The Express. — London, England, 1859-08-20 00:00:00

H ARMONIUMS -NEW MODEL,- MALL& Ow. IL liwpwwwwwft. Irtis Oxareoo* Abertammis Woad Ninie 11 = 1 = ryirk bt mit le m Os UMb. IS, Tye ollsoltia se ganglia Tom Rsiospa.NALLOWWEIT—TIIOOOIIITIOTID 'Lamer. Asa 11 0 V or l atl e a OUT OF MM. WO. Matli Ookomoc m Ita b rlC —and • 'AMOS FOIL All BOUI. MN Sof•AsIA. 11_110001101. Tar knoll's. TRU WIJIs MM. Yr. awl Km 0. aim— AM • 11100UMM111 11100111 DaSalL—.ommorest T.yssops. THIRD CLASS AND MIT CLAMS. _• Oissur .1 it Vildses Oss.—THl MAID Of ALA wow'. M. A. WAAL—AM 11l /MIA OA PIAILA. 14. IL imaire. 1110 WATS& AT LONDOU =IDOL LOSDON. SATUZDA 7. AUGUST 20. AMOIMER SIMMS caeire has bra °occluded, Thomas Bnintstrnat, the surgeon of Richmond, has, attar a Mid at the days, been condemned to death, Like the Minnow PALMER, the prisoner was of the medical profusion, and Rho PALnen, too, the crime with which he was charged was egret poisoning. It was diffievilt to imagine near ram atrocious than the murder of COOK, hat it arm that the crime of SMETHURST is ern more daring end more heartier. Even now that the jury have pronounced their verdict, it is difficult to believe that any human being should be guilty of the charge; although, after reading the evidence, it is well nigh impossible to doubt that the verdict is thoroughly justified by the tare. The story is full of mystery. This man was no rely a man of edncation, but he had retired from hie poterios, and was living with hie wife in furnished lodgings. Hie wife was certainly an old woman, above 70, he having married her some thirty years ago; but, as he himself told the jury after the judge had stemmed the black cap, "he had taken her "an excursion to Paris and Heidelberg last year, " had behaved to her with the utmost kind; " sem and had brought her back safe to " England." And it moat be admitted: that no eagle word or act of unkindness appears ever to bare escaped from him. No account was gives of his previous life, except that he had kept a water-cure establishment in the seighboarhoed of POZIALIIOI. It is singular that a man of iadepsedest imam sad of respectable imonexions =mid have bola Left alone in his difficulties. Not a single kited came to support him in the dock, or even to =soh kr his knew respectability. Sometimes the appearance and manner of a man tarsi= imiketirms of his character. The murderer shows it la Ids few. The innocent man sem= key bee a sales dignity, which inspires reepsoß Swags= displayed neither of these obene touristic& A short, rather thickset man, with brown bear, and sestewbat bald, his expiate= betrayed sew of those repakive features which sometimes mark great criminals. In fact, even the aster of the poor murdered woman described him as a " kind and tender none, sad " with • countenance showing amiability." It is true that in addreming the court his yoke somewhat trembled, but at the awful moment after the verdict of `. guilty " bad bees prowassed, sad the judge had amused the black cap, the man spoke with an audacious self-posesseion and a deliberate fluency of fembeed which confounded those who beard him. Towards the aloes of last year Mr. and Msh. SURTHUIST west to node at the ham of a Mine Hann, at Bayswater. At this same house Heed twe ladMy Mies Loom wed Mir lemmata Briars. Their esamodsos were respectable, and their psresniary areas, amsanting he sermathiag shore Kra a year sack, Nailiben quits indimemiest. Neither of the shim Walt ream/ Min IILUIRLIA had meshed the spot 44 sad did sot enjoy the lest health. Although tin was somewhat beyond the age of gawks she seam to have conceived a liking far Dr. flarninarr, sad in fact their conduct es ecomialised Miss SMITH that mbe insisted upon their leaving the house. It is net quits clear whether Miss BA'ials knew that Burranarr was a married man, though having heed I. the Name house with him and his wife It is diaralt to eadierstand her ignorance of the fact. The meltability is that armee iner had persuaded Miss Somas that the old lady above seventy was not his real wife, sad this conjecture is confirmed by the fact that the ceremony of marriage between firtarnuarr gad Miss BARRIS was performed at Battersea slouch at the beginning of last December. However that might be, they left Mies litura's, sad, after staying a short time at a Mra. 011.10W sit's, they finally took up their abode at the home of Mrs. Waitrater, at Alma Villas, Richmond, for which. they paid 164. a week. According to Satirrecasr, he had settled the whole matter with his legitimate wife, and she bad agreed to accept • certain sum for her lodgings, sad to ask no questions as to when or how he lived. Hamm= and Mies Beaus lived on at Mrs. WHlterillYl until the end et last March, when the lady became very ill For some time previously she had suffered from sickness and diarrhea, but the disease was now anima ; moreover it appeared that the lady had become pregnant. In fact it was ne cessary to call in a doctor, and after sonic deliberation it was decided to summon Dr. Juutsv, the leading practitioner in Richmond. 11l as the poor woman was, SMETHURST himself was the only attendant. A nurse had been suggested by the landlady, but SMETHURST objected, saying that he was too poor though at the very time he had a balance of some 2001. at the Bank. On this affectionate querihusband, therefore, devolved all the diaagree• able duties of the sick-room. The food was mixed sod administered by his own hand; the chamber utensils were placed outside the bedroom door by his own bead. Ihiring the day no human being interned that room bat Smarm:lan ; during the night se human being sat by the bedside but Sunray's?. The complaint under which the poor woman 'offered required, &bee. all things, cleanliness and pare air, and this Samoan as a medical matt must have well known, and yet during the many weeks of illness " the bedroom was never thoroughly cleaned out," though, indeed, the bed was made by the landlady every day. It was surely astrangs fancy for a man with more than 2001. at his banker's to inset upon acting the nurse to a sick woman, sod performing all the most tender and disgusting carom It was perhaps stranger still that, of all the militias of r ice, beef tat, blancmanger, meal, came, sad jelly, that entered that bedroom, not ono scrap—except mac seer rise.