The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-14 00:00:00

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LIX; as, d NMAN LINK.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW I oit.K. and PHILADELPHIA ST/itAM•SHIP OOMPANY istend despatching their full-powered Clyde-built Iron *crew it,esinrhipa, carrying the United States Malls, calling at Queens. kvo, Ireland, on the following day, to take on board wed despatches, and with liberty to call at en intent poet: despatche r s, OP PARIS, Wednesday, Nov. 20 t'ITY OP BOSTON, Saturday, November 29. ELS A, Wednesday, November W. And emey Wednesday and Saturday. cnt , in panne by the mall steamers sailing every Wednesday, If, 17. and 21 guineas, according to the accommodation. F r o pioage includes a full supply of cooked provisions. Paaseamma ler Canada and the United States booked through on very edema serous terms. —For further particulars apply to .ot. 22. Water-street, Liverpool ; and to RI VIM and WILLLIAM , 01. O, R William-et:me Loudon. ROTTERDAM and the RHINE.—The favourite suniner RATAN' IER leaves Brunswick Pier, Blackwell, wry SUNDAY, at 11 am. Paseengers must leave Itenchnrel itrr, t Station by the 10.30 am. train, and walk on board. — I , is) enoord kites from off the Tower every Thursday leonine( an —A at CHAPLIN'S Universal Mace, Regenteir , • W , or to PHILLI PPS, GRAM PIITLLIPPS and Co., Dunstases-bonen, Lev es-lane, Great Tower-street, LC. HONDURAS GOVERIqhIENT RAILWAY LOAN .t 1,000,001, in bonds to bearer of LlOO, 4600, and .1 WO each, bearing 10 per cent. annual interest, payable half ‘, id!. in sterling. loaned at 30 per cent, and to be redeemed .; 1.. u. in sterling within 17 years by yearly drawings, by means 'lan accumulative sinking fund of 3 per cent. per annum. The • rst drawing to take place un 1010... 371 i p ne pe! rent Interest will be payable or Ist July and It Januiti In each icar at the roil comity Bank, and, for the lint hotel .rut will slate Irons Ist October, 1667 . . in default of Payment of any of the respective instalments all Mos payments will be liable to forfeiture. The instalments may be anticipated at any Ume at Batik of England rate. . . . . . . — The Government of [tendons having agreed to appropriate to the Subscribers a [moiety of the net profits of the Rail way during IS ears After the complete repayment of the present Loan, Sub will receive, as bonne, within one month after allot ment, with each glint bond. one lO,Oooth deferred fully-paid up Railway Share to Bearer, entitling thu holder thereof to receive his proportion of such net profit& PR4 t!iPECTVB. rtushicnt of the Republic of iloWdurau being duly autho rised, has given full porters to Menu Victor Herren, Minister at and Senor Don earleaGutSerrea, Honduras Minister in Lon don, to contract on account vf the Oovernntent a Loan to be ap ieti towards the construction of an Inter-oceanic Railway from Puerto Cabala., on the Atlantic, to the Bay of Fonseca, on the Puine. 'l'u abow the Importance attached by the British Government to the Honduras Inter-oceanic itailway,it may be Mated that the line has been surveyed on the part of her Malesty's Government by lieutenant-Colonel Stanton, /lE, and a detachment of Royal Engbieen seat nut for the purpose. Colonel Stanton reports t• that the Whoa's at both termini arc unexceptionable, and that the road can be constructed without any sharper curves or heavier gradients than are to be found on existing lines over which locomotives work without dUliculty " • The new treaty between Honduras and Great Britain declares tbat— . . • • In order to secure the construction and permanence of the route or road herein contemplated, and also to secure for the benefit of mankind the uninterrupted advantages of such corn munkation from sea to sea, her Britannic Majesty recognises the rights of sovereignty and property of Honduras to and over the line of the said road, and for the same reason guarantees, positively and eificaciously, the entire neutrality of the same. And when the proposed road shall have been completed, her Britannic Majesty equally engages, in conjunction with the Republic of Honduras, to protect the same from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, from whatsoever quarter the attempt may proceed." Treaties signed by the Honduras Government with France and the United States contain the same provisions, and the French Gureniment, considering the public utility of the Honduras Railway, has promised the °Medal quotation of the Honduras loan on the Paris Bourse. The following otlicial report by Rear Admiral Davie, mad. to the Secretary of the Navy of the United States tiovernment, An compliance with a resolution of the American Congress on the 19th of March, 1866, demonstrates likewise the importance which the United States Government attaches to the construction of the Honduras brie: The reader who follows the course of the sweepers , natu ralists, end geolegists from the capacious, nate, and excellent harbour of Puerto Cabello., through regions remarkable for thehr salubrity, fertility, great variety of climate and productions, and valuable mineral resources to the waters of the splendid harbour of La Union (Bay of Fonseca), cannot but regret that capitalists have not tumid it to thsdr Intermit to ccaarrryry out one of the most promising and one of the least era enterprises of the day." The line of railway has been carefully selected and surveyed by Mr. Trintwine ;late engineer-in -chief of the Panama Hallway) and an efficient staff, and a contract has been entered Into for the construction of whole line, with stations and rolling stock, for • stipulated sum of about £n,ooo • mile, including every outlay, end the woks are to be proceeded within sections. From time to time, as the instalments of the present loan ate received, the proportion to be applied to the construction of the Brat section of the railway will be handed to and held by trustees to trust, to pay the contractor the instalments on his contract, as certilled . E d ie government engineer. The balance