The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-19 00:00:00

(3 )ITEEN'S THEATRE , Long-aoro. MANA.:II—Mr. W. ii. LISTON. TILE I.ANI • ANIIIHE LANA. II,•wr) .1. Byron. hssing been r•erisr.l :hoot pertonanitee with the grestiwt enthu- SiP.6l. h. en.w,l•lintel eneited will be repewted EVERY EVENI Nu:. at n quarter to*. r.bn , :•••lin • Triotet. , .lll.t 11. r e iriHE LANCASHIRE LASS, tit a quarter to 8. .1. inonstrationa in favour of 'Tao Lancashire Lam fare loud and unanimolia."—Times. 9173}..; LANCASIIIRR T,ASS. At .t 1 .•. Imp. the enthuAttpan aurged up beyond control. and taw :ipplauxe, cheers, and vrartng handkerohiefa grreted tqlel./105 of the hero and heroine. —The Echoes from the flu; tc. THE I.ANCASHIRE LASS, ata quarter to 8. "T. e piece throughout was. effeetively acted, and the Pon sational is,.t,re of the plot keeps the audience In a perpetual state of excitentent."—llluatrsted Loodon News. T HE lANCASIIIRE LASS, At a quarter to 8. plot iP Oft ,tiTe and einiple. paired with highly dramatic incident. which ...eat,intrnnr intenrit, heightened by excellent scenery." Weekly Timer. 111:LANCASHIRE. LASS, at a quarter to 8. • E thir weene. when ra rirer Ptonmer apponrs to lost bodily on the, stag, enwt,al s Mum of upplauw•. ' The Lang:whirr Lam' will enjoys hlurthenrd run "—lllustush4l Sporting Neww PRE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to S. " Mr. Byroo was 'walled. and bowed his selmowledlrmenta amid cordemor cheer.. trom all part.; of the theatre."—Standard. --- TiiE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. "Oits second rerrsoientstinw wits recessed with PVINI pewter applatow than on the eyeing: of prod uotion."—Daily ToleirraPh• R O YA L ALHAXIBRA, PALACE.—Three Italleta. Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at a. le. Box-office open from 11 to I. WILLIAM CHURTON and SON, HOSLERB sad SHIRTMAKS9.B. LADIES'_ UNDERCLOTHING. 91 and 92.~ OZFO7 JOHN BROGDEN'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. 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A CONTEMPORARY, who unites devotion to the British Constitution as it is personified in Mr. DISRAELI with devotion to France as it is per sonified in the Emperor NAPOLEON, and who, writing—let us charitably suppose, to order— seems particularly sensitive on the subject of foreign loans, has lately been surpassing in lyrical rapture and virulent enthusiasm the most brilliant performances of those highly trustworthy and in dependent journals, the Pays and the Petit Matti !cur. Listen for a moment to the exordium of a recent lucubration of a Disraelite-Impegialist contemporary : The past week has been an eventful one for the Napo leonic dynasty. The French Ensperor has had an un- Ily favourable opportunity for ascertaining the state of popular feeling, and the results of his investigations are eminently satisfaetory : a review of citizen soldiers, a fi to associated so closely with his name and prestige that it affords unmistakable indications of the 'tits of f ee li ng towards his person and family, and an appeal to the people for a public loan so put that the response must necessarily show the condition of their confidence and the estimation. in which they hold the institutions of their country. Then, rising to the height of the occasion, our contemporary contemplates the " 30,000 National " Guards acting with 40,000 regular troops" of the array of Paris, and reflectin g how these national • t 7 c ~~ THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 19, 1868. are ogiztlars: and do who hav e al bee lo n w cd care to ful e l l y ect ,, t e, li mi lr .d ow by n the authorities of all but functional les or depend ents, " form the national defence of lib Tty, the :nidioetretnhe potent and peffinee.,t(u.xacliaimbarriliiir against tyranny " It is with emotions of no ordinary satisfaction that we find them flocking the nek air with ingarolind ge t u e n p d la t it,of of th t f h , e E m. x r , x tn u : a d . rendingand o s , i . e t h r a F I enneeermisi;in W h end good rn m ee a ia n w co h n o te s l o tte b d. en r e ros fice pe nt ro ly us. reigns aad happy like Ceres, she showers plenty and peace around, and the Continent is at rest in a bright halcyon. Hence it is that we hope and believe in all sympathy with the French people, that the enthusiastic cheers with which the National Guard hailed their EMPEROR and his son on Friday last were the genuine outbursts of a con viction that NAPOLEON and the Napoleonic dynasty are the avatars of their great and glorious nation. The ilasrason's . Pte has the same significance, and France making merry for such an " idea" is a spectacle which must call forth the respectful and even affectionate sym pathies of Europe. Thefite of the ENPEROE must have recalled the whole policy of NAPOLEON 111. from first to last in the memory of every thoughtful Frenchman. And it is a theme on which he might well reflect with honest pride and exultation. And so on, and so on. There is not a single black spot on the EMPEROR'S policy to the eye of this indiscreet admirer; everything is for the best, " not excepting that wretched Mexican " expedition, or the Papal protection question," to use his own choice language.. But the crowning triumph, of course, is the undeniable fact that the subscribers to the loan wt're eager to pay into the Treasury a sum sufficient to pay off the Eng lish national debt if M. MAGNE would only have taken their money. Surely it is to he regretted that the writer of all