The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-27 00:00:00

~ v ~~ i -~' ~?~ y.~~~~-/ r 1 ". l 4 ',7 G I 2 NEWSPAPER. 6:B.l:Lad ......... 0 „, ... ... .. r , ( ill ... t . _., , _ . . . f.• , . , , , • , i.,„ 1 ~ , . . . 7 , " . . . No. 6,258.] MONEY WI3RAM sad BONS' (of M ilg aTt ora_ -rut London) LINE of =All sad PACKET B@B to AIIIITIALLt.—Por MELBOITAIrt (Pori Phillip) Direct (to rave the Doris ea Thursday, Separable El Wang Ity proth), lirglandld clipper ship LINOOLNIUdIttIe tons, CIIAELIO, Commander ; In the Mut Docks. ass esomemodarras ter all dram parregen are ansur gimed, and As two carry an —tor treXt m o: to ALLPOlt e rt i nntr a ra with ard SONS, 7. LesdenhalLereat. OTEAN to NEW YORK.—IINITED STATES rj, NAIL LINI.—ZEDUCIfD TANNIt —The apuniebi and revoarite Me-wheel steamers of the New York and Havre Steam pfdp Company are appointed to hate for New York as follows : iiir I - Si" 1 - Frce% Hay». /6.1666162, A 06.22 rednanday, Sept 26 redaesday, Uet IA Wanda), Nov. -- lunday, L.K. kursday, Sop& IT landay, Oct. 215 lorodiu, Nov. U Parse :-11rat-c LPI and tl9; woad tdass, 414 sad Vi— be further ply to JAB. A. warros, Havre ; L LANA Parts ; G. C. sad IL W. FOX rad Cs., Paltacatth ; as E. STALI and Co., 146, chryrd., Loadcat. MAW FROM LIYKRPOOL OR QI7IINSTOWN TO 111 W YORK TWIOE A 11111 LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, sad T ir i• M BSLADZLPHIA. STIAII-13111P COMPANY Inland de. Speiddng he UMW &ales inane tbidr tall.powered Clyde-bn ll t Iron &sew Illesatagps. dienbi t, FROM LITHILPOOL for IPIW YORE CITY OF BOSTON, Wednentay, Angst VA CITY OF MIK, Warder% Sept I. ILDLNIIIIIOII, Wednesday. Sept S. And sanTWednesday an 4 13aftwthey. Oubba by the mall demon ragbag every Wedateday, 11, IT, and &nese. recording to the aeoaremodstion. leeward perms* Includes a hal sumb et anted lsani= n tor Canada and Ihe y Thiltag li ttes * yaztkulan t n . MUM =l, Ilk ttor Wster• o e r taed, lAverpool ; and to YU W MACEY. el. Was Witham-etre* London. OVERLAND ROUTE. 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The particular plan to " Peed is that which Mr. Spagnokrth has f or flee metropolitan underground line, and the of rohicli has been eminently satisfactory. Since the al the line not a single casualty baa ocienrred which in this Post remote degree could be traced to the signalling Ontratus. obi amt Z bre• 4 al Immo be do rig an* liPed f len vs% Tal. IMI BAIA 7. l l ' wog kost 014 r 0 .0 C. tri oil* 100 1 ' 4 ~~ w F ~ 4~ =t y 4 k ~ TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (astrrra's TELEGRAMS.) THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. BERLIN, Amur/ W._ At half-past two to-day the King received the deputation. appointed by the Chamber of Deputies to present to his Majerty the address of the house in reply to the speech from the throne. None of the ministers were present, and there was only an aide-do-camp in attendance on the King. The ad dress was read by Herr von Forkenbeck, the presi dent of the home. His Majesty, in a reply in which he touched upon all the points of the address, stated that he received with joy th e address of the Chamber of Deputies, the almost unanimous manner in which it was voted bearing testimony to the unity of the Prussian people. The Chamber had justly given their first thanks to. the Almighty, without whom successes such as the world had scarcely ever witnessed before would have been impossible their thanks were also justly due to the army. For his part, as he had been forced to draw the sword, he thanked the Almighty that, at so advanced an age, he had been chosen to achieve with and for Prussia such important successes. The superiority of the new organization of the army over the old system would now be recognised. The government had never disputed the rights of the Chamber with regard to the budget. The indemnity which was now asked had in principle been repeatedly pro posed by the government, but unfortunately on former occasions no agreement had ensued. The constitution contained no article applicable to such a position of affairs. In the event of a recurrence of a similar state of things, he should be under the necessity of again acting as he had acted before, in order to preserve the regular order in the State. But a renewal of the conflict could not take place after the adoption of such an address as that just presented to him. The concluding portion of the deputies' reply contained all he could have wished. