The Express. — London, England, 1866-07-21 00:00:00

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But if silence would be so dangerous, it would seem that speaking must also have its perils, since it is always possible that we may say not tho right word but the wrong one. The noble lord has a theory, that while it is the special business of the House of Commons to look ' after the resources of the country, it is that of the House of Lords to guard its great principles of duty and policy—s, division of functions which the noble lord certainly did not learn from history. Looking at the state of Europe, Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE sees a dissolvent principle at work, effacing old landmarks and destroying old rights. That is true, but can he not see a constructive principle at work I Vast populations, conscious of a community of character and interest, which diplomatists have persistently disregarded, are overturning the barriers which kept them weak and insignificant, and are joining one another, in order to realise a nobler and more fruitful national life. We should all have been glad if the wise and great diplomatists of our times had understood this prime necessity of Europe—the consolidation of interests which never ought to have been divided—and had honourably associated their names with it. A few have done so, and history will repeat their names with honour. Others have preferred to spend their lives in propping up worn out States, held together by the sword. These latter, in a state of perpetual anxiety for the pre carious work of man, are the first to cry out against that of Gov and nature. Lord STRATFORD DZ RIDCLIFFB think' that it may not be possible for us to arrest the progress of events ; but if it were possible, is there anyone who would take the responsibility of doing sot Prin ciples of morality, he says, have been violated by Prussia. That is only too true. The mingled fraud and violence which have marked Count Bismaacx's policy can neither be concealed nor excused ; they are open to every eye and revolt every mind. But he must have taken a very su perficial view of recent events who can see in them nothing but a plot of Count BISMARCK'S. The occasion, the time, the manner, may be of his arrangement; but the forces at work, and the end to be attained, were neither created nor appointed by him. Germany has been for years waiting and calling for union, and it takes it when it can get it—even from Count Bismaitcx. As long as pub lic opinion tells every petty sovereign that he will dishonour himself if he gives up his rights, however necessary their surrender may be for the welfare of mankind, so long will war be the only means of effecting such a union as we now see taking place in Germany. Lord STRATFORD DR RIDCLIFFE asks when the new principle of nationality is to stop I At the line where the nation stops. We thought the Prussian Government had sufficiently answered the question the other day when it declared that it could not make the cession of Bohemia a condition of peace because that country was not German. But Lord STRATFORD DR REDCLIFFIS sees another danger. The principle of Nationality leads to the invocation of foreign aid. Italy has called for the dangerous assistance of a foreign Power. And what of the principle of Anti-nationality Can that maintain itself without similar help ? Look at Austria, prostrate at the feet of Russia in 1849, and of France a fortnight ago. A nation may need aid in attaining unity ; but in that unity lies the seat of the strength by which it afterwards maintains its independence. Lord Sramegio DE CLIME also thinks that there ought to be scene security for " existing territortsr afilmgem else Europe may at any momete e we : de posed se' greatest dangers. We hope, peace of Europe will rest on some better basis than the connection of Venice with Austria and the distribution of Germany into thirty-five sovereign States, arrangements once approved by the diplomacy of Europe, but bad enough to be come the cause of war at any time. lad no time tothin.% of Austria, or to remedy abdis Gad IIuTY air reforms in Aistris, bemuse they bye kiss f gprupied in wing up # the ingrigues of the Gunn" earns and . The ggrobable ha the 4riumphs • now 011 some . the 4 lerfillOilsteed of Ming confine& At ku e of political students, and Prussia is see be the c - pion and representative of Germany. Lc ' Stanley will have an easy task in satisfying the Prussian government that England has no desire to perpetuate the subdivision of Germany. In diplomatic communications it is not necessary to express sentimental predilections, or to assign romps for a poliey which is in itself perfectly intelligible. It would be unpardonable to insult Austria in her distress, or to triumph over the humiliation of the petty princes ; bat when almost all intelligent Englishmen rejoice in the progress of German unity, the Foreign Minister has no need to maintain a grudging °oldness. The two muses of danger against which it is necessary to guard in negotia tions are a possible threat against Melgium and the re opening of the Eastern question. There is no probable aggression of Prussia, of Austria, or of Italy, which would compromise English interests. If other powers in vade the territory of unoffending neighbours, new ques tions will arise. In the meantime it will be prudent to avoid too intimate an identification of English policy with the diplomacy of Franoe. To keep the arduous position she will have won, Prussia mast unfortnnetely, sags the Zzaisiest, be always ready to fight. That implies a military mon arehy, armed to the teeth, its services, liberties, and will concentrated in one hand. We shall have thus another of those Frankendeina, a military monster empire in the middle of Europe. Bismarck means nothing else, sad perhaps this is necessary in order to