-.seer came oat again. If anything was mixed with tlis poor woman's food, no human Warr ever had an opportunity of tasting it. As oording to 81d1THITIST, indeed, his tinder regard for Miss Banana sad his parsimony made him commune all this rmansats. No is it 'uprising to find that living upon t his diet, with swelittitigair,and undersuch anxiety, the afflicted hatband, as Is• told the jury nill i li . in his parting address, elm* in hO P ie. some sixteen pounds. s` i :c - Oa It was at the 6th of April that Dr. Aferlo first saw the peer lady, whom he took he the w of SIERIMOIRT. Having learnt the ~. of the ear from him, he prescribed certain emedlea. They pee no relief. They neither seeppd the vomiting nor the diarrbcoa. Pres the Seh te the 1 18th he went on trying all sorts of preseriptimiar but without the slightest effect. At length, com pletely puzzled, he handed over the patient to his partner, Dr. Bum. His remedies equally failed. The disease relaxed not for a moment. Oases were ransacked by various witnesses from the annals of medicine, bat amidst all the anemailes of disssse they searched in vain for a OMB in which no single symptom was abated a jot. At length Dr. Jetics came to the conclusion that some drag was being administered to cows tenet the effect of the medicines. Now that dreg wee, in his opinion, some irritant poison. Dr. BIRD, after vainly attempting to stay the dame, came to the same conclusion. And upon comparing notes it was found that both ?greed. True, neither Dr. JuLtus nor Dr. Ban had mac men the poor lady alone. Burritotar was himself always in the room, and himself explained the symp toms. More medical advice wee doisanded, and the eminent Dr. TODD, of King's College Hospital, won sent for. He saw the patient, prescribed for hes t an the bad symptoms were unabated. Dr. TODD, Sow fore, cease to the same conclusion with Dr. lane end Dr. Bum, that something was adminietand M counteract the effect of the ordinary medicines, and that it moat be some irritant poison. In short, if, those, experienced medical men were to be believed, this man alone in that wretched room in Alma-villas was daily and hourly with hie own bands adminis tering to the lips of the lonely woman, whose cha racter he had destroyed, scientific doges of that subtle poison which was stealthily sapping her sisemitli sad drying op the sources of life—and all Mb maw the very eyes of three medical men, one of them at least of the highest reputation. Bat the end was drawing near. Once only had the sister of poor IRAZILLA BASILE appeared. She same to see her sister ahem the 19th of April. But even then she was not permitted to do anything Per the sick woman—not even to make her some lancmanger or arrow-root. In spite of her desire to some again, she was prevented by Smicrouturr ; and in fact it won only jut before her death, and when she was spesehlees, that eh* was again per mitted to see her. Bat the seine day on which SMETHURST wrote to Mir BARRIE to say that her atm was too week to see her, he called on en albersay for the purpose of getting a will pre load by which Mies ISMILLLA BARI= was to leave him all her property. The poor woman, forma, could not see her sister, but she could Na a strange attorney. The attersoy ours on the &may morning, and the will by which 611111117118 r obtained the whole property won executed. It is worthy of remark that in this will Miss Ensue signs in her maiden name, and Seseweture told the attorney that he was only living with her for a me son. It was in time, for on the Tuesday, the ad of May, the helpless victim died. R. In tie aseanthne arsenic had been found in such a way as to prove that it had been deposited in the woman's body, and filt tram= was apprehended. At first he was releesed on his own recogniessess, and, strangely enough, when his nursing care wee withdrawn from the patient, the distressing symp tens sensed—her exhausted strength however was net to be revived. Bat the body was opened, and in it was discovered a certain quantity of antimony. Was it then &mixture of arsenic and antimony which this affectionate husband had been administering is that lonely bedroom in Richmond ? If it was, it is difficult to conceive anything more smelly heartless. Here was a married man inveigling away a weak woman from her sister and her Mends, going through the mockery of • marriage to quiet bar scruples, analysing the weeknesees of her con ' "antics: until he discovers the best means of putting bar oat of the way—and then, in that solitary bed room at Richmond administering day by day the poi soar drupieenek proportions ushould ensaredenth whilst be warped detention. True, no doubt so loeg an peer Inusm.La BANN= lived there was the in come of 8,0001. Commie; but then, so long as Mrs. linarauturr lived. there was the danger of an in dietnient for bigamy, and, as it seemed, the addi tional danger of the birth of a child. What was to be done As SMETHURST told the jury, his best plan would have been to have poisoned the old woman, bat that was probably difficult and dangerous. Something must be done at ono'. ISSIMLLA SLIMES was entirely in his hand,. He reasoned with him self thus:—" Let her make a will, leaving me " 1,7001. Then let her dje of poison, which I ass "administer—doses of arsenic and antimony— "in such minute qualities that traces will not be discovered. In *his there is some chasm of escape. Bat if I remain ea I " am, the sham marriage at Battersea may be " &seemed, Immerse Barran may booms a " mother, and then I may be indicted for bigamy, " and be obliged to fly the country. It is better " for me to poison the woman in seeret—thongh if " the crime be discovered I nest stand the chance of "an indictment for murder." The stakes were fearful. SMETHURST played boldly and skilfully, but happily his prise is Death. vaaurciss, AII'OrNINENTS, AND PROMO TIONS IN Mr CIVIL £R& acs. Framign Department.