The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

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On Aflorsook IL 11k. To-MoheoW—Moraing, Oh. las Attorooos. Ob. Ns. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST N. Tui cholera is declining in London. Day by day the returns of the Rieurrsaa-thersium show a steady diminution in the number of deaths re corded. The disease, after having buret with ahead exceptional violence upon a quarter of the metropolis perhaps the least prepared to withstand its progress, has culminated, end is now folio sing the law of epidemics in gradually but surely lessen ing in its virulence. And if experience taught ua that the subsidence of a local outbreak necessarily signified a disarming of the fatal power of the malady as regards its influence upon the metro polis generally, we might be content to follow the example of some of the local authorities, and believe that, for this occasion at least, there was no fear of an attack upon our particu lar district. But we know that this is not the case. We know from the past history of the disease that the whole mortality from cho lera during an epidemic in a metropolis like ours is made up, not of the results of a single out break, but by a succession of outbreaks in various quarters. So far from the disease spending itself, as it were, by a local visitation, and as a result sparing other districts, we know that the presence of cholera in one quarter is exactly the circum stance which is likely to lead to a repetition of the evil in other parts. There is nothing at all mysterious in thin. The constant communication existing between all parts of the metropolis is a means by which the infection carried from the suffering district is planted in other soils more or less prepared for its reception. The seed is there, ripe and ready for propagation : if it chance to fall upon a favourable spot, it grows with a rapidity far exceeding that of vegetation, and its fruit is gathered in the shape of death. It should be noted, in illustration of this, that up to the present time, although several cases of cho lera have been admitted into nearly all the metro politan hospitals, some of them many miles dis tant from East London, yet, as an almost constant rule, the patients attacked have either recently visited the infected quarter, or have obtained the disease from some member of the family who has taken it in that district. Asyetwe are unable to point to any secondary centre of infection of any con sequence. The attacks have been sporadic, and have run their course without spreading the dis awe. How long this condition may obtain it is out of the power of any of us to say. All that is known of the nature of cholera teaches us but too surely that at any moment the disease thus carried about the metropolis may be the cause of a local outbreak as virulent as that which has ravaged East London. It is far from our wish to create unnecessary alarm, and if a feeling of apprehension were alone to be excited by a reference to the probable danger, it would doubtless be better policy to hide the risk and allow those who were so disposed to bask in the fancied security which is engendered by a gradual diminution of the death-rate. But, in truth, to be alarmed, and to act upon the feeling, is really to meet, and in all probability obviate, the danger. The very fact that secondary outbreaks have not as yet succeeded the severe visitation in the East-end is of itself an assuring circumstance. It does not so much point to any obscure peculiarity in the present epidemic as to the success of the means which attention, now very generally aroused, has been able to provide for the contingency. There can be little doubt that many of the scattered ems referred to have been actually prevented from propagaLing the disease by the employment of measures which apprehension has dictated. Nor is it unreason able to infer that with a continuance and increase of such precautions we may hope to escape future danger. It may be useful to refer here to the dates re presenting the period of greatest mortality in the two last epidemics. In 1849, the disease which bad pervaded London during the winter months, destroying in January 262 person's, in February 181, declined considerably in March, when the mortality was only 73. In April it had so far subsided that nine persons only died. In May the number was 13. In June a sudden increase took place, and 246 deaths were recorded. In July 1,952 persona died of cholera. August found the death rate terribly increased—the number during that month being 4,251. It was not, however, until September that the disease culminated, and 6,644 deaths were registered. In the month of October the rate fell to 464. Comparing with this the record of the epidemic of 1854, we find that in July of that year 410 persons died of cholera. In August this was suddenly increased to 3,366. September saw the unprecedented mortality of 8,992. In October 1,222 deaths were registered. We note here that, although cholera ap peared much earlier in 1849 then it did in 1854 and has done in 1866, yet in each of the two last epidemics the disease did not culminate until September. It is remarkable that in each case the greatest mortality occurred at a precisely similar period—the first week in September. In 1849, 2,026 persons died of cholera during this week ; in 1854, 2,326. Now, it would of course, absurd to found an argument Ton these two instances, and to look for our ''hest mortality at the beginning of next month. ?robabilities, indeed, are much against such .pectation being realised. In each of the epi described the death-rate rose systematically ry week during the summer. On the pre occasion this kind of order has been broken, the rate has been regularly falling during the last weeks. But we