this Imperial English is not allowed as an Englishman to wear the ribbon of the Legion of Honour at his button hole. Per haps, however, the inspirer of thew , strains does wear it ; this is only, we must remember, an " original " adaptation " into English. In the face of the surrounding facts of the poli tical situation of Europe, the enormous ar moments, the universal uneasiness and dis trust, the uncertainty of what to-morrow may bring forth, it may be reasonably asked whether un apologist who improves upon his instructions in this excited fashion is not one of those injudicious friends from whom the Emperor NAPOLEON should pray to be saved. One ob vious defect of such tirades is that, like the figures of M. MAosu's loan, they prove too much. It may be easy to presume on the English reader's ignorance of the compo sition of the French National Guard under the Empire. But the English taxpayer knows by bitter experience what the restoration of the Napo leonic Empire has cost him in war estimates, and if he has to thank it for the institution of the Volunteers it can only be in the sense in which he thanks the dangerous classes of London for the institution of the police. No intelligent person on this side of the Channel, however slightly ac quainted with the history of the last twenty years, can hesitate to pronounce which was most pacific in its policy and its ten dencies—the Republic of '4B, or the Second Em pire of I R.i2. " When France is contented, " prosperous, and happy like CEREs," we are told, " she showers plenty and peace around, and the " continent is at rest in a bright halcyon." This is very pretty talk for a boursier, and we would not for the world be so rude as to whisper " don't "be flowery, JACOB." Granted the premises, what is the conclusion ? Does the Second Em pire shower peace around, and is the Continent at rest in a bright halcyon ? To whom does Europe owe its present ominous disquiet ? Who was it that encouraged Count BISMARCK to fight Austria in 1866 ? Who raised the Luxembourg question ? Has not a decorated semi-official journalist of the Second Empire informed the world what the loan means ? " The unparalleled success of the loan," says that ingenuous young man, M. PAUL DE CASSAONAC, " is a warning for the foreign ene " miss of France, who now know that she has " 1,200,000 men in arms ready to take the field, " and can get as many millions as she likes." Who are these " foreign enemies" of the Second Empire, save the enemies of its own making? It was not an English journal that described the latest loan as being one to provide for aggressive arma ments. It was the Minister of STATE, it was the Minister of WAR, it was the Minister of FINANCE, who told the Legislative Body that the money was wanted to provide for the cost of the new reorganization of the army (doubling the effective and the reserve, and putting every adult in France under arms), for the con struction and armament of the fortresses on the German frontier, and for the general purposes of warlike preparation. We have never blamed this policy from the point of view of its authors ; on the contrary, we have always admitted that a Napoleonis empire has its exigen cies and its fatalities, and among the chief of these the necessity Qf a military predominance, of em ploying an immense standing army, and keeping it in good temper—of seeking incessant diversions abroad from discontent at home. But the Napoleonic point of view is not that of the British taxpayer. Nor happily is it the point of view of that France —that liberal, intelligent, and independent France, which writers in the service of Imperialism would fain confound with the Second Empire. And, after all, perhaps the best answer to the original adapters into English of M. PAUL CASSAONAC'S rabid diatribes, is simply to point to the recent election in the Jura, which has so seasonably followed close upon the review, the fête, and the loan. " Taken as a symptom of " the public health of the French nation," says one of the Disraelite-Imperialist organs, " the loan and the manner in which it " has been subscribed is therefore vastly en ' " couraging ; and correlated with the expressions " of popular feeling at the review and at the fete " the evidence in favour of the conclusion that " France is contented and happy under NAPO " LEON 111., and loyal to his dynasty, is beyond " question." In a style of equal beauty, and even greater temerity, the Conatitutionnel assured the electors in the Jura department a few days since that the success of the candidate of the Liberal op position would be decidedly and distinctly " anti " dynastic," and a sign of hostility to the institu tions of the Empire. Yet, in the teeth of these solemn warnings, of the combined pressure of the Central Administration, of all the authorities, andof ens:, for th the whole host o f f unc ti onar i es i n the department, and of the priests , whose man selected e candidateby had the refir Gedovet4rrimmakz w ORITY, the batonnier of the French bar, the candidate of the Liberal opposition, who was a Republican Prefect in '4B, who in the National Assembly proposed a motion that must have saved the Republic and made the Second Empire impossible, who has declined for 16 years even to take the oath indispensable to the qualifica tion of a parliamentary candidat e , has be en el ec t e d by a majority of more than twelve thousand over the candidate of the Government, by a constitu ency officially declared by the Minister of Public