—The Has. William Neiman ' J=l.ltas prod his examinatios mpaid attache at ; r. Hugh Preset ham psessel Lies examlnatios es paid attache at Copenhagen; the Hos. Powus Hoary Le , Par Preach ham pawed he emminatios aa unpaid attache at Paris; Mr. Jobs David Hay Hill hr passed hie meal- ' soaks as corneal at Mersaharo, Brazil ; Mr. Reginald Arthur ' 'Ppm beg pared ilia SZIMiDA4O , II tar • clerkship is Um Forelamodke. The Admiralty.—The HOD. Hubert Frames Deemer has pima his esamioation far a cfrokaltip in Whllstall; Meese% W. IL Hookas, Edgar Beret. nerves Mallard Clark, Hwy James Dowse, and James Frederick Payton have pa their onmisaatima for temporal y Ormeal Peat-dloe.—Mr. David Bray has hien appeated disk la the never sad accorist=s °Mom, Bt. Mertionwls•Oread, sad parsed his e 0101111111,4 he oollectorship of Past/wire harem vacant by the theta of Mr. R. C. Meikla ; Mr. Them= Howard hr loos peerneked from mooed to elm due dunk is th. Long Beim, Lomita; Mr. Marla Boyd hem Om promoted from third to reed slam clerk la ditto; Mr. James Thorn. has hems *um Muth to third edam mask to ditto ; L Rehm boa bees mammed kam OM to fourth elms clerk M diteo; Mr. J. B. Mama Ms ham promotad from mead is tent elms toadies surveyor is Loudon ; Mr. Jolts N. Palmas haa bees premoted tram third to mead dare lastriag surveyor Is Leaden ; Mr. John Thorpe, dist elms brass ushar, ham keen prnmood to be third clam tameless lerwayet is Lambs; Mt. - William Phillips 44 bran promoted from mead to lost slam lasftig stiletto London ; Mr. Peter Tasked bee ha promolad from third to mond clam landing water la IraSa ; Mr. I. P. Le Fume has bees promoted trem Meth to WM tier lan diag water ia Loudon; Mr. Chides babe has Isom promoted beta 11th to fourth elms Inaba value Y brew. New Zealasid.—Mr. Cluistophor WIHa. Itteknead boa bias aptoistad *skald trauma sadsammW-ed OW ems, Mr. William Mori Conant las bo=palatal • - —riots.* of crow. reds: 6011410 o TIM LAT& ML C . GeltDeltit mien will have beard with regret of the death of the abswe dbeispiseed lIIMPOII. The melascholy earn took pleas es the 111th teems, at Clifton, where be was Maybes kr the boat of his health. By Mr. Ocoktie's death the pre lim*. bee keg ••• of ita telebtret sebeseeki, red lemelly at brie • univ,vsal beef/factor. 84 ranks him Imo itterred In the roster, et Chita*. ;FAS, 84T THE LiTE R* -AD HEM' DUNI) TRO • iessiceal kll3 sad The late Admiral Trotter, to high and general attainments, united a kind generous heart, and a frank and most urbane manner, which made him universally beloved, both in the discharge of public duties as an officer and in private life. Cut down while yet in the vigour of manhood, and in the daily exercise of those acts of practical bene volence which appeared to be a main object of his life, he has left behind him an example wall worthy of imitation by the members of the service which he adorned. Having obtained the usual preliminary education for the naval service at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, out of which he pared in an unusually short tints, and after serving for a short time on the North Bea station, Mr. Trotter, as a volunteer of the Ist class, proceeded in May, 1819, in the Eden, Captain J. E. Lock, to the East India station, where he participated in many hazardous boat enterprises against pirates, by whom the Persian Gulf was at that time infested. He was present at the destruction of Ras el Kyma, the headquarters and principal resort of those desperate freebooters, and assisted in the burning or sinking of all their vessels by an ex pedition under the joint commando, theists Admiral Bit Francis Collier and Major-General Sir William Grant Keir. In 1822 Mr. Trotter was appointed by Sir Henry Blackwood, commander-in-chief on the station, acting lieutenant of the Leander; and on his return to land in the following year his promotion was by the Admiralty. Lieutenant Trotter next joined her Majesty's ship Hussar on the West India elation ; and while in this vessel be was par ticularly mentioned by Captain Harris, her com mander, in a despatch to Sir Laurence Halsted, the commander-in-chief, for his gallant conduct in the capture of a band of pirates at the Isle of Pines. Obtaining his promotion in 1830, Commander Trotter was appointed to her Majesty's ship Curlew, which he commanded for nearly four yeses on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa sta tion, and—the admiral being at the Cape he was left for a considerable period in the responsible charge of the latter division of the station. His capture while in the Curlew of the notorious' pirate ship Panda is perhaps one of the most striking instances on record of determination and persistent adherence to duty in a case of this kind. For fifteen months Commander Trotter was as the track of this vessel, and he eventually came up with her in the Bight of Benin, when the piratical crew took to their boats, and for a time escaped. The Panda wee at ono* boarded by her captors ; but they had been but a skort time in poreruon of their prize when she blew up, causing the immediate death of two officers, wounding severely many of the men, and seriously injuring the commander him self, who was with difficulty extricated from between the shattered deck and bulwarks before she sank. The captain, the chief officer, and five of the crow of the Panda, were