fight the two, one on either side of it, as well as whatever may survive of Aus tria. However neeessary, it is not a pleasant prospect. We should have wished to see German unity accom plished ander other conditions. But if the people of North Germany like it—if they are ready to barter civil freedom for military supremacy, what can we say f We can only shrug our shoulders in silence. The ruling of Badows, the Examiner greatly fears, will prove the re. quiem of all representative and isonskitutional systems in Germany. The Spectator protests against an article in the Beferday Besimeof last week against Berl Russell—an 'Miele whishwee not merely petty and spiteful, but petty and spiteful with. out that amount of common candour and common sense with which men of the world usually season their bit terest attacks, since they know that, except by the help of snob candour and sense, they fail to obtain an attentive hearing for their most telling searcamm. It is not because the Spectator believes that this very savage and yet rather feeble attack on Lord Russell will get much serious con sideration from the public that it wishes to say a few worts in answer to it on a statesman who has earned so many great claims on our gratitude, in spite of the serious political blunder, ot which he has undoubtedly been guilty. But each an attack as this—so furious and so blind—reminds the Spectator of the public duty of showing our greater statesmen some gratitude while they live, and not reserving it altogether for their obituaries. If the feeble-forcible invective of the Sat ur day Revive had been published on occasion of Lord RUa mella's death, all England would have been indignant. We cannot see why it should be less resented because it happens to appear at a moment when the subject of it is still capable of feeling pain from the literary vitriol thrower, than it would be if the burning and blinding Raid had been sprinkled over a corpse. No doubt in some qualities Lord Russell was Lord Palmerston's in brim., but compare the substantial achievements of the two statesmen, nay, compare even their political chansetars apart from their achievements, and . . it is naively possible to hesitate for a moment as to which of the two weighs the heavier in English history. There was a wire of popular creed at the bottom of Lord Russell's most sucoessfal Foreign-oak. achievements which was wanting is Lord Palmerston's, whose creed was never half so strongly and vividly cleaned, or based on strong genuine principle, se Lord Russell's. But if we turn away from foreign policy, who can doubt far a moment that Lord Russell has achieved far more that is durable for England than his great contemporary, and again for the same reason, because there is more liberal root in him by far than there ever was in Lord Palmerston. the Court. OSBORNE, JULY 20. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with the Princesses. General Peel returned to London yesterday. The Hon. Mn. Wellesley arrived in the afternoon, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, rode out on horseback yesterday forenoon. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat Honour- able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council-chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the public health. The lords present were—The Lord President, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Sir Stafford Northoote, the Right Hon. H. T. L Con 7, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. Mr. Simon, Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Lumley attended. A deputation from the West Riding of Yorkshire, con sistingof Mr. Wiekham,M.P.,Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards, M.P., Mr. Waterhouse, M.P., Mr. Beecroft, M.P., Mr. John Hamerton (clerk of the peace), and Mr. B. Dixon (deputy clerk of the peace), had an interview with the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, at the Howe-Aloe yesterday, on the subject of the allowances in erimiaal prosecution' at quarter sessions in the West Riding, and on the salary of the clerk of the peace. Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh dined with the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland last evening at Chiswick. A select party had the honour to meet the royal guests. After dinner there wee a dance, at which upwards of 200 of the elite of society were present. The Countess of Eglington gave birth to s daughter on the 17th inst., at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. The countess and infant are progressing favourably, Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty, has appointed his son. Mr. John Blaney Pakington, to be his private secretary, and Mr. Herbert W. Domvile and Mr. James Noel, his sasistant•secretaries. The Hera ld says :—" A County Conservative Registration Association on a large male is being formed in London, and we are given to understand that the leaders of the party and large numbers of the principal conserva tives throughout the country have already aignified their intention of supporting it." The Dieppe regatta, which was to have taken piece on the 12th August, has been postponed until the 2nd September, as the former day has been fixed for the benediction of the belle of one of the churches. The France Medicate confirms in the following terms a statement made by the Union Medicate on the subject of the cholera having appeared in the French capi tal :—" We regret to announce the reappearance of cholera at Paris. Some cases are reported in private houses, but it unhappily is certain that amongst the admissions lately at the Hotel-Dieu, the lariboissiire, Beaujon, Necker, and Saint-Louis, there were persons attacked by the disease." The tunnel of Breval, upon the line from Paris to Cherbourg, having fallen in two days back, the traffic was completely stopped on that section of the road, and passengers from Paris to Trouville and the adjacent coast have to pass by the Bonen line as far as Oiesel, whence they take the new branch to Serquigny. VISIT OF THE PILLNCE OP WALES TO DIIIIRODIN CASTLE. —The long-promised visit of the Prince and Prin cess of Wales to Dunrobin Castle. the Scottish seat of the Duke of Sutherland, will, it is said, positively take place this autumn. An enthusiastic reception, we need hardly say, will greet them from all classes of the people, from their graces of Sutherland down to the htunbleet cottager. —lnverness Courier. Caatrow CLus.