of the loan will be in clearing the foreste, and in payment of engineer big and incidental expenses. The interest and sinking fund of the loan are specially gua ranteed by a But charge upon the intended railway itself and Its revenue, and also by • lint mortgage upon the whole of the domains and mahogany forests of the state of Honduras, which, according to citadel report, are of immense value. It is arranged that the whole of the prostate of the above mod gaged state domains and forms shall be consigned direct to lou den by the Honduras Goveruraent to Messrs. Hischoffitheim and uoldschreidt, who will pay over the proceeds of the sales towards the animal interest and sinking fund, and the construction of the remaining sections of the railway. It has been further arranged in the contract that, as soon as any portion of the railway is completed, the contractor shall bring down to the terminus, free of charge, by the return empty waggons, any produce of the government forests and domains that may be ready for shipment to Luglend. Beginning at the harbour of Puerto Cabello's, on the Atlantic, the nillway will proceed over the table land of Honduras—ln • line of tit miles to the Bay of Fonseca, ou the Pacific. The ports at either end are spacious, sale, and easily accessible for the largest ships. The steaming distances from Liverpool to San Francisco, tooth ing at Jamaica, are :—by wayof Panama, 7,980 milts—Nice:ago; 7,720 miles—Tehuantepec, 7,740 miles—Honduras, 7.320mi1e5. The distance between n ew York and San Francisco, by Panama, is 5,224 miles by Nicaragua, 4,700 miles ;by Tehuante pec, 4,200 miles ;by liondares, 4,1e1 miles saving, by way of Honduras, as compared with Panama, the only line on which • railway la already constructed, of I,IOS miles. The difference in actual distance, coupled with the superiority of ports, the facilities of embarkation and disembarkation, and the connexion with the American come lines, will effect • saving in time, as compared with the Panama route, of not less than five days between the Atlantic an/ Pacific porta of the United btatm . _ _ - I'bColm will afford the eeriest, safest, and speediest route between Great Britain and British Columbia; it will also offer the increased facilities of firstrelase ports for the establishment of speedy intercourse with Australia and New Zealand, and will bring Jamaica, Belize, and other Britishfuns to the West indirsinto the direct line of companies n. Last year the dividend paid by the Panama Company was at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum on a capital of 5i,g00,060, in addition to a bonus of 40 per cent. front accumulated profits. The Honduras line will In all probability return as much profit as the Panama line, if not considerably more. nnificlent of the proceed. of the present in.ue will be applied folk, construction of the first section from Puerto Cabello. to Santiezo. Thie section will enable the exportation et the mahogany, he., to take place: the means of transport now exist ing being too expensive to heramunerative. Caret ul estimate. have saddled the Honduras Government that the surplus revenue of the Stater domains and forests will be amply meth:knit to com plete the whole line, without any further issue of stuck, but in case It should be found advantageous, on ac c ou n t of increasing infer, to accelerate the opening of the railway from era to sea by rating more money further stock will be issued for the con struction of the remaining sections of the railway. The wend contracts and other documents can be inspected at the offiee of Bean. Baxter, Role, Norton and Co., solicitors, No. Victoria-stmt, West roster. itwlicatious for the Loan will be received from Monday, ]lt h November, to Friday, the 14th November, by the London and County bank, 21, Lombard street, and Branches, where Prospectuses and Forms of Application can be obtained : and in Park by Megan. Biechoffeheim, Goldsciunicit, and Co.. 28, Rue de la Cbaunite d'Antln. Payment. on application for the Loan can also be made at the Bank of France and Branches. HONDURAS GOVERNMENT RAILWAY LOAN FOR £1,e00,000. ►ORE OP APPLICATION. To be retained by the Bankers. Tu the Directors of the London and County Bank. Gentlemen,—llaring paid to the London and County Bank the sum of g , I hereby request that you will allot to me L. net la Bonds of the above Loan, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any smaller amount that may be allotted to me, and to pay the further sum of 1:10 per cent. on the same when al lotted.-1 am, gentlemen, your obedient *errant, Signature Address In fall Date T. A MBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, A. 4 an effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or affecting the heed, truly efficacious and pleasant, la admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, ^catirmed man of asthma, and incipient consumption. It fre quently cures pawns whom the faculty pronounce incurable Id:curably allays the tickling which provokes frequent co in approachhig consumption Its effects are truly bei t :e= lemons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, depend on relief In a few minute. after taking it.— i only and sold by W. 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Himmel, 90, Strand; 128, Regent-street , and 94„ London. On December .411 be ed,stitched In a cover, THE EXTRA iralelin nFIR [MIMS OF ALL THE YEAR ROl ND, NO THOROUGHFARE, by CHARLES DICKENS end WILKIE COLLIN& HANOVER-SQUARE, the New Magazine of liege, edited by LotbsaY Syntax, AN NOW BEADY, and may b. bad of every muricaeller and booksaler in Great Britain and Irebu.d. Price la _ _ _ _ London -- Ait7dowa and Parry, Hanover *glaze. HANOVER-SQUARE for NOVEMBER con tains a new piano piece by AILED BENEDICT, SORROWS and JOYS. — "The niece is In the highest degree artistic and imaghiative " Daily Telegraph. TICANOVER-SQUARE for NOVEMBER con tarosa new song by ARTHUR 8. SULLIVAN, WHAT DOES LITTLE BIRDIE 8A Y " Nothing could possibly be more simple than the melody, and no melody could more exquisitely translate the gentle words into musk."