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the bill for increasing the capital of the bank was paned after a very short discussion. THE PRUSSIAN ANNEXATION BILL. MERLIN, AUGUST 26, Yesterday evening the committee of the Chamber of Deputies upon the Annexation Bill held a meet_ ing, at which Count Bismarck was present. Several amendments were brought forward, all agreeing in one point, that of demanding an imme diate absolute union of the annexed States with Prussia. Herr Virohow moved that the German Parliament should be consulted as to whether the Prussian constitution should be introduced among the annexed Staten. Count Bismarck stated that he was not opposed to an immediate absolute union, but only to the immediate introduction of the Prussian constitution in the annexed states, and to the proposition to consult the German Parliament on the subject. He de_ dared that until the introduction of the Prussian constitution into those States the government must be left liberty of action to facilitate by royal decrees the necessary settlement of the relations between them and Prussia. He bad no objection to an amendment to the bill stipulating for the introduction of the Prussian constitution by the Ist October, 1867. To-day the committee will hold another sitting to draw up the amendment in terms which can be agreed upon by all parties. ITALY AND THE PRUSSIAN PRESS. BERLIN, AUGUST 25. The Official Gazette of to-day says :—" The Kreuzzcitung of yesterday and to-day contains articles which allude to the origin of the Kingdom of Italy and its recent military achievements in a manner which does not correspond with historical facts, throws contempt upon the just efforts of the Italians to accomplish their unity, and evinces an utter want of apprehension of the im portance to the interests of civilization which attaches to the new organization of Italy. The statements of the Kreuzzeitung with regard to the strength and condition of Italy are at variance with the facts of the case. Italy during the late war was Prussia's faithful ally, and this alone should have induced the Kretizzeitung to speak Of that kingdom in such terms as a true and important ally of Prussia might expect from a Prussian journal." SAXONY. LEIPSIC, Auctsr 26. At a meeting held here to-day of members of the liberal national party from the principal towns of Saxony, the following resolution was almost unani mously adopted :—" We hold that the interests of Germany and Saxony will best be served by incor porating Saxony with Prussia, or should this be impossible by at least handing over the direction of military and diplomatic affairs to that Power, and the legislation as well as the administration of all commercial interests to the government of the Confederation. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. FLORENCE, Acorn 25. At the request of Italy the following article was inserted in the treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia, signed yesterday at Prague :—" In fulfil ment of article 6 of the Nikolsburg preliminaries of peace, and in accordance with the declaration of the French Emperor, made through his ambas sador at Nikolsburg on the 29th July last, that as far as the French government was concerned, Venetia was acquired for Italy, and would be handed over to her upon the conclusion of peace, the Emperor of Austria agreeing to this declaration, consents to the union of the Kingdom of Lombardo-Venetia with the King dom of Italy, without any more onerous conditions than the payment by the Italian government of the debts which shall be recognised as the share of the ceded territories, in conformity with the precedent of the treaty of Zurich. " FLORENCE. A 170175? 26. The Nazione of to-day states that General Menabrea has demanded of Austria the restitution of all the national relics and objects of art recently carried away from Venetia by order of the Austrian authorities, including the iron crown of Lombardy. The same journal announces that, up to the pre sent, the Austrian negotiators have shown a con ciliatory spirit in their dealings with Italy. ITALY, noßaNca, Aratner IS. General Cugia, 'Minister of War, has returned from Bologna, where he had proceeded, in order to confer with General C?ldini. THE AUSfIUAN • , VIENNA, Almon 26. The Debatte of to-day says :—" We learn on re liable authority that the rumours current here relative to the resignation of Count Belcredi are without any real fonndation." Baron von Beust, the former Saxon Minister for Foreign Affairs, had yesterday an audience of the Emperor, and then left for Munich. LONDON, MONDAY ITENING, AUGITST 27, 1866. THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO. TURIN, Allover 25. The Empress of Mexico arrived here yesterday evening. The pdlitical, military, and municipal authorities, and a representative of the royal family, received her Majesty at the railway station. The Empress has alighted at the Hotel de I'Enrope. MILAN, A 131200? 26. The Empress of Mexico has arrived here. Her Majesty was visited on her arrival by the prefect and the mayor. FRANCE. PARTS, Allover 26. The Emperor took a carriage drive yesterday to Neuilly, Puteaux, and Suresne. On arriving at the works for the construction of the Seine em- bankment his Majesty alighted from his carriage, and was received by the workmen with loud cheers. The Emperor had a long conversation with the contractor, and left a liberal present to be distri buted among the workmen. RUSSIA. MOSCOW, AuorsT 25, EVZNING. Martial law has been abolished in all the go verrunenta of the South West, excepting Kiew. The American Embassy, on their journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, were enthusiastically welcomed by large crowds, which gathered at all the railway stations. At Novgorod an address was presented to them by the governor of that pro vince. A banquet has been given here in their honour at the club called " Mutual Support." Mr. Fox, the American Envoy Extraordinary, replying to a toast which was drunk to his health, said that mutual support, the title of the club, must be the emblem of the relations between Russia and Ame rica. The United States had always been ready to hold out the bead of friendship to Russia. THE POLISH INSURGENTS. MOSCOW, AUGUR? 