The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-17 00:00:00

QUE EN'S AnAorn T —Y H r. I3 W. H. ÜBTON. ATER, Loog- acre. 31 THVLAPICABHIRB LAB/5, by Horny J. Byrom. h• 5 115/1 Wes reectred throughout Ma performs/we with the gresteet entha. Wawa, Irc rrew&d and exalted atniwnows, with l e .a iwated BVEILY zwy,it /BIC st • Quarter to t. nonohnitint Y AI IL _ LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. ••„w• demonitrationa in favour ot • The Lancashire Lane are loud and unanintotta."—Times _ 'l'H) LANCASHIRR LAS& At other times the enthmiamt surged up beyond control. ehr.•n.. and we of haadtwAiefe "4"."" of 81*"6. " d hereine l . I —The Mohan, from greened the success of the hero an ihs(3clk. 'THE LANCASHIRE LABB. at s quarter to 8. •'The pleoen=rut wee effewelvely sated. and th• Ma sational nature at the keeps the madame In a perpetual state et excitement"— ted London News. MEE LANCASHIRE LASS, st s uartor to 8. .a. -The plot ellsobive and Walt ; rd with chwhohie GeV which sante intense la by emeikat maw, —Weekly Times. WHE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. -a- "One scene, when a river steamer appears to float Dodgy on the Ma" crested • Morn of applause. 'The Innessitire Lass' will enjoy • lengthened ran."—lllustrated Sporting New& IMF, LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. JL Mr. Wren was maned. and bowed his samewleftraent aired versferoum cheers treat all parts of the theatre."—ntandard. MBE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. -2- On its woad representation wag; received with even greater applause than on the evening of meduetion."—Daily Telegraph. R OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE . — Three Ballots. Promenade Camera Bead cd SO. Basin at S. L. Nomeadliae eras Irma 11 to A. ETON and SON. NviLLIAm cH u 3108183t8 and 81 IAMBI" 81 and 98 casespersimr. JOHN BROGDEN'S CLASSIC JBWRLRY. oARIS FIRST—CLAM SILVER MEDAL, 1867. 7r - JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. 'OHM BROODEN'S BRACELET& OHN BROODER'S BROOCHES. ' -- GM and WEDDING fOHN BROODEN'S 08. ' _____------- RIN BROODEN'S NRCKLACFJ3. JOHN BI OODEN'S EABBD(08. 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Early, and ImpartiaL In a word, fta arrandernenta have undergone no other modification than such as was nem:mars te a more thorough and efficient reprefientatimi and elseeeslon of the olourrenoes, intereeta, and optnions of the Ur. PUBLDMING AND AD' 11. BOUVERIEBTRI STISILICENT OPFICIL !, FUCHTSTRENL ate •xlreoo. remise Tam EVPKING, POOR PILLICODD s Y.—APTER DARK A lALIG OV LONDON LIFE. Mr. Vining, M. Walter Lary, Dominick Murray, Montave, Shore, to. ; Mimes Maretort an d Leclereq.—And No. 1, ROMID THE CORNER. aURINII THEATRE, LONG-ACES. Manager, Mr. W. H. Listen. Tn. Bram e, at 7, HE'S A LUNATIC. At 7.46. THE LANCASHIRE LASS. Marra S. Emery, H. Irr, Clayten, W. H. Stephan', C. Wyndham, W. H. Montgomery, L. Brough, and H. Mellon; Mesdames H. Hodson, Montague , sad N. Moore. STRAND. Ten Ihiernro, SISTERLY BERCIL—THE FIELD OP TNII CUYIN OP OOLD.—And MABRIAOII AT ANY PRIOR. BRITANNIA. TIM BRIM*. TEI DEAD RECKONING ; OR, PRESSED FOR THE NAVY. M. Reynolds, Pitt, Birrood, &c. ; Miss J. COWIWY, &e.—Mies A. Anderson; Mr. H. Rickards.—And MESE 'VESSEL. Miss M. Henderson. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To-Dtt —Morning, Oh. ttni. Afternoon. lb. 13= To-U•naow —Ranting, b. 4. Afternoon. 2b. iw x g. 'Lavalliere we reguated to mate their PoiLt, orders payable to Yr. JOCIMIL HAZZINOTON, Pout-odloe, ea., B.C. iforicsa of DISTILS. IGILILIAOIS, and DIATHI, We received radii ii o'clock to, Insertion came evening. Price dz. W. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17. THE YOUNG CAVAIGNAC INCIDINT. Mina is, it would seem, no easier way of flat tering the superior intelligence and the self-com placency of a large class of readers on this side of the Channel than to take some trivial incident of public life on the other side of the Channel, and contemplate it from the purely insular and paro chial point of view of the average Great Briton. If there be one thing more than another of which the conventional Englishman is proudly conscious, it is of being not like other men who have not had tho advantage of being born in this island. He never can get over the astonishment at finding that his rule of the road is not only not universally accepted, but peculiar to his own country. It never occurs to him to pause and ask himself the question whether the mere fact of certain ways and usages being familiar to his experience at home renders them the perfection of wisdom and good sense. Enough for him that such and such things are " nn-English," or " so French," to justify him in regarding them with indulgent wonder and pity from the serene height of the national self-esteem. The first article of the true Englishman, at least as he is represented by his loudest organs, is thirst whatever is not English is necessarily eccentric and absurd. Our neighbours and friends on the Continent, it is true, return the compliment with interest. To be an Englishman is at all times and in all places beyond the narrow seas to be accepted as a chartered lunatic with lucid momenta. Every Englishman is " an eccentric," and " an original," and we are bound to confess that the majority of English tourists do their best to confirm the prevailing impression. To those among us, how ever, who have travelled far and wide and long enough to discover that there are good and bad, wise and foolish, people and things in all