—The committee of the Carlton have passed a resolution to allow the members of the Junior Carlton the use of their club-house in Pall-mall . . 17os the alterations at their temporary club-horse in Waterloo-place. As its a rule of the Carlton not to admit friends of members, the members of the Junior Carlton will have to dispense with this, privilege whilst they use the Carlton Club House, so kindly placed at their dis port The new club-house of the Junior Carlton will be ready in about three years' time.—iferald. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1866. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPE• DITION. tram otra SPIOUJ. ooaansrosesss.) TOILHOMMKRUM BAY AMY 19(1 A few hours more, and the Great Esabern have pad out the whole of the cable in the dt tank, and will proceed with the coil stowed in tank forward. The contents of the main or mid tank will not be touched until the other two are emptied ? eo that when 840 miles of cable are laid, the paying out will be from the opposite end of the ship to now. The object of thus skipping, as it were, over the 864 miles stowed in the centre of the great vessel, is to preserve as far as possible a level keel. This is one of the essentials in cable laying, and as a large proportion of the contents of the main tank will rennin Untouched while those fore and aft are emptied, water is pumped into the Great Eastern as rapidly as the cable leaves her. But for this she would now be considerably down by the head, instead of in the good trim which enables her to proceed so satisfactorily and re gularly with her great work. Up to the present the cable has been carried direct from its resting place to the machinery at the stern, and from thence into the ocean. Now it must be brought along the trough running from stem to stern on the deck of the Great Eastern, and when the watchers pass the word that the last of the huge rings of rope in the aft tank is about to be paid out, both mechanicians and cattle hands will be on the alert to see that the portion of line be tween tank and tank runs freely along the paying out trough, and that the transfer is properly made. The immense length of the Great Eastern makes this one of the many critical points in the expedition. Fortunately it will occur, according to present cal culations, about 3 to-morrow afternoon, and dark ness will not be added to the minor risks inevitably attending so long a " lead" from tank to sea. The first 226 miles laid after the splice with the shore end were guarded by French charcoal iron wire, which is less strong, but cheaper than any other, and is used for comparatively shallow depths of water. Next came 267 miles of the cable not used last year, while the remaining 346 miles are covered with the galvanic wire and Manilla twist so frequently described. The whole of the 670 miles now to be paid out from the fore tank are likewise the present cable of 1866. When this is laid, and the paying out from the main tank com mences, the first 217 miles will be also of this cable, while the remaining 647 miles in the middle tank are thus made up-165 miles covered with charcoal iron wire, and 482 miles of the cable of 1865. Out of the tot al! 2,376 miles of deep sea cable which the Great Eastern carried from England but 1,800 miles will be required for the line between Foilhommerum and Heart's Content, so that no further portion of the 1865 cable will be required for the present experiment. This calculation in cludes a liberal allowance for slack, and it will be seen that the amount of new cable in the fore and main tanks, when added to the 840 miles paid from the tank aft, make up 1,892 miles. The charcoal iron wire will be used last, that it may be spliced with the shore end at Newfoundland, while the surplus cable is designed to join the portion now lying broken in the Atlantic, so as to complete the second line. The teats frequently applied to this broken part continue to show it to be as electrically per fect as when laid, and its ultimate usefulness as a second Atlantic line is fully believed in by the leading authorities here. At the present rate of paying out the cable unused on board the Great Eastern when she reaches Heart's Content will be nearly 600 miles. The Albany carries a like quan tity, so that there will be more than enough to make the second cable complete, should the pick ing up to successful, and the 1,060 miles now lying useless in the sea brought into work. The telegram received from the Great Eastern this afternoon says that 600 miles have been run, and 882 miles paid out. A heavy sea, and strong head wind, under which the Albany was seen to be rolling heavily, while the Great Eastern main tained her steadiness, together with the usual " 0.K.," made up the bulletin, which reached us in the midst of sunshine and sweltering heat ; for the weather has changed here suddenly, and whereas during the days following the splice an overcoat was a necessity, it is now such complete midsummer weather that the Great Eaatern's complaint of cold struck us as a curious but refreshing paradox. Early on Tuesday morning this telegram was received : " Don't forget to send pr ieis of news by wire directly the post comes in." And, in accord ance with the promise made the day