The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-19 00:00:00

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Acting', on the advice of responsible Ministers and recog nizing the authority of the national Parliament, he declines to treat the question of the Concordat as one to be decided on his own mere motion by a personal understanding with the Court of Rome, or by reference to a state of things which has irrevocably passed away. It would , be ungracious to strain the interpretation of a few words in which the EMPEROR, as in duty bound, professes his constant determina tion to protect the interests of the Church, and his conviction that religion must be the basis of sound national instruction. There is nothing in such harmless and proper sentiments as these that Baron BEusr might not with perfect pro priety suggest as befitting the occasion—nothing that should give umbrage to the most susceptible constitutionalist. M. Ds Bern, secure in the con fidence of his Sovereign, may well have been dis posed to moderato the effervescence of the episco pate by conciliatory assurances, while satisfying the Reicharath and the municipality of the firm ness of the Government in maintaining the autho rity of the Legislature, and paying homage to public opinion. M. DE BEVST has been de scribed as more of a diplomatist than a statesman—as a man of negotiations and transactions and compromises, rather than of bold and resolute determinations. It is said that he would have preferred to proceed by slow and dilatory steps towards an amicable revision of the Concordat, after a protracted correspondence with the Vatican, without agitating the public mind, and to obtain at length an acquiescence, on the part of Rome, in a complete change, which would practically reduce the provisions of the Concordat to a dead letter. This course of action would perhaps have been more congenial to tho ARezt-Cuancin.wit's temperament and habits of policy. The Representative of Austria at the Court of Rome was about to receive definite instructions on the subject before returning to his post, when the violent commination of the twenty-five Bishops burst upon the community like a declaration of war, and instantly made any compromise impossible between modern society and legislation, and pretensions to absolute control over both. M. DE BECST'S position, as a stranger and a Protestant, was so delicate and difficult before, that his tenderness towards the ultra clerical party, so long paramount in the Councils of the Empire, might be excused if not justified. . - • The constitutional party in Austria—that is two thirds of the Reicbsreth and all the intelli gence and independence of the middle clesses— owe perhaps a debt of thanks to those ultramon tane Bishops who, by their intemperate provoca tions, have forced the question of civil and reli gious liberty to a crisis, and compelled the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH to make his open choice between that dark, irresponsible reactionary party which has brought the empire to the brink of ruin and the national party of progress and reform. The result is a victory for the cause which all Liberals in all countries have at heart. The En- PEROR administers a just rebuke to these arrogant ecclesiastics, who, while protesting their desire for unity and concord, have provoked a dangerous and destructive agitation, and even called the constitution in question. And he reminds them solemnly of the existence of the constitutional duties of the Crown, and the constitu tional rights of the nation. Certainly he is the protector of the Church of the majority ; ho impresses on the Municipal Council the importance of preserving the religious basis of national edu cation. But in this kuiguage we can fairly discern nothing incompatible or inconsistent with perfect fidelity to the new institutions of the country. An English monarch is " defender of the faith ;" English national education has the dominant reli- i,_lllWw=ol THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1867. gion for its basis. But is the British constitution less secure, or is the power of Parliament to place the elementary education of the people on a purely secular 'oasis less indisputable on this account ? We must take into consideration the circumstances and conditions which surround this question of the Concordat in Austria, in order to do justice to the EMPEROR'S good faith. Indeed, his frank and friendly reception of the Municipal Council, con trary to the disquieting rumours that prevailed, is in itself an earnest of the sincerity of his inten tions. On the other hand we cannot but applaud the firmness of the Municipal Council and of the Reichsrath in asserting the principle that the Concordat must go the way of the Government that signed it, and share the fate of the institu tions that sanctioned it. It is no new thing that the Church of Rome should demand paramount authority, ecclesiastical and civil, wherever it can ; history teaches us that it is only where this paramount authority is impossible that it is con tent to take its share of liberty. No doubt these twenty-five Austrian Bishops are conscientiously persuaded that modern civilization, wider the guidance of liberal ideas, is travelling along the broad road that leads to destruction. " Take " this," said a shrewd observer of these conflicts, "as the key to all the policy of the Coui t of " Rome, and then consider how many doors it " will unlock." Well then, the Reichsrath is entitled to reply, let the door of the Concordat be broken open in the name of the law. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Times continues vigorously to attack the pro jected intervention of France in the Papal States. If the two armies meet within the walls of Rome • collision is almost inevitable. Of course the contest would be a short one. But France should consider what the result would be. The world will not be satisfied that what she wants in Italy is anything else but revenge fur the check she has met with in Germany. If the September convention has been violated it has been by the French government or its agents. Then there is • third party nearer the goal than the others whose name is Legion, whose war-cry is the re public, and who, rallying under the blood•red standard if baulked of their own prize, would seize on Naples and Sicily. After all, when Napoleon has again the Pope all to himself in Rome, what will he do with him ? In other articles the Times discusses Lord Derby's speech at Manchester, and the inconsistency of the Bishop of Capetown in retaining endowments which were created for a totally different purpose. The sight of Lord Derby in • Free-trade Hall vindicat ing household suffrage and talking of free trade, is • spectacle, the Daily Nrc-a says, such uis not presented once in • century, and the less frequently it is offered the better for the political morality of the country. There needed only the presence of Mr. Bright as • spectator in one of the side galleries of the great building to complete the irony of the situation ; for he has really pulled the string of the puppets who were performing their strange gambols. Lord Derby is the captive of his spear and bow. Perhaps the moat humiliating feature of the Manchester banquet was the absence of any sense of humiliation on the part of the chief guest ►nd his entertainers. His complaint that Mr. Gladstone early manifested a dis position to throw out the government, is answered by the fact that Mr. Gladstone did Lord Derby and his colleagues the honour of believing that they were acting on convic tion, and that they would adhere firmly to the measure which they bad proposed, a measure which no liberal could accept as • settlement of the question. Mr. Glad stone judged too much by the ordinary practice and rules of statesmanship. Lord Derby has unexpectedly sunk below these rules and that practice, and aimed a serious if not deadly, blow at the morality of English parlia mentary life. The Manchester banquet is also dwelt upan by the Past, Standard, Star, and Telegraph. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Spectator believes Mr. Disraeli's supporters have been over-persuaded that it was wise to give up physical control in order to secure a greater moral in fluence. But they have not even had the *ease to face the great truth, that with a totally new machinery must come a new and, to them, startling class of innovations— many of them, we sincerely believe, valuable---which they will have little power to resist. The general inference we draw, adds our contemporary, from this quaint simplicity of Mr. Disraeli's political instruments is, that they are not useful for any purposeexcept to be managed by Mr. Disraeli. We admit that they have acted in good faith in what they believed to be the interests of the good old conservatism, but when we admit this, we only say in another fowl that Mr. Disraeli has the power over them of those eleotra biologists who tell their patients that a taste or a smell is nauseous when it is sweet, and that it is sweet when it is nauseous, and who persuade them thereby even to enjoy the imaginary sweetness or shrink from the imaginary nausea. Mr. Disraeli, having once rid himself of those three statesmen who were not, as mesmerists say, subject to his mesmeric influence, has told all the rest of the cabinet that democracy is conservatism, and has been, and is, believed. No electro-biologist ever yet performed so great ► feat as that ! The Examiner commends to the attention of all whom it may concern, the denunciation of Lord Derby and his principal cabinet colleagues in the new number of the yeartedg Rtri, tr. It is not instability of purpose or ob scurity of vision with which Lord Derby, Lord Stanley, and Mr. Disraeli are upbraided by their own chief spokes man in the periodical press ; but with perfidy aforethenght. treachery indelible, and the use of every artifice of political knavery known amongst men. These are the articles of impeachment set forth by a familiar friend—by one, if rumour is to be believed, whose sources of information are the best, and whose rare ability shows itself in every page. In both houses ere the session closed, words of re probation equally scathing fell from several of the noblest and most honourable men in the conservative ranks with respect to different parts of the ministerial design and de meanour. But all that was uttered in this sense by Lords Shaftesbury, Carnarron, Ellenborough, and Cranbortte, by General Peel, Sir Rainald Knightley, Mr. Beresford Hope, or Mr. Earle, is combined and intensified in the pitiless bill of indictment in the Quarterly Iterie The Saturday lirriere, referring to the rumour that the French intend again to occupy Rome, asks what in so gloomy and critical hour, will be the decision of the Italian cabinet' The whole liberal press of Europe, with scarcely a single exception, has been during the LUIS week cheering the Italians on, as a gallant, clever, cunning people, capa ble of making noble sacrifices, and deserving of all our sympathy. The golden hour-glass of opportunity is, how ever, running fast against them. The delay of the Roman revolutionary party inside the walls is most serious. A week Ago the French Emperor was still surprised and undecided; to-day his policy is perhaps formed and his mind made up. One thing is certain— that the Italian government cannot afford to he at variance, on the subject of Rome, with the whole of the Italian nation, and that whatever risks are to be run must be shared by King and people. M. Mazzini cannot be left to lead Victor Emmanuel on the path to Rome. FOREIGN -OFFICE, Ot-t. 17. —The Queen ham been pleased to approve of Mr. John Johnston, as Consul in New Zealand. to reside at Wellington, for his Majesty the King of the Netherlands. —Gazette. . . TIE QUEEN'S SC SIMONS. —The Lancet announces the appointment of Mr. Hilton, F.R.S., President of the College of Surgeons, and Mr. Prescott Hewett, of St. George's Martel, as the new snrgeons-extraordinary to her Majesty, in the place of Sir William Ferguson, who has been appointed sergeant-surgeon, sod Mr. Paget, who has been sergeant-surgeon extraordinary to her Majesty. MICHAELMAS Tsem.