countries, and that In the genius and manners of all nations there is something that is not the worse for not being English, this habit of pronouncing in the spirit of a vestryman upon the_ manners and Customs of people who have not the good fortune to be natives of our parish is a little irritating. To-day, for example, a con temporary treats tho public toe truly British snort of practical common sense, dropsa of a recent incident at the distribution of prizes to the French students in the hall of the Sor bonne. No doubt it was a very un-English affair altogether; just as Election Monday, or the Fourth of June at Eton might be described by a Paris paper as " very un-French." We don't assemble the masters and boys of all our public schools once a year in the Sholdonian Theatre and deliver by the hands of the Lord Pre sident of the Council crowns of laurel to the boys who have written the beet Greek or Latin prose or verso during the year. We have no Sorbonne in London, and no Lycies ; no Minister of Public Instruction; and no laurel crowns. Let us take all possible credit to ourselves for not being theatrical or sentimental, and for the comparative simplicity and practical character of our school "speech days." On the other hand, it is conceivable that a French Minister of Public Instruction may con gratulate himself and his professors on bestowing laurel crowns for a Greek or Latin theme, instead of for proficiency in cricket or football, and on the enthusiasm of the pupils for their fellow-students who have distinguished themselves in something else than games, Perhaps the letter philosophy for both of us would be to ; borrow something of each other's ".eccentrioities," in this and other matters. But in the recent incident at the Sorbonne, upon which the Times comments in so characteristic a strain of condescending pity, there were special circumstances which should not have been omitted from a fair account of the proceedings. The only son of General CAVAIONAC, a boy of fifteen, having won a prize for Greek composition, was called by the Minister of Public Instruction to receive his laurel crown from the hands of the PRINCE Inessua.. The widowed mother who sat by her son would not allow him to do so. The boys who had heartily cheered the name of Cavetozrao re doubled their cheers when the only son of the Re publican President sat still by his mother's side and declined to take an honour from the hands of the son of the man who had thrown Gene ral CAVAIONAC, into prison, for the crime of not breaking the constitution of his country, on the 2nd of December, 1851 ; having received three years before from the hands of the GENERAL the solemn charge of the destinies of the Republic. It is easy to sneer at this act of the young CAVAIONAC at the instance of his widowed mother—who is, perhaps, more a Roman matron of the Republic than a Frenchwoman of the Second Empire—as a mere schoolboy im pertinence, and to laugh at the Imperial Govern ment and the French public for making so much of so puerile a piece of claptrap. This way of cri ticising an incident which can happily have no pos sible parallel in England, seems to us to shown sad want of that intelligent and thoughtful sympathy, without which it is impossible to estimate reasonably the state of the public mind in a foreign country. No doubt there was something to disinterested and dispassionate observers of this incident which shocks the sense of courtesy, and seems almost to sin against good manners. But if we con sider the state of politics and of parties in France, and certain passages of French history during the last twenty years, we shall acknowledge that there was something in this meeting of the widow and son of General CAVAIONAC face to face with the WE and heir of Lotms NAPOLEON, which more than excused— which lent an historic significance to the act of a schoolboy. Incidents quite as trivial as this at the Sorbonne live for ever in the pages of the greatest of Roman historians who wrote under the CESAR& THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, , AUGUST 17, 1868.- At the expiration of three days the master of the Fanny was brotglit before the pelt oeptain of Curthagona, and his crew called upon to give evidence. The English schooner's papers were, so runs the story, unassailably correct, but the authorities professed to be dissatiafied and to believe her to be a pirate. 11cr sew were sent to prison and kept in close confinement for 30 hours, and then set at liberty with the remark that they had cause to be thankful to the Queen of SPAIN for her lenity. The vessel was detained in custody until the bap tismal certificates of the whole of her crew were obtained from Gibraltar. Eventually she was allowed to leave, and arrived at the latter port, to lay thee° facts before our consul, who at once made indignant protest to the authorities. If this monstrous story be correct, it is clear that the matter must not end without some vigorous action from the Foreign-office. The Saturday Review, in some recent comments on the Tornado case, remarks that, " in a country where " a batch of generals and field-marshals, or half a " House of Parliament, are now and then trans " ported without trial, the sensitiveness "of a few common sailors, who have " merely been imprisoned for six months, " must appear an unintelligible caprice." This may be true enough, but, if so, it only makes the task of teaching the Spanish Government its plain duty the more imperative. Contempt for national weakness and self-degradation may be easily