The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-19 00:00:00

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Vlaisg, and G. HOoq• Aliases Neilson. Angulo Tboosonq and litfrling.—And QUIET LODGINGS. BRITANNIA. Ten IMMO, THE WILD lIOYo OF LONDON: OR, THE CHILDREN OF NIGHT.—Mr. W. G. Roes; The Wondrous Brothers Vlctorslll.—And FARLEY THE VULTURE. MGR WATER AT LONDON MIDGE. TB DAT —Morning, Bh. 68m Afternooo, git rasa. To-moszow—morning, 10h. hha Atteasoos, M. 670 a. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. Tine special mission from the ITnited States to Russia will have done a very ill service to the _ _ _ people whom it wee intended to honour if ft leads them to believe in the possibility of a Russo- American alliance, extending beyond civil speeches and manifestations of purely Platonic affection. An understanding of this limited character has, indeed, every element of permanence. It is hardly possible to conceive a rupture between powers too remote from each other for co - operation, or for frequent intercourse. There cannot be collision without contact. It is, therefore, very probable that the friendship of the United States and of Russia will be as durable in fact as it is in the aspirations of Mr. Fox and his courteous entertainers. The hospitalities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Nijni-Novgorod mean just as much and just as little as the civilities showered on the English and French fleets a few months since at Cherbourg and Portsmouth. This interpretation is, however, far too obvious and commonplace for the publicists of the Mos cow °antic and the Goloss, who, agreeing in little else, are at one in attaching importance to the visit from America. From the position of these journals and their influence upon Russian opinion, it is probable that they may represent a very widely diffused if not a general impression. So long as the idea of a possible intervention by the United States in the Eastern question was con• fined to the rayaha of Candice it deserved only a smile. But when it is adopted by a writer like N. KATICOFP of the Moscow Gazette, who in spite or in consequence of his ultra-Muscovite extravagance is probably the most influential man in Russia, and echoed by his rival of the Goloss, the organ of the Moderate party, it acquires a certain degree of importance. According to the latter journal, the Government of the United States is desirous of purchasing an island in the tEgean, and may possibly be rewarded with a portion of the Turkish Empire when the time comes for administering the estate of the sick man at Constantinople. The idea involves a temporary aberration from political sanity. Not only the moderation, but the very ambition of the United States—their vice as well as their virtue— dency moves steadily on in the same directioa, unaffected by these surface than gar. To make the Empire Muscovite, and to ngire it socially, if' not politically, democratic, ig the two-fold °hied of the measures of the CZAR. To put a final" check upon all separatist tendencies, and, there fore, to suppress the distinctions of race, language, and religion, which foster them ; and to destroy the power of the aristocracy—to these ends the measures of expropriation which have accompanied the emancipation of the serfs, and which have punished rebellion in Polfind and sedition in the western provinces, have been directed. The estar bliahment of perfect equality among all the Est rizeoa's eubjocts, and • the distribution of the soil of Russia among the peasantry p are aims openly avowed. While the Americans have erected the edifice of political freedom upon the baais of social equality, the Emrsaos and his most influential advisers dream of rearing upon the same foundation an unchecked autocracy. But so far as social organization is concerned, Russia sees a precursor in the United States, and looks to itself to be the propagandist of the same system among what it regards as the effete feudal aris tocracies of Western Europe. Aa an indication of this idea—clearly recognised and acted on by the bureaucracy of the Empire, and obscurely fer menting among the maases—the reception given to the American mission has an interest for observers from which its ludicrous accompani manta should not be suffered to divert attention. tar John Lawrence and tie lathers shoal lay aside, their morbid jealousy of the British capitalist, end, manias to mgard him as as intrudes. return to the trim pallets' lierd Canniups-sneouragies easodiffed enterprise, piecing Maeprehlio works of India upon moll a basis es wilt allow of their being carried on without interruption, and independent of the fluctuations of the Incase revenue. By wit sueseeding mail, says the Herald, we have more terrible accounts of the famine in Bengal, and. additional proof of the neglect and mismanagement with whisk ft has bees met. Months ago we ware told that it was a mere passing pressure, and would soon disappear. But, m fax from this statement being borne out, the evil has been steadily on the increase, and has now reached a point which has caused consternation throughout the province. The people are still crowding into Calcutta from the sur rounding districts, and the number now being fed in that city by native ebarity amounts to 20,000. But hundreds die on the read in their efforts to snap* from the starva tion which has stricken their villages, while those who remain behind perish in even larger proportions. The conduct of the government of Madras, which has also had a famine to contend with, has, the Herold contends, been the exact contrary of that of Bengal. Lord Napier took oars to be forewarned and forearmed, inaugurated effective measures upon the first sign of danger, and was himself foremost in theaffiioted districts seeing his remedies carried out. The Star thinks that the blame of the horrors must be distributed in various degrees between the administrators I of the India Office, the Governor-General and his council, I and the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Bir Geed Beadon. It is too early for us in England to decide in what pro portions this censure must be divided ; but that there has been a shameful failure in the first duties of government cannot be questioned. The more immediate responsibility of having stupidly or selfishly disregarded the misery which the scarcity had caused until it had reached an extent too great to be grappled with by any human power must be laid to the charge of the local government and the Liente nant-Governor of Bengal. UT, Court. BALMORAL, /Arr. 16. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian drove out yesterday morning, and went out in the after noon with Princess Christian and Princess Louise. Dr. Nona= ACLeod, one of her Majesty's chaplains. arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with this Queen and Royal Family. Mr. Helps had also the honour of being invited. SEPT. 17. The Queen, Princess Louise, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Christian, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, were present at divine service at the parish church of Crathie yesterday morning. Dr. Norman M`Leod, chaplain to her Majesty, officiated. Dr. M'Leod had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family last night. At the Council Chamber, 'Whitehall, yesterday, Lord Penrhyn took the oath as Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvoir shire, in the presence of the Lord President, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison was in attendance. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honour able Privy Council met yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. Present: the Lord President, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness were in attendance. A deputation from Lincolnshire, consistingof the Right Hon. Sir John TroHope, Bart., M.P. ; Sir Montagu Choi rooky, Bart., M.P. ; Colonel Packe, M.P. ; Mr. Heneage, M.P. ; the Mayor of Lincoln, Mr. Bartholomew, Mr. Marshall Heanley, Mr. Seagrove, and Mr. Epton, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Corry, yesterday, at the Trivy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Duchess of fit. Albans and Lady Diana Beanelark left Mar Lodge on Thursday for Blairgowrie, where they expect to remain a fortnight. . . _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis and the Marchioness di Molins, the Danish minister and the Baroness Bulow,Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Lady Frances Gordon and Miss Gordon, the Hon. John and Mrs. Vivian, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and Miss Beatrice Harvey, Mr. Hayward, and Mr. Underdown are now at Tomorrow, on a visit to Lady Moleaworth. debars them from taking any such course as that to which they are indirectly invited by the Russian journals. To provoke European intervention in America by American intervention in Europe—to forfait ascendancy in their o en continent in order to participate in the troubles of the most dis turbed part of the Eastern hemisphere—would be a suicidal folly. While England is learning the ad vantages of her insular position, the United States are not likely to cast away the benefits which they derive from a moral separation from the controversies of the Old World as much more complete than that of England as the Atlantic Ocean is wider than the Straits of Dover. Fresh from the assertion of the Monroe doc trine against France in Mexico, they are not likely to regulate their conduct by an opposite doctrine in Europe. Hitherto the policy of the Republic has been in strict conformity with the sage advice of WASHINUTON in that letter to hie fellow-citizens which has been called his political testament—to avoid entangling alliances with the Powers of Europe, or intervention in the affairs of the Old World. The counsels of his equity and prudence, and the ambition of some of his less worthy successors, have marched together. The policy of the Mexican war and the Ostend manifesto—the lust of territorial aggrandizement and political mastery in the New World—are as incompatible as reason and justice themselves with a meddling diplomacy in the Old. Whether the American Republic follows its earlier or its later inspiration—the practice of Waserrioros and ADAMS, or that of POLK and Przrzea—it is as little likely to bo tempted from its rule of abstention from alliances or action in Europe by an island in the ...Egean as by an island "on the " sea-coast of Bohemia "—by the hope of acquir ing a portion of the Turkish Empire as by the dream of acquiring a portion of the Empire of France. In one particular, the people and Government of the United States have neg lected the advice given them in the Fare well Address of the father of the Republic. The country, he said, which cultivates persis tent love or hatred for particular powers forfeits some portion of its freedom, by becoming the slave of its own love or hate. This danger inheres in the otherwise harmless sentimentalism of such demonstrations as that which has misled the pub licists of Russia. It has taken a more serious form in certain acts of the Federal Legislature and Executive, which have been inspired by pique against England—in protectionist tariffs, and in the revocation of reciprocally beneficial treaties. The indulgence of these preferences and animosi ties is the first step towards the entangling alli ances which WASHINGTON deprecated. Though Muscovite journalists dream of Ameri can participation in the Eastern policy of Russia as one of the results of the "alliance," the bare possibility of which has turned their heeds, the causes of the outburst of affection for the United States which they record and stimulate, lie deeper ; and they are worth studying as an indication of moral forces at work in the Empire—forces which may seriously affect the future of Russia and of Europe. The policy of the CZAR may vary with the hopes and fears of the moment and the events which rouse them—with a Polish in surrection, a socialist plot, or the demand of the nobles at Moscow for a constitution. They may be modified as a Mousavisrs or a Mu.trrnris is in the ascendant. But the strong current of tea- Lady Rendlesham gave birth to a daughter on Saturday at Rendleshani Hall, Suffolk. Her ladyship and infant are doing well. We have to announce the death of Mr. Russell Charles Stanhope, only son of the late Hon. Sir Francis Stanhope, and nephew of the Earl of Harrington. Mr, Stanhope died on Sunday at Parsoustown Manor, county Meath. We hear that the Earl of Airlie is to start soon on a second visit to America.