before, an abstract from Monday's Daily News and Times was drawn up, and forwarded to the Great Eastern. It was acknowledged immediately, and forthwith printed off and disseminated among the passengers and crew. This course was repeated, at even greater length, yesterday, and the editor of the little journal, lithographed and published on board, will be supplied with a similar budget every twenty four hours. The appetite for news grows at sea, as on land, by what it feeds on, and requests come constantly to Mr. Glass for intelligence on subjects of special interest to those on the Great Eastern. On the other hand, whenever a question arises as to what Mr. Canning or Captain Anderson is likely to think or say on points mooted, it is solved as rapidly as it occurs by the simple process of passing word to the testing-room, Glass to Canning or Anderson," and waiting for their reply. Ample evidence, too, of roused interest in the cable, and increased public belief in its success, is forthcoming. Many applications for priority of messages have been telegraphed to the managing director from London, and the chief capitals of commerce. Among the earliest of these was from the representative of one of the leading journals in New York, and there seems little doubt that the intelligence of the line between England and America being opened will be followed hy a perfect flood of messages from every part of Europe. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add that in no case will any engagement be entered into until the cable is certified, and communication esta blished. After this, all messages will be taken in the order they are received. The English govern ment alone will have a guaranteed right of priority, and it is now confidently hoped that messages of congratulation will be exchanged between her Ma jesty and the President of the United States before many days have passed. With but one line at work, it az obvious that should the demand for communication approach what is anticipated, con tracts for first messages would involve hardship to the general public, and be opposed to the interests of the company. Captain op posed to the interests of the company. Captain Bolton's code will be come a necessity directly the demand exceeds the powers of the cable, and it is satisfactory to know that the means of doubling or trebling its capacity are at hand. When alluding in previous letters to the warm cooperation afforded by all the officers of her Majesty's government whose duties have enabled them to give the Great Eastern a helping hand, the name of Captain King Hall, C.B. superin tendent of Sheerness dockyard, has been inad vertently omitted. But for the active and prac tical aid given by this gentleman in allowing tho dockyard labourers to assist in getting the great ship ready for sea, it is more than certain that the appointment for leaving Sheerness, Saturday, 30th June, at noon, made by Mr. G lass six months before, could not have been kept. Captain Ander son was keenly alive to the substantial help given him by Captain Hall, and one of his latest cares before weighing anchor at Berehaven was to write this officer a letter of hearty thanks. VAL!INTIA, JuLT 90. The following telegram received from Great Eastern this day :—Noon (ship's time), July 20. Canning to Glass. Latitude 51.36 N., longitude 32.57 W. Cable payed nut, 938.6 miles. Distance run, 830.4 miles. All going on welL Insulation and continuity perfect. Weather fine. Shifted from after to fore tank at 1.14 this morning, with out any difficulty. INVASION Or HONG/AV.—One of the telegrams announces that a portion of the army of Prince Frederick Charles has crossed the river March into Hungary. This movement ha% no significance. The ri►er lies parallel to his line of march, and the portion of Hungary referred to is north of the Danube. OUR CONTEMPORARD2L (rrus DAY.) TIM FORUM! POLICY OF YRS BRITISH 00' The Times thinks that, as was the case in the Polish ineunestion sad the Danish quarrel, and even in the Italian war seven years ago, Lord Stanley may in the present esse exercise a beneficial influence on the cow tinent without any departure from the principal. of neutrality. He has only to maintain firmly the convictions which the progress of the war has wrought in the great body of his comitrynien. The 1 public opinion of England now regards every success of the Prussians as a step to the union of Germany, the most inestimable benefit which sea be greeted to Europe, and the beet pledge of general and enduring peace. If, then, this government be solicited to join in any mediation, or to acquiesce in any terms of peace, the Times thinks it can have no difficulty in advising Austria to complete the cession of Venetia and to retire from the German Confede' ration. But the most important point fs that these three belligerent powers should be left to fight their battles among themselves. The Times ems a hitch somewhere in the negotiations for peace, and says it is a pity Prussia, Austria, and Italy cannot be closeted with France for only five minutes, for negotiations of this nature cannot well be carried on by telegraph, and it takes three days for a courier to carry despatches between Paris ►nd King William's head quarters, and not much leas for M. Benedetti to pass from the Prussian to the Austrian outposts. The Doily News is not at all sure that Lard Stanley, who last night not may affirmed the principle of non-interven tion in its broadest and strictest sense, sad explicitly pro mised to apply it in practice, but suggested its ap plication to public speaking, did not on the latter point offer a hint worth taking. At any rate, of the two extreme* of saying nothing about trans actions with which we have neither the right nor the wish to meddle or talking mischievous nonsense about them, there can be no doubt which is to preferred. How