carried too far, and as neither raggedness, evil character, nor bodily ailments are held to justify petty larceny or abusive language, it is to be hoped that Lord STANLEY will not permit his natural disdain fora waning power and despicable position to condone offences which would be promptly resented in the strong. ELNCTION intelligence is not only interesting to the politician, but has its lessons also for the social reformer. The representation of Wodnesbury is just now vigorously contested. An objection raised against Mr. BROODER, one of the Liberal candidates, is that he is a " tommy master," or in other words, a promoter of the iniquitous, truck system. We think that Mr. Bnoonnzt has com pletely vindicated himself from the imputation: but the feeling expressed against " tommy shops' by the electors is one proof among many that the men who would acquire seats in the Reformed Parliament must be able to canvass with clean hands. If Mr. Baoomit had not been able to overturn by the most satisfactory evidence the as sertions of his opponents his chance as a candidate for Wednesbury would be infinitely small. THERE are no limits to the malignant ingenuity of a certain order of chroniclers, who make a merit of borrowing their facts from a most unscru pulous imagination. Here is a specimen of this singular industry, which strikes us as more remarkable for its silliness than its malignity. Probably the perpetrator of the original paragraph thought he had done a clever thing enough in taking the names of two distin guished men in vain at one shot, without waiting for the inevitable, though unnecessary, contra diction of his tale. We find the following corre spondence in the Manchester Examiner and TiMt•9: LORD LEMON AND MR. LONGFELLOW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ZIAIIINER AND TIMER. Sir,—Some time ago an account, clipped from an American paper, was reproduced in some of the Dftglish journals, of a snubbing which Mr. Longfellow (who at that time had to gain his laurels) re ceived at the hands of Sir Edward Bulwer, now Lord Lytton. Ae the story runs, the poet ar rived at Knebworth with a letter of introduction to Sir Edward, who, at the moment of the poet's arrival, was on the point of leaving home on horseback. If we were to believe the American writer, the author of "Eugene Aram" would not only not vouchsafe an interview, but treated the author of " Hiawatha" with the utmost con tempt. Lord Lytton, on wham the story reflected so discreditably, baa forwarded me the appended letter, which I beg you to insert—Yours truly Townhead, Rochdale. Jame Homan% " Knebwhrth, 27th July, 1868. " Dear Sir,—Theparaph you were good enough to send me relative to Mr. Longfellow and myself, is an im pudent falsehood from beginning to end.—l remain, dear sir, yours truly, " LYrros. "Mr. J. Holden, Rochdale." THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER. THE new American Minister, Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON, who arrives in London to-day, will assuredly be welcomed by politicians of all parties in this country, and by the whole British public, in the spirit of the last words he is reported to have uttered in reply to a farewell toast in his honour, proposed by the Mayor of Baltimore :—" I go to " England as minister of peace ; my instructions " look to peace, and if I am able to carry them " out in the spirit in which they are given me, " peace will be the result. Bo obviously is this " the interest of the two nations, that the good " men of both will strive to make more firm and " enduring than ever the peace now existing. " We are the same people, descended from the " same stock, and no matter how much we may " have differed in the past, and have met on sea " or land, we are now satisfied that it does not " pay us to be at enmity. We ought to stand " together and maintain the principles of political " liberty." In the present condition of European affairs it would be difficult to overrate the impor tance of preserving the most cordial relations be tween the Governments of the United States and Great Britain. In the same speech the American Minister paid a marked compliment to Prussia. " There is another Government," he said, " which " has stood by us in the past, and whose interests " and ours are the same ; and I ask you to join " me in a toast to the King of Pausal& and the " able representative of that monarch, who is " always a constant friend of the United Stake •' and endeared to us all who have known him ,• during the many years he has represented " his Government in this country." The conduct of the Cabinet of Berlin in the recent negotiations with the Government of Washington respecting the naturalisation of Prussian subjects in Ame rica was such as to call forth this signal testimony of a more than personal regard. These emphatic declarations of friendship with England and with Primus seem to indicate a disposition of American policy that may be beneficially felt on this side of the Atlantic amidst the impending troubles of the Old World. SPAIN AGAIN. SPAIN is giving trouble again. Like some dis orderly incorrigible, well known to the police, she presumes upon her rank among the nations of Europe, and exults in inflicting petty out rages, satisfied that they will not be resented because of the degraded position of the offender. This seems to be the reasonable explanation of the story we quoted on Saturday from the Gibraltar Chronicle. According to that journal a British schooner, the Fanny,l was boarded three times by a Spanish guardaoosta in June last. In the following month, when laden with corn and about five miles off the coast of Carthagena, she was brought to by a revenue boat, the Amalie, and taken possession of as a prin. In vain was the British ensign hoisted and the vessel's papers shown, the only notice vouch safed was an order from the Spanish com mander to his men to make ready to fire ; and eventually the Fanny was con veyed into quarantine anchorage by the government boat, four seamen from the Amelia being sent on board as men in possessipn. Whe Court. PENSION. W 111.1.115, LUOMRNIA. AUG. 13. The Queen and Royal Family have made lame excursions in the neigbbouthood of Unman wins the extreme beat of the weather has permitted. Yesterday her Majesty visited the monument near the town erected to the memory of the Swiss Guard. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office, from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Austra lian Colonies, Ceylon, Bung-Hong, the Straits Settlements, Labuan, and the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American Provinces, British Columbia, the West India blends, and Malta. The Prince and Primes' of Wales, after a short sojourn in Scotland, will proceed to Denmark on a visit to the parents of the Primula ; horn thence their Royal Highnesees will go to Sweden, and it is believed before returning to England that the Prince sad Princess will pay a visit to the King and Queen of Greece, at Athens.— Court lemma. His Royal Highness Prince John of Much burg has arrived at Abeleidle on a Mait to the Prince and Princess of Wales. His royal highness will remain several weeks the guest of the Prince and Princess. Field-Marshal Sir Alenander and Lady Wood ford have left the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, for Switzer land. M.R. REVERDY JOHNSON. (NT TELNORAPH.) (lam ova OWN 00Z1118P01 IN, MONDLY MORNING. His Excellency the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the new American minister, left Southampton this morning for London by the 11.40 train. A saloon carriage was pro vided by the South Western Company for the use *of his excellency and suite. DRAMA. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. On Saturday evening, Don Edgardo Colona, the Mexican tragedian, appeared at this theatre u Richard the Third. Yon are told in the playbill that he performed this part through the length and breadth of Spanish America, that he brings the highest testimonials from Juarez, and that he is the only living rival to Kean and Macreedy. After this announcement one expected to see something new and great, and felt somewhat disappointed when we found in the Don an actor of the old school, ertagey in the extreme; his action was stiff and awkward, and there was no trace in his speech of hie foreign origin. Of the rest of the company we cannot say much, but must recollect that no doubt they had been collected together in a hurry. The audience, who were rather numerous at Brat, gradually dwindled away towards the end. The evening's performance commenced with the farce of Poor PalieoeWy and concluded with the Boots at the Stran, TREZENDOUB GLACIER FALL NEAR CHANOUNIE. The Corriere defile Alpe gives the following ac count of the fall of a glacier at Blatiere :—" Last Monday, at 3 in the morning, a dense cloud spread itself over the valley of Chamouniz. Thunder was heard, and its roar awoke the whole village, the inhabitants of which directed their looks towards the peak of Blati4re, where a cloud of smoke was observed on the crest of the mountain which supporta the glacier del Pellegrini. AU cried out that it had given way. The peasants of the valley ran to and fro to secure their cattle, and all oontemplated in amazement the most stupendous spectacle ever seen in the valley of Chamouniz. The commotion caused by this im mense avalanche was indescribable. It carried away in its pamage pines, bridges, and deserted cottages till it reached the cascade of Dard, the roar of which was deafening ; it then took a different course from that of the torrent, and opening up a new route for itself it rushed on to the meadows and gardens of the Royal Hotel, de stroying whole cope of rye and potatoes. After having distributed itself over the meadows wherever it found an outlet, the great mass formed an immense lake which for 10M111 time will be the admiration of visitors to Cha mouths. This is one of the rarest occurrences that has ever taken place in the valley." LIFEBOAT SERVICES. COL'ItTOWN, IRELAND, Atrouer 15. James S. Scott, Esq. J.P., states that, during a heavy gale of wind from the 8.8. E., and in a very heavy sea, yesterday morni , the schooner Annie Jane, of Runcorn, bound from drdrosean to this port with coals, and which was at anchor in this roadstead, hoisted a signal of dirties'. The Alfred and Brant lifeboat of the National Life Boat Inetitution t presented to the society by its Man cheater branch, was immediately launched to her moist awe. On account of the tremendous sea the boat failed at first to reach the vessel and had to be beached. She was, however, quickly launched a second time from the harbour. The coast guard bad by this time fired a line to the vessel by means of the rocket riwaratue, and a hawser bad been hauled to her and made fast. By means of this hawser the boat was hauled to the schooner and at the request of the master, six of the lifeboat men went on board the vessel, which had sprang a leak, and pumped her dry. After remaining alongside come time the further assistance of the boat