Instruction to be " the beet educated in France," and composed almost entirely of that agricultural population which is supposed to be particularly devoted to the Nsiroi.toas. Facts like these speak for themselves with a simple force mere el:muent than the flowery prose of loan-jobbers. It is be came we know this France, this liberal France. repireented by the intelligent and indepenient major ity in the Jura to be emphatically the Franco of the future, the France which at present, by all its organs in the tribune and the press, demsnds peace abroad, and liberty at home, that we would rather be honoured with the abuse of our Impe rialist cent euiporarits on either side of the Channel in company with such men as MONTALENRHUT, BERRY/ER, JULES SIMON, EDGAR QUIKET, VICTOR ilium, and others of that mixed but illustrious company of free minds and souls, than strut in the borrowed livery of the Pays and the Monitesr. FOREIGN NEWS• (THIS DAY.) THE RETURN OF M. O1t1:V11 The French liberal journals are as delighted a 3 they are surprised at the result of the ele.•tion for the drpattment of the Jura. The Sik 1 e Nap; : _ . . All other news pales before the great and triumphant announcement from the Jura. All whom hearts beat for liberty and democracy will share the manly joy with which we register thin ormapicuousi victory. We had strong hopes of suooess, but we confess we never reckoned on such an awakening. Honour to the democracy of the Jura. The Tempe write* : The great fact of the day is the result of the election in the Jura. Great victory of the opposition. Grevy has been returned by an i 11216011110 majority. Honour to the electors of the Jura. The Avenir National says; All official news is petty as compared with a great fact —tho election of M. Orevy. 11. Chevy, who represents the ideas of 1848 in their highest and most energetic ex pression ; M. Chevy, the author of the celebrated amend ment which would subject the executive to the legislative; Orevy; the iirecolscileible adyeesar'y of 'despotism ; M. Grevy, whose very name is a programme for us militant radios/a. Quoting the letter of its correspondent at DOle, the capital of the depaitment, the Arrnir sap!, " the town is in an indeecribeble State of joy. It is felt that the victory Will have an influence throughout the whole country ;" and it winds up with a vote of " thanks to the electors of the Jura." The Debars says : The Coestitutionnet can now judge how badly it wa.s in spired when it desired that M. Grevy should be considered an anti-dynastic candidate, and perhaps it will repent of not haying taken our observations into account. We told it that it bad no right thus to qualify a candidate who had taken the oath required by the constitution—that it was neither legal nor just ; and that by acting thus it gave a very bad example, as it seemed to imply that the political oath was a mere form, and of no consequence. But the more we insisted on the seriousness of thepositlon assumed by the Oottatittitiotrael, the more did it maintain its thesis with a most strange blindness. Anti-dynastic ! That was the suitable phrase as the "tarts lls creme" of Moliere. What does it think now of the success of its logic I' M. Orevy bas been declared to be an enemy of the dynasty, and yet he has been elected by a majority of 12,000. Had not this unfortunate word been employed, the result of the election might have been explained away. It might have been said, for example, that M. Gravy's voters were not " friends of the first degree," but still they might be friendsof the seoond degree t orperhaps of the "third." But now there is no such consolation, for they have been by this word " auti-dynastic" qualified beforehand as enemies of the first degree. There is no getting out of it. (INEorox azursa's AGENCY.) SPAIN. MADRID, Atrotray IS. The Of Gazette of to-day announces that the resignation/3 of the Prefect of Seville and the mili tary governor of Vittoria have been accepted. A royal decree orders quarantine to be enforced on arrivals from England. NASSAU. SCHWALBACH, Ammer 18, Sylmar°. The Grand Duchess, Marie Feodorovna (formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark) left here at 7 o'clock this evening for Wiesbaden, whence her imperial highness will proceed to-morrow to Kissengen. INDIA. BOMBAY (Vu Biome* Jinx 28. Affairs on the borders of the Persian Gulf are again in a disturbed condition, in consequence of piratical attacks by the chief of Babreit. Her Majesty's ship Vigilant has gaffed to enforce redress. CALCUTTA, 3CLT 23. Rain has fallen in the North-western Provinces and the prospects of the harvest have generally improved, although the cotton crop has suffered. The number of officials applying for leave of absence under the new furlough regulations being very great, government has been obliged to sus pend the privilege in the case of civilians. The Ilnyliehman reporta that Bhootan is again in a disturbed state. News has been received of the further progress of the Bhamo expedition. Captain ?Baden and his exploring party had arrived safely at Momeyn, and met with a cordial reception from the Panthag and the autho►ities. CHINA. HONG KONG, JULT 10. The reports of the goldfields recently discovered at Chefoo, in the Province of Shantung, are con firmed. A large rush of Chinese bent upon gold digging has taken place in that direction. 