ever, Mr. Gladstone's magnificent vindication of Italy and Germany will be hailed with gratitude and admiration in those countries, while Austria has the best rearm to complain in Sir G. Bowyer's speech of an ad vocacy which identifies her career with all that is most repugnant to liberal Europe and to modern civilisation. On the whole, this discussion on foreign affairs was emi nently creditable and satisfactory. Mr. Laing showed a profound and comprehensive study of the great questions of the time. The whole spirit of Mr. Horernan's argument was eminently statesmanlike sad soundly liberal, and Lord Stanley's emphatic and explicit declaration that England stands absolutely unpledged and uncommitted to any proposals of moral intervention or mediation will be accepted by the country with great satisfaction, and with all the confidence justly claimed by the Foreign Secretary. The Post has reason to know that Prussia has accepted the bases of a pacific arrangement by which a Bund would 1 be constructed excluding Austria ; Prussia would annex the Elbe Duchies excepting North Schleswig, which is to revert to Denmark ; Venetia to be ceded to the King of Italy, Prussia to have the entire control of the military forces of Germany north of the Main, and to conclude mili tary conventions to that end with the various States whose Sovereigns will be restored. While Prussia has accepted these bases Austria, awarding to the Post, has expressed her disposition to accede to them. The Herald accuses Mr. Laing and Mr. Harman of asking for non-intervention, not so much because non-in. tervention is right in itself, as because they believe that if the belligerents are left to themselves, the side with which they sympathise will win. Lord Stanley says there is no danger, as far as any human foresight can go, of any complications which would involve this country in war ; and with that assurance the country, which desire. pease and nen-intervention for their own sake, and not because it wants to have the war thoroughly well fought out, will rest perfectly content. TSB PROMISED NETTING IN AIDE TAM. Though there is no man of sense in the country who at all fears the political effect of gatherings in Hyde-park, and thcugh there iz no fear that the leaden of the move. meat will themselves attempt any breach of the peace, the Times argues th►t there can be no guarantee that scenes of violence would not occur, and for this reason, and for the consideration that a disorderly crowd would make the place intolerable for persons seeking recreation, the Times approves of the prohibition of the gathering. No one 1 desires to restrict the right of meeting, but it must be exercised in fitting places, and the royal parks are not such places. If they choose to go to the suburbs they can find open spaces sufficient for any multitude which they will be able to bring together. The Poet says that the scum of the two millions who inhabit this metropolis would form no inconsiderable portion of such a meeting as that which is announced, and that it is lawful for the executive to prevent &seem. blages containing such elements. If the government enter tained no apprehension of riotous and disorderly proceed ings, Hyde-park would be as much at the disposal of the members of the Reform League and their followers as it is ►t that of the volunteers when they desire to organise • review. The Herald discusses the matter in a manner of its own. A half-witted 'pouter (it says) like Mr. Edmond Beale* may have ► power of mischief in him quite inconsistent with the modicum of brains nature has indulged him with, and it is just as well that the revising barrister of Tints!. gar-square should be restrained from further democratic display in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament. Let him go to Salisbury Plain, and vociferate there. He will find plenty of room, a mute audience, and no police. He will not enjoy such advantages in Trafalgar-square or in Hyde-park. The Telegraph asks in what sense Mr. Walpole and Sir R. Mayne use the words " public meeting." Rotten-row and ita vicinity are much crowded on a fine afternoon in July, but no one contends that the mere multitude of loungers renders them all trespassers. So much for the auditors at • public meeting. With respect to the speakers there is equal difficulty. It connot be denied that persons are at liberty to converse on political topics in the Park. We are aware that the rule is different at Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Rome ; but at present we are not under the domination of the Czar, the Pope, or Count Bismarck. If the Londoners may discuss reform on the banks of the savoury Serpentine, can it be I argued that the elevation of the voice beyond the ordinary pitch of conversation warrants the arrest of the speaker •', We can assure Sir Richard Mayne that, should he arrest any of the orators or listeners at the intended public meeting, he may have to crack these and a few other hard legal nuts before he can justify himself in an action for assault or false imprisonment. Arch-treason itself could not invent a more cunning weapon for the purposes of the demagogue than this pedantic and wanton use of royal au thority as the tool of the anti-reformers. The Trlegraph forbears to discuss the possibilities of collision in such a contest ; but it is obvious that, even if the intended meet ing were illegal, it were infinitely the better policy to let it take place, sad await the future statute for whatever regulations may be hereafter deemed expedient. The Star continues to urge the working men to attend, and tells them they have now the opportunity of showing whether they are able to assert their right to meet in pub lic places for the promotion of their political views, or will suffer themselves to be conquered by every jack-in-office whom an unhappy chance may have pitched into