25. Intelligence received here from Irkutsk states that in the possession of one of the captured insur gents named Dombroffski, who had assumed the title of Captain of the Staff of the Siberian Legion, revolutionary handbills and letters were discovered, showing that the insurgents had organised five squadrons of trine. Of these the principal num ber were proviol with arms, some of them, how ever, being armed with scythes. On the sth July, 200 Polish prisoners, who had been defeated and captured in Transbaikalien, were brought to Irkutsk. SPAIN. MADRID, Awns? 26. The Diario E9agnol of to-day states that, in dealing with persona guilty of spreading alarming reports, the goverstment intends to avail itself of the powers grants by the suspension of the con stitutional guarantees. INDIA. (s: DIRECT OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.). BOXISAY, AUGUST 17, 3.48 P.Y. 71bs. shirtings, 7r. 14& Cotton dull. Dhollerah, 335 r. Shipment of the week, 1,100 bales. Ex change on London. Is. 111 d. Government securi ties : Four per Cents., 901 ; Five per Cents., 1061 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1111. Freights to Liverpool, 15s. The latest London date is August 3. CALCUTTA, AUGUST 16. Bilbs. shirtings, Br. 14a. Exchange on London, Is. 111 d. Freights to England, 45e. AMERICA. (HT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 23, Evnima. Gold, 150.1. Exchange on London, 1601 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1101. Middling Upland, 34c. THE KING AND QUEEN OF TUE BELGIAN:4.— A grand family dinner was given at Laeken on the Wird inst. to celebrate an anniversary of a double nature. The Queen had then completed her 30th year, and it was just thirteen years day for day since her Majesty (then Arch duchess of Austria) was married at the age of 17, at Brus sels, to the Duke de Brabant, now Ding Leopold 11. The Belgian Moniteur misname** that their Majesties and the Count de Flandre will pay an official visit to the towns of Mundt and St. Trend in Limburg on Sept. 1, visit the Camp of Beverloo on the 2nd and 3rd, and proceed to the town of Tongree on the 4th, returning to Brussels in the evening. Garibaldi is about to hold a grand review of all the Italian volunteers in the plain of Montechiari. The two sons of Abd-el-Kader have returned to Paris from the Pyrenees. They ate to make a short stay in the French capital, and proceed to Marseilles to rejoin their father at Damascus. The composer Verdi and his wife have just left Paris for Cauterets in the Pyrenees. The Paris Constibitionne/ announces that the police have just discovered in the Rue des Jardiniere, a clandestine slaughter-house for horses, which daily passed its products on the markets' beef. The commissary found under a shed a horse partly cut up, and two others still living. A journeyman butcher found on the premises was arrested, and seal' were placed on the doors. HOMEWARD AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAILS DUE AT LIVIEPOOL.—The steamers carrying the above mails, and due at Liverpool this weak, are the Moravian, from Quebec on the 18th inst. ; the Etna, from New Y ork on the same day ; and the Java, from New York on the 22nd inst. The Moravian will no doubt arrive to-morrow (Tuesday), and the Etna on Thursday. The Java will moat likely reach Liverpool on Saturday next. The out going American and Canadian mail steamers this week are the City of Boston, for New York, on Wednesday ; the Peruvian, for Que bec, on Thursday; and the China, for Halifax and Boston, on Saturday. DOVER AND CALAIS INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY. — The suggestion for making a tunnel beneath the bed of the English Channel wherein to lay ibis loecprojected line has been condemned as impracticable, whilst the feasi bility of constructing suspension or girder bridges with spans of from seven miles to 21 miles has been considered questionable ; nor has the tube upon the channel bed, pro- tected by a bank of stones been received with much greater favour, notwithstanding the success of the Pneu matic Despatch Company. The latest proposition is that of Mr. Charles Boutet, who states that he can, at • cost of 16,000,0001. sterling, construct gigantic pontoon bridge, with all the necessary appurtenances, and get the work open for traffic in five years. There will be openings for the convenience of ships navigating the Channel at each end of the bridge, and the bridge will be provided with lighthouses, refreshment buffets, ordinary carriage, waya, and four rows of palarapi by way of illumination. Mr. Boutet considers the French will readily alter the gauge of their railways when the bridge is completed. —Alining Journal. -= THI LATE EKBEZZLZMINT AND FORGERY AT KING'S Lin .