cannot lose sight of the fact, that the advance of summer has brought with it an increase of the disease. present visitation of cholera has resembled the which preceded it in the circumstance that is case the disease appeared in the country dur- j i - ! ...:4: 1 1 ) I I , lit if i week ; , be, of 11 upon th • l highest The pro N,. an expet .. , demics • • week by . • Bent ooc . , and the , I ,f • two last I 1 general always The pre two whi I j',) 1 , 0 ' • each ca !I 1 ~^ H THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY ing one summer, asserting As Isnee 'raft* in various quarters, lingered ' dnrthe I to break out with terribly • 'ol the following summer, aqm before us, it would b 6. f iotAx ..,-‘oobost more data than we at present possess, tSit the epidemic of 1866 is to prove a startling exception to those which have already viated us. It would 'be madness to allow ourselves to be influenced by such an expectation, and, lulled into security by a decline which is probably only of a tempo rmy character, to neglect those precautions which can alone give us the right to look forward to such an exemption. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) There are few persons, the Times thinks, who will not sympathies with Mr. Eyre in the circumstances seder which he has returned to England. After many years of arduous publics service, during which he has dia. played many of the qualities which most win the admira tion of Englishmen, he returns in disgrace under the die •ppeoeel of his superiors and dismissed from his post. Under sash circumstances, the great majority of his countrymen would willingly forget the lamentable error for which he has been already severely punished, and remember only the long career in which it Is the only blemish. Bat that they may do this they mast be assisted, to a certain extent, by Mr. Byre him self and by his friends. If his unhappy error in judgment is to pass from the public remembrance, he mud be con tort, u far as possible, to accept the deliberate verdict which has bon passed upon it, and to avoid aide( any atinceemary challenge to public opinion. If Mr. Byre and hie friends persist in proclaiming his absolute faultlessness, it will be necessary, for the sake of public justioe,to persist in urging his fault and to repeat the //ensure it his earned. The proceedings at Southampton are, in the °plaices of the Times, hardly compatible with Mr. Byre's position as a public servant under the censure of the crown, and it contrasts with his conduct that of Sir 0. Darling, who requested to be excused from receiving emigrandatory addresses, and declined the compensation offered to him for the loss of his appointment as Governor of Victoria. The Times is also of opinion that • banquet was a peculiarly unfortunate form of celebrating Mr. Byre's conduct, because, whether aeon/lardy or unossesearily, whether tightly or not, hundreds of misguided people were hanged, shot, flogged, and imprisoned, hundreds of houses were burnt down, and these are not things to boast of, to be recollected with pride or pleasure, to be toasted at public dinners, and recounted for the satisfaction of ladies. But if neither the object nor the manner of this demon stration was fortunate, the Times cannot say more for the speeches with which it was illustrated. With regard to the Bev. Mr. Kingsley, who exhorts us to take Mr. Byre and his conduct upon trust, as " he expected every man to take himself upon trust," the Times ventures to warn him that he will find it dangerous to presume upon such perfect confidence in his intellectual pursuits, and to remind him that his enthusiasm for Mr. Byre should be founded, not upon trait, but upon proof. If these are the strongest arguments which can be urged in Mr. Byre's behalf, the lees his friends say the better. If, observes the Daily New, the eleven hundred persons who were slain or tortured in Jamaica under the authority of Mr. Eyre had suffered only • righteous and necessary retribution, yet the discharge of an office so terrible se that which devolved on Governor Byre is not • theme for compliment and congratulation. A right feeling man would shrink from being feted in connexion with acts of death and devastation. Governor Eyre has not taken this view of the decencies of his position. Censured, after solemn inquiry, by the department to which he owed responsibility, dismissed from office, condemned unani mously, though indirectly, by the House of Commons, he has sought consolation at the hands of the lion.hunters of Southampton, who offer their undiscriminating hero-wor ship to almost every notoriety who sets foot in their port. The presence at the banquet of • military and a naval peer serves to confirm the suspicion which recent events have suggested, that among the admirable qualities for in the two services, • sensitive regard for sivil justice has not • conspicuous place. The Daily News can only express its satisfaction that Lord Hardwicke and Lord Cardigan see in England to welcome Mr. Eyre, and were not in Jamaica to help him. In classic times • banquet of the rich and noble was never complete without its literary parasite ; and this, the Daily News grieves to say, was the part assumed by Professor Kingsley at Southampton. The speech of the Cambridge professor illustrates at once a double evil—the growing subserviency of • considerable portion of the literary class ; and the tendency, which is one of the recognised draw backs to the nmny advantages of • state church, to make clergymen the political flatterers of the governing classes, instead of guardians of the weak and suffering. As to Mr. Eyre himself, he is the least offensive of his own apolo gists, though his self-vindication, too, is but an indirect and unconscious confession of wrong. In the opinion of the Star the banquet to Mr. Eyre at Southampton is perhaps the most shameful fact in our modern history. But if the friends of Mr. Eyre can boast that he was received with open arms by peers, by clergy of the Established Church, and—save the mark !