The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

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In short, the Minister of State is the chosen interpreter of the oracles of the Empire ; but he knows no more than we do from one day to another whether his master means peace or meditates war. Personal government, pure and simple, uninterrupted, uncontrolled, exists in all ita force in France to-day. The EMPEROR deserves the thanks of Europe for . _ _ _ having dispelled any doubt of that enormous fact. That men of business in France are beginning to be aware of it appears from the uncertainty and apprehension that prevail in the midst of all the peaceful trophies of the Champ de Mars. France is ill at ease ; dissatisfied with the present, anxious for the future. She knows the cause of this languid fever of despondency that lays her prostrate, but, such is the decay of her public spirit, she has not the moral courage to shake it off, and " let us oat, drink, and be merry, " for tomorrow we die," is the watchword of all but a few incorrigible enthusiasts whose patriotism pines for something nobler than the Circean plea sures of what was once the capital of the Revolu tion, and is now the Cythera of Europe. And the EMPEROII—tho student, the thinker, the exile in England—still fails to perceive, or forgets, that the strongest monarchy is that in which " the " king can do no wrong," because his ministers are always responsible to a free parliament, and • free parliament always responsible to a self governing nation. Is England, where order and stability and con iiience, which are the life and soul of industry and trade, have been found not entirely incom patible with free institutions, personal govern ment has few admirers, except those who think all countries incapable of freedom but their own. But is it not surprising that in France there should have been found men of business and of intelli gence so deaf to the teachings of experience and of history that, after the disasters and disgraces of the First Empire, after the wit atblitewl,,el and the confessions of St. Helena, they rushed into the arms of Imperialism to escape the perils of liberty and the difficulties of self-government? The Second Empire, although by no means an unmiti gated or untempered system of arbitrary power, is, after sixteen years' duration, far more arbi trary and far less liberal than the Government which the first NAPOLEON on his return from Elba proposed to establish, and which, in his me ditations at St. Helena, he regretted that events had not permitted him to found. And there are actually Frenchmen living at this time of day who are afraid of liberty on account of its agitations and disorders, and are not afraid of the hazards and excesses of a personal government. No doubt the Mexican catastrophe bas made some converts even among the docile and devoted majority in the Corps L6gislatif. But even now that majority listens with angry impatience to the honest admo nitions of the very few independent members who had the courage to predict the disasters they could not prevent, and cheersthe Minister of State when he insists ontheir complicity, and counta on theirun questioning and unreasoning approbation through good and evil report, and through all the follies and disgraces which their servile acclamations sanctioned in advance, and are ready to ratify when it is no longer permitted to disguise or deny them. M. Rotuma is perfectly justified in claiming that lamentable majority as more than the accomplices, as the instigators, of the policy he is commissioned to extol, even in its failures and calamities, with that brazen and sonorous rhetoric of which he is a master—the rhetoric of a DANTON of Im perialism. What confounds us is thatasevereign and a statesman of the Emperor NAPOLZON's experi ence and capacity should believe that the future of his dynasty is well served by such unscrupulous' advocacy and such uncompromising adherents ; that with a sou to succeed him he should deli berately prefer a Chamber of dependent nominees to a Chamber freely and faithfully elected by the constituents of a true national will. Certainly if ever a man should pray to be saved from his friends, it is the Emperor of the FRENCH. Had he taken the advice of the Opposition, he would have escaped all the faults and misfortunes of his reign. There is a " third party," it is true, in the Corps Legislatif, who have invented a pretty little theory to explain away that sole and single responsibility of the EMPEROR which his own con stitution declares. These ingenious and moderate dissentients pretend to distinguish between the EMPEROR and his Ministers, and to lay all the blame of failures and mischances upon the latter, and especially upon the Minister of State whose back is broad enough to bear a multitude of sins, and whom they designate as a " Vice " Emperor." They represent the EMPEROR as " oppressed " by his own servants. in private life, perhaps, such a situation as that, for instance, of a large landowner at the mercy of his steward is conceivable enough ; but that the chief of a personal Government, who has made his own con stitution, and by it has declared himself alone re sponsible to the nation, and his Ministers mere agents and expositors of his policy in their several departments, should suffer himself to sink into a secondary and subordinate position, and become as insignificant as a client or a sinecurist who signs whatever his lawyers or his clerks put into his hands, appears to um not only a flagrant absurdity but a supposition inconsistent with belief in the sanity of the sove reign who could submit to be the dupe or the instrument of such an imposture. At all events, the Emperor of the FRENCH honourably declines to make a scapegoat of his Minister of State • and in order to remove all doubts, and close the mouths of his too ingenious apologists, he has written a