1,000 chests of damaged tea, ex ship Maitland, have realised 6,000 taels. The statement that the Governor of Macao had been dismissed is contradicted. The reply given by the Governor of Hong Kong to the report of the Chamber of Commerce against the granting of gambling licensee has given much offence to the mercantile community. c were resorted to on this oc;!iiiion. The Prefect, sub-prefect, mayors, gendarmes, a.ii yorths-rhenipctres, were nut lurking. in their a:- enstoigrql zeal, and showed it in the a , •ca stoai^d way. No electoral meetings were allowed. Tn..re is no opposition journal in the department, tae• three papera published in it all take their or lers from the prefecture. Count de Ilrossia, ainin of some local influence and a favourite with Cl priests, was induced to retire in favour of M. Ifuot, so that the democratic victory is one ob tained over the coalesced forces of the govern ment and the clergy. Ho complete was the rout that M. Huot only obtained a majority in a single commune. In DOle, the capital of the department, the figures were —Chevy, 1, 3'1:1; Iluot, 321. In the other three principal towns they were as follow:—Arboia : Grevy, 1, ; Huot, 103. Poligny: Orevy, 969; Huot, 336. Mont St. Vaudroy : Orevy, 277 ; Huot, 22. But although those small towns follow the example of their more important sisters, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, &c., it is material to remark that the Jura is essentially an al._Trieul tural district. The population of Dille is not more than 12,000, of which there are scaroely 2,000 registered electors. It will be impossible for the official journals to explain away the defeat by the respectability of M. Grevy and his per sonal popularity in his native department, for they have denounced him during the last week as a candidate essentially anti-dynastic, and the Prefect in a circular made use of the following language : Electors, you have before you two great principles which are distinctly at issue. The one is the conservative principle of the imperial government ; the other is the principle of opposition to this government, and the revo lutionary idea, which are now beeking to raise their heals and impose upon you forgetfulnem of all the sets which constitute your political honour. The Jura, as appears by the returns of the Minister of Public Instruction, is the most educated department in France. Nothing since the election for Paris of Carnot. Vidal, and De Flotte, which provoked the law of May 31, will have created so much sensation in government circles as the event of yesterday in the Jura. General Prim has suddenly left Vichy without completing his course of waters, and passed through Paris on his way to London. The Bourse maintains yesterday's rise : there is very little change in quotations. The Count de Paris and family have been staying: at Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight. A French journal, in speaking of 31r. Glaibtone, calls him the Honourable Earl Gladstone. In consequence of a report made by the Com mittee on Fortifications, the Emperor of the French has raised three forts now in course of construction at Met/ to the first rank amoug places of war. The forts, which are detached works, are those of the Carrires, of St. Julien. and of Quen The Archbishop of Ghent has been requested by the King of the Belgians to order public prayers for the preservation of the life of the Crown Prince. Similar in structions have also been given to the clergy in the diocese of Li4e. The Emperor of Russia has ordered that in Sep tember of 1869 there shall be held at Moscow a general exhibition of Russian horses of from four to eight years old. Upwards of 60,000 fr. and a number of medals are to be allotted as prizes. The journals mention the death of the Duchess d'Abrantes, at Paris, after a long and painful illness. General de Moltke, who is at the head of the Prussian general staff, accompanied by a numerous suite of officers, has recently visited the scenes of the several battles of Uettingen, Hammelburg, and Kissingen. Among other innovations in the Prussian military orga nisation, which have been suggested by the experience of the campaign of 1866, is the incorporation of the camp tattlers and vivandieres into a regularly organised body. THE " SENILITY" OP THE CORPS LEOISLATIP. —The Liberti makes a curious calculation as to the ages of the members of the Corp. Legialatif. It finds Unit the united ages of the 283 deputies amount to 16,014 years, which gives an average of 561 years for each deputy. " It is, therefore." says the Libertei, "the moat senile legis lature which has existed in France since 1789." Next in order comes what is known in French history as the Chembre introuvable. The average age of the opposition, though it comprises old men like Berryer, Thiers, and Marie, is 49. CELEBRATION OF ST. NAPOLEON'S DAY IN VIENNA. —A Te Deem was sung at Vienna on the 15th, in the parochial church of St. Anne, in honour of St. Napo leon's Day. The Duke de Uramont, Ambassador of France, was present with the members of the embassy, and several Frenchmen of distinction. Among the other persons who took part in the solemnity were the Marquis Pepoli and M. de In Torre-Ayllon, ministers for Italy and Spain, the Chevalier de Friedland, Commissioner for Austria at the Universal Exhibition, and several Austrian functionaries decorated with the Legion of Honour, who bad oome spontaneously to show their sympathy for the person of the French Eleswor. PARISLAN RATS.