—by ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs in honour of the public officer who permitted women to be flogged with wire cats, and under whose administration womeo, some of them about to become mothers, were hung as rebels—the opponents of Mr. Eyre and his bar barities may well be satisfied that the English people hare shown their abhorrence of cruelty, and their determination to uphold the safeguards of law. The Rev. Charles Kingsley calls the conduct of Mr. Eyre pluck, and wants to make Mr. Eyre a peer. He exhausts the vocabulary to express his admiration of the ruler who could smite • smiling province with desolation and death. It cannot be doubted, says the Post, that the welcome and sympathy which Mr. Byre has received at South ampton express the sentiments of • numerous and influ ential portion of his countrymen. Mr. Byre h as many personal friends ; he is also energetically supported on public grounds by men who are qualified to form an opinion on his conduct in an emergency, and who can ap preciate the spirit by which he was actuated. Add to this that the ex-Governor of Jamaica has been mercilessly calumniated, that fanatical invective and coarse vitupera tion have been vindictively employed to traduce his cha racter, that be has been described as cruel and cowardly, and that he is now threatened with an indictment for murder, and it must be admitted that those who enter tained him on Tuesday evening exercised remarkable and commendable forbearance. At the same time it may be • matter of regret that such • demonstration was in • manner forced upon them by the conduct of the Jamaica committee. • . Its ar t . -,, 4 , this ••.. . I -411 , 10.. • 9 OSBORNE, with n o ut 4 lintel:day aftern with , Najd* wand in iiievrianda this ' with royal higfmeev ' Prince Arthur, attended by jier Elphinstone, left yesterday afternoon, and returned to Greenwich-park. The Honourable Lady Biddolph bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yosterdey: WINDSOR CASTLE, Ana= 2S. Her liajesty, with Prisons Leal" Primrose Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Osborne this afternoon at &quarter past 3 o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle at a quarter before 7. In attendance were Lady Churchill, the Hon. Meads Stopteed, llsier-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, hiajor- General F. H. Beyinour,_Lieutenant-Ccdosel Du Pita, Ifr. Bahl, Mr. Legg. and the Minter of the Household. Princess Victoria and Prinoess Elisabeth of Here, at. tended by Ledy Caroline Barrington, arrived at the Castle at half-past 2 o'clock from Osborne. Lord Begot and the Hon. Mortimer Saariße Wert are the Lard and Groom in Waiting. A deputation, consisting of *NAM Gap, lfaxteed, and Ambrose (repreeentiag the Batterees.parit Sunday Band), Mr. Burney (representing the Steamboats Company), Means. Bushell and Wynn (repreeenting societies et working men in the neighbenrheal of Hyde-park), Yr. J. Baxter Langley (chairman), Mr. Davies (treasurer), Cap win Waassume, Mr. Miamian, Mr. Preece, and Mr. R. Morrell, hon. secretary (of the National Sunday Longue), had as interview with Lord Jan Mammas, at the OMee of her Majesty's Works, &a., yesterday. ENTRY OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT INTO DUBLIN.-(THIS DAY.) (BY inicrala Tzumura.) DUBLLIi, TRIIIIIIDAT MORNING. The Lord Lieutenant, accompanied by the Mar chioness of Aberoorn and family, made his public entry into Dublin to-day. The streets along the reek of the mammies' were greatly crowded. The reception was most respectful, bat there was no entinuessui on the part of the people. ARRIVAL OF TIM QIIKIN AT WlRDSOR.—Yes terday afternoon, her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by Major-General Sir T. N. Biddulph, Lady Churchill, Major-General Seymour, Colonel Du Platt, Ito., left Osborne after luncheon el route for Windsor Castle, which they reached at 7 o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes Christian of Schleswig-Holstein will arrive iu England is • few days from their wedding tour : A great part of the time has been passed in Switserland. The Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth, children of the Prince and Primes' Louis of Heese•Darnistadt, ace about to return hose. It will be remembered that they were conveyed to Eugland when the Prussians were advancing on the right bank of the Rhine. The Marquis of Abercorn, the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, left Chesterfield House yesterday morning for Holyhead, accompanied by Lord George Hamilton and the Ladies Hamilton. On their way the marchioness with Viscount Hamilton, M.P., and Lord Claud Handlton, who have been staying with the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, at Shugborough Park, Staffordshire, were to join them, and would continue the journey to Holyhead. Rear- Admiral Sallie Hamilton WAS of the party, the pliant admiral holding the post of comptroller of the vice.regal household. _ _ The Archbishop of York has left town for Bishopthorpe, near York. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort has arrived at Dupplin Castle, near Perth, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Kinnoull, from Grimston Park, the mat of Lord and Lady Londesboroush, near Tadeaster. _ . The Martinis and Marchioness of Bristol and Ladies Hervey have left their residence in St. James's square for Scotland. The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailesbury has as rived at Grimston Park, on a visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough. The Earl and Countess of Derby are expected to leave town to•slay for Knowsley, near Prescott. The Earl and Countess of Westmorland have joined the party visiting Lord and Lady Londesborough at Griinstan Park, near Tadeaatar, for the ram meeting at York. - -- -- The Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe have arrived at Bowhills, Selkirk, N. 8., on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, from the Earl and Counter of Lichfield's seat in Staffordshire. The Earl of Craven has been attacked with parr lysis ►t Scarborough, where his lordship wee staying. It is almost needless to say that his serious illness has occa sioned much alarm to the members of his family, most of whom h►ve assembled ►round him in consequence of his illness. The Countess (Dowager) of Mount-Edge-limbo and Lady Ernestine Edgcumbe have arrived at the Countess (Dowager) Brownlow's residence, Belton Lodge, Torquay. Lady Egerton of Tatton and the Hon. Min Egerton are announced among the fashionable arrivals at Torquay. . . -- - . Baron Ludovic de Potesta has arrived at Cataldi's Hotel, Dover-etreet, from Belgium. Sir Henry Ingilby and friends had good sport on his moors kat week. His party, consisting of four inns, killed in four days 268 brace of palm We have to announce the death, after a very abort illness, of Selina, widow of the late Sir Robert Fits• Wygram, Bark. The deceased lady, who war in her 76th year, was a daughter of the late Sir John Hayes, Bart. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. Commenting on the reception given to Cardinal Cullen in Dublin, the Times observes that this honour has been a very natural and very innocent festivity; it hoe dons' nobody whatever any harm. What can be more proper than that the Iridt portion of the Roman church should have its share of the honours of that church ; and if it gets them, what can there be more legitimate than a pub. lie congratulation of the fortunate eecleaiutio who has been chosen for them ? A large and popular communion ought to be allowed its full natural expression of feeling without any jealous or anti comments ; such expressions not only give pleasure at the time, but promote perma nent good ; they att will people to the country which sym pathises with such liberty, and they tend to make the Irish better citizens and more contented men. The Daily New, writing on the subject of the Atlantic gable, remarks that in consequence of the imperfection of the electric wire, between New York and Heart's Content the brilliant working of the Atlantic cable is but partially understood. The Daily News believes it was yesterday decided by the directors that the AngloAmericenCornpany shall publish en official =swage from Newfoundland every day. In an enterprise of this national importance it will not be out of place to let the cable speak periodically for itself, and so allow the country to disinterestedly partici pate in the triumphs of its promoters. ItiAzzncr.—The Florence correspondent of the Meets, writing es the 19th, says:—" Yesterday arming. tke Officio, Gamete published a general amnesty decree, which Includes Mazzini and the remaining Aspromont• offenders. It had long been tacitly agreed that Marini should be amnestied. I3e nay, therefore, take his net in the Chamber, if he thinks fit. DEATH OP THE REVEREND PROFERSOR GROVE. We regret to announce the death of the Bev. John Grote, 8.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge Driver sity, and one of the senior fellows of Trinity Oolkige. He died at the vicarage at Trumpington on Tuesday last. The deceased, who was 53 years of age, graduated at Trinity College in 1835, the year when Dr. Cotterill, Bishop of Graham's Town, was senior wrangler, Mr. Goulburn being second wrangler, second classic, and second Smith'. (mathematical) prizeman. Mr. Grote was second senior optime in the mathematical tripos (bracketed) and sixth classic. He was soon after elected fellow of his college, and continued so to his death, when he was fourth in seniority. He was elected to the professorship of moral philosophy in 1855, on the resignation of the late Dr. Whewell, and occupied the chair to his death. In 1847 he was presented by the society of Trinity College to the vicarage of Tirumpington, and by the inhabitants of this place be was deeply beloved; indeed his cordial and genial nature and open-hearted and open-handed ben.- ' volence endeared him to all ranks and circles. The immediate cause of death was an affection of the lungs, caused by a severe attack of diphtheria experienced some three months ago. Mr. Grote was a younger brother of the illustrious historian of Greece. THE LATE PRINCE Di CONDE. —The funeral, at Sydney, of this young prince, the eldest son of the Due d Aumale, was attended by the Governor of New South Wales, the Premier, and other high functionaries, Sir W. Wiseman, and aloes of the army and navy in full uniform. The shops of Sydney generally were closed, the flags of the consulates kilt-masted, the streets thronged. The prince was on a tour through Aertralasia and the East, and appeared to improve in health while at Sydney, not withstanding a cold caught on a fishing excursion. But he was naturally of a weakly constitution, and the news of the death of his grandmother, Marie Amelie, ex-Queen of the French, produced a physical prostration from which be never recovered. On the morning after the funeral the coffin containing the body of the prince embalmed, and a small silver box in which his heart was enclosed, were placed in a cue and removed on board the ship Sea Star for England. The prince was in his 21st year. guff DAT BANDS IN HYDE PARK.