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A SPECIAL EDITION el the " EXPRESS,' eentaining the reunite of the day's Races, is ph limited every evening during the Sporting Season, at sin e'elesk. Tug very vivid description, by the Correspondent of the Now Pork Herald, which we published yes terday, of the laying down of one-half the Adriatic Cable hem the Niagara, enables us, by its combina tion with Hr. Baiour's report, and the able narra tive of the Correspondent of the London Press on board the Agamemnoe, to lay !vetoes our readers a summary of the greatest feat hitherto accomplished by human ingenuity. Oa Thursday, July 29, the sea being smooth, and the barometer standing at 3016, the Agamemnon and Niagara were connected together by a hawser stern to stem The end of the cable was brought from the Niagara to the Agamemnon by the boats of the Valorous. The splice was made by 10 o'clock, local time, the position of the ships being then in let. 62 8 N., sad lon. 32-21 W., 938 statute or 816 nautical miles from the White Strand Bay at Valentia, The Niagara had 600 and the Agamemnon only 300 tone of coal for the venturous work ; both were prepared, however, to burn every spar and bulk head if neeemary. The length of cable on board both ships was the same,l,loonantical miles. Having veered oat a andicient length of the cable to bring the splice into the centre between the two ships, the hawser was released, and both proceeded slowly on their wares. At first the motion of the two ships was so slow as to be hardly perceptible, while the cable was payed oat mach faster, as the splice had two miles to descend through the depths of the 0001.2 before it touched the bottom. The annoonoe went woe made that the electrical communication is perfect between the two ships; both therefore pa dually increased their speed. Alter about three hours the rate of both wee four knots per hour, which was increased by 7 p.m. to live knots. All went well till sear 8 o'clock, when a huge whale, rolling and tossing the sea into foam, permed the stern of the Agamemnon, just grazing the cable where it entered the water. Nothing particular occurred from that time till near eight o'clock, when a portion of the cable which would speedily have been payed out from the Agamemnon was observed to be defective. The injury was within a mile or two of the portion of the cable then running out of the ship. It had been produced by the extent to which the coil had been disturbed in the gala previously encountered by the Apiesuuson. While the defective portion was being examined, Pro thro? THOMSON reported that the electrical oon tinaity had ceased. On the cessation of signals, Mr. BRIGHT requested Captain PRREDY to stop the ship. Mr. CLIFFORD was stationed at the paying-out ap paratus to cheek the progress of the cable as much as could be done with safety. Mr. HOAR took charge of the dynamometer, while 31r. Caine° superintended the repair of the cable. The injured portion was speedily cut oat; the men, working ore if kr lih and death, spliced dressed parts together jest es the dynamometer reached a strain, at which l i t It seemed lb* rope mart part. When the splice was deleted the cable was allowed again to peas freely out of the ship. Still the electric =dimity was not restored. Preparations were made to pay out as little rope as possible. The magnetic needles were watched narrowly for the returning signals they indicated "deed earth." This was interpreted on board the Agamemnon to mean that the cable had broken horn the Niagara, or the insulation had been somewhere completely destroyed. In three minutes' time, however, the mysterious elec trical stoppage disappeared, and signals were again reported at regular intervals from the Niagara. This occurred about a quarter past nine at night. The Agamemnon had then payed out about 48 miles of cable, and the depth of tie water where the stoppage was made was 1.030 fathoms, according to the nearest sounding. Up te this all bad goes en melt cheeringly with the Niagara, bat at the same time that the lam of continuity wee reported on board the Agusemnoo, the electrician in shame on board the former venal reported to Mr. Paso dainties eintinaity—ee &heti,. that it was bapemlible to set a signal through the sable. Strange to say, wised earth" was not indicated on board the Niger* t so all hope was not test. The propeller was stepped, and they anxiously awaited the return to whet continuity of the electric cornet or its Anal ispartare. About half•past alma they were freed hum their anxiety by the gratifying intelli gent. that all was right. The propeller was set in motion again, the Niagara was pleughiag through the water at the rate of six miles an hoar, and the electrical signals were passing between the two ships as if no hiterrupties had taken place. Oa board the Niigata the 'scandal pan was ramie that the interruption of continuity had tom caused by a severance el the sable en bad Ihe Agnmenneso, which had been secured and spiked before it passed out of the ship. During the paying out, signals were sent perpetually hem use ship to the other, the currents being sent for tea mimes, hem one ship, and then the next ten minutes from the other. No talking apparates was on board either, but siguals