letter to M. Rot:HER, thanking him for his ser vices to the country, and offering him the Cross of the Legion of Honour, set in diamonds, as a slight token of his friendship and esteem. The EsirEaos himself understands Imperialism better than those commentators who would fain convert it into a limited monarchy. M. RorHER is simply the inspired apologist of whatever home or foreign policy the EMPEROR may adopt. To-day he avows that the Mexican expedition has failed dis astrously, but that the catastrophe, with all its mournful consequences, must be charged to Pro vidence. Two years ago he assured the Cham ber that it was the greatest enterprise of the Emi•Elloß'S reign, and that the French troops would never leave Mexico until that enterprise was completely fulfilled ; and oven now he takes care to add that the people of Mexico will at some future day return thanks to France for having spent six hundred millions of francs in setting up a throne for them, and pulling it down again. And so about Italy, or Germany, or Luxemburg, about peace and war. To-day M. RoUil ER speaks peace; who knows what to-mor row may bring forth I Certainly not M. Remint: he kne iv nothing of the Imperial letter of the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1867. Wile Court. OSBORNE, JCLY 22. The Queen and royal family walked out this morning. The Empress of the French IL+ expe:ted to mire at Osborne to-day on a private visit to the Queen. BUCKINGHAM PAI.AVE, JriA N. The Sultan, attended by Djemil Paths, Reouf Pacha. Lord Raglan, and Mr. Moore, with Ceneral the Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel H. Ponsonhy (the Equerries in attend ance) on horseback, drove out this morning, and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house. His Imperial Majesty also visited the Duke of 'ambridge at Gloucester-house, and the Duchess of Cambridge, ►t St. James's Palace. Viscountess Palmerston had likewise the honour of receiving a visit from his Imperial Majesty, in Park-lane. In the afternoon the Sultan, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and attended by the same suite as in the morn ing, drove down to'the Houses of Parliament, and went through the New l'alace of Westminster. In the evening his Imperial Majesty honoured the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with his presence at an enter tainment at Stafford House. Later in the evening his Imperial Majesty honoured the President of the Royal Horticultural Society (the Duke of Buccleuch) with his presence, at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington. The Sultan was escorted to Stafford House, and after wards to South Kensington, by a detachment of the Ist Life Guards. Messrs. W. and D. Downey, of \ewcaatle•upon-Tyno, have had the honour of photographing hie Imperial blajeaty the Sultan and the Imperial Princes. MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, Jur.e 22. The Prime of Wales redo out in the forenoon, attended by Captain Elite. The Sultan visited the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marlborough Hoene. The Duke and Duchesa d'Aosta visited the Princess of Wales. The hince of Wale.; went to the Howe of Lords in the afternoon. The Princeu of Wales drove out, attended by the lion. Mrs. W. Grey. In the evening the Prince of Wales dined with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Stafford House, to meet his Imperial Majesty the Sultan. A deputation from the parish of Dorking, accompanied by Mr. Briscoe, M.P., and Mr.Cuhitt,M.P., and consisting of Mr. Cusins, Mr. Young, Mr. Paxon, Mr. Shearburn, Mr. Wells, Mr. Fielder, and Mr. Allowey, bad an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. ARRIVAL OF THE EMPRESS OP THE FRENCH. The French imperial steam-yacht Heine Hor tense, with her Majesty the Empress of the French on board, arrived off Portsmouth early yesterd►y morning from Havre, after a pleasant possage of eight hours, and anchored until afternoon in the vicinity of the Spit Buoy. A party of l►dies and gentlemen from the yacht, including lit was supposed) the Empress, landed ►t Sonthsea in the morning, and spent some time on the Esplanade and Common, and partook of luncheon at the Fier Hotel. Shortly before 2 p.m. the Reins Hortense again weighed her anchor, and steamed slowly past the fleet at Spitbead for Osborne, where the Empress arrived on a visit to her Majesty the Queen soon after 3 p.m. As the Emprees travelled iacogniia the yacht hoisted no standard. THE SULTAN IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—Shortly before half-past 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Sultan, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, entered the house by the door on the left of the throne, and crossed within the brass bar to the chair of state which had been placed for the accommodation of his Majesty on the right of his royal highness's state chair. The royal party were pre ceded by Sr Augustus Clifton' and Sir Denis Le Merchant, Sir John Shaw Lefevre and the suites of his Majesty and his royal highness remaining without the railings on the left of the throne. The proceedings of the house were suspended for a few minutes, during which the Lord Chancellor left the chair, and, having saluted the royal party with two low bows, entered into conversation with his Majesty by the aid of the interpreter. The Prince of Wales then pointed out o his Majesty the throne and the various parts of the house, and replied to several questions which his Majesty put to him through the interpreter. Their visit having Jested about 10 minutes, the royal party retired. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meek lenburg•Strelitz, and Princess Mary Adelaide and his Serene Highness the l'rinoe de Teck, honoured the Earl and Countess of Wilton by their presence at dinner yesterday evening at their residence in Grosvenor-square. The Prin cess Mary Adelaide and the Prince de Teck arrived shortly after 8 o'clock, and were soon followed by the Grand Duke sad Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. There were present to meet their royal highnesses the Duke of Grafton, the Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanrioarde, the Marquis Conyngham, the Earl Cedogan, the Earl of Sefton, the Countess of Bradford, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord Rokeby, fox The Duke and Duchess d'Aosta and suite dined with his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio at the Italian Legation, in Grosvenor-street, yesterday evening. There were present, in addition to the members of the royal suite, the Duke and Duchess de Rorra, the Duchess San Arpino, the Duke di Vallombrosa, the Marchioness di 'Tag liacarni, Count Arrivabene, Count Cortance, Admiral Count Albini, Baron and Baroness Marochetti, M. Panizzi, Captain Roberti, R. N., M. Trivizzio, the Marquis San Germano, and M. de Vigoni. Covers were laid for 22. The Sultan's visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland's last night was quite devoid of any extraordi nary show or preparation, and, when compared to the recent vibit of the Viceroy of Egypt, might be considered a priv►te one. The guests were in evening dress, and, with the exception of the magnificent picture gallery and prin cipal saloons being thrown open, there was nothing beyond what is seen at Stafford House on ordinary occasions. Mr. Mill will introduce his bill for the better municipal government of the metropolis into the House of Commons this day week. To-morrow week Mr. Tite brings forward a bill to regulate the oonatruction and use of buildings, and the formation of streets and of sewers and drains, in the metropolis ; and for other purposes connected therewith. On the 2nd of next month Mr. Henry Seymour purposes to call the attention of the House of Commons to the famine in Orissa. Secretary Sir J. Pakington intends in committee on fortifications and works to move the following resolu tions :—" 1. That, towards providing a further sum for defraying the expenses of the construction of works for the defence of the royal dockyards and arsenals, and of the port• of Dover and Portland, • sum not exceeding 800,0001. be charged upon the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom ; and that the commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury be authorised and empowered to raise the said sum by annuities for a term not exceeding thirty years, and that such annuities shall be charged upon and be payable out of the said consolidated fund. 2. That the said commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury be autho rised to direct the payment to the governor and company of the Bank of England, out of the said consolidated fund, of the sum of 800 f. for the management of the con tributions to be received by the said governor and com pany in respect of the said annuities." A part of the famous old French prison in Bugle street, Southampton, has been converted into a Norway ice store. The ice is cut from the Norway lakes in cubical blocks, three hundred weight each, and is perfectly trans. parent. It is piled up in the form of massive walls until wanted for the monster mail packets. Fiahmongers now send fish to all parts of the country packed in ice. Butchers use ice safes to preserve meat in the hottest weather. Brewers use it to regulate the temperature of brewhouses and prevent beer from turning sour. The great curing houses in Holland and Ireland use it in their pickling vats, to avoid the necessity of killing all their dock in winter. Pastryoooks use it in large quantities. Medical men use it in cases of inflammation, fevers, laxity of the digestive organs, and to produce numbness in cases of amputation. All the monster mail packets have now ice wells, and the decks of those packets ace no longer encumbered with the nuisance of live stock and fodder. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) 1101 sS OF LORDS.—I.AST NIGHT'S DEBATE. The Daily News does nut estimate the oratorical merits of last night's debate very highly. The only speech which rose above the dull level of common-place was that of Lord Carnarvon. The peers are but gleaner. in a well reaped field, and the interest attached to the pro ceedings was personal rather than directly political. Lord Derby's own conduct being incapable of defence he dexterously assumed the offensive-- feeling himself reduced to the necessity of making the most petty and gratuitous assaults upon the conduct of Lord Russell and the temper of Mr. Gladstone. His historic review of the course of the reform question from the Act of 1832 to the bill of the present year was a petulant personal polemic. The experience and comp anionshipof the last 15 years have not been favourable to him. The tortuous tactics, the lax principle or renunciation of all principle, the smooth flat teries,oonverted at the last moment intoeynical effrontery, which have marked the conduct of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer inspire the speech of the Prime Minister. The Daily Ness then having extracted a passage from his lordship's speech condenses its meaning, and says the thing lies in a nutshell. Office for the sake of his party ; and a reform bill in order to secure a working majority and a lengthened tenure of office. The speeches of last night add additional touches to the picture of political demoralisa tion and factious self-seeking which the debates of the House of Commons have delineated. The contrasts the scene in the House of Lords lest evening with the events which those whose memories can travel back to 1832 oars recaL Examining his lord ship's retrospect of the Reform agitation the rinses finds it hard to reconcile some of his statements with those of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and thinks it a little re markable that the fact