eventfully taken, under circum stances of considerable difficulty and danger, and not without a personal struggle between the com mander and the pirate chief. They were sent to England, and from thence to the United States, where they were tried and convicted as pirates and felons for an atrocious piracy committed on a brig belonging to Salem, United States, in September, 1832. They justly suffered the extreme penalty of the law. A letter from Joseph Peabody, and bearing 100 other signatures, ootiveyed to President Jackson the feeling common throughout the United States re garding the perseverance, gallantry, and good conduct of Commander Trotter on this imernon. In a similar spirit the Lords of the Admiralty, in awarding Captain Trotter his promotion, so well earned, thus addressed him through the secretary : " My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having had ander their consideration your exertions while • in command of the Curlew, in the capture of the piratical meet Panda and her crew, and the perse veranos displayed by you in circumstances of ex treme difilculty, and involving you in great personal responsibility, for which, and the protection thereby afforded to American commerce, you have received through his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the thanks of the President of the United States, are pleased, as a mark of the sense which my lords entertain of your conduct, to promote you to the tank of captain in the royal navy." With the exception of being for a short period in the Britannia, 120, as Am captain to Admiral Sir P. Durham, commander-iniet at Portsmouth in 1838, Captain Trotter was ashore from 1834 to 1840, when an enterprise in every way suited to his tastes, and promising full scope to his long cherished desire to explore the interior of Africa and ameliorate the condition of her benighted sons, was unexpectedly opened to him. The expedition to the Niger originated in the noble and philanthropic mind of the late Sir Powell Buxton, and was espoused by the government of the day, more especially by Lord John Rumen, then Secretary of State toe the Colonies. Captain Trotter was selected by the Admiralty as the man, fitted by habits, inclination, general acquirement., and know ledge of the African coast, to command such au enter prise. Throughout his career in the service he appeared to have been destined to wage constant war against those enemies of the haman race— pirates and slave dealers. He was able and active, in the prime of life, and most enthusiastic in the object of such a mission. He was accordingly appointed to her Majesty's ship Albert, in com mand of the expedition which left England in May, 1841, and entered the Niger on the 13th of August of the same year. On the 27th of Myst the expedition had reached Ibu, 120 miles from the sea, 40 miles below the apex of the Delta; and Ital the 2nd of September it was at Iddah, the capital of the Eggarah country, where rocks ' consisting of ferruginous sandstone, were foe the first time seen. Up to this time the expedition had been fortunate' beyond all expectation. The Delta had been passed, and the valley of the Niger was about to be entered under circumstances seemingly most auspicious. The crews were in the best possible condition, and looked forward with a buoyancy of feeling to the period when the vowels were to ascend the river, while they contemplated with delight the novel and diversified scenery of the high land before them. Bat fever of a malignant character broke oat in the Albert, and almost simultaneously in the other vessels, and shortly after the expedition reached the confiueuoe of the Niger and Tchadda, two of the emote composing it were obliged to return to the lea. The Albert, with the commander of the expe dition, advanced higher up, as far as Eggs, the Nag capital. On the 3rd of October all hopes of penetrating further into the interior of Africa re aired a finishing . blow, for Captain Trotter, the arduous, enterprising, and kind commander, was now taken with fever; and besides Dr. M'Williani and Dr. Stanger, only three or tour whites were fit for duty. "Thor only," observes Dr. MlVilliam, " who were with Captain Trotter from first to last in the expedition, and had an opportunity of observing with what unceasing zeal, what untinog energy, he devoted himself to its grand objects, can form any idea of the painful sacrifice stern necessity compelled him to make when he issued the order to turn the vessel's head downwarda, and relinquish designs which he benevolent mind had so tong and so ardently cherished." The Niger expedition, although thus repelled by an enemy against which no human 'Soft coed . prevail, and so far unsuccessful in achieving its . immediate objects, was by no means fruitless in important results. A very considerable addition was made to our knowledge of the river, of the various countries on its banks, and of the climate, which cannot fail to be useful to future explorers of this interesting region. Lord Stanley (now Earl Derby), who bed suc ceeded Lord Jonn Rumen at the Colonial-offioe before the return of the expedition to England, in conveying through the Under-Secretary of State his genes of the service, of those employed in the expedition, expressed his admiration of the zeal and ability manifested by Captain Trotter and thaw ander his command "in the attempt to execute the objects of the expedition under very difficult circumstances, and at great personal risk to all who wee in it." At the outbreak of the Russian in James Graham, then First Lord of the Admiralty, appointed Captain Trotter as Commodore and Otin mender in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station. •+v<<i• AY rfxrittrit AUG Vim Court. platra his 86ih year yeitarday: Here the iries administrative pours all active boner were, as elsewhere, Silly dis: played. Ee tad and liberally contributed be the Caps Town • on' Home. On his urgent na l presentation to the Admiralty he was enabled, through their liberality, to restore • small village near Simon's Bay, founded many years ago by the late Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, as an asylum for eaptared slaves, and which had latterly fallen into deny. During his three years' period of command, although he was ever at some humane work, such as those to which we have alluded, the micron, varied, and more strictly professional duties of the station were conducted with remarkable zeal and moms. On galling the station Commodore Trotter received from Governor Sir George Grey the warmest as knowledgments, and an earnest recommendation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the ser vices he had rendered to the colony and to his corm try by his cordial and active co-operation during a period of great anxiety to South Africa, when nothing short of firm and decided measures, promptly taken, Gould have availed to avert another Kaffir war. On the commodore's arrival in England from the Cape command, two years ago, be was apparently in good health ; but those who had the opportunity of observing him closely could not fail to perceive that after the Niger expedition he was occasionally sub ject to severe hm&cle, and other symptoms indi cating that he never got quits rid of the effects of the fever from which he barely escaped with his life. The close of Commodore Trotter's life career was sudden ; but it came upon him while he was em ployed in a manner in harmony with his whole life. He had just been renewing, at the Admiralty, an ap plication in behalf of an officer formerly under his command, who possessed no title to government favour beyond great professional and other merits, when he was suddenly snack down with paralysis, which proved fatal in a few hours. His remains were followed to their rating-place in Kensal-green by his bereaved relatives and many of hie more immediate friends in the naval service as well as in private life, including two of his old companions in the Niger expedition. OSBORNE, Aroma 19. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, Princess Adios, Princess Helens, and Princess flobenlohe. Captain Du Plat was in attendance. The dinner party in the evening it:clad/4 Princess Alice, Princess Hohealobe, Lady Augusta Brace, the Earl of Bt. Germans, the Hen. MIII. T. Y. Biddalpb, and Sir George Cower. The Dohs of Newcastle loft town yesterday for Clamber. Despatches were est from the Colonial-aloe yesterday to the Governors of Gibrelter, Nate, Ceylon, Hoeg Kong, Wean, Cesede, sod Newfoundland, end to the Lord High Commissioner of the loalan Islands. The Marquis of Lansdowne has nearly recovered from his recant indisposition. His lordship is now able to take carriage airings._ The Marquis of Exeter left Groevenor-square few days Mace to join the marchioness and Lady Mary Cecil at Romberg. Lord and Lady Burghley are sled sojourning at Romberg. _ _ The fiartpaio of Conyngham sad Lady Cecilia Coayeghate have left the Bt. Genie Hotel._ _ _ The :Marquis and Marehioneaa of Londonderry have arrived at Mount Stewed. wow Down, [rum Powers- court Castle, Vikount Powurscourt's mat, In the county Wicklow. The Earl of Jersey is recovering from his illness, and gradually regaining strength. The resharabls peer oom- Viscount Hamilton, eldest son of the Marquis and blatchbnewe of Abetworn, will attain his majority on Wed malty nut, when the event will be °detested with the customary metrics. on the sacestrat Mates in the county Tyree& Mr. Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Fellow of All Soule' College, Oxford, and berrleter-at-law of the Inner Temple, has been sppointed deretary to Ste George Fe:mu ds Bawd, H.C.M.G., governor of the colony of Gasses lead (Moreton Bey), in Australis. Mr. Herbert, who will else hold, In the first instance, the CollllllillgOD of Colonial decieterberae private escretery to Mr.Gladatone when Chan cellor of Exchegoer in Lced Aberdeen's administration. We (Kendal Mercury) understand that the ex- Qoeen of the French and suite have engaged apartments for a month at the Waterbed Hotel, Coniston. The Bishop of London lies appointed Mr. John Harmed to be his lordship's " Private and Assistant Sem tary," in the room of the Ito,. Albert H. Stilwell, H.A. The annual meeting of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution will take place on the evtning of Wedawday. The Bri tish Archwologittal Association will hold its annul mewling this year at Newbury, from the 12th of September to the 17th inclusive. The Earl of Cantarvon is stiodod to preside. . . The Bt. ismee's Theatre is again to open on the Ltd Oetober--" this one more time" m e secure burls— the performances to be devoted to " domestio drama, farm, burismos, sad pantomime." Mdlle. Parepa and Mr. Haigh will join the Covent-garde* Runtish Opera company—possibly, too, • daughter of Mrs. Wood, who will perform eider the name of Mir Pillfsg. The oratorio on which Herr Molique is known to have been long engaged te now, we (.4theagratm) understand, all but completed. The Gazette Musicale annonaces that Madame Miolan-Carvalho haa been secured by Mr. bye, for next year*s opera seaman at Covent-garden. . _ _ . . Among the tales from El Dorado which tempt the Old World singer% is that of the enormous sum paid to Modena* Ouster at the Savannah-600 guineas a week and a free benefit. The new iesanpnient of the Prineer's will open with a annuli by Yr. John Oxenford, the emery painted by Oriew and Telbin; and an extravaganza by Planate, with scenery painted by Beverley. Kn. Keeley end Mina Leal/01[40bl, who are both engaged, have pane in the iIiTIMMIIIS2II. Mrs. Alfred Mellon unfortunately hurt her ands on kit Tuesday evening, while performing in the Plotters of Lie