—The collars of the Hales Centrales swarm with enormous rata, but they have a formidable enemy in M. Noel, to whom the business of extirmination is entrusted, and which is effectually ac complished by terrier dogs. Two nighta a week these nocturnal hunts take place, which last two or three hours, in these vast subterranean arcades; the scene is curious as well as exciting. On all sides these monstrous rats flee from their natural enemies, the terriers, who pursue them with relentless vigour, whose barking adds to their dimity. These hunts are often attended with much danger, as the rata, driven to bay, spring upon the men, who are in many instances badly bitten. The bodies of the largest of these animals are sold for their skins, which it is generally believed are made into gloves, but which the manufacturers deny. M. Noel receives a salary of I,Boofr. a year. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—Yester day afternoon Mr. W. Payne, City coroner, held an in quest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital touching the death of a kidlo-aged woman, name unknown. The evidence prooki that on Sunday night last the deceased enter nest-class carriage at the Dalston station of the North London Railway. The train arrived at the Shoreditch station about 10 minutes to 11 o'clock, and stopped for passengers to alight. As the train was leaving the station the deceased opened the door of the carriage she was in, and was about to get out, when she was thrown with great violence upon the platform of the station. Several of the company's servants ran to her, and had her conveyed to the hospital, where she died in a few minutes after ad mission, from fracture of the skull. Every inquiry had been made in order to find out who the woman was, but no one appeared to know anything about her. In her pocket was found a second-class ticket from DaLston to Shoreditch, some boxes of cigar lights, and 7d. in coppers. She was respectably dressed, and was about 30 years of age. The coroner said it was evidently the woman's own fault, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." FATAL BOAT ACCIDEXT oe t TRAMEB.--Nes• terday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, a serious calamity occurred beneath one of the arches of Black friars Bridge, mauling the death of a woman, and en dangering the lives of her child and husband. The Wive Rockford was proceeding from Westminster down the river for a freight, and was passing underneath one of the arches of Blackinars-bridge, when a hook attached to one of the ropes which hung loosely from the rigging over the side of the barge caught a chain which bound a number of planks together at the side of the arch, to act le a fender for pre venting vowels running foul of the piles of the bridge, or b entangled amongst them. As the barge pre. celd m eete rope became tighter, until it caught the back of a woman who was sitting on the hatch having child in her arms, when both mother and child were precipitated into the Thames. The screams of the other four children who were on board drew the attention of the skipper (Mr. CharlM Chapman), who was horrified to find his wife and child ov of the woman, except her head, being v e i t ird a e r . d The fr antic husband (matched the babe from his wife's arms, living it into the care of one of the boys on deck, and then umped into the boat in tow of the barge, with a view of rescuing the mother, but was too late, as she had sunk to rise no more alive. The wailing, of the poor fellow, as he hugged the babe to his breast and stared wildly at the river which had made him a widower, were piteous in the extreme. The accident having occurred about an hour after high water, the ebb tide would carry the body away so rapidly as to make it difficult to know where to searth. Deceased was only 29 years of age, and resided with her husband and five c hildren at No. 70, Broadwall, Stamford-street, Ltmbeth. The husband is 40 years of age, and the children range Fineetively 16 months, 21, 5,8, and 8 years. Th e b arge at Redden's Wharf, &rabid*, about an hoar after accident had occurred. LORD ELCHO. TII E oracle has spoken at last, and Haddington shire has heard from her "promising young man." This was Lord ELMO'S character upon his enter ing Parliamentary life twenty-seven years ago, and it describes him accurately now. Gifted with a good-humoured self-complacency which never fails, and a belief in his own infallibility which has never wavered, Lord Ewe) has been proclaiming him self the man born to set the world right through out an entire generation. His lordship's mode of dealing with public questions is two-fold. He either states hackneyed truisms as it they were re velations personally vouchsafed to him, and by him to a benighted world ; or he puts forward flimsy paradoxes and calls calmly upon the nation to accept them on the 'pee dirit of their gaily auda cious oracle. The address he has just issued to the electors of Haddingtonshire begins according to the first of these methods. Either the newspapers do not reach the northern country, or Lord Euno is doubtful as to the reading powers of his oonstitu ents, for he begins with this remarkable piece of information :—" The last Parliament elected under " the Reform Act of 1832 is about to expire." After this it would be superfluous to express sur prise at supererogatory statements, or to challenge arguments which are obviously based on the assumption that those to whom they are addressed are ignorant of facts patent to all the world beside. What Lord ELCIIO said and did and thought at various times and on various subjects occupies