was declined, the master preferring, as night was coming on, and the weather - kept very bad, to run his vessel ashore, as he feared that even with the assistance of the lifeboat she would otherwise sink. The schooner was accordingly beached at about 8 o'clock, and the crew were brought on shore by means of roper, the lifeboat taking off the master's eon and the men's clothing. The Colors lifeboat of the National Institution also went off to the assistance of the distressed schooner • but her services were not ulti mately needed. Beth bo ats behaved exceedingly well in the fearf=heavy seas they encountered while engaged on this THE DISASTER AT CARREL—The lose of pro perty occasioned by the fall of a mountain on the village of Canoia has bean estimated at a million of lire. The three stone bridges of Peaks Brunian, and Vallesina were washed away by the deluge. The Minister of the In. terior and the provincial council of Belluno have given 1,600 lire each for the poor people whose houses were destroyed, and their case has also been laid before the King of Italy. On the review and fife days in Paris some people bad the courage to brave the police by showing themselves in the streets with copies of the Lanterne attached to their arms by little chains. They were probably old numbers, and the police would only have exposed themselves to be laughed at had they looked to see whether they were part of the edition seized. THE SUOCEEIFOR OF MIN MENKEN.—Tho theatri cal critic of the Liberil, M. Paul de Saint Victor, writes on the reproduction of the IVreges of the Arseemunt at the Chktelet theatre as follows :—"lt is a Mexican drama tattooed with local colouring, splendidly put on the stage, and as amusing as a filibustering story or an account of a shipwreck. Mae. Sarah Dowe has taken the place of poor Adah Yenken, who was dismounted by death from the equestrian rills which she was to undertake. The Motetds has neither the beauty nor the renown of Adah, but her pantomime is striking, and her face has guiclanee and 'spread= She was sash applauded." FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) WAR RUMOURS. The Temps regrets to say that its correspondence from Berlin, Vienna, and Madrid is of a very war like tone. The interview between the Czar and the King of Prussia is considered very signi ficative. The Wanderer of Vienna says that the recent attacks of the Russian press on Prussia were but a mask to avert attention from the close relations of the two Powers. Now that they are ready they drop the mask and the interview between the two sovereigns reveals to the world the fact of their close intimacy. The Arenir National hopes that in the face of such grave facta France is not going to engage in " a mad enterprise against Germany." Ruch an enterprise could only succeed " by having Austria as an ally, and the late visit of Prince Napoleon has proved that Austria cannot or will not aid us against Prussia." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TBZ THRONE, TES CEITACE, AND THE Apropos of the tory ion at the Czys- tal Palace to-day, professedly in support of "the throne, the church, and the constitution," the .Daily News observes that such a mingling of politics and pleasure, of personal enjoyment and triumph, must prove attractive to multi tudes. To fight a winning battle by namely showing one self in holiday clothes, to have a share in saving the time honoured institutions of the land on the small condition of a trip to the Crystal Palace, is an opportunity not often given to Englishmen. This rallying cry of " throne, church, and constitution," is, holm,* simply an imposture. It is an attempt to shelter an tesiefensible injustice under the strong shadow of unassailed and unassailable institu tions. The Irish Church Establishment is an confessedly weak in the universal knowledge of its injustice that uo chance remains for it but that of working on the fear of change. The truth is that neither throne, nor church, nor constitution, needs this noisy defence, nor has our Protestantism fallen so low as to fly to faction for its succour. The 7Wegroph contends that the Crystal Palace was not intended for demonstrations of this kind, and trusts that no mischief will result ; but the fact remains that a palace of mirth and cheerfulness, of architectural and sylvan beauty, is to be converted by a knot of gloomy, 'actions bigots, into a vantage ground of furious political speech making, which must provoke violent ebullitions of dissent, and may lead even to mob violence and outrage. DS. PITSIT'S APPIA.L. Admitting that in the appeal made by Dr. Puny to the Wesleyan Conference for sympathy and help, his sin owity and earnestness are apparent, the IVillOl neverthe less remarks that it is impossible to be surprised at the rebuff with which his letter was received. The letter indi cates that his cause must be is extrosio, but even the strange spectacle of Dr. Pussy appealing to the Wesleyan' is not so expressive of extremity as the substance of his letter. Here is the head of the party of resistance in the most conservative of universities proposing the establish ment of Sodnian colleges within the university, and, what is more, that the endowment should be provided out of the funds of the old colleges. If this can be quietly pro- posed by Dr. Pussy, the Aims dose not Bee what conscience need be borriAed at any proposals which have yet been made for dealing with endowments. Dr. Pusey has done his best to bring the matter to this issue—that all religions and all irreligious must