—Dally Telegraph. HANOVER-SQUARE for NOVEMBER con tains a new piece by SYDNEY Mut% BRIGHT HOURS " A caprice likely to endear Hanoverequare' to every young lady who may hear or play It "—Musical World. HANOVER•SQUARE for NOVEMBER con tains a new sow by HIRRY SMART, BESSIE BELL ".More natural, graceful, musicianly writing does not exist The very simplicity of • Bessie Bell,' which plums ft within the reach of every one, is In Itself a charm."—The Queen. HANOVER-SQUARE for NOVEMBER. "The Magazine Is excellently printed on good paper, of octavo size; and being sold for one shilling, Is a marvel of cheap neea 11 published In the ordinary manner, the four pieces would certainly be prk.cil at twelve shillings, whereas they are here offered fore many pence."—Daily Telegraph. London: Ashdown and Parry, Hanover-square. The first periodical congress, convened in pur suance of a resolution of the Scholastic Registration Asso ciation, was held at the Midland Institute, Birmingham, yesterday. The Rev. Dr. COLLIS, of Bromsgrove, occupied the chair ; and among those present were—Mr. G. Dixon, M.P., Dr. Hodgson. the Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, the Rev. C. T. Wilkinson, the Rev. G. D. Boyle. the Rev. N. Stephen. son, the Rev. R. W. Dale, Re. REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER. —Mr. Mitchell Henry, of the firm of A. S. Henry, Manchester merchants, and a candidate at the last election for Woodstock, was yesterday . presented with a respectably-signed requisition, inviting him to offer himself as a candidate for Manchester. His address to the electors is already in the hands of his committee, and will probably be issued this day. Mr. Henry is of liberal politic*, but of a shade, it is under stood, that will ensure him considerable support from the conservatives, if they do not get a candidate of their own. Mr. Bennet is understood to have declined to stand. Mr. Jacob Bright has commenced his carivass,and was to address the electors last night at a ward meeting. His committee received the following characteristic letter a few days ago from Mr. Mark Philips, for many yearn a popular represtntative of Manchester, and colleague in parliament of Mr. P. Thomson (late Lord Sydenham) : " Bnitterfield, Stratford-on-Avon, Nov. 9.—Gentlemen, — I feel as if my own generation bad nearly passed away, and myself with it. It is quite impossible for me to take any active part now in say Manchester elections, but I cannot desert my old friend Mr. Baxley, and I hope we shall always pun together politically. I should like to reserve myself to assist him, if I bare any power to do so, at his next election, after which there will be few who knew me, and still fewer of those with whom I have had the happi ness to be associated politically. If my name is considered worth placing on Mr. Jacob Bright's committee, let it be so. A year ago I should not have agreed in opinion on several matters with Mr. J. Bright, but as he, like myself, has now been outbid by Lord Derby's government, he can not precipitate me into any legislation more rash than what has taken place already. I hope the liberal party will work together in Manchester cordially.—l remain, gentlemen, yours faithfully, MASK PHILIPS. —Messrs. Thomas Chorlton and William Aldred, secretaries." ROYAL COLLEGE OP BURGEONS OF ENGLAND. — The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the college at a meeting of the court of examiners on the 12th inst., viz.:—Mears. Julius Ottaway Sankey, Read ing ; William George Kemp, LS.A., Canterbury ; Ernest Rickard Evans, Hertford ; Lawrence Clapham, Thorney, near Peterborough ; Alexander Bl`Gregor, Weaverham, Cheadle ; Joseph Miller Kirkman, Horndean, Hants Frederick Edward Aldrich, Mildenball, Su ff olk ; Edward Bowles Crowfoot, Beccles, Suffolk ; Launoelot Newton, L.S.A., Aloonbury-hill, Hunts, and Henry Trentham Baths, Camborne, Cornwall, students of St. Bartholo mew's Remits' ; Robert Sephton, Atherton, and James Howard, Dgkinfield, of the Manchester School ; Hard wick Hubert Braye, L.S.A., Hastings, and George Wil liam Bramwell, Kendal Westmoreland of Guy's Hospital ; William Gordon Maddox, Launceston , Tasmania, 111111 William Richard Gowers Mornington-crescent, of the University College • ' Hor a tio Nelson Hardy, Liverpool, of the Dublin School: Robert Anderson, LR.C.P. and L.S.A., Ellaston, Derbysbire, of St. George's Hospital ; Charles Blackwell Sweeting , !]sues, West - Indies, of the London Hospital, and John Chapman, Bayswater, of St. Miry's Hospital. It is stated that four out of the 24 can didates failed to acquit themselves to the aatisfsction of Rib court of examiners, tad were consequently "referrid to their hospital studies for the period of six months. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1867. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (IXOTIVII TZLZGRAXS.) DISCOVERY OF A SECRET SOCIETY IN PARIS.—NUMEROUS ARRESTS. PARIS, Nov. 13. _ There is a report that the police have discovered a secret society, and that various arrests have been made. According to the Patric the number of persona arrested is six, and according to the Figaro eighteen. One person whose house was searched is said to have hastily left Paris yesterday. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 13. A council of ministers was held this morning at St. Cloud. It is again stated that decrees will appear to-morrow appointing M. Pinard Minister of the Interior, and M. Magne Minister of Finance. The Patric says that the French despatch rela tive to the Conference does not advance any pro position for a solution of the Roman question, but simply points out the present situation of affairs in Italy, and the necessity of preventing a recurrence of events which might disturb the peace of Europe. The Moniteur, in its summary alluding to the recent measures taken by the Italian government, observes that if the court of Florence perseveres— as the French government is confident it will—in the path upon which it has entered, the friendly relations of the two countries will continue to be strengthened and developed. M. Naquet, professor of the faculty of medicine, and M. Accalao, advocate, were arrested yesterday and their houses searched. THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. BERLIN, Nov. 13. The semi-official Prorincial Currespowle . nee speaks of the proposed conference in the following terms : " France wishes to bring about the further settlement of the Roman question by a conference. The invitations are believed to have been already issued for this purpose. To achieve the successful result of the deliberations it will first of all certainly be essential to obtain the agreement of the powers most immediately concerned as to the general bases of the settlement proposed. How far such an agreement is attainable it is at present impossible to foresee." THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, Nov. U. Apprehensions are still entertained by the Papal government of an insurrectionary movement in this capital. Sentinels are posted at many points of the Leonine City and on the walls. The forti fication works are still being proceeded with. The French troops have as yet made no preparations for their departure, and the arrival of fresh troops at Civita Vecchia continues, 1,200 men, 500 horses, and 20 guns having been disembarked there from the 9th to the 10 inst. The ex-Queen of Naples arrived yesterday at the Farnese Palace. THE PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS. BERLIN, Nov. 13. _ The result of the recent elections to the Prussian Diet is stated in semi-official quarters as follows : —Out of the 432 members elected 195 are decided supporters of the government, 25 belong to the old liberal party, and 95 to the national liberals, while about 75 support the progress party. The govern ment will thus command a decided majority. The assembly of the enlarged Federal Council is expected to take place in January next, and the Customs Parliament, comprising deputies from the whole of Germany, will meet the following month. THE ABY&SLNIAN EXPEDITION. ADILN, OCT. 29. The advanced brigade of the Abyssinian expedi tion has sailed hence for Zoulla in 12 ships. It comprises the 3rd Bombay Irregular Cavalry, the 10th Native Infantry, two companies of native Sappers, 453 men of the Land Transport Corps, one mountain battery, 467 horses, and 438 mules. Her Majesty's corvette Satellite left here for Annersley on the 25th inst. on special survey duty, having on board guns and stores, and towing flats for landing guns and horses. No later intelligence has been received from the captives. THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. I. Nov. 13. Intelligence from Athena to the 3rd instant announces the return of the two Greek volunteer leaders, Coroneos and Petropoulaky, from Candia, the Cretans no longer requiring their services. The insurrection was being carried on with great activity. The Greek steamer Union was still making voyages to the island with provisions and munitions for the islanders, and Russian, French, Prussian, and Italian vessels continued to trans port families o Greece. AUSTRALIA. (Vile Trieste.) MELBOURNE, SEPT. 27. The political crisis arising from the rejection of the Appropriation Bill by the Legislative Council, and the consequent resignation of the Ministry, continues here. Parliament was prorogued for one week, after having voted temporary supplies, but upon reas sembling no progress had been made towards a settlement of the Darling grant, and other difficul ties. All the colonies are preparing to receive his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh with over whelming enthusiasm. Victoria has withdrawn from the arrangement agreed upon at the Inter-Coloniil Postal Confe rence, in consequence of Sydney being selected as the terminal port for the mail steamers. Only two gold ships have sailed for England during the month, viz., the Essex, with 27,750 oz., and the Anglesey, with 52,750 oz. (The former vessel has already been reported at Plymouth, having sailed from Melbourne on 30th August.) AMERICA. (ET ATLANTIC 'MECHAM) NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 6 P.Y. The Cunard steamer Scotia arrived out to-day. Closing prices :—Oold, 1391. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1081. Illinois, 1261. Erie, 72i. Cotton—Mid dling Upland, 19. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12. Petroleum, standard white, 28i. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 13.—The National Steam ship Company's steamship Frans, from New York,arrived of this port at 4 p.m. today with 1U7,500 dots. Sri She loaded passengers and proceeded for Liverpool EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PllOll OUR 0W24 CO R6I3PONDRNT.) PARIS, WRDRIBDAY Eva:siva. General Menabrea's new circular, published in the Florence Gazette yesterday, is incorrectly stated' in several papers to have been dated November 7. The real date was the 9th. But, even so, the French government must have known its contents before it issued that paragraph in yesterday's Mounter, which is described as a complete sati.tfern to Italy. In terms General Mena-, brew seems completely at issue with France, because he still claims the abolition of the temporal power, and says the plebiscites, showing the desire of the Roman States to be annexed to.ltaly, " accomplished the end Italy had in view" when she momentarily occupied Roman soil. It is impossible now to attribute the least honesty or independence to anything General Menabrea may say. France seems content to allow him to throw dust in the eyes of the Italians, on condition that he acts according to orders from Paris. Even if Civita Vecchia should be shortly evacuated, a French point which the Italians scarcely suspect would be gained, because then it would be said that Italy is still bound by the Con vention of September 15, whereas it would be difficult for French diplomatists to contend, after a long French occupation, that it was not ipso facto abrogated. The French letters