouto 6 .. 170 .. 300 .. 1,063 .. Halifax; Cadmus 2l .. 270 .. 400 .. 1,466 .. Halifax. Challenger 22 .. 280 .. 400 .. 1,462 .. Halifax. Cygnet Desperate 7 .. 170 .. 400 .. 1,038 .. Halifax. Devonport —..—. • Bermuda. Dotterel Bern od Greyhound l7 .. 170 .. 200 .. 880 .. Halifax. Hero Hydra 'manna Immortalite 51 .. 570 .. 600 .. 3,060 .. Bt. Kitts. Juon 2l 270 . 400 .. 1,711 .. Halifax. Kite Laadrail .... 6.. 300 80 .. 436 .. tlatiama. _-- .. Jamaica. Media If eloom's° Hervey Nettle Nile Nimble 3 50 80 428 .. Bt. John's Onyx laado 2 23 20 a. 211 .. Bermud Or 46 600 .1,000 .. 3.740 .. Bermuda. Petrol Phaeton Plover Pyramus Racer ll 120 150 1179 .. Bermuda. Rinaldo IT .. 170 .. 200 .. 961 .. Halifax. Safety 9 0 ,491 II .. 17 - 0 .. 280 .. 1,054 .. Port Royal. Steady 8571 Terror 'Thames Sequoia. Vl:mayhem Weymouth 6 826 .. Boma& Total —.821 10,062 11.580 53,861 I ~r