of his lordship's conversion in 1859 to household suffrage was never revealed till now. The assertion that the Conservative party offered no opposition to the bill of last year is some thing very interesting, and sheds much light on the credibility of history. As to Lord Grey, when he averted that the will of the House of Comu.ons is neces. sarily supreme, he virtually cut away the ground from under his amendment, and the Times can only regret that he did not formally signify last night his intention to withdraw it. The Post says that Lord Derby's speech is unexampled in the annals of parliamentary history. That it should have been made by Mr. Disraeli was likely enough, but that it should have been made by the Earl of Derby the Poet would, until yesterday, have pronounced to be impossible. The Conservative journals confine themselves to a reca pitulation of the chief heads of Lord Derby's speech, which they characterise in the ordinary terms of laudation. The Teleiraph feels bound to do Lord Derby the justice to say that he brims over with homage to the principle of household suffrage, quoting Mr. Henley and Sir Roundel' Palmer as its epoesors ; and he professes a confidence in the new class of voters as full as that which animates the most unimpeachable reformer. When we smile at his in consistencies we may set this down to his credit, and rejoice that he has brought the Tory party from the ends of the earth to pass a Radical Reform Bill. While allowing Lord Carnarvon's rebuke of the govern ment to be a fit punishment for so unblushing a confession as its chief had made of the low motives with which he bad been actuated, the Star says it would be unpardonable if Liberal peers had been carried away by the disgust natu rally created by such avowals, and had joined Earl Grey in his resistance to the bill. The bill having been made in spite of its promoters, it will receive in the upper, as in the lower home, the cordial Rapport of every genuine liberal. THE ROYAL PARKS BILL. The Times thinks the government very injudicious to urge in the present session their bill to provide some more effective means for preventing political and religious meetings in the royal parks. As to the propriety of the object in view, there cannot, indeed, be any reasonable doubt ; nor can there be any doubt as to the state of the law on this subject ; but there is • time ter everything, and a right and wrong way of doing it; and it seems to the Times very doubtful whether this or any bill could be successful in its most prominent object. If, in the face of such • bill, large masses of the people resolved to hold a demonstration, they Gould only be prevented by the display of consider able fora. But would it ever be desirable to employ such an amount of force for such an object? The circumstances must be very extraordinary under which any government would undertake such a responsibility. It seems, there fore, that the bill would be inefficient at a great crisis, while for ordinary occasions the present law, theoretically imperfect as it may be, affords sufficient protection. To press the measure forward at present is to muse an un necessary waste of valuable time, and gratuitously to provoke a popular irritation. The Teegr.:lA also contends that the ministry has cloven the wont of all seseone for dealing with the vexed ques tion. The park is so disagreeably associated with the sub ject of the Reform Bill that it is most unwise to legislate on the privilege of public discussion when we are still in the midst of the reform debates. Doubtless, therefore, the House of Commons will see the policy of delay, and leave the bill over till next session. The Star contends that if ministers persist is forcing ow this measure no constitutional proceedings ought to be spared to defeat them. It is surprised that the thorough. going liberals do not move adjournments, speak against time, thwart ministers in every possible way, until they promise to give up this insulting, unconstitutional, and dangerous bill. If the parliament refuses to do its duty. let the people do theirs. Tin SuLraw.—Although his Imperial Majesty the Sultan remained at Buckingham Palace all d►y on Sunday, he was occupied on subjects most important to the interests of the Ottoman Empire. After the departure of Lord Stanley, Mr. Page, the engineer of Westuinster bridge, was introduced to his Imperial Majesty by his Highness Fuad Paella, and with the assistance of his son, Mr. F. J. Page, exemplified to the Sultan and his Highness Fuad Paula the mode of ascending steep gradients, the par ticulars of which were explained by his Highness Fuad Pacha and Signor Guarrscino. His Imperial Majesty fully , comprehended the whole system, and hoped it would be fully developed before his ministers at Constan tinople, inasmuch as for the interest. of the Ottoman Empire the introduction of a more economical system of railways was most important. F LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LE RAMS.) PRUSSIA. EMS, duty V. Count Bismarck will very shortly meet the King of Prussia, either here or at Wiesbaden, in order to confer with his Majesty upon several questions of domestic policy. HUNGARY. PESTH, JCLY 23. It is stated that the government have sanctioned the organisation of 70 battalions of Honveds. The delegates of the Hungarian Diet and the Austrian Reichsrath will meet at Vienna on the 4th of August next. llenerals Gorgey and PerC7lol have arrived here. ROUMANIA. BUCHAMT, JuLv 23. The government have ordered severe measures to be taken to prevent a meeting of Moldavian Se nators and Deputies, which has been convoked. It is believed the object of this meeting is to pro mote a separation of the Roumanian Principalities. ITALY. THE ROMAN QUESTION. FLORENCE, ieLY M. hi yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signors Pianciani and Curti interrogated the government respecting the inspection of the