had been devised by means of which either ship could inform the other of the distance she had made, and the length of cable eh* had payed out. This fearful cheek on the evening of the first day's pro gress was the crisis of the expedition. Towards the next morning another damaged portion of the cable was discovered in the hold of the Agamemnon, which was repaired without in any way atoning the operations, beyond slightly reducing the speed of the ship. On Friday the Niagara safely made the change of the coil of erble from the forward spar lIIIIIIIIIIiima MB EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 18458. deck to the forward main deck. Towards evening the barometer fell on board the Agamemnon ; the hems freshened into a gale, and she had to struggle on spied a bead wind, going full steam, while only making four knots en hour. At this rats, and cm soloing such an amount of fuel, her oral would have run out before Valentin could be sighted; for tunately, however, the wind shortly afterwards veered round to the south-west, and enabled her to husband her resources. Thus, day after day, with hw incidents, save the tossing waves and swell, which fearfully tried both vessels, and tested both the strength of the cable and the powers of the pay ing out apparatus, the Niagara and the Agamemnon steered their course to their respective destinatices. The day week after they parted from each other both encemsfully accomplished their minion. The Niagara met no check throughout its course ; the Agamemnon, after the first day, expsrienced no dis agreeable check till the Monday and Tuesday, on both of which days her portion of the cable stood • chines of being rna down by American ships. She escaped both perils, and earned for all on board her a deathless fame. It is impossible to review this arduous undertak ing, accomplished two days after the anniversary of the day on which CRIISIOPHISI Cotrmsus dis covered America, without paying a tribote to the energy, skill, courage, sad perseverance of the officers and crew both of the Niagara and Agamem non. Gallant deede have been indeed performed by the officers and men both of the American and English Navies, in peace as well u war. Both navies are manned by men springing from the same stock, the most thoroughbred and fearless sailors the world has ever seen. Both have been nobly represented ; both have been united in ac complishing a deed which may °anent a union be tween children of the same fathers, which may sever be dissolved—which suggests a hope that the gags which have been interchanged between the two ships may serer more be raised in hostility to each other. That the old spirit of the*" Pilgrim Fathers" has not died out of their sailorchildren, was well exempli fied by the fervid piety with which the American Captain gave ail the glory to Con for the success with which his work had been crowned ; and by the reverent " Amen" sincerely responded by his sailors. It is this deep spirit of reverence, fostered, we know, alike by the sailors of both England and America, that is the surest bond of union between the two countries. Invidious remarks have been made in reference to this feat. Because the Americana have received the accounts of the accomplishment of the gao l:Kcal union of the two worlds with more active en thusiasm than has been displayed by the Mother Country, it has been alleged that they wish to arrogate all the merit to themselves. We cannot so read their exuberant jubilations. They are justly proud of their share of the enterprise—of the part their sailors and men of science have had in joining the two worlds together. It is churlish to quarrel with them because we ourselves have been so back ward in giving the due mood of praise to our own countrymen. If England has her WILUTSTONII, America has her Moue and her Hymns. It is true we manufactured the cable; it is also true we supplied the greater portion of the espitaL But this is what might reasonably have been ex pected from the manufacturing resources of Britain and from her eassualaud capital. We can boast oar WHEArtrrosa, who first made electrical telegraphy practical ; we first laid down a submarine wire ; an English mechanic devised the improred paying oat apparatus, which has acted so sucoessfaUy on the present occarion, and English workmen worked it. These are laurels enough; let us not grudge oar American brethren their share. Had it not been for the energy, the perseverance, and the faith in the enterprise of Mr. CYRUS FIELD, the Ameri can, the Atlantic Telegraph might at this instant have been u mach an object in the dim distance of futurity as a submarine cable to India. Thu world is nowhere too old for credulity; though it assumes different forms in different coun tries. Our much-abused modern times are not to blame, if the laws of the universe are found sufficient for all the useful purposes of life, without the aid of supernatural machinery. It is nll a question of climate and regime. Even in the most benighted agricultural districts of Protestant and prosaic England, riders of shining virgins in white raiment are uaknown to the youthful shep herd* sad sherherAssees on our hills, the ploughboys and milkmaids in our fields. We never hear of a Lady from Heaven appearing at