inviting the European powers to take part in a congress upon the Roman question are said to be couched in " general terms." This is a pregnant confirmation of the opinion that it will never assemble, because it is known that both Prussia and England will not entertain the sug gestion at all unless clear and distinct propositions I are made. The papers speak of some political arrests for a cause not mentioned. According to the Liberti as many as eighteen persons were arrested, and among them two persons who, I suppose, are well known, MM. Moolas and Naquet, the one a doctor of law and the other a professor of tho faculty of medi cine. The French government has lately given an order for the manufacture, at Eakilatuna, in Sweden, of 60,000 sword bayonets, to be delivered at the end of March, 1868. Little business was done at the Bourse. Rente, after being as low as 68fr. oc., closed at 68fr. 20c. (yesterday's price) for cash, and 68fr. 22}c. for ac count, with a rise of 10c. ; Italian rose 15e. ; 7fr. 50c. ; and Credit Fonder, Mr. Tim " ALLIse."—A letter from Rome in the Herlod, dated the Gth, describing the return of the Pon. tiAcal troops, says :—" About half-put 2 General Kander appeared, and, mounting his charger, rode out to the Ports Pus, acco m pa nied byGeneral Failly,of the French imperial army, commanding the division now in Rome. Very soon they returned, at the head Id the victorious column, and General Kanrier was the object of a most enthusiastic ovation as be took his place in the square and waited the detain of the troops. The Zonave companies formed the armst-gerefe. Dusty and war-worn, as troops returning from active service ever are, their gay and proud bearing was the theme of universal admiration, and the wholeerowd broke into enthusiastic cheers as M. de Charette and the Commandants de Trousures and Lambilly sppeared at the bead et themgiment, their gallantry at ?dentana having become a household word in Rome. It was a beautiful sight to watch company after company of noble volunteer!, many of them mere children in years, but with the chi valrous resolution of veteran soldiers in their gait and countenances, as they peeled before General Kanzler ; and even the French general was so evidently moved at the sight that we observed him repeatedly . turn to General Kanzler and wring his hand, as our ne ighbour my, arec effusion as lea enfants de lesrieille Prance passed." The O'Donoghue, M.P., has written a letter to the Irish Reform League decl aring that, although he dis approves of Garibaldi's hostility to the temporal power of the Pope, he thinks the Irish branch of the league would not be justified in questioning the right of the English League to retain him as a vice-president. NATIONAL RxFORM UNION,—A meeting of the Executive Committee was held is the Council Chamber Gladstone-buildings, Manchester, on Tuesday evening ; Mr. R. D. Radon, the treasurer, in the chair. After the confirmation of the minutes and the transaction of the ordinary business, some conversation took place respecting the desirableness of the members of the Union giving all the help possible to secure the return of Mr. Jacob Bnght. It was stated that under the new act any elector receiving payment for canvassing would render his vote invalid, and that volunteer canvassers would therefore be more than ever valuable and neoemary. On the motion of Mr. W. Warburton, it was resolved that the members and friends be and are hereby earnestly and respectfully invited in every ward immediately to associate themselves with their respectivo ward committees, and to use their best efforts to promote the election of Mr. Jacob Bright. MR. BEALLE AND THE REFORM LEAGUE.—A numerously attended meeting of the council of the League was held at the offices, Adelpiii-terrace,last evening. The president, Mr.Beales t who occupied the chair, expressed his satisfaction at again meeting the council, and at finding them prepared to obtain a real and not mock reform bill, vote by ballot, manhood suffrage, and equal political rights for England, Ireland, and Scotland. With reference to the discussion that had arisen with regard to the letter he had sent to the council, Mr. Bealce said that be fully abided by what he had therein stated, but professed his pleasure at being president of a body of men of snob independent spirit, though he 'night regret the Amps in which that spirit had been exhibited. He was sure thatthey bad never been the advocates of assassination and physical force for the redress of political grievances in preference to legal and constitutional means; they had only wished to pre vent the untoward occurrence at Manchester from being made the means, in a moment of panic, of exasperating the English against the Irish generally, and thus retarding the measures of reform which are so urgently required to swum peace and prosperity to that country. He criti cised Mr. Disraeli's defense at Edinburgh at some length, characterising it as " an unparalleled perversion of his tory and facts, and a deliberate exercise of most audacious political audacity." He wound up by a panegyric on Garibaldi, and stigmatised in strong terms the conduct of the French Emperor, whose troops be asserted to have have committed ' a deliberate and brutal massacre." The following resolution proposed by Mr. Cramer, and seconded by Mr. Whitford, was carried unanimously : " That this council bails with satisfaction the announce ment of Mr. Jacob Bright's candidature for the repre sentation of Manchester, and it earnestly hopes that all the friends of the League will exert themselves to ensure his return." MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARARCE OF A LIVERPOOL SOL/ClTOR.