Papal troops by a French general, which they declared 4o be a flagrant violation of the September Con vention, and on the armaments and enlistments which were being made, it was supposed, for the invasion of the States of the Church. Signor Rattazzi, in reply, said that he believed the rumours of the armaments were exaggerated, and declared that they were being made by the Romans themselves. He did not consider it neces sary for him to contradict the reports that the Italian government had assented to or indirectly participated in these preparations. He said that those were under a delusion who believed that the Italian government would tolerate any violation of their engagements. The Roman ques tion must be solved by moral means. Explanations had been, he said, demanded of the French government as to the reported inspection, which would be contrary both to the spirit and the letter of the convention, which he would cause to be respected. Signor Rattazzi denied that any arrangement had been entered into with France for the restitution of Roman deserters, and no representative of France had ever stated that a foreign legion should be regarded as an indirect intervention on the part of France. He believed that the French government, which desired the execution of the convention, would not be the first to violate it. Signor Laporte said the Romans had the right to enter their territory and endeavour to obtain freedom for their country. Signor Rattazzi, in reply, declared that he would always cause the territory subject to another government to be respected. INDIA. BOMBAY, JULY IG. 71bs. shirtings, br. 10a.; 81Ibs. shirting., 6r. 14a. Cotton dull—Dhollerah, 220 r. Exchange on London, ls. 11 7-16 d. Four per Cent. Government Securities, 891 ; Five ditto, 1061 ; Five-and-a- Half ditto, 1111. Freights to Liverpool, 355. The latest London date is July 13. CALCUTTA, JI LT 15. 84lbs. shirtings, 7r. 4a. ; 40's mule twist, 7a. Cotton, 17i. Jute--tendency upwards. Saltpetre steady. Rice held firmly. Exchange on London, ls. 11„d. Four per Cent. Government Securi ties, 89. AMERICA. BREST, JULY 23. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville de Paris, from New York, has arrived here with 204 passengers, and 6.37,000 doh'. in specie. (sr mamma raLsoaaru.) NEW YORK, JCLT 22, 6 P.M. Congress has adjourned. The Minnesota arrived out on Saturday evening, and the Belgian and Moldavian to-day. INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices :—Gold, 139/. Sterling exchange on London, 110 k. 5-20 United States Bonds, 111 k. Illinois, 1181, ex dividend ; Erie, 722. Cotton : Middling Upland, 27. PHILADELPHIA, Jun , 22. Petroleum, standard white, 32. [This message arrived in London at 1.30 p.m. July 23.] THE CAPE MAILS. (azum's TELEGRAM.) PLYMOUTH, JULY 23. The Union Company's steamship Briton arrived here this morning with dates from the Cape of Good Hope Juno 19 ; Bt. Helena, 28th ; and Ascension, July 2. She brings 108 passengers, several packages of specie, and • large general cargo. Among the passenger, are the Lord Bishop of Cape Town and family, the Hon. P. E. de Roubaix, Consul-General for Turkey, on his way to Con stantinople, and Dr. Lawson, the Inspector-General of Hospitals. The Cape parliament was still in session. A bill intro duced by Mr. Solomon, to abolish state grants for re ligious purposes, and also a bill brought forward by Mr. Molteno to adopt the principle of responsible government had both been rejected by 29 against 22 votes. The government paper currency bill had also been rejected. The Colonial Secretary had made his financial statement according to which • deficiency of 59,0001. was expected for the coming year. This would be nearly covered by an authorized loan of 50,000/. The government scheme to substitute a single house for the present two houses of parliament had been withdrawn. . _ . The Colonial Legislature and the corporation of Cape Town were making every preparation to give the Duke of Edinburgh a hearty reception on hia arrival. The Oiontee had arrived out, but her troops as well as those brought by the Himalaya were still delayed at the Cape, in consequence of the fever at Mauritius. The Osprey had proved a total wreck ; the crew were all saved but George Devereaux, the leading stoker, a native of Portsmouth, who was drowned. The Petrel had visited the wreck, and reported it was quite broken op. All that had been saved consisted of articles of clothing, a few rifles and revolvers, a chronometer, two sextants, some sails, and the remains of the rigging. A court of inquiry was about to be held. The war between the Free State and the Banta had been brought to a close. It was reported by the steamship Saxon that arrived at Table Bay from the Eastern route, previous to the depar ture of the Briton, that there was every probability of Dr. Livingstone being still alive. Sir Thomas Maclean had not, however, received any information on the subject. Sir P. C. Wodehouse, the Governor of the colony, whose term of service expires this year, is expected to leave for England by October in the mail steamer. There is no particular news from Natal. The country was looking well, and there was every prospect of satisfactory crops. Governor Neste arrived out in M►n. rititui on the 23rd May, and was received by the corpora tion of D'Urban. Major-General Bisset, acting governor, was to leave shortly for Algol' Bay. Apartments are being prepared in the Hotel Bristol for Prince Charles of Prussia, who will shortly arrive in Park, , Istrests. bee, 11. T. W. ir 2 W. l it No . , 119.50 50 E.S.E. lit 4 HAL o 0.01 Aberdeen p1.6760 N.E. 2 1 , N.H. 