the mouth of a grotto, and of a spring of holy water bursting forth at the touch of her uniandalled foot. And yet, Protestant and prosaic es we are, we can be as credulous in oar own way as the good people in the Haute@ Pyrenees. Protestantism, it would appear, has its own peculiar superfmtations of faith, as Catholicism has its own more orthodox " develop " menta." The simplicity of our dogmas and the coldness of our oeremenial worship reduces the imaginative portion of our population to the recrea tion of spirit-rapping in Belgravia, and to the pur suit of witchcraft in the neighbourhood of Bethnal peen. They manage these things better in France. There, sada the protecting patronage of • pions and devout Government, a favoured Church is strengthened and encouraged from time to time by visitations of more than mortal import. These descents, it is tree, invariably take piece as far away as passible from the haunts of worldly men; sad the Osiestial message is usually confided in patois to children who can neither read nor write. Far otherwise is it in Protestant Eng land. Not on the mountains nor among bibes and eneklings, bat in the heart of the Metropolis and to mature women of thirty-two, is the grace of faith manifested. Oar miracles are just as aibstantial and basinsm-like in quality as all other articles of hems menntasture. Mrs. SALAH MACDONALD, of Codworth-street, Bethnal-green, the Lady who pos. seam the power of relieving from torments by burning powders, combines with the gift of witch eraft the shrewdness of the trader who buys is the cheapest and sells in the dearest market. The " burning powders " are, by her own smiling confession, " only common salt ;" but with common salt she has * ban driving • trade which:Counts might have envied nineteen hundred years ago. And we meet canton her patients are meth their salt. A respectable matron, the daughter of a wealthy tiarbar-merchant, is a different fish from • Pyrenean goatherd, sad requires a good strong bait. Mrs. Meat Axe GABLE is worth a down ladies in white in welt a ease. " like lays the a esais, and indeed is very clever with them." Dr. RAYSEOTHAY and the net of the Faculty, with all their pills and powders, are mere bunglers com pared with Mn. BARAN MACDONALD'S " cracking " sad blazing, and bouncing" common salt. " " I felt bettor," replied Mn, GABLE to the unbelieving magistrate. "Oh, it's true; but I " don't believe it lies is the powders es mach se in the words. Ills what she says when " she buns them so mysteriously." Mrs. MACDONALD, like other practitioners in the same line, know' the value of an unknswn tongue, sad of a cloud of Brooke. " And what were the weeds r asks Mr; IYETNcourr. uOh m replied the vistim of in licensed priesteraft, " like took are I should not " hear them, ar I might be se wise es herself." Did we say they managed these things better in France ? Assuredly, the mirsclenionger's iv a more safe and thriving trade at Lourdes than it is in Landon. It is actively supported by forty or fifty thousand priests, and not discouraged by an all. powerful Government. The local authorities treat it with consideration and respect, and it has vitupera tive organs in the metropolitan prase. It is the interest of the priests to drive a roaring trade in bottled holy water, and to draw crowds of pilgrim' to the sacred spot. It is the interest of the Government to support the priests and to patronise ladies in white raiment, whose mandate. are always pre-eminently monarchism'. and catholic. It is the interest of the local authorities to keep the people ignorant and contented, and to sotto° a crowd of wealthy pilgrim' to the neighbourhood. Only the doctors can be hurt by the ale of water at • sin a bottle whieh protemes to ems all diseases. There is no Mr. pIiTNCOIIII* at Lourdes to deal summary justice to the Lady of tie Grotto. The aggregate wisdom of the arrondissement, represented by the Chapter of the cathedral of Tarbes, the Cure of Lourdes, the Superiors of the local seminary, and the professors of dogmatic theology, of the moral and physical sciences, is solemnly convoked by the Bishop to examine the genuineness and authenticity of the miracle. If the aggregate wisdom reports favourably, the supremacy of the Church will be ewe more incontestably affirmed by the ratification of a direct message from Heaven, and a considerable business, with no risks and immense profits, will be opened to the commercial energy and enterprise ef the resident cure. M. PIEVOST PARADOL, is an Debate, is perfectly justified in dwelling on the political and economical, as well as theological importance of the episcopal decision in so grave a matter. With admirable taste and d propos he recalls the recent speech of M. DE Moats[, in which the President of the Corps Legible& de clared himself an enemy to expensive centralisation, and lamented that not even a well could be dug, a read turned, or a stone removed in the remotest pro vince of the Empire, without authority from Paris. Is it possible that the priests can be permitted to sell miraculous water at one son the bottle without leave from the Central Government, or to collect crowds of pilgrims without the intervention of the gendarmerie ? It is evident that their mirader mast be authorised