a largo portion of his address; we prefer to turn to his profession of political faith, and to learn whether his lordship sails avowedly under the colours he has joined. On this head his utterances are, to do him justice, plain and clear. Lord ELcuo is "not prepared to sever all connexion " between the Irish Church and the Constitution as now established in Church and State. I wish " the principle of a Protestant Church Establish " went to be retained in Ireland, for while advo " eating and upholding the principles of civil and " religious liberty, as established by the Bill "of Rights and Act of Settlement, I " cannot, under our existing Protestant Con " stitution, admit the principle of religious " equality, 88 between Protestants and Roman " Catholics. I cannot admit it because in 1688 " civil and religious liberty were founded on the " principle of religious inequality ; that is, on the " close connexion and alliance of the Crown and " State with the Protestant and not with the " Romish faith, and nothing short of the severing " of this connexion and alliance can establish " religious equality between Protestants and " Roman Catholics, either in Ireland or in the " United Kingdom. I repudiate, then, this new " doctrine of religious equality. I adhere to the " principles of the Revolution, and I am much " inclined to think that those who speak of °stab " fishing religious equality in Ireland, by the dis " establishment of the Irish Church, either do not " mean what they say, or else mean a great deal " more than they do say. Think well of this." The "think well of this" is charming in ite unoon scions conceit. Lord ELMO seeks the suffrages of the Haddingtonshire electors as a supporter of Mr. DISRAELI, against Lord WI Ax HAY, a sound Liberal and a faithful follower of Mr. Orawno:Te. His lordship, in one of his characters as the friend of humanity, is fond of arbitrating between capital and labour, preventing strikes, and generally making the world better. But all this bonhomie is of the " high falutin' " order, which people somehow associate with Lord ELCIIO. A horse that is " all action and no go " is in the long run discarded for an animal less showy but more useful; and we trust the time has come when the common sense of Haddingtonshire will refuse to return a high political stepper whose indepen dence is all on one side. THE PRUSSIAN BULLET-PUMP.-BALL PRACTICE. Malta is something grimly amusing in the fact that at the very time when a diplomatic conference is called to discuss the Russian proposition for the disuse of explosive engines of destruction in war, authorities of the great military states of Europe are expending time and money in the invention and perfection of machinery for the wholesale slaughter of mankind. Here, for instance, is what they have been doing in the royal city of Konigs berg on Monday, according to the You Gazette : The officers and sub-officers of the 43rd Prussian regiment were practising on last Monday with the new infantry gun—. called the ball-pump. This gun, which is a breech-loader, rests on a support. In the trial of last Monday a table bound by an iron hoop was used. The rebound is ins*. nificant, for it is deadened by a spiral spring. The gun is composed of 37 barrels enclosed in a common cylinder. Thus it has 12 barrels more than the revolver can non of France, and it discharges from 222 to 333 shots in a minute. It was tried on Monday last at distances of from 300 to 800 paces. Paper targets placed before baskets of brushwood were the object fired at. At 300 paces the conical bullet, an inch and a half long, paired through the brushwood, and at 800 panes it passed deeply into it. fjo - me time ago we reported from the French journals that in the ball practice at Vincennes some 30 or 40 bullets penetrated each of the painted men who formed the target for the sharpshooters, and at the present moment further perfection is being attained in the Camp at Chalons. The Russian journals boast of the perfection of their military arms. The Austrian military authorities are not die ' posed to remain in the background. The General Correspondence of Vienna has the following: In consequence of the change of military tactics intro duced by the new fire-arms, greater care is to be bestowed upon the formation of a corps of sharpshooters. For this purpose there has been established at the Camp of Bruck, on the Leitha, a practising school under the direction of General Count Auersperg. The Emperor has ordered that the best shots shall receive special distinctions, as in other gamin. Those of the first-class in the line regiments will receive red ribbons, and in the Chaim" green, which they will wear on the breast in the same way a the de corations of the captain of the g un in the artillery. We (Herald) are glad to learn that the alarming reports published by some of our contemporaries as to the health of the First Lord of the Admiralty are without foundation. A very few dap' residence on the Continent has sufficed to remove all traces of his late attack, although his medical advisers recommend a somewhat longer sojourn abroad. JAPAN. News from Japan states that Stotsbaschi has again been offered the Shiogoonate, but refused the poet. It is reported that he will become Minister of Foreign Affairs. OUR PARIS LETTER, (THOU 0171 OWN 001 PARIS, 'ruseDlT EVILNINO. It would be difficult to say whether the govern ment or the opposition is most astonished by the result of the election for the Jura. The most the