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Grainer de Caasagnac's journal, the Pays, re plies as follows : The Patric repeats with additional emphasis its contra- diction of the report that the Marquis de Moustier has lately sent a very sharp diplomatic note to Berlin. This journal says not only that no such note exists, but that the relations between France and Prussia are most satisfac tory. Now, it may be true that the despatch of the diplo matic note in question has been delayed; we will even admit, for the sake of argument, that the draft note may have never got beyond the stage of a project, and in this point of view we attach but a secondary importance both to the original news and the con tradiction. But that the relations between France and Prussia are cordial and satisfactory appears to us a most difficult proposition to accept. The attitude of the Prussian government towards France, the acrimonious tone of its semi-official journals, the extensive armaments and accumulation of warlike stores openly made, the diplo- matic intrigues going on to counteract French influence in Austria and Italy, and to prevent the projected alliance with Austria, and M. de Bismarck's constant language are all inconsistent with the existence of cordial relations. It could not be otherwise unless it could be shown from recent diplomatic facts that M. de Bismarck is ready to satisfy the just susceptibilities of the French government provoked by the non-execution of Article 5 of the Treaty of Prague, and also by the attempts, under the guise of providing for commercial in. terests, to complete the political absorption of southern Germany. We are not aware that M. do Bismarck has done anything of the sort. On the contrary, his most recent acts—the revision of the postal treaties and the financial unification of the annexed states—clearly show that he steadily pursues his aim, and is pushing to the realisation of his ambitious views, regardless of conse quences as they affect others, and thinking only how to be ready for then, himself. Under these circumstances, to affirm that diplomatic relations are satisfactory is to trifle with public opinion. That it may be possible to avert war is an admissible hypothesis, though we can find nothing to support it. The foreign journals abound in a contrary setae, and speak on the sub ject with a frankness and a luxury of detail to which we cannot shut our eyes. For instance, the Brussels Gazette says that in Russia, under the pretext of military ma nceuvres, a real council of war is now being held between the staff of the Russian and Prussian armies with the Czar presiding. A plan of campaign is under consideration on the double hypothesis of a war between France and Germany only and a war in which Russia and Prussia would be on the ono side and France, Austria, and Italy, and possibly Sweden and the Ottoman empire, on the other. Russia inclines to a postponement. But Prussia is for beginning directly, and urges in support of her opi nion that the Austrian empire is in a state of disorgani sation, that the French armies are as yet relatively weak, and that Italy is hesitating and not to be relied on by France. Moreover the Prussian journals speak of war as if It were not merely a probability but a certainty on which tne mind of the Cabinet of Berlin is made up. The Prue• sification of the armies of the South, far from being re laxed, is urged on with daily increasing haste. With such symptoms before us the Patric has a singularly deranged vision when it talks of cordial relations. The above article is but the anticipation of a paper campaign which I expect to become very general as soon as the legislative session breaks up. Hitherto the Situation, a journal specially created to harass Prwaia, has blown the war trumpet nearly alone. As in all previous modern wars, the contending parties will seek to shift the responsi bility on each other's shoulders, and complain of the provocation arising from preparations on the other side. But in this case, nothing is more cer tain than that Prussia would never think of attack ing France if she would remain quiet within her own frontiers, and that if there must be war, it will be because the ambition and difficult internal position of the French Emperor require blood. M. Emile de Girardin writes in the Libert4: France iunionely asks how her government will get out of the difficulties which it has sown in its p►th, and which have borne abundant fruit. France asks how it will avert the threatening war, and how, if it does not avert it, it will avert the coalition which it would be madness not to foresee? France asks further how it will put an end to the " strike "of capital which has ruled for an unprece dented time, as is shown by the Bank of France returns, which are now worse than those of the time formerly branded as " the disastrous days of 1851." To-day the Prefect of the Seine went to the Tuileries to invite the King and Queen of Portugal to a dinner at the Hotel de Ville, on Thursday next. There will be a concert in the evening. At the Bourse the Rente opened with an appear ance of firmness, at an advance on Saturday's quota tions, and rose to 68fr. 92}c., then fell to 68fr. 85c., and ultimately raoovered tho highest price of the day, with a rise of 12ic. These are the quotations for account, the cash price remains unchanged. Mobilier fell sfr.; Italian rose sc. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) T222DAY, JDLT 2s. $ £.L DEPARTURE OF THE SULTAN. (THIS DAY.) At live minutes to 11 this morning his Imperi a l Majesty the Sultan and suite left the Charing...roes Tel. minus, I" rude for Dover, whence they will proceed to Brussels. For the reception of his Majesty the entire length of the platform was covered with criinsou cloth, and the floral display, which was entrusted to Dickson, of Covent-garden, had a very pretty effect. The internal arrangements at the station were under the directions of Mr. Cockburn, superintendent, anti Mr. Brady, architect to the South-Eastern Railway C 0,.,. pony. In a gallery at the end of the platform many ladies and other privileged guests were stationed to assist l in a parting greeting to the Sultan. Every window he. longing to the Charing-cross Hotel and looking into the station was lined with spectators, and all round there wan abundant evidence of the interest felt in the departure. At about half-past 10 the bawd of the Coldstream Guards was heard approaching, ant on its entering the station two guards of honour of that regiment were formed. In the meantime the less import. ant members of the Sultan's suite and several of the royal servants in scarlet were busily engaged in seeing the lugga ge secure in the train ; and the Right Hon. H. L. Cony, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Henry Lennox, tint secretary of the Admiralty, and Sir Richard 'Mayne were awaiting the arrival of the imperial party. The pro of:Aden to the terminus, which consisted of the roy a l carriages and a strong escort of the Horse Guards (Blue), after leaving Buckingham Palace, proceeded along the Mall, through the Horse Guards gate into Whitehall, and thence to Charing-cross into the Strand. Along the attire route some thousands of persons had taken up positions, and loud cheers rose from enemy point in the Sultan's pro gress. The station was reached at ten minutes to Four of the royal carriages, each drawn by two horses, with servants in gold lace liveries, were alone allowed to draw up to the platform. From these alighted the Sultan, his eldest son, and two nephews, with the chief dignit a . ries, followed by his royal highness the Prince of \Vales, the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Raglan, the Duke of Beaufort, and Colonel Lindsay. The train in readiness to convey the party to Dover consisted of three state carriages, including that of her Majesty, and eleven other,. The first to enter the principal compartments were the youthful members of the party—the Sultan's son being an object of much attraction, more particularly with the ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs as he advanced down the platform. The band of the Coldstreams having commenced the Turkish national air, the Sultan was next seen approaching with an evidently feeble step, and his apparently wearied condition was generally remarked. He was received in a cordial manner, and, after being introduced to Mr. Cony, Lord Len. nor., and Lord Sydney, the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, was banded to his seat in the Queen's carriage, being ("CCM. ponied only by Marco Pasha, his principal physician. Whether as a matter of courtesy and resigning the pri vilege in favour of the Sultan's suite, or from a want of knowledge of the royal carriage that had been specially decorated for his reception, the Prince of Wales placed himself in an ordinary first class carriage, and the royal vehicle left without an occupant. The distinguished personages in connexion with the Prince of Wales's suite above named having been seated,Mr. Cudworth and Mr. A. Watkins (of the locomotive department), Mr. Walker (telegraphic engineer), Mr. Barlow and Mr. Beattie (direc tors), with Mr. Eborall and Mr. Knight (who hadcharge of the train), took their places. The whistle was then sounded, and the train left the station amidst loud cheers. SAD ACCIDENT.—Two MEN CRUSHED TO DEATH AT PETWORTK.—A very 'hocking secident happened at Fie:ham-park, near Petworth, last Wednesday, two men, named Daniel Wakeford and Edmund Sebbage, being crashed to death in a stone pit. An inquest was held on Thursday, before R. Blagden, Esq., at Bedham farm house, when the following evidence was taken :--./ames Holden deposed—l live at Bedham. Yesterday I was working in a stone pit in Flexhampark with the dammed Daniel Wakeford and Edmund S eb bage. There were others working in the same pit. We were digging stone for the hof Kirdford. About 10 in the morning the deceased men were in the pit tilling barrows for me to wheel away. I left them filling when I wheeled away a loaded barrow, and was at the beep of stone which bad been wheeled out when I beard some of the men in the pit hellos. I ran. back and found the side of the pit had foundered in just where I had left the deceased filling. and they were not to be seen. The top of the earth did not fall. When I left them filling they were in the pit, which was then 12 or 14 feet deep. I should say four or five tons of earth foundered in. Five of sin set to work to move the earth, and we got Sebbage out almost directly. He was covered by about a foot of earth and atones. He was on his face and his legs were wide apart. He just moved and breathed once or twice, and then died. nue was no blood visible about him, but he was much bruised. We continued to , move the earth, and upwards of ten minutes elapsed before Wakeford was got out. He was quite dead, and sadly diafigured. They were evidently working, and leaning forwards towards the side of the pit when the fall took place. Sopp, the surveyor of Kirdford parish, was in the pit at the time, and had just before told them they had undermined too far. I also told them so just before the accident happened. Wakeford was 52 years of age, and has left a family all grown up. Sebbage was 21 years old and single. A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. —Surrey Standard. SINGULAR CANE OF DROWNING AND COWARDLY CONDUCT OF LOOKERs-ox.