—Tenn begins this day fort night (November 2), when the Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges at his residence. His lordship will previously express the approbation of her Majesty to the choice of the city of London in the Lo•d Mayor-elect. Before the Judges of she Common Law Courts assemble at the Lord Chancellor's mansion they will meet at the Central Criminal Court to appoint the sittings for the ensuing year. Two acts were passed in the late session for the despatch of business in Chancery and in Common Law, and when the New County Court Act has been some time in force. and before the anniversary of the term, the soperior courts will be relieved of much business and the labours of the Judges lessened. the Court. BALMORAL. Oor. 17. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended by Lady lay. Mr. Theodore Martin bad the honour of dieing with the Queen and the royal family. The Duke of Buckingham has arrived at Balmoral, and is the minister in attendance upon her Majesty. Mr. G. D. Engleheart baa also arrived at the Castle. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and the Princess Louise, arrived at Marlborough-house from the continent at one o'clock yes terday. In attendance upon their royal highnesses were Vis countess Walden, General Sir Wm. Knollys, Lieutenant- Colonel Keppel, and Mr. Holzmann. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of Malta The Earl and Countess Amherst and Lady Con stance Amherst have arrived at Montreal, near Sevenoaka, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshim at Hillsborough Castle, county Down. Lord Stanley, M.P., returned to town yesterday from Knowsley. By the death of Lord Fitzhardinge, Captain Hand becomes an admiral, and the lucrative post of superinten dent of mail packets at Southampton, now held by Captain Hand, will be vacant. We understand that Lord Lytton will tako tho chair at the public dinner to be given to Mr. Charles Dickens on the 2nd of November, at Freemasons' HaIL Mr. Forster, M.P. for Bradford, and Mr. J. S. Powell, M.P. for Cambridge, who have been staying at Constantinople for some time, have left for Mousse, from whence they intend proceeding by the land route to Smyrna—" rather a courageous proceeding," observes Gotiosinni, " in the face of the daring brigands who have so long invested that locality with impunity." The Hon. Mr. Lindsay (the Master of Lindsay), son of Lord Lindsay, and party, who had been visiting the Turkish capital and neighbourhood for some time, have left for Smyrna, on a trip to Asia Minor. On Thursday evening Mr. Coleridge delivered an address at the Royal Public Rooms, Exeter. The hall was crowded to excess, and the meeting received the hon. gentleman with the greatest enthusiasm. Mr. J. C. Bon RING, J.P., took the chair, and was accompanied on the platform by, amongst others, Mr. T. D. Acland, M.P., and Sir John Dowring. Mr. George Wilson, who has so long officiated as depatychairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail way, has been unanimously elected to the office of chair- man, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Wickham, M.P. It is stated that Mr. Anthony Trollop°, ambitions of a seat in parliament, will stand for Birming ham at the next election. A story by Mr. Arthur Helps will begin in the next number of Mrtestieltan's Mart:inc. Kiss Yonge is also to eminuence a tale in the same magazine. It appears that nest August there will be visible over a large area of Central India a total solar eclipse, the duration of which will be double that of '6O. Mr. Pritchard states in Good Words that skilful and properly. instructed persons will proceed to India from England to take some important scientific observations. A musical magazine, containing original contri butions by living composers, is to be started on the first of of next month, under the editorship of Mr. Lindsay Sloper. It will bear the name of Hanover Square. Each part will contain font compositions—two for the pianoforte and two for the voice. Among the regular contributors will be M. W. Balfe, John Barnett, Jules Benedict, Rene Favarger, Virginia Gabriel, J. L. Hatton, W. Kuhe, G. A. Macfarren, Walter Macfarren, Brinley Richards, E. Silas, Henry Smart, Boyton Smith, Sydney Smith, Arthur S. Sullivan. DEATH OF LORD COLCHESTER.—We have to an nounce the death of this nobleman, which took place yes terday afternoon, at his residence in Berkeley-square, after • painful illness of eight months, arising from paralyes. The deceased, Charles Abbot, was son of the first baron, by the eldest daughter of Sir Philip Gibber!, Bart. Born in the parish of St. James's, Westminster, 1798 ; married, 1836, the third daughter of the first Lord Ellenlorough (she was born 1799) ; succeeded hie father is 1829 ; edu cated at the Royal Naval College ; entered the navy in 1811 ; became an admir►l on the reserved list in 1864 ; was Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster- General from February to December, 1852; Po•tmuter General from February, 1858, to June, 1839. The first peer was Speaker of the House of Commons for fifteen years. His father was the Rev. John Abbot, rector of ALL Saints, Colchester, whose widow married, secondly, Jeremy Bentham. The deceased peer is succeeded in the family honours by his only son, the Hon. Reginald Charles Ed ward, born in 1842, educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was second class in classics 1861. DEATH Or LORD FITZHARDINOE. —Admiral Lord Fitzhardinge, G.C.8., died on Thursday at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. His lordship was born in 1788, and married, first, in December, 1823, Lady Charlotte Lennox, sixth daughter of Charles, fourth Duke of Rich mond, which lady died in August, 1833 ; and, secondly, in September, 1834 , Lady Charlotte, third daughter of the first Earl of Duets. The deceased peer entered the