—Yesterday afternoon a deputation attended on Lord John Manners, the Commissioner of Public Works, at his office in White hall. Mr. Morrell said the deputation waited upon his lordship with a twofold object ; one, to obtain a more suitable platform and site for the band in Bat tersear-park which was visited every Sunday eveeing by thousealt of persons from all parts of Louden • and to obtain his consent to the playing of a bead in Hyde Park on the Sunday evenings, and the erection of a suitable = o m rn there. Others having spokes, Lard John mid be was happy be be able to sonfirm from personal observation, having attended en several mammas the performances of the bands in the parks, the remarks made ea to the good and orderly conduct of the people attending. With regard to the application respect ing -park, he should feel much pleasure to Gerry 'rig into effete the promise made by his predinemor. to Hyde Park, which was differently situated from the I other garks, the subject should receive his moat careful and Ulises/ eonsidsration. .G, AUGUST _Aill3T INTELLIfaiIe.. —.____. • A : ! •' A .. (exurea's rez.zoassials -POSSIA AND S 4" . . , 0e....5• VI . Auoulp 23. The documents relating to the resigns*in of Baron von Beuat, the Saxon Minister for Forelgn Affairs, have been published here. Baron von Beust, in his letter to the King, requesting to be relieved of his functions, states as his reason for so doing that Prussia refused to allow him to take part personally in the peace negotiations, whereby he was confirmed in his supposition that he himself might stand in the way of an understanding with Prussia. The King of Saxony, in replying to Baron von Beust, expresses in cordial and flattering terms his recognition of the services rendered by that minister, and only accedes to his request on account of the important political reasons he had himself assigned, and which demanded the sacrifice of the King's personal wishes for the oountry's good. His Majesty concludes by assuring Baron von Beust of his lasting gratitude, affection, and esteem. BAVARIA AND PRUSSIA. MUNICH, Agotter 23. The territories to be ceded by Bamako to Prussia comprise the districts of Ord, Gerefeld, Hilters, and Mann, mitoated in Lower Franconia. These districts contain in all 40,000 inhabitants. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. FLORENCE, Ammo 22 (Byrom). News received here from Padua states that the Austrians continue to remove national relics and objects of art from Venice, particularly from the arsenal. 2,500 Italian prisoners have arrived at Udine, having been released by the Austrians. BERNE, Alm= 23. The Federal Council, having received assurances of the maintenance of peace, has abolished the pro hibition upon the export of horses, and the other measures that had been taken to preserve Swiss neutrality. ROME. ROME, Allow! 22. Count Sartorius de San Luis had an audience of the Pope to-day, in order to present his creden tials as Spanish ambassador to the Roman coin L. MALTA. MALTA, At overr 22. • The prohibition upon the importation of cattle into Malta from the regency of Tunis has been removed. JAPAN. (Via Malta.) SHANGHAI, Juts 6. The new Japanese Convention takes effect from the let July. The new tariff will come into opera tion at Yokohama on the same date, and at the other open ports on the lit August. Bonded ware houses are to be established in all the open ports. _ . The Japanese government is deairowi of making favourable arrangements for the eic.hange of foreign into native coin. _ . Japanese subjects are free to buy every descrip tion of shipping except war vessels. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Auoverr 23. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Germania from New York on the 11th inst., arrived this morning, with 69 passengers and 4,00 dots. in specie for Hamburg On the 13th she passed the steamer Bavaria, Trn the 20th the ship Benin, and on the 22nd, off Start Point, the Ham_ burg barque Condor. INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS. POINT DE GALLE, Aocusr 10. The Menageries Imperiales steamer Alph6e left here to-day with the inward India, China, and Japan mails. She has on board 70 passengers and 1,700 packages of merchandise. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ors °wit conassroNDzarr.) PARIS. WIIDNESDAT EVENTNG. The money article of La Presse, speculating on the causes of the fall at the Bourse, says :—" Many pieces of news were in circulation. We shall wait for their confirmation before reproducing them." I do not find any allusion to this mysterious news in any other quarter, and, so far as I can learn, there has not been " much," but remarkably little news in circulation. _ _ _ The Patric contradict& the story it circulated yesterday, and which I repeated with incredulity, that France contemplated raising difficulties, by an appeal to universal suffrage, in the way of the annexation of Venice to Italy. It now says that as Francis Joseph ceded Venetia directly to Napo leon lIL , so the latter will cede it directly to Victor Emmanuel ; "whatever measures of detail may ultimately follow will emanate from the govern ment at Florence." The Princess Mathilde leaves Paris this evening for her villa near Milan. It is confirmed that the Emperor and Empress are going toßiarritz in the first week in September. The very absurd story is told by the Gauge du Midi that the French transports about to sail from Cherbourg with the view (as it was supposed) of bringing French troops home from Mexico, are in reality to carry out reinforcements in order to " make an end of the Juarista." This would be contrary to all the indications of the Emperor's policy which we have here. The Emperor and Empress again paid a visit to the Empress Char lotte to-clay at the Grand HoteL At the Bourse Rente fell 32,c. for caah and 10c. for account, closing at 68fr. 90c., and 69fr. Mobilier fell Mr. Italian rose 30c., closing at 53fr. 35c. The Moniteur de r Armee gays :—"TheEmperor has decided that the soldien of all arms of the guard and of the line, whose time expires in 1886, shall be sent home on the Ist September, and inscribed on the lists of the re serve." " It is announced," says the Opinion Nationale, that between the present time and the middle of Sep tember, that is to say, in lees than a month, the manufac tories of arms of the French government will have deli vered to the army 200,000 breech-loading muskets." The Indipendanee Beige says :—" At present the Germanic Diet, the ghost of which still remains at Augs burg, has not pronounced its own dissolution. Its existence in feat has just received a fresh convocation by the arrival of a representative of Spain who, now that Russia has withdrawn her minister, represents in his own person the diplomatic corps accredited to the old Germanic GARIBALDI.