be allowed a place within the University, and the only question is whether they shall all be invested with the authority and support of the State, or left to And their own level. If this be the last card in Dr. Pussy's hand, it is difficult not ' to conclude that the game is " played out." The Dior gees in Dr. Puieji letter a curious sign of the times, fret in Dr. Pussy's approach to the Wesleyan Conference on such a subject, and next in the reception his appeal met with at the hands of the Conference. The incident has a moral and a significance of even wider scope than that which would merely belong to the na tionalising of the great universities. "FINANCING." Commenting upon the action brought by Sir .7. McKenna against Mr. Ilsborne, the Daily News observes that the mingling of a bank holding the deposits of the public with the dinepatabie " financing" of the last few years is utterly indefensible. Imagine such houses as Coatis' or Glyn's uniting with "the Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England" to float bubble companies. More diffi cult is it to imagine that such an establishment as the National Bank should be allied wren in name to each doubtful schemes as the Imperial Land Company of liar• settles, the Lundy Granite Company. the Peruvian Railways Company, &e. By some mysterious legerde main. these schemes were made for a very brief period to appear successful : but where are they now f The answer is very easy : they never had any real existenoe; the market was " rigged " by somebody, and from these facts, whoever or whatever the cause, follows the depre ciated value of the National Bank as • property, and this unfortunate suit at law. She noes cemtenda that, judged by the proper com mercial standard, the real condition of the Credit Fourier must have become obvious to every business man in the City. Inderd, it requires no special knowledge of commercial matters or genius for finance to see that the undertaking was radically unsound. It is impoeaible to suppose that the directors of the Credit FoncMr, giving them as much credit for honesty as they claim or deserve, could have discharged their duties pro perly. Their peculiar case, however, presents another point, fur which the law is undoubtedly bound to make provision, if no provision already exists. They are loudly accused of having received handsome cash °Dominions upon what they chose to call "profits," but what the shareholders declare never were profits at all. It seems to the Tares self-evident that. unless they can rebut this accusation, they must either forfeit their claim to be considered honest men or return their commission. CONFLICT BETWEEN TURKS AND CHRIETIANE. A sanguinary oonflict has taken place at Scutari, in .Albania, between the. Christians and Turks, prodwed, it is said, by the oppression of tho Chris tiana, The Turkish troops had to interfere, and many, persons were killed and wounded. (Tintouou aaoraa•l AGExcr.) FRANCE. PARIS, kuotrar 17. The Minister of Finance has provisionally fixed the amount to be refunded to subscribers of and above 3,000 fr. in renter, at nine-tenths of the deposits on their subscription to the new loan. Repayment commenced upon the 14th inst. The Moniteter contains a lengthy circular, signed by the Minister of the Interior, concerning the execution of the projected parish roads. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Atrourr 17. The Mon iteur Beige of to-day publishes a bul letin signed by the physicians of the Prince Royal stating that his health had become considerably worse for some days past, but was in a less alarm ing state sine Thursday. AMERICA. The North German Lloyd's steamship Weser arrived at Southampton this morning with 114 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, and 1,600 doll. for Bremen. On the 14th she spoke the English barque Ward Chipman, second pendant, No. 3,789, and on the 16th off Falmouth the British barque Granville bound up Channel. (Per Weser vin Southampton.) NEW YORK Amin 6. Further returns of votes from Kentucky indi cate a democratic majority of at least 70,000 during the present elections. The Senate of Alabama has passed a bill remov ing all political disabilities of citizens in that State without enforcing the test oath. General Grant has recommended the release ol all civilians imprisoned under sentence of courts martial. Mr. Horatio Seymour has written a letter accepting his nomination for the presidency, which he declares to have been unsought. While approving the democratic platform he goes on to say that congress being alarmed had taken steps to deprive some states of electoral vote, and that the republican party had allied itself with the military power. The President was bound to execute the will of the majority, but also to protect the just rights of the minority. The ulti mate triumph of democracy during the coming elections would restore peace and prosperity to the country. . _ Accounts of the cotton crop in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi are unfavourable on account of the army worm and heavy rains. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the new Minister to the Court of St. James's, is said to have taken with him instructions to negotiate a treaty on the naturalisation question with the government of Great Britain and also to obtain a settlement of the long pending Alabama claims. Intelligence from Halifax states that the local government had refused to have an interview with members of the Privy Council of the now dominion of Canada. OUR PARIS LETTER. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SITNDAT Evionxa. • The Gauloia, which was not published till seve ral hours later than usual, and was much inquired for on the Boulevards, came out at-6 o'clock. with the following highly sensational paragraph in its leading column : We are assured that a letter has been addressed by the Emperor to one of his most intimate friends, one altogether in his confidence, and whose oouneels are ever wise and sincere, in which his hfaj eety alluderi to the oonduct of Queen Victoria in not returning the Empress's visit. It is true that the Empress herself gave the Queen a dispensation. Nevertheless, the Emperor in the letter in queen= expresses displeasure at a fact unprecedented in the annals of official life, and gives it to be understood that he has small hope of sympathy from Queen Victoria, who, according to report, is about to preside at a diplomatic congress at Lucerne, England being uneasy about the commercial union which "has been concluded " [such is the expression of the Gauloia] between France, Belgium, and Holland. As to war, the Emperor says he is quite ready, but is disposed to wait a favourable opportu nity before declaring it. This letter, if authentic, is certainly of the highest importance, and by reason of its gravity, we cannot, notwithstanding our confidence in the source of our information, give pub licity to it without all sorts of reserves. The future will decide which is in the right—our informant, or the semi official journals which will not fail to overwhelm us with contradictions. In another paragraph the Gauloie says—l hardly know whether ironically or not : The Emperor made no speech on the day of the review, and we must honestly declare that ever since the French people confided their destinies to him, that silence is the most frank and loyal act of his reign. The reason why the Gaulois thinks silence was gold on this occasion is that Although the Emperor does not make the future be perhaps foresee* it, and knowing that events are likely to push him forward he will not have it said that he misled public opinion. [What does the writer say about the Troyes speech t] On the other hand, to have expressed a fear that the horizon was darkening would have been equiva lent to a declaration of war. Still another quotation from the Gaukia : It is said—but of course the news can only be indiscreet and conjectural—that there was much difference of opinion in the council of ministers as to the expediency of the re view which took place on Saturday. At first, one minister only spoke against it. But he was followed by another whose opinion is generally of great weight, and who said that, after some hesitation, he speed with his colleague. Then the Dupre*, in a few very sensible words, pro nounced with much emphasis, mid :—" The re view has been announced to the public, and the press has hinted that it may be the occasion of political manifestations. Now, to postpone the review would be almost equivalent to a confession that we are afraid. That must not be. If it should happen, which is not Maly, that when the Emperor passes some people should cry black, why others will cry white. That is the way things pan in France, and it I:, he 4 to Lake no nl 4 l. hoetile demonstrations." The Emperor e e the review was decided upon. We do not glitraikt,. there detaila. It is unneceasary to any that we war.. h. , mama at the council. The Ottulois is conducted by M. Henri de P.. nr a fashionable man of very good nh ,.; seldom does more opposition than is nee, try f w the circulation of the paper in which writ ., and who is invited to all ministerial re.:eptio n , M. Rochefort has arrived in Paris from 1trt...4. A tornintiniqutl to the journals denies Bid ,„ y warrant was ever issued for his arrest. It 1 , therefore, for them to explain hi s assert i on in kb: Itidipendante Re!? that his house at N 0z ,. 4 , our Marne was was watched all night iqr officers on the look out to bike 1", Ho is now about to demand a rehearing (wh„.i. of right) against the sentence of a year's iinpri, ment recorded against him. lie will then h sv ,..„ appeal, and under ordinary circumstances he wn ,,i d be safe from arrest till the appeal is decidd. I rather think the last of the f,astersr has i•MG in Paris. Twelve thousand copies of the tw-lig, number have been published in Brussels; h o t m ltochefort has not boen able to find a print..r repaoduce.it in Paris. THR AGRARIAN MURDRRS IN TlPPlikkltY FURTHER PARTICULAILS. CORK. 811,P.Dhlr. Late yesterday evening intelligence was ri...si v m here of a singularly daring and sanguinary outrage having been connuitted at a pl,sce Ballycoohey, inthe neighbourhood of the LimeriA Junction, and upon the borders of the comity Tipperary. Mr. William Scully, brother r,f y r Vincent Scully, formerly M.P. for thiscounty. proceeding to execute extensive evictions on ha property in that locality, under the prot., , ti nn 4 a party of five armed policemen. w, fired on from one of the farm at which desperate resistance was offered to th... execution of the legal proct.sa, and in fit. iffriy two of the policemen were shot dead, Mr. s, w: ) . himself receiving two wounds in the head. The scene of the outrage lies about two nil:, south of the Limerick Junction, on the v. 9.4.