navy in June, 1802, and distinguised himself in 1803 at the cap ture of a schooner by boats, commanded the gunboats in the Tagus. co-operated with the troops in the lines of Torres Vedras, and was thanked in public orders by the Duke of Wellington. Ho commanded the Thunderer, 84, at the capture of St. Jean d'Acre, for which be was mane a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and received the gold medal. The gallant lord was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty from April, 1833, to December, 1834; from July, 1837, to March, 183 1 ) ; and again from July, 1846, until March, 1852, and subeequently from December of the same year to 1857. From December, 183.3, and for a long series of years he represented Glou cester in the House of Commons. On the death of his elder brother, the late Earl Fitzhardinge, in 1857, he be came a claimant for the barony of Berkeley, by tenure of Berkeley Castle, in which he was unsuccessful, and was Immediately afterward' erected Baron Fitzhardinge, of the city anal county of Bristol, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The late admiral was made a Privy Councillor in 1855, and a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1861. He is succeeded in the family ho nours by his eldest son, the Hon. Francis W. Fitzhardinge, born in 1826. A " RIDING OPINION.—Sir Thomas Maitland, while he was Governor of Malta, and Sir John Sewell, the Chief Justice were in habit of taking an afternoon ride together. The Governor had a dispute with some of his subjects, over whose property he considered that go vernment possessed certain rights. 'While riding with the Chief Justice he stated his case and obtained an opinion which coincided with his own view of the matter in every point. A suit was commenced, which in due time came before Sir John Sewell for his decision. The sentence was given in clearand strong terms—government was nommited and condemned to pay the whole expenses of the lawsuit. On the first occasion he could find, or make, the governor expressed his surprise to the Chief Justice, adding, "Why, Sir John, you gave me an opinion directly contrary to your decision !" The Chief Justice replied, "Sir Thomas, that is impossible ; I gave an opinion on env vise that was likely to come before me as a judge." Sir Thomas Maitland then reminded Sir John that it was when they were out riding. The information raised a smile on the Judge's countenance, and he said, " Ah, I see it, Sir Thomas ; that was a riding opinion ; I never pay any at tention to anything that looks like law when I am out riding, and I always adopt the opinions of my companions; it tends to make the ride healthier es well as more agree able." THE RECORDER OF WARWICK ON THE LIMEHoUSE TRAGEDV.—Yesterday, in charging the grand jury at War wick, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Bart., the recorder of the borough, spoke of the administration of criminal justice, and in doing so spoke in strong terms of the execution of Wiggins, the Limehouse munlerer, when, he observed, such a fearful scene of honor was enacted on the scaffold. He felt strongly upon the honor of the case, because the jury, after deliberating for three bourn, recommended the prisoner to mercy. Their reason for doing so was the most extraonlinary he had ever heard in the whole course of his experience —because they did not believe the act was premeditated. If that were so, if there was no pre meditation, no malice prepense, the crime was not mur der. He had always advocated the establishment of a solemn court of appeal, to review the circumstances and facts in such cases, instead of the present unsatisfactory mode of appealing to the Secretary of State. In the case of Wiggins, where life had been taken away that could not be restored, the jury, conscious of human fallibility, would have been glad to have bad their verdict reviewed by • competent tribunal, and he was confident the public mind would have been better satisfied than it is now. For years be had defended capital punishment for murder as a dire necessity, but if capital sentences were to continue to be dealt with in the present unsatis factcry way, with the possibility of such an awful mis carriage of justice as a man being executed unjustly, be should devote the remainder of his life to advocating the abolition of capital punishment. Where there was a pos sibility of human life being taken away unjustly r every precaution ought to be taken to prevent the possibility of such a fearful result, and the only way in which that could be effectually accomplished would he by a court of criminal appeal, constituted of ten or of all the judges of the land, to consider whether there were any circumstances which required that the court should step in between the criminal and the sentence of death. LATIZT INTELLIGENCE. ever, is considered to be improbable. Should a direct understanding between Italy and the Pope prove impracticable, it is thought that France would negotiate a settlement of the Roman question with the other great powers, either at a conference or by some other means." FLORENCE, Oct 18, Ert.soro. The postal and telegraphic communication with Rome is interrupted. Further advicee from Orte announce that part of Major Ghirelli's Roman band was fortified at Orte, and that the other portion had gone to rejoin Menotti Garibaldi. The junction between the bands of Nicotera and Menotti Garibaldi was already affected. A report was current that the pontifical troops were preparing to attack Orte in considerable force. The Italie states that Count Banal, at present Italian minister in Vienna, will be transferred to the same post in London. The Diritto of this evening states that the island of Caprera is now regularly guarded by six men-of-war and occupied by MO marines. THE RISING ON THE PAPAL STATES. The most merlons news in connexion with the struggle now going on in the Papal States is the resolution of the French government to send a new military expedition to Rome. The Avenir National, which up to the