—Dundee Advertiser. LORD BROUGHAM. —To-day is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Lord Brougham. According to Lodge's Peerage his lordship was born in Edinburgh on the 19th of September, 1775, and is, therefore, 8.0 years of age. THE CoVRT IN THE HIGHLANDS. —The Duke of Cambridge, who has been for a few days on a visit to the Queen and the Prince of Wales, left Abergeldie on Friday forenoon. His royal highness had some good sport with the Prince of Wales in the deer forest and at the grouse shooting. On Wednesday, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Christian, and the Prince of Saxe-Weimar, had fair sport in the woods, killing three stags and a bind , which were after wards siiown at Abergeldie. On Friday night the Prince and Princess of Wales gave a ball at Abergeldie to the tenants and servants, which was honoured by the pre sence of her Majesty the Queen. The ball-room was decorated principally with heather, and from the roof were suspended a number of Chinese lanterns. The outside of the ball-room was very prettily illuminated by Chinese lanterns of every variety of colour and shape. Her Majesty appeared in the ball-room shortly before 7, and was received by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Accom panying her Majesty were the Duke of Edinburgh, Prin cess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, Prince Christian, and the Prince of Saxe-Weimar. There were also present in attendance upon her Maiesty and the Prince and Princess of Wales, Lady Churchil l, Hon. Miss Cathcart, Lady Susan Melville, lion. Mrs. Cox, General Knollys, Mrs. Knollys and family, Mr. and Misses Gray, Colonel Keppel, &c. Lord Holmesdale, the Duke of St. Albans, Hon. Mr. Carrington, and a few other illustrious guests, were also present. Dancing was commenced immediately on her Majesty's arrival, and continued with spirit. During the evening the infant Princes Victor and George were brought into the ball-room by their nurses, and presented to her Majesty. Between eight and nine o'clock her Majesty retired with the Prince and Princess of Wales and the other royal and illustrious guests to dinner in Abergeldie Castle. During the cessation of dancing, the tenants, &c., also partook of dinner. After the lapse of an hour, her Majesty and the royal family again entered the ball-room, and dancing commenced with renewed vigour. Her Majesty was apparently in good health, and evidently enjoyed the dancing. Shortly before eleven, the Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, &c., retired from the ball-room, while the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, &c., continued dancing with un fl agging spirit till an early hour in the morning. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur is expected at Balmoral about the 20th inst. It is said that his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh will leave Balmoral about the same time to enter on his promotion duties as commander of his vessel. Monday, the 24th, is the day at present fixed for the departure of the Prince and Pnmess of Wales from Abergeldie. Her Majesty the Queen attended Divine ser vice in Craithie Church on Sunday. In the same pew with her Majesty were her Royal Highness Princess Louise, his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Christian, and Lady Churchill, lady-in-waiting to her Majesty. In the Abergeldie seat were the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Hon. Mrs. Cox, Duke of St. Albans, and the Hou. Mr. Carrington. In the other pews in the front gallery were General Grty, Mrs. Gray and family, Lord Holmesdale, Lady Holmesdale, Sir E. Fulmer and Lady Rimer, the Hon. Mr. Walpole, General Hood, the Hon. Miss oath cart, Lady Susan Melville, Colonel Keppel, &c. The I church was well filled, especially in the gallery, where • large number had to stand during service, the strangers having come principally from Braemar and Ballater. Ds. Norman Macleod officiated.—Scotteum. VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO DUNROBIN CASTLE.—The Prince and Princess of Wales, we understand, will visit Dunrobin Castle on Mon. 4 .7 next, travelling from Abergeldie via Inverness. Great preparations are being made at the castle for their royal highnesses' reception.—Stotteran. The Brackley Agricultural Society held their annual ploughing match yesterday, and awarded the silver medal for the best plougbing in the All England Glass to Messrs. Ransom's' ploughman, James Barker. In the boys' clue the first prise was won with a plough made by Messrs. Ransoms, of the saws pattern es the one with which they won the chief prizes at the Southampton meeting of the Royal Apiaultural Society in DM. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVES; SEPTEMBER 19, IS &- THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. (11RetRi's wzrassa4 RIO DX JANEIRO, Ammar N. The follow*" daintla have been received here szlative to the late fighting between the allies and the Paraguayans : _ _ . The Paraguayans had been gradually opening trenches and surrounding the allied camp with for tifications which would have enfiladed elfish flank of the army, rendering the position untenable, when Marshal Polydoro Jordan took command of the let oorps of the Brazilian army on the sth July. He immediately detected the disastrous consequences which would follow the completion, of the works, and after a ootmoil of war it was re- solved to attack and carry the enemy's position on 1 the following day. At daybreak on the 16th the attack com menced, and the nearest trenches were taken by the 4th division of the Brazilian army under ' Brigadier General William H. de Souza. The Paraguayans, however, fought hard and returned to re-take the position with strong reinforcements, but were repulsed and driven back in disorder. The fire lasted all day and through part of the night, 16 consecutive hours. On the next day, 17th, there was but little firing, but on the 18th i the attack was renewed, and the third line of forti fications carried by the 6th division. The general of this division, however, directed the attack very imprudently, and the losses of the Brazilians wore very heavy. Marshal