—We read in the Diritto of Monday: —" It bas been rumoured that General Garibaldi intends to withdraw to Carers. We know, on good authority, that the general is resolved to remain at his post." THE Naw CHOP or AMERICAN COTTON.—Private aonaineveial advbies state that the cotton crop is progress lag favourably, the weather in all par te of the country having been highly advantageous. The alabaster of the yield vary very much, but those mod reliable place it at from 1,800,000 to 2,000,000 bales. ARMLIKE. Barometric presume continued rath Central and Eastern Europe. but fn the siderahly, 'Minx to 30.1 in. at Christian of the British Isles, an area of conipar pears to mast A considerable fall of n west of Ireland, and about the entre. winds have freshened from the lout ea er low yesterday over North Itcreased ors in. D 4. fotiiiveitiniztl [rely low pressure ap has occurred hi the e to She Channel the . ROBBERY OF &LYLE. PLATE AT AN HOTEL.— On Monday afternoon a fashionably-dressed man, carrying a large black glazed leather bag, entered the Royal Rail way Hotel, Folkestone, and ed tea and a (shop, with a bed for the night. He then requested to be shown to his bedroom, to refresh himself with a wash. His desire was complied with, and he was shown upstairs to a room on the first door. This chamber, it seems, opened into* corridor, at the end of which was a room containing a large cabi net, in whlcit the silver plate and other valuables of the establishment were kept. In about half an hour the gentleman cams down, carrying the black leather bag with him, which he had taken upstairs. As he passed the bar he mentioned that he was going out on business for half an hour. Several hours passed away without the return of the " traveller," when it just struck the landlady to go upstairs and bee whether all was safe. On going into the room where the plate had been left, she found that the cabinet bad been broken open, and the whole of the plate, amounting in value to about 701., abstracted. In one drawer in the cabinet there were two gold watches, several diamond rings, and other articles of jewellery, altogether valued at about 4001. This drawer, however, fortunately escaped the notice of the traveller, who, it need @overly be remarked, did not come back for his "tea and chop." FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT RllNooll24.—Thin morning (Wednesday) about a quarter past 9, as the steam yacht belonging to Mr. Buxton, of Daresbnry Hall, was leaving the Old Quay Basin, at Unworn, the boiler, from some cause at present unknown, exploded. At the time of the explosion the yacht was in the lock leading from the second or tidal basin at the Old Quay, Runcorn, into the Mersey, and was about to praised thence to Liver pool. Captain Wakefield was at the helm and had just given the order, " Ease her," Tillie the boiler burst, was blown over the tidal basin, and fell upwards of 100 yards off against a stone wall, a portion of which it knocked down. The engineer, John Walker, and his wife were blown into the air, and the head of the latter fell on the south side of the lock, and her body on the north side. A female friend who was on board was also killed. James Lee, the dock-gate man, was struck in the forehead and fell down insensible, bleeding profusely. Ho was carried home, where be lies in a very precarious eon dition. Henry Pegg, steward of the steamer, is very badly melded. George Dutton, the male, has one of Ms lags broken, and a young man named Joseph Shepherd who was on board is also slightly injured. Captain Wakefield, who WAS at the helm and in charge of the vowel, received a slight cut on the chin and a bruise on the right arm. The entire deck and fittings of the vessel were blown into thousands of pieces and scattered on the quay, but the hold has sustained very little injury. The whole of the medical men in the town were quickly on the spot, and rendered all the assistance they coultL—Weeeinent Getooline. 1 • • d 71. AMERICA. urine.) • hs City of Boston.) •NSW YORIC, Ammer 11, Noos. The deleetea to the National Union Convention are arriving daily in large numbers at Philadelphia. They comprise some of the most eminent men of the country. Ex-Governor John Bigler is one of the California delegation. New York is represented in part by General Dix, Hon. Henry J. Raymond, Hon. Sanford E. Church, and Samuel J. Tilden. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and Ex-Governor Pratt are among the Maryland delegates ; and among the lifamachussets delegates are Hon. Robert C. Win throp, Hon. George Ashman, and John Quinoey ' Adams, a son of Charles Francis Adams. It is believed that General Dix will be elected chairman of the convention. A serious riot has occurred at Helena, Arkansas. The accounts thus far received are very meagre, but it seems that a coloured regiment became mutinous, fired upon white citizens, and threatened to burn the town and kill all the inhabitants. Great alarm prevailed, and people were flying to planes of security. The President has ordered an immediate report of the affair from officials on the spot. General Baird has been superseded in command of Louisiana by General Stoneman. The cholera has greatly abated in New York and Brooklyn, but is increasing in other places. There were 49 deaths from cholera yesterday in Cincinnati, and 24 deaths in New Orleans. The Loyal League, which organisation has been partially abandoned since the suppression of the rebellion, has been revived in Illinois, for election purposes, under the auspices of the radicals, who have n 3ev entire control of the organisation in that State. General Logan, who is a radical candidate for Congress in Illinois, is stumping that State in his own behalf. In a recent speech at Springfield he violently abused Pre3ident Johnson, who, he said, had been made President by Booth, and who was anxious to carry out the principles of his only original constituent. Logan declared that Mr. Johnson had a black heart and brain, and only desired to serve treason. He (Logan) was in favour of making negroes citizens. He would never for give the rebels, and thought they should be treated with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other. He, for one, would never forgive those who had fought against the Union. The final report of Generals Steedman and Ful lerton of their investigation of the affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau in the Southern States has been published in full. Its substance has been from time to time previously furnished. The re port says of the present contract system of labour at the South : The system now enforced by the Herten is simply slavery in a modified form. What is the difference to the negro whether he is sold for five dollars or for five thousand, for thirty years to thirty masters, or for thirty years to one master I It is involuntary servitude in either case ; and • practical defeat of the emancipation proclamation of the lamented President Lincoln. If the freedman leaves work to seek better wages he is waded as • vagrant and put to labour with ball and chain. If he leaves the plantation to visit a friend it is made • penal offence, and a fine of 50 dole. is im posed. If he refuses to work he is arrested by the Bureau Marshal and sold for • few dollars to the nearest planter. The only remedy against a white man for a breach of contract is a snit for damages, said we can see no reason why the same remedy should not be applied and conceded in the arse of the black man. The freedman has nothing to sell but his labour, and we are strongly of the opinion that he ought to be permitted to obtain for it the highest price it will bring. If he is a free man it is neither just nor lawful for any person to as sume control of him, and certainly not more just or lawful for an officer of the Freedmen's Bureau to do so than for • Southern planter. The report shows that negroes working inde pendently of the Bureau contract system receive generally three or four times as much for their labour as those who work under the contract system. The planters always give the preference to ne groes hiring under private arrangement. WEATHER REPORT. -(THIS DAY.) All O -111 2 22. 9 L*. 1 8. IT. W. 1b,. --- w. 7 w. B. it s. ----- N temberd... .b. ~ N. I. R.E .g. 1 21 1 N.N.W. 11 2. 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The instance the prosecution was appear, and the evidence upon which th e relied was entirely collected from witsan a • defence. 31.33coaventum, one of Nat llemesees su n deposed that he bad a large Mama skit recommended to go to the defendant, up* dreamed the place four times Ida aon which the tumour entirely w e b s , f or merly a trumpeter in the mil pegs ; n s. a keeper in the Bois ( 1 4 Beaks... Nig h comptecely awe d h i eight days of a wee Mt the neck. N. Leon Vrignanit, a patho s' res pectable midden of an attache to Me rise, deposed as follows :—" I had en merle 41 - 4 the ear about the Mee of en egg. I esosalledtlesi nt , doctors, and nee with no Mid. A * doctor tried as application, which al Dished the swelling considerably, h u e 6 : 4 of a week it became as big as ever. R s gi n 4 4 I had ns alternative bat to submit to es Imes* to ' Pire Louis,' who to his certain kr**. cure d many of limiter things. I went to the ea n4 secer di n ely and be applied his wash to the pea g me a little pain but did no harm to my m o d h z The tumour, although leer, not Livia, 4814 _ 11 Vie a ppeased, I spin consulted my family go t ok t allopethist), and he mid that after the already obtained I wild not de h i sh i f i ; continue under N. Louie. I remmenimet s Saturday; he applied the web rph-i: morning, and lem going on very well" The i n t IL voeste, Paul Lefebvre, said the witness' flirty had completely made out the ebarge. 11 did id % how suoceedul the defendant might hats kai, acts described eonstituted essentially the no : of the medical art, and, am he ins AIW A he must be condemned. M. Temedike, esr for the defence, submitted that to mem a It s or other excremenee wee no mar P Mae than cutting a corn. He proceeded to lien marvellous account of the way in which hie did become poaaemed of the secret which Lased ht I benefit of humanity. He had been ice forty r an " herd, and had observed that his Mem carefally seen from touching a certain plant which marl le he m mint to them. On one occasion whoa he Masi Ire some lambs, it occurred to him as • geed waybil l them from sucking to tie some leaves al tlik ei tt the teats of the mothers. The doves I to his astonishment, the teats shrivelleleedkildtt a few days ! He happened at the time to ems abmi at the tip of his nose. Reasoning by MAIM he G N it probable that this herb would get rid of bk wet ,I did, and this wee the origin ot hi met learned counsel read a letter from a priest, " IYt vent," living at No. 5, Vieux Chem* I Nelin