—There was a good deal of talk and discussion on the Liverpool exchange yesterday, and other portions of the town, in consequence of the sadden disappearanoe of a legal gentleman, the senior partner in one of the oldest and most respectable firms in the district, and which for many years past held the very highest rank as trustees—their principal clients being ladies of position. The gentleman in question was well stricken in years, and I has married his third wife—who has a considerable pro perty in her own right. It is stated that his indebtedness to his clients exceeds 40,0001. Moat of those whose money the runaway solicitor has taken with him are ladies, and it is reported that three of them had depo sited in his hands 10,000/. each. We understand that the discovery of the solicitors position hasasme connection with the failure of the Royal Bank in Liverpool. A lady, oue of the gentleman's clients, being in want of money, in conse quence of the bank's stoppage, applied to him to sell some railway stock. This be prom ised to do, but as there was no Moak to dispose of the trustee Fs e e 4 p d plied to, but had then disappeared. As may he ex this "disaster," following so close on the failure o the Royal Bank and the suspension of several large firms, has oausedp heavy gloom in many hitherto independent families. It ts stated that the gentleman and his family are now on their way to Spais, having left Liverpool about the middle of last week. The fugitive solicitor had two junior partners— one of whom has been confined to bed by a dangerous ill ness for many months past. Both • the juniors were totally ignorant of the proceedings of the senior, and gnat sympothy le expreseedlor thews in,Liverpool, where they are well karma sad highly respeaSed. The Maharioda, which- arrived at Liverpool yes terdszr.VPoke. as tliv *dr laJat.sl/3, Ica. 313,.tha ship flaw. *AO, which left tiara Francisco for Liverpool an. raw 11th May last, and on which the underwriters refused yesterday 50 guineas. LIICA11211D; 14, 'AD AL] M=ICA. (nom. on 'SPECIAL NEW YORK, Nov. 2. I have not mentioned the Mrs. Lincoln scandal, because I was in hopes it would pass over without much notice frOm the press ; but as Rhea attracted, I see, more or lesa attention in England, and is ansceptible of a great variety of explanations, I suppose everybody who professes to give the English public an idea of what is occupying people's minds here must say something about it. I shall now do so, but very unwillingly, because, in the first place, it is a very nauseous subject, and in the next, because it has not excited nearly as much attention here as you will probably think it ought. The fact is, that Mrs. Lincoln's pecu liarities are no novelty to people here. When, therefore, she appeared in New York accusing the Republican party of ingratitude, and threatening to expose for sale certain shawls and other finery which were presented to her during her occupancy of the White House, it did not excite anybody surprise. Her conduct during Mr. Lincoln's administration was a source of the deepest pain and mortification, to his friends cer tainly, and it was believed to himself, but there was too much respect and sympathy felt for him by all parties for even the press to make any, or more than very slight allusions to the subject. ' After his death it was hoped she would go home and live in retirement for the rest of her days. He left an estate amply sufficient to support her comfortably in the way she had always lived, and better too ; and until within the last month we were flattering ourselves that we had heard the last of her; she has, however, suddenly appeared on the scene, and with old finery for sale, and making a parade of her griefs, which deprives her - of all claim to notice or reply on her own account. On account of the people, on whom she may bring dis credit, however, something has to be said in ex planation. Mrs. Lincoln is a Kentuckian, or, as Southerners would tell you, " one of the Toddy of Kentucky," and a friend told me the other day that he often during the war heard Southerners wondering how she, a " Todd," could have mar ried such a person as Mr. Lincoln. Now the South-western women, of whom she was i a fair specimen, are a class of which it is difficult to give you an idea without saying very hard things, or things which may seem gross ; exaggerations. They are " loud " and " fast," to a degree of which Englishmen can hardly conceive It is, however, not the " loudness " and fastness " of vice, but of semi-barbarism. All South western life is a caricature on civilisation. The man whom you see round the stoves in the Missis sippi steamers or hotels, dressed in black, with patent-leather boots, looks like a civilised man, but he is really a half-savage, would murder you for the turning of a straw, probably carries a bowie knife under his dress coat with which to do it, is utterly indifferent to most of the decencies and restraints of civilised life, will eat anything anywhere, sleep in any kind of bed with any number of companions, but thinks himself a "gentleman," because he is ready to fight, and indulges in a sort of barbaric affectation of politeness towards 'women, made up half of traditions of the age of chivalry, got out of novels, and half a barbarous contempt for their weakness. There are no hereditary manners in the South-west except amongst the French creoles. !The American population even in Tennessee and Kentucky, which are amongst the older States, are the descendants in the second or third, generation of wild backwoodsmen from the Virgi nian and Carolinian frontier, who when they emi grated were dressed in leather, and could generally neither read nor write. The first generation passed its time in a struggle for existence with the Indians ! and the wilderness, killing each other a good deal Iby way of variety. A curious and instructive pic ture of the state of society in those States during the earlier part of the century is to be found in ! Parton's "Life of Andrew Jackson." The chil i dren of the first settlers grew up, of course, if any : thing wilder and more ignorant than their parents ; ! but as wealth and negroes increased, of course re finement and education increased. The families who got hold of most negroes, and got hold of them first, grew into a kind of aristocracy—known here as "the first families." The men of them became I " gentlemen" of the old Irish