power. THE WEEKLY PRESS. According to the Saturday Review there were far seeing men in Austria who were of opinion long before the war that the wisest thing Austria could do was to with drew from the German Confederation. Only those who know the secrets of Austrian administration can pretend to say how much of the misgovernment of which her pro. •inces have had to complain bas arisen from the fact that the attention of her rulers has been absorbed in looking after the affairs of Germany. Austrian statesmen have ~~ LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THZ ITALIAN TYROL - The Siicle has received the following telegram dated from Storo the 19th, and sent by General Garibaldi : The fort of Ampola surrendered at discretion at half past nine. The road is now open to the vale of Pedro and of Rive. The Side says : The reduction of the Port of Ampola is the prelude to the deliveranoe of the Italian Tyrol. The combat sus tained by Niceties was bat a diversion intended to cover the real point of attack. Whilst Garibaldi was waited for on the road from Store to Larder* sad Mane, his °West was to gain that of Ries, at the northern point of the Lake of Garda, • road which leads either to Trent or to Roveredo, in the centre of the Italian Tyrol. The Vale of Ledro, which the taking of Fort Ampola opens to the volunteers, is formed by a little lake from which • mountain current springs, which falls into the Lake of Garda, about a league from Rims ; this last-mentioned place itself being bat 12 kilometres (7i miles) from the valley of the Adige. No names of the Italian arms would give us mom sincere eatidiation." (1111:111131111 MAO SUSPENSION OF HI PARIS, JOLT 21. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Austria has accepted the proposal of Prussia to abstain from any act of hostility during the five days in which the court of Vienna will have to notify its acceptanoe on the subject of the preliminaries of peaoe:' The Constitutionnei of this morning says :—" It appears to us that important reasons counsel Austria to entertain the proposals for peace sub mitted to her by the Emperor Napoleon and supported by the voice of Europe, which celled upon her not to reject them. The Emperor Napoleon, who, as mediator, in preparing the bases of peace has sought to render them accept able to Prussia had also to take no less care to obtain the adhesion of Austria. The Emperor of Austria has too much regard for his sovereign dig nity ; he knows too well what he owes to himself as the chief of a great state, and what he owed to the people who are devoted to him and his brave army which presses around him, ready to carry out all the resolutions of heroism and despair, to be able to propose to them any other than an honour• able peace which would respect their legitimate susceptibilities." SPAIN. MADRID, Juvr 20, Emma. The Queen has remitted the sentence of death passed by the military tribunals upon 60 persons implicated in the late insurrectionary movement MADRID, JULY 21, The government continues to effect reductions of the public expenditure in all branches of the administration. BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Jun' 201 The Ripon leave. at 5 p.m. to-day, all welL She may be expected at Southampton on the 25th instant. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 4? TWO C) This morning, between o'clock, Inspector Truer, of the constable Ballard, 154 Y, were Wilsteadirtreet, Sometwtown, that a woman bad murdered her then killed herself by drowning I. On proceeding there the police shout the children being deed r true that the mother Lad atterol From the particulars that our spot, it seems that the front ' Wilsteadetreet, was occupied by Mary Butcher, and his children, . B u t c h er , aged reepectivelPS years , e meths t o months. The husband is I baker, and hie sece s ti m him out the whole of the night. „ This morning, shortly after seven o'clock, John Dmi k a carpenter who resides in the upper part of the 6.2 heard a moaning noise is the back yard, sad, w e ll all wee not correct, he went there and saw the mew move. He looked in and found the woman Nary Bu r i k there, and be at coos pulled her out and amassed h u ii her apartment. She wee then in an insensible sat e , „ A Mr. Jackson ' surgeon, having at once attended sepses . were applied, and after a great deal of trouble adie u . she was brought to, though still in a very week ask The lodgers in the house, not bearing the t w it about, asked the mother where they were, bet d o* not make any reply. They then turned ewe ths hi clothes, and were horrified to find that they e s , h i deed, and the surgeon gave It as his opinion that "p c had been so for an hour or two. They were mid* laid out, as if ready to he °offload, and their jam to tied up. An examination was then made to ascertain the eu , of death, it being at first considered that they hat t u , poisoned but no trace of poison could be toad, et were there any marks of violence on the bodies. It el then supposed that they must have been drewesi, e t that supposition appears to be correct, se them ea assiii large tab nearly full of water in the room. The woman is now lying in the kitchen in a state, her resovery being despaired of. Sines Ms taken out of the water she has not uttered aSt No cause can be assigned for the commission ef Gist* the husband being is fall work. It is stated ili t sth woman has been 01, end in a melancholy state islh past few weeks ; but she baa never been known "pal threaten her own life, andahe bat always shown the mil affection for her children. It is also stated that bole and her husband are steady, bard working people. Information has been fowarded to Dr. Lankesteh coroner, but the inquest is not yet fixed. tracTloN FOR BmpoNosnr. : i (yr lumina TILEOZAPRI BRIDONORTH, Samna Mr. Whitmore was returned this morning wi oat opposition. He deohired that he was winos wog port a moderate measure of reform, and spoke of ikopi bill as having been oonosived at Birmingham, and pu Mealy delivered at Westminster. daseribe bill, baakrul an oaio rsE4 7 c! The Mu Os pro " L e il to 1 Maiol I ►at b. MOD WU ..... It'RDER OP TWO CHILDREN ..