—Farther investigations of the affair of Messrs. Everaid and Sous have disclosed defalcations to a mush greater erteet that was imagined. The deficiency is now said to be little sheet of 6,00 W., and Booing is still at large. He by been heard of and den at the neighbour ing towns of St. Ives and Ely, but has bailed all the at tempts of the local polies to aced him apprehend**. ft is believed that some of his friends have found means to silthim with funds to leave the country. MandtesSer Examiner announces the suspen cies of Mews. Walley and Co., sotton inanufacturety. Blackburn. They had from 600 to 700 looms in work. The amount of their liabilities has not been fully ascer tained. THE INDIA _AND CHINA MAILS. By the arrival of the above mails we have advice; from Calcutta to July 22 ; Madras, July 27 ; Colombo, July 30 ; Hong Kong, July 12 ; Singa pore, July 20, &c. INDIA. The distress in the famine districts still remains unabated, but the Calcutta Englishman thinks it has probably reached its climax, and that it will be soon alleviated by the cutting of the Aoos rice crop. The accounts of the crops from all parts of the country are most favourable, it adds. The Hurkaru, after mentioning that the accounts from Orissa continue to be of an exceedingly distressing character, says it does not appear that the relief administered, although large in itself, has as yet affected the crisis to any appreciable ex tent. The destitute among the population of the districts surrounding Calcutta are be glom (it adds) to find their way here, but the tolerably well-to-do are also taking advantage of the opportunity to be fed without working for it. Our streets are becoming crovided with %hese poo*, and as they are generally and d.oed, there is some danger of their giving rise to and propagating an epidemic in this crowded city. We are glad to say that the wealthy natives of Calcutta are generously feeding large numbers of these afflicted people, who but for them would in all probability have died in the gutters. The Madras Athencewm writes in very gloomy terra/ on the subject of the famine. It is of opinion that for some months to come there will be sad tidings to communicate regarding the state of affairs in India. Painful as was the ruin caused by the recent financial disorder, it bore reference only to limited classes of society,whereas the calamity that now overshadows the land affect. more or lees the entire population, and is, in fact, a matter of life seri death to the great bulk of them, who have no resources to fall back on when the fruits of the earth fail, owing to drought long continued or a succession of bad seasons. Referring to the steps that have been taken to meet the calamity, the Athenannt says : The supreme authorities in this country seam to be arousing themselves to a perception of the magnitude of the catastrophe which has to be met, though it cannot be averted, and we are glad to say that our own govern*, Lord Napier, is fully alive to it, and disposed to afford 444 relief he can to the dis tr essed provinces under his rule. The richer members of the load community are also coming forward to assist his efforts. A general re het fund recommended by his lordship, has been orga nised, as well as special ones for the succour of the afflicted district of Ganjain and the town of Madras itself, and sub scriptions are flowing into all three, with, we rejnioe to see, unusual liberality on the part of the affluent natives. There was a very crowded public meeting held in Pat cheappah's Hall on the 21st instant, under the presidency of the 'thief justice, and on a requisition to the sher iff more numerously signed by leading representatives of all races than most that we remember to have seen during 20 years t. The sum of donations on that occasion to the gen; t v i e on lief fund, 800 ts., wziilell,to s7s th me , taand o f wn o monthly con Madras fund patios present gave 7,745 n., and promised monthly. subscriptions of bis rs. The donations to the special fund for Ciao jam have reached the figure of 6,641 re. ; sad these gifts are of course but an earnest of what the public will do hereafter to help their perishing fellow-creaturn. Go vernment are going to contribute 20,000 n. to the general fund, beside what they are otherwise doing in the famished provinces. A very influential central committee was ap pointed at the late meeting, and local bodies of the same kind will be formed up-country, so that the total amount milted is certain to prove large. The Bishop of Madras also has strongly urged his clergy to use their best endeavours ea behalf of the philanthropic cause ; nor must we omit to mention that the Philharmonic Society have devoted the proceeds, 350 rupees, of a assert glee; by the to the cause el humanity, whistle/1W the sym pathy of every man of right feeling. It is very Inetifying to be able to record facts like the foregoing, but, after all, alas ! the combined aid thus afforded will go but a small way toward meeting tho dreadful emergency of the case, which has not been paralleled probably by any similar events since 1637. The same paper says of the still unfinished trial at Simla : - " • The unhappy affair between Sir William Mansfield and Captain Jervis is dragging its slow length along at Simla, without much credit to either party. We cannot commit such a breach of propriety, as trying to anticipate what the decision