certifying that' Pelee Louis" had relieved iim 4i, on the nom. For all these illegal cane the Mat kneed M.Lonis to pay a fine of 151 r., a pealineti will certainly not deter him from oontimieg hiimi THE LOSS OP THE MUTSU The fears entertained that !limner. nmIN gen loot in the wreck of the Bruiser, lidsteamer, steamer, off Aldberough, than the Mersa mane confirmed. A Mrs. Mendorusky, • Gem" man children, were known to be on board, sad WNW heard of. Captain Harty, the ooromander d tisk from the description given of them by then kiwis, distinct recollection ot seeing the wessanwilk tea on deck during Sunday. She wen on briny Is YI band, who is lodging at Mr. Morris's, No. 7, H street, Commercial-road-east. It has she beau that a young man named Stone woe le pee drowned. The lady who was pickedd Neel Perseverance and landed at Yarmouth a Wm lb Bewley. She was in her nightdress only, sad en injured. Her luggage has been washed alien at forwarded to her last evening. The Tnetiplimsse have caused a peen buoy to be mowed ow lb where the Bruiser went down, and Centel' Sr arrived at Aldborough, in comply with enes aye divers. to explore the wreck. If the wailer es fine to-morrow, they will commence cossalices si and it is expected they will be able to mow red cargo. The chief mate (Mr. Scott) who bed el ep Bruiser at the time of the aosident rensiasi ea lie uatil the water cosnmenoed flowing over the deka ran aft, and along with several oars iambi boat. The next moment the ship west dem the only boat of the Bruiser launched. ne ordered all the lashings of the other been se le cut, which wadi done, so the. they might list d vessel mak, and be the means of wing Ns. RZWA&DB TO • LITZDOAT'S Cages.-11t 1 Emperor has presented a first-claw geld mu tie.t. to Mr. N. Leven, oonwaio of the St Ind belonging to the National Lifeboat Inetitotio, mi class silver medal and certificate to each of the new, ing of eight men, of the lifeboat, in acknorledgml very noble and persevering services in rvisg t ars Use, four men belonging to the bri g Prema I villa, Franoe, which was wreckedlut winterising storm on Hoyle Bar, Cornwall. When ism tie making a complete breach over the werck,end tM supposed to be in the rigging. The St. Ives RIO Royal National lifeboat Iruititutio, was st orb In mooing the bar with the drogue or dreg beg which carried her safely over two heavy orfes sea broke over her stem, and, the drogues from the immense strainonit,she fiewbefire surf in almost a perpendicular position, end , bow under water broached to and upset. Sharon) righted, andallhercrew managed to geton bond. grapnel, anchor and rope wereloet,andtworangi e Although rowing four oars only, the crew pearl contrived to get her under the lee of the vote), il the French brig Providence, bound from Cardiff it with coal. With a heavy sea and strong oisr however, the lifeboat's crew found it is a l on gside. Nearly an hoar passed in SPEW French crew to send a rope by means of a ses the coterie 1 4 sad when this at last was done, haul on board the life-buoy, intending to new off through the water, but he could not on un derstood. Two of the crew now ends:snare! the lifeboat by means of the connecting rope being dragged on board, and the other o n eswas five yarda, when a fearful sea broke ou the ka the boat and upset her a second time. She SI etently,but the poor fellow who was on nerving and was never seen again. The other held fenr and the crew once more got into her without emil communication with the vessel had not been bre the lifeboat again hauled up as near u pct The captain and the remaining two men thee tee boat when the second wave capsized them. fearful sea the lifeboat was hastily hauled nod three men were most fortunately picked up. T the lifeboat landed at Hoyle thoroughly arks more heroic service was perhaps never render. boat. In admiration of it a local 000trilotioo to present a suitable acknowledgment of their be endurance to the lifeboat's crew, in additive te tl of the Lifeboat Institution, cons i s ti n g of • sa, and 21. to the ooxswain, and a beautiful Wawa monied and 21. to each man of his brave new. Bui ld HOLES AND BATNISIL was held at Hampton on Tuesday, b e f o re Rs .1 0 on the body of Franci Emme, aged 19, sled s drowned aloe to the towing-path es r alW Junction Waterworks. The d 54° his brother, was on his way for a Mi td n and they went to bathe about 8 o'clock ia of Sunday. Neither of them wen e e iWt. and so kept near the shore, the 01 . 3 X keeping aloe behind deconaL After , distance Francis Emma began to of °"" brother who at once caught hold of Ides es sh The deposed grasped hie brother n a eck or , e. but soon relinquished his hold, and e the water. His brother got to the bank, and montane* ; Snell, a fisherman, mune Led the body. Kr. Holberton, surgeon, wit see the authorities at the wiiterworks tent is wale battery, but life could not be stated that at the spot w here the modal the water is shallow for a short distance fro and then suddenly s helves down some 12 B°r I the bed there uids in ballast holes. eff the watermen have no printed instruction Imo to restore animation after submersion is w'W no caution boards were exhibited as • ousig, The coroner said he would mill the attention of Conservancy to the necessity of probing a' tr, , owe, and would send down some copies et cases of drowning for distribution. Thee o verdict of "Accidental death," end expsso" " that the ballast holes should be marked s towb.' A sunfish was captured o ff Gardenc Banffshire coast on Friday lot. The moor The fish s and eecnredby the salmon fishers. feet seven inches, and is estimated !S..* 12 cwt. The liver wedgbed2 9 iblh , sad f> of oil. McCormick, who was condemned to 63 last Liverpool assizes for the murderer of Welsel, been reapited. Wiles the murd XoC,ormick was intoxicated.