opposition dared to hope for was a measuring can majority. Only yesterday the Slide, exhorting the liberal electors not to abstain, and having small confidence indeed that it was playing a winning game said :—" Recollect that one vote may make the difference between victory and defeat." Well, the momentous fact admitted and recorded by the Afoniteur of this evening is that M. Chivy, the biltounier of the Paris bar, the candidate of the democratic opposition, is returned by a majority of more than two to one. He polled 22,428 votes against 11,133 given to the government candidate, M. Huot. As a symptom of the revival of independent opinion in the country, it is impossible to exaggerate the im portance of this event. Universal suffrage is manifestly escaping from the hands which in vented manacles thought to be everlasting. The Jura is the first department to follow the example of Paris and the large towns; and I can fancy the consternation which the consciousness that the example will be infectious must have produced at the ministerial council held at Fontainebleau. For the Jura was a department in the hands of the prefect, just like any other. Ever since the coup d'etat till now, it did as it was bid just like any other. At the last election in 1863, the government nominee was elected by 29,000 votes against only 1,488 given to the independent candidate. The last re turns, therefore, are no guide to the government at all ; and it must be haunted by the idea of a terrible surprise in store for it at the next general elections. All the usual means to emus Goo- 77,vt; An inquiry was Ildd 11N 111 r P ,mno, rorr tier, lia.t evening at the IPA. Cride t, mlfrair i respecting the death, from ~ 11.o..•.•41, if Mr 11..11:1 S:11101, La Al u., aged •-. I%IN. 8. C. Barnett, 12, 1,3.1 I mmtra-i of the deceased, said that Ile- •I n IT aveller, doing ha ./let“ f , r M r 11 y in, and he generilly risided ~t tt.• town a few days ago. Ile Ce• I••...t.sii p 111111 Wah very oithrolov. Notivith. t i, - gre kept the fasts of the faith, m•vtti- •gl-ia ;rat. on, of tl, olvvelviug them rigidly. Oa Sanday es-na.4 Int he 1,..., 4 it fast (the la ual Jewi ih fa on the aeon of then „, rnocn), whieh wan to la,t for 21 leeirm, or rather Ile wan suffering from pain •inth • vhed, hat 1.. f,. .1 just the Fame. On Monday I: i went. to the nyna;m2m., and prayed. Wituenn believed, fro,n what ham death during the afterinnm, Lo it. II • If from exlii lion from fasting. - _ Mr. Joteph Raphael, St. wsi•t tl, I, 111. the deceased on Monday, shortly ts.t ho looked ezha , nded from th•• evening. Robert Folgnte, 111,1 '..nrIuml.•e r .. Station of the BLickwAll Owl :; on Monday afternoon the deeel•ed mime with F. ti to. Bow, and had it clipped. went up hot ho stagg•;red ant fell trie'Nw 11.14, and eight etepß. Ho was pioked up d;•; 1, owl he we. „ to the clerks' office, and a doctor W!1:1 .u•nt for Mr. Cyrus James, aSii4tant to Dr. tiequier,, the deceased died from apopl..a), br9e4lit vI4 toy ••,„ tion from fasting. The jury rellt;iicml a verdict '• That k1...701.0.tf.t..1 Fenchtirch- , !tv,Pt Railwny tit .11 ~. quent on exhaustion." T.KTRnoPIa.V4RF iirrrvm,v.trt,s‘. COMMIT , 17 , t liE. Mr. Richutr.l,, deputy c•or.rinr, nt thelsorCastle 1:111a-ti.V•c.toi i.e.p., t k, 1,1 relative to the Alliel,b• of Jusepli 8 tivael finisher, aged 46 yeam. Joseph Itus,cll that on Sa , ,ii.lay o'clock, the deceased's hat. co. i t, found under the bridge in th,.. tit - ore-roe'. Regent's-canal. ILeaddre,,s of Om:, of the i• ~.; relatives were written on IL pi,a, of paper. p:, ..; , the clothea. The canal was dragg,ed and the holly was recovered. The wife, wh, compelled by her husle.and to 1,.1ve that on no leas than six oeesaiati. , taken poison, but his hie was saved by Another witueNs said the demt•Ned told led- •• • been to the Regent's-ranal on the pievi.,,,, the purpose of drowning himself ; but he had out his intention "owing to the number ./1 were about." The jury returnA a verdict of ••S:.i :1.• ,%h:L • of unbound Mind." Mr. George Grove, lion. Secret ire r. fah aline Exploration Fund, states in A 1.• ,, I Trues that letters have been received trum , om Jerusalem, to the 21,t of July, statin,r i 1..• settled in the city, and had found t health, and the works making fair pr• ren announce% further discoveries of inipott line of the Wall of Ophel. General Codrington ha , : written anoth,.! : to the Time.. relating to what was alleged in It. ~ asiou of the Crimea'' seep•. tins posure of the French and English unities I , art s•• critical period of the campaign. The gallant gen, r sista in saying that there was nothing to justify the ,• ,:•• merit ; declares that, independently of the first le of the light division, there was another brigade of division which followed and bivouacked close uparu rr.l repeats that the light division, under Sir George Breeu, arriving on the plain of the Tchernai after a kug. m I hot march, formed in proper order at dusk the advauz-I post of the army toward; the enemy. The dangers Ji tS • flank march were, it is added, inherent in the natur. ri such an operation. The Times publishes another letter from MeNeile respecting the Canon Law, in which the writ,' defends himself against charges of inaceurriey. It is announced on authority by a zuinisteri paper that the three additional judge% appointed unle, the provisions of the New Bribery Act are Mr. Serjoato Hayes to the Court of Queen's Bench, the Solicitor- General to the Common fleas, and Mr. Cleusby, Q.C., to