Amt. Although (says the fiends, Timm) suffering extreme pain, she bore it with aslimishlig dramas, and not only went through the part of Lemuel, which She was play ing in the drama, het performed afterwards in the burlesque Me Bass is Me Rood, although she was obliged to any part berealf cm a mkt. She has not sines been able to appear en the stage. The Literary Gazette says:—.. Who will believe that Kra Stowe Is now in England ? That the American mahatmas who, bet a short time ago, mated such a asnaa- Lion is actually smoupt us without receiving any public notice at all? The 1.4 however is in this country, and engaged upon her new tale, a portion of which has already appeared under the title of " The Minister's Wooing." This title, it is understood, will be retained foe the complete work, the publication of which may be expected about October. Tkob monthly pasts of this work will of course be issued an heretofore." The Princes Idenschikoff, father and son, are at present is Puts. Oaiipnesei states that the Grand Dake of Tuscany has Wt Parte Si, Vienne. TM GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINL—IIia Imperial Ingham the Greed Duke Creamed's, acoompanled by his sates, paid • second visit to Portaceouth Dockyard yester day. His impartsl highness armed at Portsmouth, from Hyde, by the it p.m. steam packet, and Winediately em tanked on board the bergs al the Osbane, which was wait ing his arrival, with Flag Captain A. Farquhar in atten dance, and proceeded round to the landing sums at the north wall of the mann baste, where the party disemberked. The Grand Duke first proceeded cm board the Beagle, 6, screw, lying close to the landing place, and having her foremost boiler taken out. Hie unpaid . higlisem went over every part of tWe vessel,making *Mriee as to ber ma nage, hone-power of engines, their maker's nante,the ramifies of her fighting Wilms, &o. On finding that she had beau in costimbeton drain the Itneahn war, he farther Inquired whether all was ht the Baltic or Black Ites. From the Beagle the °mad Duke next visited the sterna factory, the factory-once AA, when he wee tagged for some time. After ceßiag an the Port Admiral at the Admiralty-home, the Grand Duke and party re-entbst kali on board the Othotne's barge and was conveyed to the Videde_pier, whence hie imperial highness and suite teteraed to Byde by the 5,30 p.m, steam packet. ~A~~ Lou, ,TEST • liiIiELLIGENCE. VENICE. Notwithstanding the presence of the numeretue fortes which Austria maintains in Venetia, the im perial authorities appear to have great difficulty in controlling the public mind. The Gazette de Valise of the 13th publishes a proclamation of the director of police, which speaks of a serious agitation. It tells us that " even now the public continue to give ear to the lying reports which the party of disorder labours to spread for a criminal purpose—even naming the precise day on which the supposed events will take plaee. The police ardently desire to prevent the unhappyconsequences of& blind trust, which would inevitably fall upon the deceivers and the deceived. They therefore renew the warning that persona must be on their guard, or otherwise the au thorities may find themselves under the disagreeable necessity of putting into execution the rigorous mea sures already prepared, and which will suffice to maintain order, tranquility, and the safety of the in habitants." NAPLES. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FETE NAPOLEON. The Nord of to-day publishes the following : " Monate from Naples dated the 16th inform us that daring the celebration of the fête of the Emperor Napoleon by the French Le gation, by a religious service in the church of St. Joseph, at Chiaja, the government made a most unseemly demonstration against France. A certain number of Neapolitans belonging to the aristocracy were mingled with the French. The police ranged themselves all round the church. Four battalions took up position, and patrols of cavalry kept spectators away from the route which the cortege followed. A considerable and sympa thetic crowd assembled before the gardens of the ; but just as Baron Brenier's carriage approached, two regiments of cavalry, with twelve pieces of cannon, roughly dispersed the crowd, making several arrests. General Filangieri directed these violent measures in person. The Diplomatic Corps were represented at the Te Deans by Mr. Craven, secretary of the English Legation, and by the Sardinian Legation. The ministers of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Spain, and the Nuncio were absent." DEFENSIVE LRAOUE BETWEEN THE STATES OF CENTRAL ITALY. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office : TURIN, B•rcanar, AUGUIT 20. "A defensive league has been concluded between the state, of Central Italy. Prince Hercolani, the delegate of the government of the Legations, has signed the act of accession to the league." MODENA. THE AUSTRIAN DYNASTY. MODENA, Fitt Dia, Awns? 19. To-day a member of the National Assembly, the Marquis Fontanelli, presented to the chambers a proposal, declaring the forfeiture (decheance) of the Austrian dynasty d'Este to the duchy, and the banishment from the State for ever of every prince of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Assembly unanimously resolved to take the question into con sideration, and the proposal of the Marquis Fonts nelli wu received with three rounds of applause. TILE CONFERENCE. ZURICH, FIIDAT, AINIIIST 19 . Yesterday a conference took place between the Plenipotentiaries of France and Austria. A messen ger of the French cabinet has arrived here, and has quitted again for Paris. At the banquet given by Count Colloredo, Mr. Doubs proposed the health of the Emperor of Austria, and Count Colloredo, in his toast, the permanence of the friendship between Austria and Switzerland and the Government I of Zurich. In the next sittings of the conference it is supposed that the question of the boundary of Lombardy, and her participation in the Austrian debt,will be settled. To-day there was a confereuoe between M. de Botn-queney, the French, and M. de Desambrois, the Sardinian plenipotentiaries. BERNE, AvorsT 20. At the banquet given by the Austrian Ambusador in honour of the birthday of the Emperor Francis Joseph, Count Collared° said that " the fact of all the plenipotentiaries being present proves that our work of peace will be crowned with moons." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FAIDLY, AUGUST 19. The official Wiener Zsitung contains a list of numerous military promotions and distinctions made on account of the battle of Solferino. It is stated that the Minister of the Interior, Baron Bach, will be appointed ambassador to Rome. Other changes in the cabinet are still expected. Count Leo Than has declined to accept the post of Minister of the Interior. Count Goluohowski is said to be also opposed to enter into • ministerial combination. Since the return of the Emperor to Vienna no council of the ministers still in power has been held. There is • report that an Austrian corps &armee are to be concentrated near Rovigo on the road to the Legations and to Modena. RUSSIA. The Leipzig Gazette says: Since the stay which the Burton squadron, commended by the Grand Duke Constantine, made in the Copenhagen road stead, we have bean able to estimate the immense change when has taken plane in the Russian navy since the war to the I.•sa Formerly, ell the ships et war which visited the Baltic port, had a dull and constrained look, in spite of the military bearing of their crows. On boort t h e vessels we saw lately the sailors were not forced levies from In land provinces; they were mart and active men, chosen from the maritime population of Finland; ' some crews were composed of sailors who had formed part of the Black Sea fleet. There WWI no trees of the old mechanical stiffness, no look of being got up foe parade. On the contniry, the ofScers as well sa the visa. foe skill and matnenlike qualities, might stand comparison with English or Danish sailors. It le the Grand Duke Coestsa- Wm, who for some tears him brought about such great im provements in • comparatively abort space of time. With his great energy sod really eminent qualities as a sailor, the Grand Duke will in a short time have maga abed the Russian fleet, so that a Russian meal may sustain a COlittet with any English, Frame, or Danish vessel of the same strength. All the crews hays • pro found and affectionate admiration for their young Imperial chidThe features of the Finland sailor glow with pride rhea be speak' of the great admiral. Over the entrance to the Milan cathedral, where the Ti Dom wee sang on the occasion of the festivities of the 16th, the following inscription might be read :—" On this day, memorable in the annals of the Napoleons, to the prayers and Ilial4S of all Frame, here repeated by so many of bee brave children, the Milanese join theirs with elite debate gratitude, and implore the Lord of Kings end Nations to grant that the Emperor Napoleon 111., happy In public and domestic joys, anciomfol in all his designs, may corn mead memos and affection. May the plaint sad hews gessrattona applaud him as the advocate of every just awe, and the champion of Italian rep/aeration:" The Archduke Louis Victor, brother of the Em peter of Austria, travflling under the name of Count de Laberteck, is now ow a tour in Belgium. Three days ego him imperial highness sabred at Liege and visited the churches and public buildings. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROW OUR OWN P ARO, FRIDAY EVlliatiO. The opinion which I offered on Thursday—not without some misgiving—that the amnesty removes from the category of suspects and pro tan& outlaws all persons affected by the Espinasse law of public safety of 1868, is confirmed by the Nord and Inde pesidoosee Beige, and also by the Presss of this evening, which is the only French journal that has yet treated of this delicate and most important sub ject. I must confess that the arguments of the Press. rather strengthen than remove the doubts about the matter which pressed upon my mind. Quoting a work written by M. de Peyronnet, while a prisoner at Ham, the Pre*" traces the origin of an amnesty (a law of forget fulness) to Thresybulus, who, after he had expelled the thirty tyrants from Athens, passed a law ordaining that no citizens should be troubled for past actions. Various striking distinctions known to French law are then enumerated. As amnesty does not admit a penalty; it effaces all trace of the condemnation. Every amnesty is to be construed largely in favour of those to whom it extends. In every cam of doubt the duty of a judge is to inquire—not who is comprised in, but who is excluded from, an amnesty. An amnesty, the Court of Cessation once said, is "the abolition of the past ; it is to justice what baptism is to Christianity. If anyone says that an amnesty does not purify all that it touches, let him be ana thema =math& !" A crime or misdemeanour which has been amnestied can never be brought forward to charge a prisoner as • recidieiste— that is to say, to aggravate his punishment as a convict for a second offence. But in spite of all these beautiful and practical legal maxims, there is the text of the terrible law of February 19, 1868, to be got over, and that law says that any indi vidual who "has been" dealt with in a certain manner in 1848, 1849, 1851, &c., may at any time be transported without trial, if " new facts indicate that he is dangerous to public safety." The only thing that the refugees have to rely upon against this law is the legal fiction that after the amnesty it cannot be legally said that the con demnations which were " have