Polydoro immediately fortified in an inverse sense the positions conquered, and thus rendered the camp much more secure and less , subject to bombardment. He has also opened 11 communications between the fleet and the new positions by making a road through the woods, not more than two miles across, separating the naval and military forces, whereas by water the distance was nine leagues. The commissariat and the hospitals have also been placed on a far better footing. General Porto Aleg.'e had arrived with the second corps, 9,000 strong, and horses and mules for the cavalry and artillery were also rapidly arriving at the camp. News is now daily expected of a great and decisive battle. The losses of the allies on the 16th and 18th July were 2,500 men hors de combat, the proportion of officers being very large, as the Paraguayans under cover of the woods pick them off with a cool aim. Colonel Pallejas, Flores intimate friend and companion, was among the killed. The weather at the South has been very bois terous, and two Brazilian transports have been totally wrecked, the Oyapock at the mouth of the River Plate, and the J. S. Roman near St. Cathe rine. No lives were lost. The council of state met last night under the presidency of his Majesty the Emperor. It is reported that it was decided that the general elections should be adjourned for one month, as new levies are being made, and recruiting is pro hibited by law within 60 days of the elections. The chambers will also probably be prorogued till the financial and banking law now under discus sion in the senate, and which will most likely pass the third reading to-day, is adopted by both chambers. STRANGE SUICIDE OF AN ENGLISH GIRL IN FRANCE. The Temp. gives the following account of an ex traordinary suicide committed by a young English girl in France : - --••-- • M. and Isladame S—, residing in the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, engaged as governess for two young daugh ters, an orphan girl, Lucy B—, a native of lalverpooL Sbe was well acquainted with the English and French languages, drawing, and music. Possessing a sweet temper and engaging manners, she was greatly respected and be loved by M. and Madame B—. When they went to their country seat, in the beginning of summer,she went with them. There she became quite melancholy, and though every means were employed to divert her, she continued in this state and refused to give any reason for it. At length she attempted to commit suicide with the fumes of charcoal, but she was discovered in time to prevent the completion of her design. A phy sician was called in, who directed that she should be carefully watched. This was done, but one slay Lucy B— suddenly disappeared, and no one was able to tell where she had gone. Fifteen days passed from the period of her disappearance. At the end of that time a disagreeable smell was noticed in the house, and it was traced to • room which was merely used as a lumber room and was scarcely ever en tered. A huge chest resting on a box containing books were found here. The chest was opened, and in it was discovered the half-decomposed body of Lucy. She held fast in her right hand a photograph of M. B—, which she asked for a few slays before, and on the back of it was written the following words :—" M. S—, I ask your pardon for my death. I loved you. Not daring to tell you, and too weak to leave you, I thought that I must die. I also ask pardon of Madame B—, who was so good to me." The post mortem examination proved that she must have made several attempts at suicide, for in her stomach was found pins, nails, and poison. A SCENE IN PARTS.— A great crowd, says the Temps, collected yesterday, about half-past 6 in the afternoon, on the Pout Royal and the Roe du Rae. The following was the cause :—" Three divinities d Chignon carried the eccentricity of the toilet Benoiton so far that they at once attracted the notice of all who saw them. They promenaded in the gardens of the Tuileries, and their success was so great that the police officers, who were anything but Anacreontic, had to show them outside the gates. The people who had collected, and were delighted at having a spec. tacle gratis, followed the banished divinities of Olympus, and at length began to jeer and hiss them. They were presented with some vine leaves for the purpose of own pleting their toilet. Several of the market women got amongst the crowd and armed with the cores of peers and stones of peaches, and all the projectiles of which a heap of dust could be the arsenal, they rained them on the frightened doves, who at length were compelled to take refuge in a sentry-box. The crowd was dispersed with difficulty, and the ladies were sent away in a nacre." A melancholy incident occurred the evening be fore last during the performance at the Opera Comique, Paris. A lady, the wife of a merchant in the Rue de Cla-y, was seated in one of the upper boxes, when she was suddenly taken ill, and although taken to the corridor and seated at an open window, in the hops that the fresh air might revive her, she presently became quite insen sible, and expired about an hour after. The cause of her death is supposed to be an aneurism. The deceased lady had not complained of any indisposition during the day. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE AT SUN DESLAND.—Yertordsy, at noon, an eirisonlinary attempt at suicide was made at Sunderland by a lady, who threw her self from a railway bridge right in front of an advancing locomotive. The driver saw the occurrence when he was about 200 yards distant, and instantly shut off the steam, applied the 'snake, and signalled the driver of the down train also to stop. This promptitude saved the lady's life, for the engine was brought to a stand within four or five yards of where she lay on the up line bleeding and senseless. The occurrence orated a great sensation in the neighbourhood, and had been witnessed by a great many persona, but so sudden was it that no one could prevent it. Medical men were summoned, and bliss Nesbitt was taken to the Infirmary, where, though she was severely cut and bruised, particularly about the head, she was found to have escaped any very serious injuries.