last mo ment refused to believe in the possibility of such a decision, says : There is no longer ground for doubt. The die is cut ; the fatal resolution is taken. Yes, we were wrong ; we were optimists when we affit med that a new expedition to Rome was a moral impossibility. There are still ma terial disabi'itiee—more of them now than ever ; but for the last Li years the words moral impossibility have had no meaning, and we should have been aware of that fact. The Unirers may triumph. It is master of the situation in France. Events will soon show the consequences of this victot y. The &bats says : We have been amused that the French government has resolved to interfere. We must needs hope th►t so grave • resolution, which may have such terrible results, has not been yet taken, although the language of the officious journals is anything but re-assuring. The Silde observes : The Monittur of tbis morning has not a single word on the Roman question. The alarming news which circulated in Paris yesterday evening has not been confirmed or denied. There is still reason for doubting the reality of the disastrous resolution which we are assured has been taken by the government. The new French expedition is not yet an accomplished fact. The Temps says : Our information enables us to throw some light on the situation which engages the attention of all France. A new French expedition to Rome has not been decided upon; but it is threatened. The m►teriel ►nd men are assembled at Toulon ; and ►t the first telegraphic signal the expedition commanded by General Dumont may set sail. Still there is hesitation about crossing the Rubicon. The Liberte has the following : The Moniteur has appeared this morning without die. sipating the obscurity which troubles the minds of all men. Anguish is at its height. In its " latest news" the Liberte says : False news is abroad. If we were to credit it, the French government has given up the idea of sending an army of occupation, and has confined itself to the threat of an absolute maritime blockade. It is also said that King Victor Emmanuel has notified the French government that if a French army of occupation was sent to Rome it would be forestalled by an Italian army, that the state of men's minds in Italy allowed him no other alternative, in which case Signor Nigra would be at one recalled. The Liberte further asks " whether it is false news that General Dumont has been called to Pari s by telegraph, and that after a few hours' delay ho set out for Lyons." All the French liberal journals, without excep tion, regard the decision of the government to send a French expedition to Rome, if it really has been taken, as one fraught with the most perilous results. Of this there can be no doubt if it has been decided in Florence to be beforehand with the French. On this point the Opinione, the organ of the Italian moderate party in Italy, says in its issue of the 15th : We shall be in Rome before the French. As to the possible consequences of such an act (intervention) we believe it to be useless to point th-m out to the French government. Now the die is cast, and it would be mad- ness to wish to oppose the aspirations of the nation. The government that separates itself from the national will is condemned to impotence. The government which sepa rates itself from the national will in consequence of the menaces of a foreign power—though a friendly one and deserving all respect—could no longer ralee its bead before the nation. The Nord says that a new French intervention was decided on in principle at the Council held on Wednesday at St. Cloud, and that a telegram was immediately sent to the Italian government, intima ting that if the invasion of the Garibaldians wasnot put a stop to at once the French government had absolutely resolved to interfere with an armed force. The reply of the Italian government, which arrived on Thursday, and communicated by M. Tigre to M. de Moustier was, it says, very indefinite. It stated that " they could not believe at Florence that the resolutions of the French government were so precise." A further telegram is expected from Italy to-day or to-morrow, adds the Nurd. The Times of this morning affirms absolutely that M. Rattazzi has declared to the French go vernment " that the intelligence of a single French soldier being embarked at Toulon or Marseilles would be the signal for the Italian army to cross the Papal frontier." The statement that M. Crispi was to enter the Italian cabinet as Minister of the Interior would tend to confirm the report that M. Rattazzi was resolved to meet the French in Rome, comp what would. The following order of the day was issued by Commandant Ghirelli at the moment of his cross ing the Roman frontier : ORDIR Or TIDE DAT A OCT. 12. Officers, Subalterns, and Soldiers, Romans, —I am proud to take the command which has been conferred upon me by the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and I send a heart ful adieu to the brave Piedmonteae battalion which only yesterday it was my pride to command. In your name and my own I premise my former companions of the regu lar army that the Roman Legion will soon be in a position to fall in under the common flag—that flag which, in the name of Italy and Victor Emmanuel, has been victoriously borne from Marsala to Castelfidardo, and which we are now going to raise on the Capitol. Ido not speak to you of labours and trials which are always light for those who fight for country ; and I need not re mind you that order, discipline, and obedience are, more than bravery, the duties of the soldiers of liberty. Major Luigi Gulmanelli, who has likewise left the ranks of the regular army, and who commanded the first battalion in the difficult days of its organisation, has given proofs of his self-denial and his intelligence. In the name of the country which we are going to deliver I thank him. The route we are going to traverse is con secrated by the name of Rome. We shall find there to guide us the footsteps of our ancestors, who dictated to the world the