the Exchequer. There are now three posts vacant in the subor dinate ranks of the administration—those of Civil Lord of the Admiralty, tinder-Secretary for the Home Depart• mod, and Solicitor-General. It is the rule for the low oflicersof the crown to represent the equity as well as th common law bar and although this was departed from .t the time of Sir W. Brett's appointment, it was undergo rI to be principally with a view of giving the Attorney- General an efficient assistant in conducting the 1e...). Fenian prosecutions which were then pnding. Mr. galley, the conservative membe'rfor Hereford, is the uw.te member of this equity bar on the ministerial side or the House of Commons. DEATH OF TEE EARL OF ABERGAVENIVY, —We regret to announce the death of the Earl of Aherga venue, which took place at Billing Manor, near )laidstotie. 4s Monday evening, at d o'clock, after an illness of weeks, brought on by a severe chill. The deee,ed was born in June, 1;93, and was consequently ill his ;:tl, year. Ile was educated at Magdalen Cullege, Y on, bridge, and having taken his M, A, degree in I the church, and was eventually preferred to th ,, tory of Billing, in Kent, and the vicarage a Fret, in Sussex. In 184,1, on the death of his (who was never married), he succeeded to the ton !y• honours and estates. He married, in 1521, second daughter of Ralph Leeks, Esq., 1.•4,..!! 41 Hall, Shropshire, by whom he had two sons rut the. , daughters. The deceased earl did not take •;,.. part in public affairs, but was a strenuous and supporter of the principal charitable and institutions of Kent and Sussex. Ile was the 1.• •r twenty-four livings; and his barony of Ars , r2.,v• nu% ranks amongst the most ancient of the peerage. been conferred upon his ancestor by Itiehanl H. le I ~ 2 The earldom dates from 1784. The family imam I. indi cated in the punning motto, aVe Wall:MI. is count Nevin, who succeeds the decra , ed wa. born in 1826. He held a captaincy in the 2nd Life . end married, in 1648, Caroline, eldest r of ' , it J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., by whuni 1, , 1,... -ev, rit children. The noble lord is we'd knosi , " 1 energetic leader of the conservative party. TIES NEXT LORD MAYOR OF LOLCDON.—SI4.I2 li k interest is beginning to be felt in the election of a Lon' Mayor of London for the ensuing year, which will dike place next month, inasmuch as it is said not to he im probable that the conservative' will take advantage ,d the political excitement which will prevail by that time to it tempt the re-election of the present chief magi‘trati . . Tho ordinary course in such elections is to put .erior ,,, r the names of the aldermen " below the chair —that is,_elo have not Served the nutyoralty, but who have serve doffice of sheri ff —and for the Livery to return the tint two to the Court of Aldermen, who select the senior for the chief magistracy. This course has on some memorable occasions, but not frequently, been departed from. If the usual plan is carried out this year, the names of the following gentlemen wi ll be put to the Livery :—Ahlenuiti J. C. Lawrence (Walbrook), elected 1860; Alderman T. Dakin (Candlewick), elected 1801; Alderman R. lholey (Alderagate), elected 1661 ; Alderman Sir S. H. Waterl..w (Langbowne), elected 1863 ; Alderman Lusk, M.P. ',Aid gate), elected 1863; Alderman Stone (Bassishaw), elemol 1864. The names of Alderman Cotton, Alderman Cand , n. and Alderman Owden cannot be Ind, as they have red served the office of sheriff. It will be seen, therefore, th unless the conservatives can succeed in re-electing Alb r men Allen, the present chief magistrate, Alderman J. C. Lawrence will be Lord Mayor of London for the ciwang year.—Post. ZS • WHAT CAN THIS P—the &mi.; 7 azyte' last tdght contains the followinff Official Olttice,- - 1143 m of Trade, Whitehall, August 15, 1868.—The Right flo u. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received a copy of a despatch from her Majedy'i Consul at Carthagena, notifying that the Spanish sanitary authorities have declared the port of London to be and that all vessels proceeding from the same will be scut to a lazaretto." FIRE AT ST. GEORGIC'S WORICHOUSE.—A tiro is reported to have broken out in the workhouse of St. Gump 's, Hanover-square, situate in the Fulham-rand. The Me seems to have originated in the drying-room. which was destroyed, the mangling and ironing rooms being also damaged. The infirm ward (the inmates o f which Were removed when the tire broke out) was but slightly damaged. A SPIRITHALIOT MARRIAGE.—At Akron, Ohio, a few days ago two petsossof spiritual faith married them selves with a little aid from the mayor. by repeating the following formula :--" In the presence of our spirit and earth friends I take Alecta A. Sandford. whom I hold by the right hand, to be my lawful wife, hoping, by bnd nese and a ff ection, to be to hers faithful and loving husband while in the earth form." The lady then replied: "In the presence of oar spirit and earth friends r take Abel Underwood, whom I hold by the right hand, to be my lawful husband, hoping, _by kindness and affectiem. to be to him a loving and faithful wife while in the earth form." The mayor then said :—" Having pledged your marital vows in the propene. of These witnesses and of the world, I now, in the name and by the authority of the state of Ohio, pronounce you husband and wife.' The Beene says they would lave no form of ceremony in which the word death oomirred.—sYne lbrk paper. T 11 . ~~i