—Leeds Mercury. WHOLESALE HornanitAireio BY A WOMAN. —At the Manchester City Police-mart, yesterday, Mary Ellen Steele, and her huslond,Williant Steele, were charged with being concerned in a number of cams of housebreaking. It was shown that the woman had plundered the houses of a number of poor people living is the neighbourhood el Rochdale-road and • Oldham-road, and wearing apparel, which had been recovered from pawnbrokers, enough to fill a handcart, was produced in court as evident* of her guilt. Four eases were proved against bar, in each of which she had obtained acmes to tie pecoesutors' houses by means of false keys. It was stated that in one Indent* she had men stripped a child while It was asleep in led, and taken It. clethes The charge of complicity against the husband failed, and he was discharged ; the woman pleaded guilty, and was summarily com mi tted for six months.—MeadeMer Guardian. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Y. ng tarsr.grns'a Premising that the above document was intended as a manifesto to the French people no less than to the nations of Europe, the Times shows the cha racter of the task and bow much tact and ability were required for it. Differing from his Majesty in the portion of the manifesto relating to the founder of his dynasty, the Times expresses an opinion that the Third Napoleons • far more practical, less ab solute and inflexible man than the first. The hint at the vast growing power of Russia and America, and their possible co-operation in the forthooming crisis of the Ottoman empire, constitutes in our contemporary's opinion the most serious point in the circular. England is not mentioned, because in all probability the Emperor thought he was always sure to have us with him. The circular only takes into consideration the modifications intro duced into the balance of power on the Continent ; there is nothing in its contents that could naturally suggest the mention of this country, nor should any sinister construction be put upon what the Emperor says about the " irresistible power which impels peoples to unite themselves in great masses by causing the disappearance of minor states," or about " annexations dictated by an absolute necessity of uniting to the country populations having the same customs, the same national spirit as ourselves." The Emperor has in repeated instances given the best assurance of his good will towards the King of the Belgians, and of his friend ship and gratitude to the Swiss republic. He, we feel sure, harbours no evil thoughts against the independence of those inoffensive no leas than defenceless neighbours. To impute such designs to him is almost as wicked as it would be on his part to entertain them. The Daily News also describes the imperial writer as addressing the French people throughout, in order to re concile them to results which are in no sense the result of French policy, but which, on the contrary, are distinctly opposed to expectations not long since expressed by M. Drouyn de Lbuys, the Emperor's late Minister for Foreign Affairs. The consideration on which its conclusions are based are far more wise, just, and liberal than much that we have had to read during the last two months in the French journals unfriendly to the Emperor. The circular represents the foreign policy of the empire at its loftiest height, and were the Emperor laying down principles to guide a regent during the minority of his son, he could hardly bequeath a more valuable legacy. After showing that we naturally escape criticism in the despatch, the Daily News concludes with the remark that if there is any state which the circular is calculated at a first glance to disquiet, it is perhaps Belgium, though it is satisfactory to observe that the reasons which are Designed for the recent absorption of smaller states do not apply in this case. Both France and Prussia are too powerful to require the destruction of Belgian nationality for their own aggrandisement, and too just to make the Belgian people feel that their interests are not sufficiently protected by their free institutions and the public law of Europe. The Star believes that the protection which the Emperor speaks of as guaranteed to the Pope means no more than the chance shall be provided him of coming down from hil temporal throne and throwing himself into the arms of the nation, which would look on him as their spiritual chief. LIMITED LIABILITY IN COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPII. Recapitulating the various public benefits which were I anticipated from the act for limiting liability in commercial partnerships, the Times proceeds to trace how far these calculations have been verified. The finac cial embarrassments incidental to the new system have equalled. it says, any known under the old system of unlimited rink, and one source of these misfortunes may be found in the very glut of capital which it created. The competi tors for the custom of the public greatly increased in num. her, and 110M0 of the new companies which sprung up were conducted by men unacquainted with the true principles of finance. The most fatal error of all, however, and one which nobody foresaw, is to be found in the new calls in aid of liquidation—in the difference between the whole amount of a share and the a pparent amount of a share in the market—in the dif ference that in established by the new companies between their actual capital and their capital originally paid up. Pur chases have been made of shares which have rendered the purchaser nevertheless still liable to be called upon for a sum three times as large as the original purchase-money, so that though there was indeed an ultimate limit to his liability it would not be reached until he had paid for his first invest ment four times over. Worse than that would never come of liability altogether unlimited, and thus the actual re stilt is that the shareholders in unanceeasful con cerns find themselves practically no better off than they would have been under the system of past times. This is the source of the difficulties now ex. perienced. The companies fixed either their capital too high or their first calls too low, and the in vestors who took shares too often overlooked this differ. ence altogether. The security contemplated by the act can only be effectually