of the court-martial would be, but may simply observe that both parties have compromised themselves by lose of temper and mutual recriminations, and that the higher has painfully sacrificed the dignity of his posi tion, whatever eventual issue may be, while the court have held their own place admirably, considering that they had to deal with his Excellency the Commander in-Chief, nominally as a witness for the defence, but virtually as a defendant of his own proceedings against his former friend and aide-de-camp. From Central Asia or Affghanistan there is no trustworthy news of importance. Great uneasiness is said to prevail on our Peshawur frontier. Re ports were current of the capture of Bokhara by the Russians. The Calcutta Englishman, referring to the appointment of Lord Cranborne to the Secretary ship of State for India, says it is on the whole favourably viewed in Calcutta, though too little is known of that statesman's antecedents for the public to form a very decided opinion on the subject. CHINA. The North China Daily News states that fresh disturbances have taken place at Nanking. The Nienfei have assembled in considerable force in the upper portion of this province, and are even said to have penetrated within sixty miles of the northern bank of the Yangtze, opposite Chin keang. This, if it be correct (says the Overland Cana Mail), is a rather serious announcement, as it implies their presence in the heart of the salt districts. It had been considered that Lihungchang, with his disciplined troops, possessed sufficient force to crush any rebel army that could assemble against him, and that, though much damage might have been done before the arrival of his troops at the scene of action, their success was certain. The event, how- I ever, has not justified these anticipations. Whe ther well or ill-disciplined, his troops are com manded by men who are utterly ignorant of the simplest word of command, and the defeat which they have incurred was, under these circumstances, inevitable. They have lost several guns and a large number of Enfield rifles ; the prestige of the rebels has advanced correspondingly, and the confidence of the population in their protectors has been shaken. Private letters from Peking state that matters in the north are in a very disturbed state. A cor respondent says : Kansuh is apparently hopelessly lost to Chins, and a Mahomedan rule is established there. Brigandage conti nues rife in Manchuria, and Wen &sing with his disci plined troops has gained no great enema. The rebels are well mounted. and lilt about amongst the hills, keeping out of his way, and creating the greatest confusion in that part of the empire. The Mongolian frontier, especially towards Ku-pei is also infested by banditti, which renders travelling in that part of the country extremely unsafe. Small-pox is prevalent in Peking. One Euro pean, viz., Mr. Henning, student interpreter at the Russian legation, had died of it. No other deaths amongst the foreign residents are recorded. The weather in Peking had been extremely warm, the thermometer ranging about 100 Fahrenheit. At Hong Kong there had been a week of mo netary excitement. The Agamemnon, which ar rived on the 29th June, brought news of the sus pension of the Agra and Masterman's Bank, and the manager of the Hong Kong branch immediately issued a notification to the effect that the estab lishment would temporarily close, so far as issue was concerned. The Chinese became greatly alarmed, and with a good many Europeans made a run on the other banks. The Oriental is said to have behaved in a very creditable manner, by cashing the paper of one or two other banks, and this went far to reassure the frightened holders. All danger of a rush was thought to be over, but great inconvenience would result from the stoppage of the Agra. [STAMPED, ld. ADDITIONAL.] JAPAN. Yokohama advice* to the 28th June contain a summary of the convention concluded on the 25th between the English, French, American, Dutch, and Japanese plenipotentiaries. A system of bonded warehouses has been consented to, though the details have yet to be arranged: The system of monetary exchange is to be revised, and all foreign coin or bullion in gold or silver ex value for value. Art. 7 guarantees eo c tfe e t! liberty to any Japanese subject to trade with foreigners, eitherinJapan or abroad, subject, in the latter case, to the grant of a passport under the proclamation recently issued by the Gorogio. The duty leviable on silk is fixed at 75 boos, and on tea at 3.50 per hundred cattier. THE MOVEMENT IN CANDIA. A letter from Syra, dated August 16, published in the ParisMonitcur of yeiterday, gives the follow ing account of the origin and progress of the move ment in Candi& : The news to the oth August which we receive free the island of Candi& Ma slot without • metals amount of gravity. About four months ago, au is well known, the Christians, who are all of the Greek race, aseembled peacefully, and wittiest arros,i amt addremed a petition to the Sultan, asking for the abolition of various onerous taxes, and the introduction of certain ameliorations in the condition of the roods, the schools, the hos piteis, and the mode of election of the dinvesonks, or