—A young woman named Jane Elizabeth Brown, wife of the masterolCharies-street Ragged Schools, Drury-lane, London. was drowned at little. hampton on Saturday week. She was bathing in the sea near a groyne, and was talking to a friend when the water suddenly carried her off her feet and washed her over the groyne from the east to the west aide of it. Her friend screamed for assistance, and six men were standing on the green by the side of the road, but made no effort to save the poor creature. A lady's maid in the service of Lady Armstrong then ran to Ruatiogtoa lac 11, about 100 yards off, and • "loader" named Arthur Diganee came to the spot; and Captain Ransoine pointed out to him where the body was floating, telling him it was in 10 feet of water. Digance could not swim, but be rushed into the water and with a hoe caught hold of the bathing dress and dragged the body ashore with great difficulty. It was in about five feet and a half of water. The facts were proved at an inquest held on the deceased on Monday, and the jury expressed their :LBW nishment that six Englishmen should have been witnesses to a lady drowning without making any effort to save her life. They could have joined hands and endeavoured to reach the deceased, which they might have succeeded in doing, as it was at least ten minutes later when the body was rescued by Digance. Dr. Candy said he arrived soon after the body was brought ashore, and means for restor ing animation were for an hour persevered in, but without effect. The coroner remarked that no doubt could exist but that the deceased hail been overpowered by the and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned while bathing."—Sauer Adrertistr. CORNISH ANTIQUITIES.—Let anybody who bag a sense of antiquity, and who can feel the spark which is sent on to us through an unbroken chain of history, when we stand on the Acropolis or on the Capitol, or when we read • ballad of Homer, or a hymn of the Teals—nay, if we but read in a proper spirit a chapter of the Old Testae meat too—let such a man look at the Celtic huts at lks. Koenig or Carnchywiddan, and discover for himmlf, through the ferns and brambles, the old grey well,, slightly sloping inward, and arranged according to a design that cannot be mistaken ; and miserable as these shapeless clumps may appear to the tbougbtless traveller. they slll convey to the true historian • lesson which he could hardly learn anywhere else. The ancient Britons will no longer be a mere name to him, no mere Pelagian' or Tyrrnenians. He has seen their homes and their handiwork ; be has stood behind the walls which protected their lives and pre uprty; y, his touched the stones which their hands piled u rudely, for th os e And if that small spark of sympathy for those who gave the honoured named Britain to these islands, has once been kindled among a few who have the power of influencing pub'ia opinion in England, we feel certain that something will be done to ureaerve what can still be preserved of Celtic remain, from further destruction. It does honour to the British parliament that large sums are granted, when it is necessary to bring to thee° safe shores whatever can be still rescued from the ruins of Greece and Italy, of Lycie, Pergamos, Palestine, Eapt, Babylon, or Nineveh. But while explorers and excavators are sent to those distant countries, and the statues of Greece, the coffins of Egypt. and the winged monsters of Nineveh, are brought home in triumph to the portals of the British Museum. it is painful to see the splendid granite slabs of British cromlechs thrown down and carted away, atone-circles destroyed to make way for farming improvements, and ancient huts and caves broken up to build new houses and stables, with the stones thus ready to hand. It is high time, mdeed, that something should be done, and nothing will avail but to place every truly historical monument under national pro. tection. Individual efforts may answer here a nd there, and a right spirit may be awakened from time to time by local societies ; but during intervals of apathy mischief is done that can never be mended again ; snit u n less the damaging of national monuments, even though they should stand on private ground, is made • misdemesnour, we doubt whether, two hundred years hence, any enterprising explorer would be as fortunate as Mr. lityard and Sir H. Rawlinson have been in Babylon and Nineveh, and whether one single cromlech would be left for him to carry away to the National Museum of tho Maoris.— Quarterly leerier, new number. REMARKS. Barometrical pressure Is now increasing on the north coasts, and in the south-west of Ireland. The winds are south•westerly, excepting In the north, when they are northAaisteziy. Weather overcast and rain still general. The Salta Public of Lyons says :—" The female Australian black swan in the Zoological Gardens of this city a abort time since laid two eggs, and, as she did not seem anxious to sit upon them, they were placed among six others produced by a whits swan. All eight birds were hatched, and all were of the same greyish hue. But the male and female old birds instinctively discovered the in truders, and maltreated them so much that one died, the other being rescued with some difficulty. It is at present thriving, and the black plumes which distinguish its race are beginning to appear." THE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA TO rARIEL—A communication from Vienna in the Liberti says under date of the 18th : " The majority of the German and foreign papers, like ourselves, quite recently expressed doubt of seeing the Emperor of Austria go to Paris ; some even declared that the journey was definitively abandoned. If those doubts were well grounded then, they must com pletely disappear now. We learn that the approaching journey of the Emperor Francis Joseph to Paris is deci dedly settled. The exact day is not yet known on which the sovereign of Austria will quit his capital for Paris, where he will, no doubt, be the object of the most enthu siastic manifestations, as well as his prime minister. It is known, however, that the departure will certainly take place in the course of August, after the Sultan, whose arrival is expected at the end of this month, has left as. Those who believed that the Mexican catastrophe, and the cruel misfortunes with which the house of Hapsburg has been suocessively visited, would constitute a serious ob stacle t o the Faris journey of the Austrian monarch, were greatly mistaken, Baron Beust does not follow a policy of sentiment." r F '~~ f t ' ; ,