and protected. "W. an very " far from complaining," continues M. Ptrvorr P•- tt•Dot., " of the liberty accorded to Catholic miracles I " we only demand the same liberty for Protestants "who ascribe a saving—not to say a mirsoulous-- " grace to their Bible, and to their Bible alone." Yet the other day the sale of the Pro testant Bible was forbidden by a Preto!. No doubt we in England are sadly deficient in sentiment in these matters ; we know not how le turn religion " to tareer and to prettiness" ; alfll Imo to make a commercial enterprise of Celestial vitae. If a poor peasant child in Cornwall or in Cumber land were suborned by a curate of St. Bambini to start a miracle, we should incontinently hand over the curate to the nearest police magistrate, who would infallibly commit him to the House of Cor rection. Perhaps there is something in our being free. Miracles do not flourish in free countries. The soil is ungrateful, end the air too keen and bracing for delicacies which, like the liberty of the proms, according to M. DR PERSIONT, thrive beat in " a prepared and temperate sphere." In an age of Atlantic Telegraphs we an content to trust to science for miracles, and while we manufacture idols for the Eastern market, we do not suffer any contraband adulterations in the care of monk at home. M. PIOIIDHON tells a story of a country priest who was so unscrupulous in his efforts to &Wrest a eoogregation, that he onos gave out from his pulpit to a church-full of women:—" To-morrow we shall " preach to the area—wind you all come—ce sera " sale." The French priests, if we may judge by the miracles of Lourdes and La Salette, will stick at nothing to steal the people's pence, and are ready to make the most sacred objects of their adoration accomplices in the dirty work of fraud and folly. Assuredly neither the Church nor the State can be the gainer by ecclesiastical impostures, which bring all religion into contempt. Nineteenth century miracles (es Cardinal WISEMAN can testify) are made of sterner stuff. Thu present age has—it would appear rather too hastily—set down all stories of men who were occasionally transformed into wolves as fables It is pretty clear that the Honourable Member for Sheffield is labouring under an access of this mysterious disease. Re has had a very severe attack at the dinner of the Master Cutler. After the standing tout of " The Members for the "Borough" had been proposed, Mr. ROKBCCK rose, and the whole assembly "was silent expectation." Every man expected one of those high intel lectual feasts which the Honourable and Learned Member has been in the habit, on such occasions, of spreading before them. But what was the general utoniahment, when, instead of delivering a well-balanced articulate discourse, Mr. ROEBUCK, after repeatedly proclaiming that he was "Tear-'em," proceeded to bark and snap for a good half-hour after the most approved canine fashion. We have no intention to dispute Mr. Roastrot's title to the appellation he has been pleased to as ee Indeed, so long as be continues in the melam ebely outdates' In whisk be bas bees. ever since that fatal attack of sea-sieksses of which he com plained so loudly at Trims:loth, it my be doubted whether he could have molested one mere eactustelr descriptive. Bat if, in his present hypochon driacal state, he will insist upon it that he is a watch-dog, it could be wished that be would act • little mars is ehanneer. Your true watoh dog can bay loudly enough in the darkness of sight, when ho hears strange feet approaching, and knows that all the houeeraates are asleep. Bat your true watch-dog has more discretion than to interrupt comfortable after-dinner conversation by his howling. Watch-dogs are 'swims creators, and are well aware that if they fly into paroxysms, and yelp when there is no cause, they run the risk of not being agenda to when there is. Just let Mr. ROEBUCK ask the " whipper-in ;" and if that functionary knows anything of his tolling, he will tell him that any hound who gives Wove before the game breaks cover is thought to demanro &akin meat. In short, if Mr. Roxsticit persists in going from Tynemoutt to Sheffield, and from Sheffield to " another place," barking in mason and oat of mama, he mast be, Ilke his prototype " Tear-feu," tied up. Seriously, Mr. ROEBUCK is at present in the coe dition of many worthy people who, whim an idea . strikes them for the fret time, fancy that it never entered into any human head before. The notion that ddarrive maablialuasate am necessary for the pro tection of oar island is not quite so original se he imagines. Thee, were brave men living balm Aoaitmatow 1 and we hare had panic-mmigins among as before Mr. Rona& Have we not had a Noble Lord, now no more, shaking in hie shoes at the prospect of the Guards marching out of London as a French army marched in ? Even in a more sober view of the importance of national defences he has been forestalled. It may be that the actual view of the fortifications of Cherbourg, and the actual clamour of their thousand guns, were required to con vince him that war is a possibility ; but other people have long been aware of this, and provision has been Nude accordingly, without any such appeal to the senses. It is possible that additional precautions may be