municipal magistrates of the districts. The Grand Vizier, in the name of the Sublime Porte, sent on the 19th of July the reply of the government to the governor.general. This document, while blaming the conduct of the inhabi tants, and urging them to dissolve the assembly of the delegates if they did not wish to be compelled to do so by force, recalls the generous measures of which Crete has several times been the object, and maintains the payment of the Mum imposed with the object of meeting the deficit of the imperial treasury. The Pasha having acquainted the delegates with the resolutions adopted at Constantinople, the merobers of the central committee assembled on the 9fith July at Prospero, in the canton of Apocorona, addressed to the Grand Vizier • reply, in which they profess re spectful fidelity to the Sultan, while complaining that he has not redressed their grievances, especially as regards the adininistration of justice, religious equality, the mini- sips] elections, and the interdiction of the Greek language in the law courts. The committee sent their reply to the Grand Vizier through the Governor-General, who refused to receive it, and they at the same time addressed to the Christians of the island a proclamation, informing them that the Porte had refused their requests, and con sidered them as rebels, and calling upon them after invoking the assistance of the protecting powers and informing the foreign consuls, to defend themselves their interests, and thiir rights. As might have been expected, the Governor-General immediately enjoined the members of the Assembly and all who form part of the groups to disperse and retire to their homes. In addition to the Ottoman forces the Porte, in expectation of disorders, has had recourse to Egyptian troope, and • the Viceroy has sent about five thousand men, under the orders of Siam Pasha, who are occupying the village of Armenous, not far from the spot where the Christians are encamped. The Turks, established in the interior of the country, are proceeding to the towns sack as Canes, Retino, and Candle, in which there are garri sons. The Greeks, on the other hand, are concentrating in the mountain defiles which afford a refuge difficult to invade, and with which they are thoroughly acquainted. The Cretons have moreover adopted a flag upon which is a representation of the Saviour ; but it is to be ]sped that it hill riot Jig gained with blood, notwith standing the warlike ardour which animates certain of the tribes. The Indipendance Beige says :—" The King of Greece was obliged to return on the 18th to his capital, where the news from Candia had caused great excitement. Under the pretence of forming a cha ritable committee in aid of the Candiotes,an appeal had been addressed to the Greeks which very much resembled an appeal to arms. A memorandum is spoken of which the Greek government is, it said, to address to the powers, and which will touch upon the delicate questions of annexations and retilications of frontiers. At Candia itself the state of things has become so threatening that the commanders of the various naval stations in the Levant have each received orders to send a ship of war before the town. The French admiral's fri gate has left Syra for that destination." Maid anis antlitsrp. CHATHAM, Auoutrr 26. An order has been received at this dockyard from the War Department, announcing that the new descrip tion of guns with which it is intended to arm the new sloop corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse power, fitting in dock, can not be ready until early in October, and that the vessel must therefore be delayed proceeding to sea until after that period. It was intended to undock the Reindeer to-mor row, but in consequence of the hydraulic testing of her en gines and machinery having resulted in the discovery yes terday of some defects in her condenses, and other por tions of her new machinery, she will be detained in duck until the end of the week, to allow of time for them to be made good. Yesterday a brigade field-day of the whole of the troops forrmming this garrison was held on Chatham lines by Major- General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.B. The troops were drawn up near the flagstaff at 10 o'clock, n.m., and received the major-general and his staff with the customary salute. After marching past in slow and quick time the entire force broke into divisions and executed a variety of manceuvres, in which they were engaged until nearly 1 o'clock, when they returned to their respective quarters. Tim FINSBURY Rtri.E.4.—On Saturday the Borough Challenge Cup, presented by Alderman Lack, M.P., to the Finsbury corps, was shot for at the Uranus range, Essex. The cup is tired fur every quarter, and the member who wins it most times out of eight will keep it, when the worthy alderman will present another of the like value—M. The ranges were 200, SOO, and GOO yards, five shots at each, and no sighting shots or previous firing on the san.e day. The scores made were—Colon -Sergeant While, 47 ; Corporal Houton, 39; Private Struvell, 38 ; Private Bride, 37; and Captain Hislop. 