laws of civilisation. We must remind foreigners once more that Italy belongs to the Italians, and that it is wrong and presumptuous to impose over us in Rome the representatives of reaction and obscurantism. We are not making war upon altars, but we wish to break the impure alliance of two powers which reason has created distinct, which should remain distinct, and which mixed up together corrupt and defile faith. Officers, subalterns, and soldiers, I rely upon you ; rely upon me. Long live Italy ; long live Rome. F GIIIRELLI. (RECTER . B TOLEGRAIIB.) THE PAPAL STATES. EXPECTED EMBARKATION OF FRENCH TROOPS AT TOULON. TOULON, Ocr. IS, EVENING. It is asserted that 10,000 troops from Lyons will arrive here in the course of to-night and to morrow in order to embark. PARIS, Ocr. 19. The Condit/16mnd contains an article upon the Roman question, signed by M. Limayrac, in which the writer expresses a wish to be able to put the question at present agitating all minds in its right light. He concludes thus :—" It is the duty of Italy to respect, and it is the incontestable right of France to cause to be respected, engagements which have been contracted." BRUSSELS, (k-r. 19. The Indipendence Bclge of to-day publishes a telegram from Berlin, dated yesterday, which says : —" The Prussian government has by no means protested against French interven tion in Italy. Such intervention, how- NORTH GERMANY. BERLIN, Ocr. 18, Byrum. The King of the Greeks left last night for St. Petersburg. In to-day's sitting of the North German parlia ment a debate took place upon the bill respecting liability to military service. Paragraph 1 was amended so as to provide that every citizen of the Confederation is liable to serve without the option of finding a substitute excepting in the case of members of reigning families as well as of the houses of mediatised princes, and of those who formerly possessed the prerogatives of the States of the empire, or who are freed by special treaties or special rights from liability to military service. Paragraphs 2,3, 4, and 5 were then adopted in ac cordance with the committee's report. On the discussion of paragraph 6, Count Bis marck declared that in introducing this bill the federal governments had no intention of enlarging the powers of the federal commander-in-chief ; but rather of limiting the discretion of the executive as much as was compatible with the welfare and interests of the Northern Confederation. The house would be extending that limit by substi tuting for the right of placing the army upon a war footing that of increasing the military forces as much as necessary, and would thereby increase the danger of war, as such a right would give rise to justifiable questions from foreign powers when the reserves of any single regiment might be called out, for calling out the reserves under those circumstances would be equivalent to a notification of preparations for war. The public interests therefore demanded that the proposed modification of the paragraph should not be agreed to. Count Bismarck reminded the house of the period when war appeared imminent this year, and recalled the efforts the government had then made for the preservation of peace, de claring at the same time that on future occasions it would pursue a similar course. Paragraph 6 was nevertheless adopted by a large majority, with the modification conferring the right upon the commander-in-chief to increase the army as far as necessary. Paragraphs 7 to 19 inclusive were then passed according to the proposals of the committee with the exception of paragraphs 9, 10, and 11, which were adopted as proposed by the government. BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, Ocr. 19. The Ripon arrived at 6.30 a.m. to-day. Mails leave at 11.30 a.m. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pere, with the heavy portion of the above mail, passed the Needles at 7.25 a.m. (ATLANTIC TILIGRAN.) AMERICA. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Ocr. 18. 6 Pal. Closing prices :--Gold, 143 f ; Sterling Exchange on London, 108 f ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 ; Illinois, 121 i ; Erie, 71. Cotton, middling up land, 9. PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 18. Standard white petroleum, 34. The Bishop of Capetown, writing again to the Times, gives a curious picture of the late synod, in which " one said one thing and one another," " often in a con versational way," in which one half did not know what the other half was voting upon, and the members of which are, finally, unable to agree what were the actual resolutions they passed. AOcording to a statement of Messrs. Feuerheerd and Co., of Oporto, the port vintage of 1807 having been favoured by excellent weather, some very superior wines have been obtained. The quantity, however, has been seriously affected by °chum, which appeared with extraor dinary severity in May and June, causing a loss of about one-third of the gr►pes. The new federal flag of Germany has been re cognised by France, England, Sweden and Norway, Italy, Austria, and Spain. From the other seafaring Powers the like is shortly expected. The breaking off of the engagement between the King of Bavaria and his COUSiII, Princess Sophia, is not re gretted by the liberals. Princess Sophia, a sisterfof the Empress of Austria and of the Queen of Naples, together with her whole family, is strongly attached to the Ultra. montane and anti-Prussian interest. On the King re peatedly patio,: off the marriage, the Princess begged leave to free him from his promise. His youthful Majesty at once accepted and reciprocated the release. The IlLshop of i'oictiere recommends his clergy to celebrate a Noerna (nine days prayer) on behalf of the Pope; and during these nine days, ►fter each mass, the celebrant, " kneeling before the altar, shall chant or recite oremus pro pontince neaten Plo. Downing couservet cum et virleet Cum, et beatum faciat sum In terra, et non tradat cum In anhnam Inimleorum slut.' After which the ' Pater, Ave, and Gloria Petri' shall