--- BY rm .. MOTHER, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDEOP—ii MURDERESS.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, between the hours of 7 la d i 'clock, Inspector Fraser, of the Y division, and toi; 001 11 mutable Ballard, 154 Y, were fetched to the ha % i t. dmirrooo Vilsteadirtreet, Somers-town, by a female, eb e i 1 „ vial hat a woman had murdered her two &Wm, %A Z ~r) •,, .. hen killed herself by drowning in the water-bot '-` , f ,,, , g i r. .o l On proceeding there the police found that , the A .., t iiw ar e bout the children being dead was correct, a n d i s sw ; t Thie a rue that the mother bad attempted to commit esksi s. eltesesbn From the particulars th at our reporter wh ea t At haft% 01 pot, it seems that the front kitchen of the ko we, her wl>. ' ?Filatead-street, wasocenpied by William Butch er hi s ! i t : respond srl, wards Lary Butcher, and his children, Emma Butche r end jou estimate Inteher, aged respectivelt6 years and 6 memo, EXTRAORDINARY FIRE AT THE IMPERIAL CIRCUS. (rsoir ova ow. 0011111SPONDIXT.) PARIS, FRIDAY Eviwuco. The note in the Mfmiteur;though studiously barren of dates, is generally understood in Paris as referring to proposals of peace subsequent to, and differing from, those which the Prussian Moniker, according to the telegrams of the day, states to have been already refused by Prusia. What is now in question are bases of peace accepted by Prussia and tendered to Austria. Great confidence is ex pressed at the Foreign-office that Austria will yield, and there are rumours this evening that she has already agreed to the armistice. The Bourse, under the favourable impression of the news of the day, was buoyant. Rente rose 45c. for cash, and 40c. for account, closing at 68fr. 70c. in each case. Mobilier rose 22fr. 50c. ; and Italian, lfr. 55c. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher. The Champs Klys4es to-day, at the hour when it is thronged by nursery maids and children taking their morning airing, was the scene of a frightful catastrophe. At 10 o'clock a vast body of flame and smoke was seen to issue from the west front of the well-known circus called the Cirque de l'lmpemtrice, and a moment after it seemed as if the whole building were on fire. Simultaneously the roar of horses in intense agony was heard. A few momenta after wards several horses broke loose from their stalls, galloped wildly about the Champs Elys4es, scaring the promenaders. Mr. Batty's troop of wild beasts was in the building, and it is fearful to think what might have been the conse quences had the old lions got loose. They happily remained in their iron cage. But the spectators attracted by the flames were astonished to see grooms running across the causeway carrying in their arms six lion cubs who were consigned for safe custody to the care of a tavern-keeper oppo. site. The cause of the accident was that a barrel of carburet, a substance used to purify and improve gas, while being rolled downstairs into the cellar s of the circus, broke, and the contents run. ning out, by some means caught fire. The consequence was an explosion which in a moment set fire to the straw, hay, and all the combustible materials in the stable. Several men, women, and children (some say as many as 14, but the reports vary) were injured and carried to the Hopital Beaujon. Two children are not expected to live. Five horses were dreadfully burnt. Their flesh was seen peeling off them in lumps of several pounds weight. Four were taken off and shot at once. The fire was soon got under, and the damage to the building is not very great. The performances are expected to be resumed to-morrow. Several cases of cholera have recently occurred in Paris. One awful instance has greatly afflicted American residents. Miss Harback, a young lady from New York, who on Wed nesday evening was riding in the Bois do Boulogne full of health and spirit., was seized with cholera in the course of the night at the Hotel Wagram, in the Rne de Rivoli. Drs. Trosaaeau and Beylard were called in, but in spite of their efforts the patient died in 24 hours. She was engaged to be married to a Mr. Lockwood, who is now in St. Petersburg, and can only know his loss by tele graph. The funeral took place to-day. A vast number of American resident., including Mrs. Bigelow, attended. " Faaraionat Wu."—The following obituary announcement appears in the lice Gazette of Hanover, signed by Madame Heinichen :—" My youngest son, Her mann Heinichen, captain in the 3rd Regiment of Hano verian Infantry, died the death of a hero at Langenaalas on the 27th of June ; and my second son, Chas. Heinichen, lieutenant-oolonel of Dragoons in the Prussian army, was killed by a b►ll ►t the head of his regiment in a cavalry encotuitar." NimimmoMMEMINIIII THE STOPPAGE OP THE PRESTON BART The excitement produced on Thursday by* stoppage of the Preston Bank still continues. tip Uhl o'clock yesteeday afternoon, no official statement el h' exact position of affairshad been issued. From whatitifill in the most reliable quarters which can be it appears that the depositors are in no da?gern il lt tabling any loss, although it is quite probable Net sea of the shareholders will be . greatly embarrassed, if me absolutely made bankrupt in meeting the claims she will have to be made upon them. It is now gal da that the bank has been seriously of crippled in its Lions, in consequence of the liabilities its branch, one firm alone there, it Is said, having RI II bills to the extent of 300,0001., and another to the and of 100,0001. The aggregate of the