34. The first named wins the cup this quarter. On this occasion Colonel Matthews, the commandant who succeeded Colonel Penton, was introduced to the members of the corps on the ground by Colonel Crawley, the adjutant. SIGNALS roe ALL NATIONS.—The report of the naval committee of the Royal United Service Institution on loss of life at sea contains the following refoninoe to the commercial code of signals which has been some time in use in all her Msjesty's ships, and which is now exclu sively used in the French navy and merchant service, as well as at all their signal stations :—" A very efficient code of signals has been prepared under the direction of the Board of Trade. The code has been made interna tional. It is much to be regretted that, owing probably to want of practice, so many masters of merchant vessels appear to be unable to understand a signal, and return by the same means an intelligible answer. Most valuable opportunities of communicating the most important intel ligence are thus daily lost. When ships are passing each other, such intelligence might often lead to diminution of loss of life and property at sea. by giving notice of the positions of wrecks, and in war of enemy's vessels, declara tions of war, embargoes, blockades, quarantines Itc." PRESTON BANK.—The business of this bank was remained on Saturday, after a suspension of five weeks. During the day a good business was done ; many thousands et pounds were deposited, and the executive of the bank are now very hopeful as to the future. Mr. Gillett, the manager up to the time of the stoppage of the bank, has resigned, and his post has been filled by Mr. G. B.Dalby, of London. The Blackburn and Lancaster branches are to he discontinued. DEATH BY Lumrrytso.—On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town Haft, Gravesend, before Mr. Hilda., the borough coroner, relative to the death of Andreae Melees, mate of the Norwegian barque Regatta, who was killed by lightning at sea during a storm on the 17th inst. The vessel was from Memel, and the deosseed was on deck when he was struck dead by the electric fluid. The ship was not injured. On the vessel arriving off Graveasnd on Thursday the body was landed. Captain Andersen, the rosebud the Regatta , said he did not the body at sea in consequence of there being a canton. aausget Norwegians not to so dispose of the dead when the vessel was within eight days' mail Boca land, but to bring it to shore for interment. The coroner said the cap tain would have to pay the costs of the inquiry and the burial of the body. The jury found that the deceased was killed by lightning. [TWOPENCE TEE PRESIDENT OF THE BRIirISH ASSO CIATION ON POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. to the darrhY "I"i4g ro ras i"ter lDlToll aPPesn OF wrili. Newo of to fily—The students of political philosophy will owe you thanks for what you have in quaiifi cation of the strictures passed upon it by-the Presi dent of the British Association. Perhaps they will wish that you had added a word of warning on certain idols *eau which science, when she gives herself these well-deserved ovations, is natu rally a little apt to adore. If there is any political philosopher, however chimerical, who does not appeal in hia speculations, to experience, not only are his writings unknown to me, but it posses my powers of imagination to conceive what they can contain. &eyes and Fourrier appeal at every step to what they suppose to be our experience of human nature s and of the modes in which it can be influenced land con trolled. It is true that political philosophy also notices, and as at present advised will continue to notice, what the President calls " therevolstioniry ideas of the so-called natural rights of man." One hears the hum of applause as science thus sioasonably bears her testimony to the wiado . M . Of political re action. Her voice will be giateful to the ear of the aelfialuiss which it is the grand &lin of political philosophy to eliminate from the community, as it is the grand aim of moral philosophy to eliminate it from the individual man. But I wonderliow far the President goes. Is there, in his opinion, no such thing as natural right 1 Are there no first principles of political morality from which rational conclusions can be deduced 1 Is there nothing which conscience bids you render to a member of the same community, independently of political sta. tidies ?I We must look for something like scientific precision on these points, before we can venture to change the method of political philosophy in the manner which the President preicribes. " The study of the gradual progressive changes arising from changed circumstances, changed wants, changed habits"—this is the duty to which the President consigns political philosophy for the future. But there is at least one other class of phenomena to which he must allow us to attend if he wishes to be preserved from revolutions—the dangerous emotions which are produced in large bodies of men by the denial of natural right. " The continuity of the history of our own race" is not a new revelation, nor, in its soundest and most fruitful form, was it suggested by the dis coveries of " the microscope." But if it be proved that " =Aare has no cataclysms," it is not yet proved, and therefore