be recited in Latin or in French ; and that all f .ithful souls shall multiply their communion for the protection of the Roman Pontiff and of the army that is fighting in his sacred cause." Vast quantities of swallows are being caught in nets on the shores of the Mediterranean, where they as semble in enormous numbers before taking their final de parture southwards. The produce of this act of harleirity is de:Toddled to the towns in the south, and even so far as Lyons. An accident has just happened to the well-known deputy and economist, M. Jules Simon, who lias been lately travelling in Germany. While at Nnreinburg he put his arm out of joint, but prompt and intelligent surgical means having been applied, he was able at once to undertake the journey to Paris. It Is said that he in tends taking a prominent part in the discussions on the reorganisation of the army. There are in France 864 clerical catholic primary schools, under the management of the Frier. de In Doc trine Chriliennc, 16 in the Pontifical States, 13 in Italy, 42 in Belgium, 2 in Switzerland, 2 in Austria, 3in Prussia, 2 in England, 2 in Egypt, 4 in Turkey, 19 in Canada, 29 in the United States, 5 in Malaisia, 5 in the Indies, and 2 in the republic of the Equator : in all 1,010 establishments, served by 1,822 brothers. A man in Alton, lowa, has escaped from punish ment for adultery, because the prosecuting attorney bad indicted him fur " idolatry." LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWA (THIS DAY.) A general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the Victoria Station this day, for the purpose of electing a shore director. Mr. HOD,. KlNhO>t, M.P., the chairman of the board of directors, pre sided. The report of the directors which has already be pub. lished, having been taken as director, The CHAIRMAN said the shareholders were all aware that on the Ist July in last year the company for the first time failed not only to pay the capital of the d e b entures, hut the interest. The consequence was that certain deben ture holders took proceedings in Chancery, and a receiver was appointed. A committee of investigation w-.s ap. pointed in August, which presented • faithful report of the state of their affairs. That report was sub- mitted to the shareholders on the 15th of Otto her, and the result was that a motion was made that all the directors except Lord Harris be requested to retire, and that others be appointed in their place. This exception of Lord Harris from the general censure was fully justified. The bondholders also appointed &committee, of which Mr. Hodgson was appointed chairman. When the new directors were appointed they found it absolutely necessary that some legislative power for the sr. rangement of the affairs of the company should be °Waite/ They propounded • scheme whereby they would have tern empowered to raise • sufficient sum by a pre•preference stock to complete their works and settle certain claims. That scheme was submitted to the debenture holders, who disapproved of it, and they carried a resolution of no surrender and no pre-preference, and that their committee should enter into negotiations with the directors. The debenture holden' committee met the directors, and in the negotiations that followed they hauled down the flag of no-surrender, and agreed to join in raising • pre-preference stock. Then the bondholders` committee quarrelled among themselves ; one part going for no pre-preference and the other consenting to • pre-preference, and there were three bills before par. &merit The directors entered into • compromise with that section of the bondholders' committee of which Mr. Hodgson was the head, by which the right of debenture holders to sue was to be in abeyance for ten years, and giving the debenture holden the power of ap pointing one half the directors ; but it was stipulated that she chairman of the company should be a share director, and should have • casting vote. The only business that could be legally transacted to-day was to appoint • fourth share director, but the directors had thought it right that the report of the directors should be presented at the meeting this day, but it is not intended to bring forward any motion for its adoption. Mr. HITCHOWK asked if the statements in the report were true, and expressed an opinion that the company should be amalgamated with the Brighton and South Coast Company. Mr. HARTRIDGE said the directors were by the recent act of parliament made trustees, and the shareholders could not hold them responsible in the usual way. and, indeed, only by means of the Court of Chancery. The directors shrunk from adopting the report. The eericus part of the business was how it was that all this should have come about, and the provisions of the act agreed to without the shareholders being called together to give their consent. The bondholders were not as much interested in the good management of the railway as the shareholder were. A large amount of the bonds were issued at 75, so that by the bill they would get a profit of 2 ' per cent. He thought great blame attached to the chairman for not call ing the shareholders together and asking their consent to the bill before it was passed. Mr. SHAW remarked that the late directora bad constantly deceived the shareholders, and he asked whether the pr. went directors intended to maintain in office the officials who had given that false information. Mr. R. Paws did not think that they ought to ask the South Eastern or the Brighton to amalgamate with them. He denied that the greatest portion of the bondholders got their bonds at 75. He asked for information regarding the position of affairs between the company and Sir Morton Pet* and Company, and he oomphoined that the directors had not got assignees of that estate ap pointed who would have looked after the interests of this company. The CHAIRMAN in reply said the directors fully adopted every statement in the report. He was surprised at the com plaint of Mr. Hartridge that the shareholders were not called together