type, fighting, drink ing, hunting men—devoted to the ladies of course ; I and the women a kind of coarse "belles," whose per formances in any older community would be shock ! ing, but who out there passed merely as spirited. I One of them, a Kentuckian, who twenty years ago was famous throughout the south-west as a beauty, and though decidedly more enterprising than Imost of her sisters was nevertheless of the I same general type, signalised herself one evening on one of the great river boats, by leaving the door of the state room open, revealing her to the company in the saloon kneeling at her bedside in her night dress, with dishevelled hair, saying her prayers. In Europe and the Eastern States this would have been called "improper," but in her it was not in the least so. It was simply a bar baric attempt at the picturesque and sentimental. Mrs. Lincoln was bred in this school of manners, and her life afterwards, in Springfield, Illinois, was not of a kind to refine her, or give a knowledge of the world, in the absence of what the French call a bun nature!. Her translation to the White House turned her head, and brought out all that was worst in her education and manners. She be came the centre of attraction to a host of adven turers, strangers, and intriguers, who are always hanging about the presidential mansion in search of places, or jobs, or contracts, and her society was largely composed of fourth-rate and slightly damaged fashionable. from New York, and other large cities. This state of things was a sore affliction to the public during the war, and I might cite many cases in which Mrs. Lincoln's appear rice on solemn and even touching occasions in Mr. Lincoln's administration visibly and deeply mortified him. He was a man, however, who bore his own as well as other people's sorrows with a smiling face, and I doubt if either Mrs. Lincoln or anybody else ever heard a word of reproach or complaint from him on the subject. As he left nearly twenty thousand pounds—a sum which, at the current rates' of interest here, and with the coat of living as-low as it is in Illinois—was amply sufficient to maintain all those of his family who are still unable to provide' for themselves in more than comfort. Had Mrs. Lincoln been a different kind of person, a million of dollars would have been made up for her, had she desired, without any difficulty, but her career in Waahington had been such that most people felt thankful that her CI T WOPENOE husband's estate was large enough to save them the necessity of doing anything for her. Her hat expedition to New York is looked on as an attempt to extort money, and lam glad to say it has tho roughly failed. Nobody will, of course, contribute a cent, and the shawls and other finery which were undoubtedly given her as bribes to secure her . influence Ifith the President, have found no pur chasers, or at least had not a day or two ago. All this is very disagreeable to write, and, I trust, to moat people disagreeable to read, but it ought I nevertheless to be said, since anything has been said about the matter at all. THE HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS. _t TO THE EDITOR OP TOM EXPBEIRS. SlR,—The hurricane at St. Thomas happened on the 29th nit., and news of it left St. Thomas on the let inst. The Rhone was lying at Peter Island, eight miles from St. Thomas. One telegram in speaking of the saved Rhone gays something about 12 passengers. If they were saved from the ship how could this be, unless some of the crew were moved with them? Another telegram speaks of Woolley and the crew as lost, but not a word about passenger,. It is probable, I think, that the majority of the passenger, were not on board the Rhone. The tele gram to the Royal Mail Company mune (rem their agent at St Thomas, and must have been sent off hurriedly to Havannah by the French packet. How could it be known that all on board the Rhone went down in her? It is not likely that she foundered instantly, without warning, and that 140 men would perish without a struggle for their lives. lam in hopes, therefore, that we shall find that neither all the passengers nor crew perished in the Rhone. —I have, &e. A. Z. At the meeting of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, explanations were given why the Ronen Chamber of Commerce had not published the replies received to their recent communica tion on the state of trade generally, the reason being thas the French go►ernment had taken advantage of an old ' law (1809), which prohibits the French chambers from communicating with foreign bodies. COLSTON DAY IN BRISTOL. —Y esterday being the 13t1r of November, the anniversary of the birth and death of the pious sad philanthropic Edward Colston, the . three societies established for the purpose of perpetuating his name and deeds held their annual dinners at Bristol. The Anchor Society, supported by liberals ; the Dolphin, , by conservatives ; and the Grateful, by gentlemen who on this occasion remain neutral, vie in honourable emulation one with the other in the endeavour to obtain ' the largest subscription list. As a rule, men of note of either party are invited to these gatherings. At the Dolphin dinner yesterday, as we learn by telegraph, the . Right Hon. the Earl of Devon, President of the Poor-law , Basel, attended ; and at the Anchor, Mr. Henry Berke ley, M.P. for Bristol, and Mr. Edgar Bowring, the liberal uiditlate who is to fight two local liberals—Mr. E. S. Robinson and Mr. Lewis Fry—for the seat soon to be ' vibrated by Sir Morton Pete, the present junior member for the city. As politics are not excluded, the speeches are looked upon se declarations of policy by the local par ties. At the Dolphin festival the Earl of Devon and Mr. Stephen Cave, M.P., justified the passing of the Reform Act, which, however, they admitted was an experiment. The Earl of Devon promised an amelioration of the work house infirmary evils. At the Anchor Society Mr. Berkeley severely criticised the conduct of the government in refer ence to the Reform Act. Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley are announced to attend a large conservative banquet at Bristol in January next. THE CARR COLLIERY EXPLORION.—Mr. Dickin son, the inspector of this colliery, in his report, states that the seam of coal known as the Barnsley bed is about SIL thick and notoriously fiery, and that the cause of the ex plosion was clearly attributable, in his opinion, to the system upon which the colliery was worked. The work ings at the deep of the shafts, where the explosion origi nated, were upon the long-wall system. The whole of the working faces open at the time of the accident amounted to about one mile in length. These faces, and the paves behind them, some of which contained the firedamp, were scattered about in various parts of the workings. The working places were at the rise side of each goat, going up hill, so that any firedamp which might become dislodged would at once go upon the men in those "faces." The gate roads, by which tho coal was brought from the faces, came down through the games, the roof at the sides being supported with pack.walls. These pack- • walls were built of stone, which fell from the roof of the goaves, and the stone had to be brought out , rom behind the temporary supports called "chocks" at the faces. In getting out this stone the miners had to leave their safety-lamps outside, and go into the goal in the dark. He reports that " the present system of working appears to involve this reprehensible practice, and it appears to be common to the other collieries worked upon . the old system, and the long-wall system as now practised in this seam atßainsley." The mining engineers interested in the management of these mines are earnestly solicited to take the matter into serious consideratiou, in order that a more suitable system may be introduced. Mr. Dickinson has adopted a system (which was brought under the notice of the Select Committee of the House of Commons) in his , late district, to which he attributes a diminution in the number of accidents, concurrently with a large increase in the number of persons employed in coal mining, and re commends the adoption of that system to the Barnsley seam. A CURIOUS TOLL QCSBTION.-A curious question of toll came before the justices sitting at Edgware a few days since, on • 11011111101111 against the Rev. C. La yard, the minister of Sudbury, near Harrow-on-the-Hill for not paying the toll of the Sheepcote turnpike in 'that parish. The came against the rev. gentleman was that he bad, when driving with his wife and a lad, refused to pay the toll, and that whatever exemptions there were to a clergyman when visiting the sick, he was not entitled to carry others with him. On the part of the rev. gentle man, it was shown that he was called by special messenger to visit a dying member of hie flock in a distant hamlet of his wide-spreading pariah, and that his nearest way was through this " pike." The act exempted clergymen from toll when they were on this or other parochial duty, and as the act specially mentioned, when speaking of the exemption of the military, that they wore to be exempted when alone "—a word not mentioned as applied to cler gymen—and also that a clergyman's wife was engaged on the same duty of visiting the Fick, it was held that no account. should have been taken of her presence. The justices held that the rev. gentleman was entitled to have a person with him to hold the horse when be was visit ing, but that he was not entitled to carry his wife. He was amerced in Is. damages and his costs, the "pike".man to pay his own costs. The case, it is said, will be carried to the Court of Queen's Beach on behalf of the clergy- Man. TRADE 011TRAGE.—SOME time ago a - difficulty occurred between Mr. Yates, the proprietor of the glass works, Bolton Moor, and some of his bands ; it was, how ever, amicably arranged, and the men resumed work. Latterly the men have been subjected to all sorts of petty annoyances, imulted when they have gone into company, and one or two nights ago Mr. Grey. the manager, was him self attacked. On Monday night, while the men at the works were engaged in their ordinary labour, a succession of crashes came at the windows, and a number of panes were broken. On proceeding outside, the men were at tacked by a number of ruffians, some of whom had clothes props ; they gained admission to the works and behaved violently, the attack being subsequently repeated in • Derby-street. John Speakman, one of the workmen, has been violently ill-treated, his legs kicked, and his face much disfigured. One of the apprentices, too, met with maltreatment. FENIAN MENAces.—The Cork Examiner of Mon day published the following letter, which, it remarke, "bears internal evidence of ita genuineness " :—" Sir,—l presume the readers of your valuable journal have no doubt as to the government hanging those men, =delay con victed at Manchester for the murder of the policeman Brett. If so, I advise the government to look before they leap, for fear they should repent wben too late. All I say is, the night that succeeds the day they aro to hung will see every town end city in England on fire; and it will be no small fire either, Mr. Editor, for there will be • good many in each town. I need not tell you we have a goodly set of Fenian. in each town. It is very easy to carry • few bottles for the work in their pockets. They have only to dash one through a window, and the inside is in • blaze. Some of our English merchants will curse the hanging business, and wish that they were hung instead themselves. Kelly said, We will have AO eye for an eye ;" and so we are determined. The government think they an quiet us by hanging a few. I tell them if they hang twenty thousand, the remainder will be their enemies when the opportunity permits. We want none of their favours. Nothing short of a clear separation will please no, and that, thank God, we hope to have before long. It would blunt our weapons very much if we swept any of their treacheries. Mr. Editor, I was two months ago a loyal man, now lam A WICKED FENIAN.' "