cannot, consistently with the severely rational character of science, be as sumed,that the observation of physical nature fur nishes a complete key to the mystery of the moral world. If history has no cataclysms, it has mo ments of high aspiration and corresponding effort ; and it is in this way, so far as our present knowledge of the facts extends, that the Mink fendition of communities and of hu manity advances, rather than by any pro cess analogous to vegetable growth. The formal continuity of the " constitution of which we are proud," is a curious and important though some what isolated fact ; but it would be unsafe to build a theory of the moral world, and of the proper method of investigating it, upon the substantial identity of our present government by a House of Commons and a cabinet with the almost despotic government of the Tudors, or with the feudal mo narchy of the Anjevin kings. The President describes the English constitution as "the growth of time, thelproduct of slow adapta tions, resulting from continuous struggles." I confess I do not quite see bow the product of continuous political struggles would differ from the product of a series of revolutions. But what was the ani mating motive of these struggles ? If the language of those who took the loading part in them may be trusted, it was not any Darwinian reflections on the necessary progress of the species, but the 4esire of giving effect to " first principles," and of vindi cating " natural right." _ . Philosophy may surely appeal to Science, in the name of all that is most scientific, not dogmati cally to deny the possible existence of two spheres of thought until the great phenomena of human consciousness have been reconciled with the theory that there is only one. In authoritatively applying his scientific theory to politics, the President was, as you say, "extend ing his survey beyond the range of topics comprised in the scope of the Association." Political philo sophy is nut represented in that assembly ; and the President when he attacks it is an h:olus hurling his trident in an empty hall, and striking nothing but the winds.--I am, &c., GOLDWIN SMITH. A public meeting, convened by the City branch of the Reform League, is announced to be held on Thurs. day next, in Dartholomew-close, to consider the conduct of Governor Eyre in Jamaica, and to protest against the people of England being in any way identi fi ed with the sen timents uttered by horde Shrewsbury and Talbot, Hard wick., and Cardigan, at the banquet at Southampton. A deputation from the Jamaica committee will attend. A similar meeting will be held on Clerkenwell-green Ott the following Monday evening. GREAT FlRE.—lane of the most extensive and dertructireconiligratione with which the metropolis hasteen visited for some years broke out yesterday morning, shortly before one o'clock, on the premises of Messrs. Holland and Hannon, formerly Wineland and Holland, builderi, of Duke-street, New Ozford-street, and which threatene d to involve not only the whole of t ie adjacent distillery of Means. Tanqueray and Co., and the houses forming the whole of the western side of Museum-street, but also those on the northern side of Broad-street, St. Gilee's. In addi tion to the immense workshops of Messrs. Holland, the spacious timber yard, containing stacks of timber piled in height to a level of the roofs of the adjoining houses, were One masa of flame, the fire shooting so high tote tits Or as to completely overlap the houses forming the Museum. street boundary, and almost reaching the frontages of those on the other side of the street. Although sandy the whole of the Fire Brigade force, and hand steam eensggirna were on the spot and in fall operation, yet the didiculties of getting at the burning mass were very great. The flames ascended so high into the air that the steeple of St. Giles's Church, the summit of the Royal Dalian Opera and Drury-lane Theatre, the steeples of St. Mary le-Strand and St. Martin's Churches, were completely brought out by the illumination ; and the stupendous out line of the dome, cross, and upper portion of St. Paul's Cathedral, and, indeed, all the more lofty buildings, al most for miles round, might be Web from various positions by the immeme light produced by the conflagration. Great apprehensions were entertained lest there should -be an explosion, as in close vicinity to the burning mass, in Museum-street, there was an extensive napbthawarebo sse.; Se sudden and rapid was the progress of the lire after first breaking out that the inhabitants of the houses in Museum-street had scarcely time to escape before the flames came pouring against their back windows. Many engines attendee, and the fire, from want of food and application of water, began, in some measure, to abate at about two o'clock. It was near eleven o'clock yesterday morning be foe. the firemen were enabled to leave the place, the In baring cutimuntlid property to the amount of many thousand pounds; and it is estimated that the loss expe rienced by the workmen in their tools will reach above 2,0001. Crowds of people visited the spot yesterday. It la believed that the fire originated in the engine -house, but a minute inquiry will be made to-day.