enjoyed when the paid-up capital of a concern represents the actual capital. The difficulty was never foreseen, and the surprise has been distressing, but there is nothing in the results which need shake ou r faith in the wisdom of the sot itself. Free trade in money ought to be a good thing for all, but in the novelty of the first experiments excesses occurred, and a fatal oversight rendered the extravagance unexpectedly embansusing. The Post says that the public ought to have a thorough exposure of banking practices, a revelation as complete as that with which we are just now being amazed and shocked in the case of election management. We want to know who are the people to whom the banks loan their deposits, who lives out of them besides their owners and the shareholders of the banks, what enterprises they foster, what results they produce, what people they keep going, where they are and how they can be got at when they are wanted. When we know all this we may begin to understand the effects of the Law of Limited Liability all well as those of the Act of 1844, and be enabled to perceive whether any and what legislative interference is advisable. INDIA. The Daily News quotes from Sir Arthur Cotton, the well-known Indian engineer, certain figures which show the astonishing productiveness of the districts in India which have had the benefits of irrigation. The awful famine affords a striking illustration of this fact. At this moment the three irrigated districts of Tanjore, Oodavery, and Mita& are not only he plenty themselves, in the midst of a famine-stricken country, but thiy are the grand and only sources of relief to the other districts. If the revenues of India eannot furnish funds for the works of irrigation, irrigation works can make revenue for the government of India. All that is ataataary Is that INTELLIGENI L i JAMAICA. The West Win - and Pacific Stesakethir Com , parry's stainer Bolivar, with dates from Skin,gstok to August 25, arrived in the Mersey yesterday evening. The Colonial Standard of August 25 says,that "His Excellency Sir John Petet Grant, K.C.8., has been pleased to exercise the clemency of the crown towards Mr. Sidney Levien, who was se cordingly liberated from the Surrey County Gaol yesterday. Our readers will remember that Mr. Levien was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for alleged complicity in the late disturbances in Jamaica." ----- Alluding to the convention entered into between the government of the Chinese empire and those of England and France with regard to the emigration of Chinamen to the colonies, the Standard *aye : It behoves Jamaica to study well the question thus raised. We want immigrants, but we cannot with any benefit to ourselves pay too much for them, any more than a man who wants money can expect to make it profitable by borrowing at oent. per cent. Some timely represents• tions from the planters of this country who may be best able to deal with the question ought in good time to be submitted to Governor Grant, with • view of furnishing him with reliable data whereon to base any consultation he may have with her Majesty's ministers in reference to immigration from Chins to this island. The Eyre testimonial, and the signatures to the address, are receiving daily accessions. Captain O'Connor, military secretary, has as sumed the duties of Deputy Adjutant-General, vacated by the departure in the last packet for Europe of Colonel Nelson. His Excellency the Governor has purchased Creighton, a delightful residence in the St. An drew's Mountains, formerly the property of the widow of the late John Edwards, Esq., Receiver- General of this island. _ _ During the absence from the island of Major- General O'Connor, C. 8., Colonel Whitfield will be acting commander of the forces. The Colonial Standard says : With reference to the new government, we have the best reason for stating that what we announced only as rumour in our issue of 11th July last relative to the com position of the new government, is true. All the officers composing the council, with the exception of the major general, will be gentlemen from home or now holding office in other colonies. The departure from England of Mr. A. Gordon is somewhat uncertain, and Mr. Ruehworth may, therefore, not lesve Trinidad for here for several packets to come. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, SireT. 19. An official denial is given to the rumours cur rent in foreign commercial circles that the further collection of the National Italian loan would not be proceeded with. FRANCE AND GREECE. PARIS, Sam 19. The Emperor received yesterday a letter from the King of Greece conferring upon the Prince Imperial the order of St. Sauveur. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Srpr. 19. The North German Lloyd's steamer America, from New York on the Bth inst., has arrived. She brings 103 passengers for this poi t, Havre, and Bremen, 2,200 dole. in specie, and 900 tons of cargo. On the Bth inst., off Sandy Hook, she spoke the steamers Hermann, Hibernia, and Penn sylvania, and on the 13th the ship Ann Wilson. ARRIVAL OF THE ALLEMANIA. SOUTHAMPTON, SErr.l9. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Allemania, from New York on the Sth inst., has arrived here with 99 passengers for this port, Ham burg, and Havre. She brings 40,000 dollars in specie for London, 20,000 dollars in bonds for France, and for Hamburg 1,000 dollars and 700 tons of cargo. On the 10th she spoke the steamer Hansa, for New York, and on the 17th the American ship Constellation. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Bier. 19. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxonia, which leaves for Now York at noon to day, takes 700 passengers, a largo cargo, 69,8241. in gold coin from England, precious stones value 3,000 fr., and specie and jewellery value 13,300 fr. from France. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, which sailed at 8 o'clock this morning for New York, takes out 121 cabin and a full complement of steerage passengers, and a large cargo including French jewellery value 48,000 fr. TILE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 18. The hlassilia arrived at 7 p.m. The mails leave for London at 10 p.m. Ship and passengers in quarantine. THE GREAT EASTERN. LIVERPOOL, SErr. 19. The Great Eastern reached her moorings early this morning. Vienna for months back has been little better than a camp. In the month of June 4,600 men, 180 offi• cers, and 2,000 horses were fed daily. In July 400 offi cers, 15,000 men, and 3,000 horses were provided for daily. and seven generals' rations, 538 staff officers' rations, 8,142 field officers' rations, and 369,000 rations, with 66,637 horse rations were provided, at a cost of 91,71411. In August the cost increased to 127,0006. In the district of Vienna called Leopoldstadt quarters were found for 53 generals, 189 staff, 1,593 officers, 198 army surgeons, and 73,623 non-commissioned officers and privates from May till August, and not less than 190,000 men were quartered in the district since the beginning of the year. Freedom of the press bemg completely abolished at Madrid, there is a plan on foot for a Spanish journal to be published at Brussels, to be written by the editors of some of the suppressed Madrid journals. Should the pro ject be carried out we may look for some extraordinary revelations. Galignani says :—" Yesterday an elderly man, apparently between 60 and 70, threw himself from the column of the Bastille, and falling on the tarpaulin stretched at the basement of the column to protect the workmen employed in repairs, rolled thence to the ground, without receiving any apparent injury. He instantly scrambled on his legs, picked up his cap, and was delibe rately walking off, when the guardians politely requested him to accompany them to a neighbouring guard house, to give an account of his sensations de rogage." The success of the Atlantic Telegraph will no doubt revive the projects for connecting England by sub marine cables with her colonies and possessions, and make her independent of foreign countries for telegraphic news. It has now been demonstrated that *telegraph cable 1,700 miles in length can be safely laid down in a tempestuous omen of enormous depth. The distance from Falmouth to Gibraltar is 1,000 miles, from thence to Malta 1.961 nules, and from thence Alexandria is 819 miles. From Sues to Aden is 1,303 miles, from thence to Bombay 1,664 miles, from Galls to Singapore 1,594 miles, and from thenos to Hong Kong 1.437 miles. From Gallo to King George's Sound 3,390 miles, from Australia to New Zealand 1,000 miles. From Aden to Seychelles is 1,396 miles, from thence to Nemitius is 940 mike, and from thence to Natal is 2,000 miles. From Newfoundland to Bermuda is 1,200 miles, and from thence to the midst of the Wert ladia Wanda Is 900 miles. COLLISIONS AT SSA, AND LOSS OP --.- Yesterday morning, off the North Irosekod, tit crew steamer Beta, from Oporto for London, r im jaw its French brig Mate, which sank immediately afte r th ei Sidon. The crew were saved, and landed at Br as k i ,_ The steamship Cobden, of Scarb oroug h , ha s To , aohooner Neat Cornwall, of Form w id o b minutes. The muter of the schooner sad two - via t wore drowned. - THE POIROYOUS WATERS OP ras Am u zu INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) 1 This morning Mr. J. Humphr es , ifi ddient Dormer resumed at the i wa ng Thetez tOry , aseemodo 'zielati joba re Diwu to T t is h aa 7 s f ed ril d rot earse twig T es a Q iceil i t PD Pilr Thursday, the 6th iawk, entered Bowmask; he got .80110 S told him'daDdthatbulteerd€:"*.wmferromtwolothulwedatirkefregipursa""—oittetl--"461 the water was boiled for the breakfast el him* lad % I captain ef the barge. He ohm drank some el iha water from the bucket. At 3 o'clock he was Wird sit violent gramma, He was taken to a doctor sad bow b u t next day he died after great suffering. entered Bow-oreek he was a very healthy rcilust 11001111 of the water from the pump wee m s t z eat of the coroner, to Dr. Letheby, for ?nal following is the professor ' s report : The water e ll tains 61.5 grains of saline matter per bnpniel besides LB grains of organic matter, and mush The saline matter, as well as the organic, dds derived from surface drainage, and the prom os ammonia indicates percolation from a sewer or The water is quite unfit for drinking pu r p oni n i t the nature of the pollution is very Lk* t o 7; 446 sioned choleraic dimes*, especially if drank IMMO pb view boiling." kir. IL Brownfield said that deceased died of eibi bi without doubt, arising from impurity of the water. t b Bow-creek was the very worst part of the River Idd. being a tidal stream its flow affected the Rufus Itha the disrriet. Witness knew a house into the ga l a which the tidal waters percolated, and from *ski illy to be rely pumped out. ser having summed up, _ The Fury — Teturned a verdict "That the domed *I from choleraie diaease, occasioned by drinking Aft water drawn from a certain pump," and thry riccem e m that the attention of the proper authorities Moak h drawn to the danger of leaving such a dangerous some d disease omissible to the public. ALLEGED NEGLECT OP A DYING MAY ly A WORKHOUSE.-VERDICT OF CENSE= Mr. Hnmphre, Middlesex coroner, held Mb/ quiry at the Windsor Castle Tavern, Victoriapark b e evening, relative to the death of Abraham Broen,apire Thomas Brown, the deceased's brother, lir* Hare-street, Bethnal-green, and William UN% he brother-in-law, said that he was a ailk may out of employ for several weeks Rua, A, hi had no home they advised him to go into the yob house, but he was very unwilling to go, beano ha nil he had been in there before, and had been much Week and a man named Russell had given him s blast Three weeks ago, however, he applied for adnisa,lek after remaining the whole day at the workhouse gnu, l e was refused, and had to come away. lest Snerissis again applied, and was taken in. F. Toting, wardsman; of No. 25 ward in the Baden green Workhouse, said that deceased was teoughibe his ward on Monday last out of the receiving ward. Dirk the night he kept getting in anal out of bed, sad tibia himself incessantly. He was like a man dam*. h the morning he got out of bed and lay on the boor. Ai new put him back in the bed again, and half Labour dlia wards found him dead. Witness then called a The Coroner asked the witness why he did not on lit nurse or the doctor to the deceased during the rot, via proper treatment might have saved his life. The