• the bread and fertile plain known as the G01d..1 'Vein. Mr. Scully and his brother hold in the, part of the country an extensive prope r t y - . their management of which does not , ipp , 4i to have given satisfaction to their t.u.int. None of the family are popular, but Mr. Willisa Scully seems to have incurred a particularly I tr.!. share of illwill in the locality of his estat.... causes of this feeling are those which zen.ti:i i bring landlords into disrepute in Irclaii.l. 11 1,, been constantly embroiled in dispute, nit:. 1::, tenants. Evictions have been by no an nn , frequent on his property, and in the his territorial rights he has occasionally eone• 1. actual collision with the people. it 111 I) be said that in the whole of - Tipperary there is t a better hated man. Circumstances of 11,111— currenee have impa rtial peculiar bittern..., t., I:, feeling against Mr. Scully. For the past tlit months thirty families ou his estate in the n‘.1411. bourhood of Ballycoohey have hail nob.. As may be imagined, the iirospeet of 30 1At..11,:T an eviction ut a time when a vet-) str.t:-. feeling exists in the county upon tin. suhjert tenant right aroused a powerful sons.• of Ml;', tion and resentment against Mr. Sully. I Friday the period of the notice to quit ,xpiriA. and Mr. Scully prepared to take possessi. , n of land. Resistance of some sort appear. I. boon anticipated, for Mr. Scully securea vices of a party of five policemen—four constables and a constable—as a protection to Liu self and bin bailiffs while the eviction was executed. _ Early on Friday morning Mr. Scully, I • driver, and one bailiff, so escorted, proceed,. in cars to the scene of the evictions, and ti cortege was noticed with no friendly feeling passed along the road. According to the infor mation received here the demand for possession made and complied with at several of the farms, ba• at one farm, held by a family named Dwyer, a&n• and desperate resistance, quite toe Paralleled in itage no meditation and residuum... M.., vi' experienced. us to the arrival of the tm,. tom the occupants of this farm deliberately el ..l the dwelling-house and other premises, and ham; provided themselves with firearms awl aninown• tion, retired to the barn, which was the strong-• building of the lot, barricaded the entrance, An I prepared to dispute the process of the law. Th. arrangement of the farm-buildings was that tatel in Irish holdings. The various premises forwel an irregular square, in closing a narrow apse.: called here the " sawn, " every part of which the barn commanded. When Mr. Scully and his party arrived they found the place silent and apparently deserted. A formal demand for surrender of the premises was made, but received no rsponse. An attempt is stated to have been made to gain sa missiontothedwelling-house. Tbis brought matter. to acrisis, and precipitated the melancholy oetnig , .. The party in the barn, the number awl identity of whom cannot be ascertained, showed theinselvei. and sternly warned Mr. Scully off. The ',Alpe were then called on for assistance. and on the tint demonstration made by them a deadly ,011.' h Y w , " discharged from the windows of the tram T er, of the sub-oonstables named lionmei mud Morrough were shot dead, and Mr. Scully received two wounds, not of a dangerou character. The driver and bailiff eseapel unhurt, as did also the three remaining policemen. Surprised and panic-stricken by tie sudden attack, and fearing that the barn WM held by a numerous parry, the survivors beat a het) retreat, leaving their dead companions on the ground. No attempt to pursue them , or to inflict hrther injury was made, and they regained the Limerick junction the nearest station at w hich refuge could be had, without further molestation. The alarming and fatal occurrence was innuediste4 reported at all the adjoining polioe-stations, and with the utmost exp e d i tion a numerous force es , despatched to the scene of the encounter. Tiu farmhouse was found quit e deserted, ite former occupants having availed themselves of the &demi to make their escape . A close and extensive sesta of the neighbourhood was at once instituted, but without, so far as could be asoertained, revealing the smallest trace of the perpetrators of the w ou o trag e e r e .re , werests up torepaortl:dte toho ur he last ve night made. No definite information could be obtained from the neighbouring farmers. No one seemed to know anything of the outrage. Doggel and impenetrable reticence foiled the investigations of the authorities on every side. No opinion ice uent ,. expressed about the matter—there was no exulta tion and no expression of regret. In co' seq of these difficulties there is yet no certainty as to r who are the perpetrators of the attack—whethe they were the family threatened with eviction. acting alone, or in combination with others, er total strangers. has nested e u , tm it os is t o he tom y n e ce ssar y aanu le deirwath th ere e neighistimonbooresurhtirrulloddth.eupevThbenyet thsustiii:terrimoiroonriertoipsditsroricitp*t.t.; before the evicted peasant ; and it is m ay that the persons who committed the outrage have been incited to it by connection with a seat; o ceal rganiz ino s it io l. the singular daring of the outrage, the coate d . it expee suoco red ur m lion to oppose its execution, can hardly be le; counted for. The rapid and complete escape of the it indicated for the law, and the stern d tenants of the barn and their evasion of an he tamely active pursuit are only explicable on t ll :. importance to be attached to the eff,s_ l ,i, than if it were treated as an same theory. This impression has caused smg individual outrage, arty eerier el• amount of vigdanee an is being .° laded by the authorities. A large police f re° aneotetahrnuerct!':