to consent to the arrangement bill, for they were called together on the 27th June to consider the con solidated bill of • the company, and a resolution in its favour was agreed to. Mr. Harraioug remarked that the bill was largely al tered afterwards. The CHAIRMAN said no doubt there were alterations made in the bill as it paved through committee, but they did not affect the principle of the bill. With regard to re taining the services of the officials he bad seen a great deal of them, and did not think there was any one of them whose services ought not to be retained. The claims on the estate of Sir Morton Peto would be prosecuted in the inte rest of the shareholders, but he had some fear's to the suc cess of their efforts. Mr. J. HIRAPATH moved that Mr. George Cavendish Taylor be appointed a director. Mr. Taylor was a mem ber of the committee of investigation. Capt. HOTHAN seconded. The motion was put and agreed to, and on the motion of Mr. Rokeby Price, seconded by Mr. Hartridge, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, which concluded the proceedings. At Highbridge, in Somersetahire, a firm has un dertaken to purchase sheep and oxen, and have them killed so as to sell meat at less than the butchers' prices. Prime mutton is sold to mechanics and others at 61. per and good beef at sd. and 6d. per lb. A co-operative bakehouse is about to be established in the place to cheapen the price of bread. The fund for the purpose L to be raised in U. shares. &Ws Life fears "that the time-honoured institu tion of the P.R. is on ita very last legs, and unless the members of the Ring themselves take affairs in hand, the ropes and stakes, as of old, may be bullied without regret.* From time to time encounters have taken place within the last ton years that have revived sanguine hopes, viz., Sayers and Heenan—the topic of the world's conversation —Hurst and Mace, King and Mace, King and Heenan, kc., but "as a counterbalance there have been several failures, of which the least said the better, but the moult tells its own sad tale in the gradual falling off of the old stock o► Ring frequenters, and the almost total absence of new blood." Notwithstanding these forebodings, our con temporary has a list of no less than ten " fights to come," the date being given in each case. TUE Cu IP. Blanc and Baldwin, with their respective friends, met the stakeholder at the office of &We Life yesterday to receive the opinion of the legal gentleman who ha d been consulted respecting the particular circumstances of the case, and a suggestion that the fight should take place in France. The opinion was to the effect "that even if the battle did come off in Francs either of the men could be taken into custody on arriving in England for an assault on one of her Majesty's subjects towards whom they were bound in heavy sureties to keep the peace." " COuNac."—On Tuesday there was a grand inaugural ceremony for the opening of the railway from Angoulenie to Cognac, the company being invited to pr. take of the vinous productions of the latter city. The first manufacturer of the brandy, which has obtained world-wide celebrity, was an Irishman of the 'name of Hennessy, and the second an English travelling agent named Martell. In 1710 the latter established • small depot of brandy at Cognac, which has now extended to an establishment which covers a surface of four and a half English acres, containing 12,000 barrels of Cognac, the net value of which arsoan'se to 8,001,0001 r. the profits per annum being rated at 721),(40fr. sterling. Even these startling figures convey imperfectly an idea of the Mar tell establishment. Conceive • subterranean house, with galleries rising one above the other, and in each in terminable rows of barrels. More surprising men is the aspect of the lowest gallery, filled by gigantic tuns of the precious spirit, each of a sire next to which the famous Heidelberg tun would appear • mere child's toy. In this gallery Slone " there is enough cognac to make the inhabi tants of one quarter of the globe drunk." Two hundred and fifty sat down to the banquet given be the railway directors of the Charente* line. Two cabinet miniature were present—M. Durny and M. Forcadc la Roquette, besides a host of celebrities. THE WHEAT CROP IN THE UNITED STATES. Aooording to the report issued by the United States' De partment of Agriculture for August and September, the expectations of large crops this year have been related. The wheat-growing States report the following percentage of increase over the crop of 1800 :—Obio. 130 per cent. Indiana, 30 ; Michigan, 33 ; Wisconsin, 17 : Minnesota, 25 ; Illinois, 11 ; lowa, 20; Missouri, 40 ; Kentucky, 34 ; Wed Virginia. GO ; Virginia. 50 ; Tennessee, 40 ; Georgia, ; Arkansas, 45 ; New York, 14 ; and Pennsylvania, 40. , while only Kansas and Texas show • falling from last when the crops in those were very large. It is also said that the pro. spects for • heavy yield of Indian corn con tinue to improve. While a number of states return low estimates, others, particularly theSouthem, show • marked improvement over the yield of last year. Georgia pronusee to double her crop of 1860 ; Alabama reports' an increase of 75 per cent. ; Missi.sippi, 80; Tennessee, 21 ; Louisiana, 40; South Carolina, 54 ; and Arkansas, 100. Ohio falls 30 per cent. behind hist year ; Indiana, 17 ; Illinois, 14 ; Kentucky, 28 ; West 'Virginia, 15, and Virginia, 10. Buckwheat, rye, barley, and oats show an increase over the harvests of 1868, although oats were injured in some section. by extreme wet. The average yield of I r ig n4r hier been ao per cent. larger, Pennsylvania retu rn an increase of 50 per cent. ; New York, 24 ; Michigan, ii cousin, and Illinois. 28 ; Indiana, Potatoes in some of the states are much diseased. The apple crop will fall cossideraMy below that of last year. ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF SHE CHEST, CITT•ROAD. B.C.—The number of patient* under treat. meat at this hospital during the past weak amounted to 9:4, of which 78 were new cases.