witness answered—Because he never coropldisi; he seemed like a man deranged. It was elicited that the wartisman went to bed ad to sleep like the other inmates, but he was " summates* up" when necessary, and be was also to Wicleansf any one called him up to do so, or if he judged it no sary. He had charge of 14 men. Dr. T. (1. Tibbing said that the petrels examination showed that there was s Ivry is posit in the valves of decessed's heart, sad till death was occasioned by failure of the heart's oaks. Ile delirium during the night preceding the demises disk might have been the result of foyer. If he had noir kindly treatment his life might have been Nod fors time. Any ridden shock or annoyance, or even joy, midi be sufficient to cause death in such a cue. Mr. J. Caunt, temporary resident medical office la Its workhouse hospital, said that be saw deceased try three times subsequent to his admission and he mil si complaint of illness, but it was very probable 1W i witness had been called to him during the mitt of Nr day his life might have been saved. It was ray el viable that there should be some system by whir Title the nurse as the medical man should be called to a sr in the condition of the deceased. The Coroner asked the witness whetherheconsidothr a large aperture in the doors of the wards, to enable! Jail and competent officer to sec what was going m wNsam needlessly disturbing the inmates, would met tbw quirements of the come ! Mr. Caunt said that such an arrangement walls* improvement. It was stated that the deceased was about to bs Laski without any inquiry into the cause of hie drib sec s certificate (so far as could he sacertabooll, cumstanccs were accidentally brought within ths ledge of the coroner. The coroner said that not long since a parses road of starvation immediately on admission to that wearer had been buried without any certificate, sa d evaa n dr be face of a notice that an inquest was to beld. S system opened the door to great irregularities, gad Oa not be permitted to continue. The jury returned a verdict "That the doors" IN found dead from disease of the heart from Ward air ; and that there was great neglect in the workhort!ri where the deceased was left dying the whole rifinvil a " . g any attendance whatever." SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BCITON.—AII iinued 1 was held yesterday at the Devonshire Hospital, M. on the body of George Michelson, aged 41, of 13, CIO lane, &Hold, a gentleman's coachman, but Who hallo for a short time a deceased at the above institution Os Monday afternoon deceased and his son, a yoatt i t i ll i who had come over to see him, went out for a were on the top of " Lover's Leap " when • geatkor ied two ladies came up to where they were. The isrsd offered to show the ladies the spot from which tits Ifilb according to the local legend, hail been taken. Os forward he made the observation, " that it was Dolt of a leap after all," when he slipped and fella bis Oh, rolling over the precipice. He was killed co gm 9 6 .'" Verdict. " Accidental death." ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WORKHOUSE MAEORP' On Monday l ast one of the inmate of the Wakefield Workhouse, named Thmnas Holmes, lamella made an attempt to murder Mr. Joseph Haigh,looo . "' appointed master of the house. Holmes WSJ takinghiedirfir out of the dining-room into his own apartment , obl i Mr. Haigh met him and told him tha t he meld sot spol him to do so, as it was contrary to the rules of the kri g .' Upon this Holmes broke the plate, and stabbed WI. twice, in the neck and upon the cherk. He swim* diately seized and taken into custody. It now Swill the prisoner has caused many disturbances sins he hi been in the house . lie made hi. escape oer the oil terday morning, and went before the mogfetr!do 4 _,, court-house, where he preferred some complaints Mr. Haigh, but, as it was stated that he is imam, oa"' e p i re a vi m o ined usly by bee tk n e ho in o t se he im As rg y e l o u n in . , Mr.he iwiassigho,rsilethomured. co al if of danger, was not able to appear in court co or` afternoon, and the prisoner was remanded for a est. DESPERATE POACHING AFFRAY IN DERSEss. - -On Monday night last a desperate encounterMO°l gamekeepers and poachers took place on Lard 307; estate at Kedleston, four miles from Derby. AI li * ,,,g on the night in question five of his lordship's and b kerP_OLI,, on the watch when they Mlle upon a gang were of 12 „,„.. 1 " . `" — • who armed with stakes ludgeons. coul. era, on seeing the keepers, divided, and tome e c 4 _, ran out of the field, pursued by Kane of th Ili Five of the poachers, however, remained ii !?! itP4 and made a murderous attack upon Astleßr. keeper, and an under-keeper named Newton. I3O,„„g ', would no doubt bare been murdered but for figt,r; arrival of Ashley, the haul-gunelreepe f . cued Newton from a poacher named Ault, who cro Iri s , ing on his body. After a most determined ~ o f of the gang, named Frederick Ault, Joseph la/ 0. Joseph Cooper, were secured and conveyed to °°,...„, is keeper's lodges. Agility was very much bruise& lf t i 7ol head, and had one eye closed , while Newton' d 3 soras of a very serious description. Between 2 Tuesday morning Superintendent Wieldon, Davis, and another officer of the Derbrhicc Fir arrived at Kedleston, and conveyed t he three ~...d custody to Derby. At 1 o'clock yesterday morn r pm the keepers who were not injured rode to Defbtr o ort. information of the outran at the borough PF lo gis i They also called up Dr. Goode, who at once 04,431 Kedleston to attend the injured kcerei° the information at Derby, Inepector real , ,fird Green, and Detective V essey proceeded to T 4 ' 7, — ,0 sli several notorious poa c h ers , and found that OW ,_, op absent from home, but later in the o melet 101 LA eeeded in apprehending two notorious elarolgi'_ Maw and "Cock" Moaley, coining fram fief ry.. Kedleston, their clothes being eery wet 3011 .f" . " — ‘ 4 on 0 dirt. There are therefore five in mufacolg '"_ j yilielP matin g *o part in the affray, and there is " ' 1 , 74110. 10 *even will soon be taken, as they are .110 , to the police. The five prisoners woe Meg l a * county police office at 11 o'clock Ty beton Dr. Peaok and were remanded said ' II IL I t i. i , I L.O t A , 1