bank's liabilities bib fixed at about 1,500,0001. The securities of the beak ae girt very largely of mill property, and reilitin thereon cannot just now be effected with adventsya the pressure put upon creditors bad not been im pm so great in fact as to create strong suspicious the stability of the bank—it is probable that the punt financial disaster would not have occurred. The Pule bank seems to have been the general depositary tilt funds of many companies and public bodies in lie lin and neighbourhood. The Gas Company Wu in money in it ; the guardians of the poor hue 11,81 in it, and the overseers about 8,0001 Tit* brat W enjoyed the utmost confidence of the pu blic, sad It done a very prosperous business. The Muter of the lib has fixed July 28 for hearing the petition for whornin the Preston Banking Compsny, and appointed Ir. a Banner, of Liverpool, provisional official liquidate: Masichieter Guardian. DUBLIN, FRIDAY NIGHT. —The Marquis of dir corn arrived in Dublin early this morning and st ms , drove to the Viceregal-lodge. At half-past tee ilof ' he proceeded to the Castle, where be was ewers h s Lord-Lieutenant with the usual formalities. He Marl to England this evening by the mail steamer. Heel make his public entry into this city in about shave nit THE AINITILIANB BEATEN BY PROVIDINCL-h the church of the Jesuits at Vienna a few days bock gibs Elinkowstroem declared in the pulpit that if the lark" army had been beaten those reverses were not to to • bated to the defective combinations of Its the needle-gun, or the skill of the Prussian but solely to the will of Providence, whir thus punished Austria for having confided the Aid mend to Benedek, s protestant, and an enemy of the religion. " The reverend gentleman," °beaver the hi pendance, " appears to have forgotten to explain hew 01 why Providence, having permitted a protestant to hi} tested, had at the same time allowed two Princes sf same religion to be rewarded by victory." " &rums JACK."—ItteITS. Ferguson Beoikeit having resolved to protect their noble ciliary et Holme Head Works by the erection of a lightsmA cob tor, have engaged for that purpose Mr. Janice Wean' of Manchester, an expert climber of awkward elevslim and who claims to be the original " Steeple desk" J nil than Lancashire celebrity. On Monday, at 44 become encedoperations by flying a kite and es cord over the tall shaft, which is 214 feet in hue* tn the first efforts were unsuccessfuL A rope was fit in less than an hour, but in drawing up a chain whit ,_ le intended to red on the cooping stones at the top, ther ol gave way, and the week was to do over again. lie at got into a crack the sent time, and was bunted .4; 10 the third time, a rope, a double rope, was secovedif ritedi ea eteenffehed by a chain at the top and f unside4 a bloc k ; when ha vi ng been effectually secured •. „,1110 side below, " Jack " made an experimental 'met Ow big with a rapidity which was witnessed with effeerael by several gentlemen assembled below. -Carbile,/weer" LOWERING THE BOAT THOM THE LONGO/C- 0 1 returned and jumped into the boat, and immedist47 lowered, being &bouts dozen in her. I got oe to 40 2 holding on to the mizen-rigging ; es soon as Ime 40 oho was in the water I stepped down on to the 11 100 chains, then watched my o pp or t u nity when the W ell on tee sea, and made a cautious leap right into her sten I did not have far to jump, about four or five fleAll waiting until a sea lifted the boat. Immediately Ina was in, I saw the beet was drawing under the elemehei the ship, and was in imminent peril. at once pi 0 oar, as did two others, and we pressed the boat off. _0 tfs the sailors saw that the boat was safe, and thers chanes et getting away, then they were anxious to lath few women. Mr. Munroe was at the side Weedier' res 4 leap, when they sung out to bring a lady ; be turned it and run his eyes around the few to find, natural', m one he knew. Not seeing one, be made a few step 1 0 , middle of the deck and asked the nearest, a young,?: . sieWen or eighteen, if she would go. She said, et Thhey went to the side to jump ; but when she enr fearful sight below, the little boat being tossed shortie:. a prospect of being smashed at every hove ef ter against the iron wall of the ship she mid, "I met _ that." There was no time for delay or considered" Itt she would not leap, Munroe, seeing the boat she or leaped in Walsall. All this took Oboe in *bout or two-that is, the lowering and getting Aral- /um boat was shoved off the first time, she drew is sea' • wasted to be a suction at the stern, and I see "ma i drew in Win time that she was drawing right a ai stern-which would have been sudden death to us. ears were again brought to bear against the ads ship ; we were then, I think, more in dread of WIZ by getting under the ship's side than in fea r of W°_lo.: jumping. At that time there was no a ttempt r any to prevent any one from getting in--all cei We, have jumped. There was only one man preveatel gr. in, and that was one of the foreign sailors he W it _---4 thas by the falls from the davits, and some one pne-r-,_ tbs on one side en that if he dropped he would go law ; water. The beat WY appriro!:t full, and I heard _ J ane mark (which was very true), y don't they ggrs out the other boats why all look to this one, re if r el l was no other on board lt still is an nna ce l l bou thing to me why Captai n Martin did not see alr those boats got ready, properly manned an d ogle, then toll some of the ladies, " There is your Gel 1 F;; 74 accept it, if you choose."-" A Survivor" in the Magazine for July. IF is , 4barl would il tor ohoi impose The 1 applied Mr. 8 The b nod !iaic His JE pronat 04f would t A eh< Marpar wee elm of wee' former 1 Kr. E t a n, a 7 p k i The should went a of the Mr. weer the pri is ti:aa would frit;ai former The =deb eolteih The Am Bache A r -°-gt o the ,It .• _4