been." Unfortu nately, if a question were to arise it would never oome before a court of law. The executive in France is its own interpreter of the law in all that concerns the liberty of the subject. It is most de sirable that the French government should make an unequivocal declaration of its intentions. The Daily News, Depress, Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, Bs*, and two or three penny papers were seized to-day. I find by Bullier's Cor respondence that they contain a letter from Louis Blanc, stating that he does not intend to avail himself of the amnesty. I cannot but believe that the officials in M. de la Gaerroniere's office very much mistake the present intentions of the Emperor when they think it necessary to con fiscate the property of subscribers to English journals living in France, for fear of the impression which might be made by the remarks which the amnesty has called forth from &single French refugee. The main ground for the amnesty, as explained by the friends of the government, is that the Emperor, respected abroad and loved and revered at home, now feels himself strong enough to disregard the hostility of that insignificant and powerless minority of Frenchmen whose voices fail to swell the general chorus of admiration of himself and his system of rule which now pervades all France. Under such circumstances it is surely bad policy to confess that a letter by Louis Blanc, written in English, and consequently not understood of the multitude, could possibly be dangerous. The Petrie humorously remarks that the Grand Duke of Tuscany (by the grace of his father's ab di cation), who has come from Florence to Paris in search of a throne, took a very roundabout way, for he passed by tiolferino. The Pays, which, under the direction of M. Granier de Camageac, stands forth as the advocate of all the worst parts of the peace of Villafrantra, ostentatiously contradicts a statement made by several Paris journals, that the son of Leopold 11. oame here " unexpectedly," and asserts that he pre viously wrote to the Emperor, soliciting the honour of an audience, and received a favourable answer horn hie Majesty. By way of giving an indirect contradiction to a sinister rumour to which I alluded yesterday, the Petrie announces that Marshal Niel bas left Paris for Toulouse, to preside at the meeting of the council general, and that Marshal Canrobert will shortly leave for Cation to take the chair in the council general of the Lot. The Roane has been tolerably firm. The Rents rose 15fr. for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 5c., and 69fr. 15c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher. A Berlin letter says :—" We have just been in formed that the Prince Regent will leave for Ostend on the 19th, LI nothing unforeseen oocum meanwhile. This fact seems to indicate that the King's life is not in immediate danger, and that his illness may lsst some considerable " The All England cricketers will be at Brighton on Monday, to meet eighteen gentlemen of Bunn (with two bowlers); and the United at Walsall, whoa the twenty-two have two petfeesionals to help them. On the same day the gentlemen of the Surrey Club and County will be at Leicester, to confront the gentlemen of the Mid land Counties. Shooting men are banging away in earnest on the moon, and all the bolas" abd snug quarters are beteg occupied by ardent sportsman. The accounts, of the birds from the diffirant district* are generally cheerful, and in many parts they are mid to be more plentiful, stronger, and healthier than has ever been known. TILE USE OF HEAVY SERMONS: It appears to tae that in these days of hurried life a great and valuable end is served by a elan of things which all men of late have taken to shoeing—to wit, the extensive clam of dull, heavy, undi tweeting, good, sensible, pious sermons. They afford many educated men almost their only intervals of eraktog Inman. You are in a cool, quiet, solemn place; the sermon ie going ' forward; you have a general Impression that you are helm lag to may good admen and impotent doctrines, and the entire remit upon your mind is beneficial ; and at the rime time time is nothing in the least striking or slanting to dee,roy the ems. of leisure, or to psintuily arouse the atten tion and quicken the pulse. Neither La there • sylleble that can jar on the most fastidious taste. All points mad corners of thought are rounded off. The entire composition Is in the highest degree gentlemanly, scholarly, correct; but you feel that it ia quits impoesibla to attend to And you do not attend to it ; but at the same time you do not quite turn your attention to anything sloe. Now, you remember bow a dying father, once upon • times besought his prodigal son to spend an hour daily in solitary thought ; and what a beneficial re sult followed. The dull sermon may serve an std Sr de sirable. In church you are alone, in the sense of being tatiletwl from all compenions, or from the poseitelity of hold tag boomunkatios with anybody; and the wearisome ser mon, tf utterly useless otherwise, is useful in giving a man time to think, in circumstances which will generally dispose him to think enionsly. There ha a restful feeling, too, fur which you ere the better. It te • Bee thing to feel that church Is • place where, if even for two hours only, you are quite ties from worldly business and cares. You kbow that ad these are waiting for you outside; but at least you are free from their *noel endurance bete. lem persuaded, and I am happy to ente ruin the persuasion, that men are often math the better for being present during the preaching of sermons So which they pay very little attention.—lrarer's 110 f Witt., for August. CRYSTAL PALACZ.— ONE SHILLING FRIDAY, Atlol;aT 19.—Admiasiotia on payment, 3,064 ; dim, by sewn ticker, 340. Total vimitors, 3,424. toy is r; ed awl