needed; bat they willbemost effectively taken if set about in silence and without ostentation. The effect which the sight of Cherbourg hes produced upon Mr. Roasucx's own excitable imagination ought to be a warning to him of the effect likely to be produced on our susceptible neighbours across the Channel by any marked display of warlike prepara tion on this side. The improved organisation of our 111/My and navy, the improved distribution of our ships in commission, the substitution of entrenched camps for expensive and obsolete modes of fortifica tion—these and many other squally important topics bearing upon the national defence may be discussed without those (*natant allusions to Cherbourg which have a most undignified appearance of emanating from a state of funk. And surely Britons may be brave enough, and enough on their guard, without screaming at the tope of their voices that all French women are ugly, and that all Frenchmen resemble Cochin-China fowls. An Adonis, like Mr. ROE BUCK. to be sure, may justifiably be scandalised at the lengths to which the Norman woman carry the privilege of being plain; but that Cochin-China metaphor was an unlucky one. It is so apt to suggest a retort about Bantams. To return to Mr. Roaancx's more recent and IMO ClltTillh metaphor. WALTER. SCOTT was indeed assured by a respectable housebreaker, for whom he once acted as counsel without a fee, that a little terrier was a far better safeguard than the most powerful watch-dog, because it is always awake, and always making a noise. We confer, however, that to us the authority has always ap peared rather suspicions. It could scarcely be ex pected that the honest gentleman who was ficorr'e informant, would tell the truth to the detriment of his own profession. We confess we prefer to the terrier, which makes a great noise when he supposes thieves are approaching but can be kicked aside with little trouble, the bull-dog which lies silent but pre- pared till they are within his reach, and then seizes ; them by the throat. , Mr. Rorancr, when he pleases, can talk to better purpose than he has of late been doing. We cannot ; forget all his many and great services, whatever freaks he may indulge in. It is our love that speaks in our present rebuke. Much though we love to hear " the watch-dog's honest bark," we wish that " Tear-'em" would shake off his new monomania, and talk as he used to do. EXPRESS FEOM PARIS. crams oak owe oraiansroarmro PARIS, FIIDLY EVIININO. You will have seen by my Hegraphio despatch that the Patric was mistaken in announcing the appointassot of General M'Mahon as " Governor- General" of Algeria, because, by a decree in this day's lefoaiteur, that otfico is abolished, * in order to give wider scope to the initiative of the Prince Napoleon, who proposes, as be tells the Emperor in his report, to govern the colony from Paris upon the principle of granting more liberty to the inhabi tants, assimilating the native races by persuasive means to French civilisation, and promoting ooloni intim, which has hitherto been altogether " insig nificant." General IPMehon, instead of being governor of the colony, is only " Commandant Superior of the land and sea forces in Algeria." There is, however, a rather curious clause in the decree constituting his new Aloe, under which, in case of need, he may exercise quite as much power as the governor-general could have done. Art. 4 authorises the " Commandant Superior" to take all measures necessary to " canoe the authority of the Emperor to be respected, and to ensure the execu tion of the laws and enable him in case of urgency to suspend the execution of measures ordered by the generals and prefects." It is clear, therefore, that while, Prince Napoleon will have full latitude to try his hand as a governor, General M'Mahon is em powered to declare himself dictator in Algeria when ever he pleases. General M'Mahon, whose high military character I spoke of yesterday, is in the prime of life, under fifty years of age. He is a tall handsome active man, of gentlemanly manners, and large private fortune. He has been twenty-five years in the army, and before the Crimean war saw a great deal of service in Algeria, where he now goes with such a high command. It will be remembered that General M'Mahon was the only senator who voted against the " Public Safety Bill" in February last, and it is to the credit of the Emperor that this act of independence has not stood in the way of his promotion. The complexion of the Bourse, so brilliant of late, is altogether changed to-day. The Rents fell 30c. both for cash and account, closing at 71fr. 30c. and 71fr. 46c. Mobilier fell 47fr. 60c. The railways were heavy; Orleans and Lyons fell 16fr. each ; Southern and Western 10fr. each ; and Northern, Bfr. 76fr. Eastern was without change. The fall, for which no particular reason was assigned, is not surprising, after so great a rise, and does not shake the confidence felt in the upward tendency of the market M. de Thouvenel is coming home from Constan tinople en cony!, and it is rumoured that he will not go out again, but will be succeeded by M. Benedetti _ _ A despatch in the Nord of Brussels, stating that the French, Greek, Austrian, and Ameriean Consuls had been murdered at gumlike, is explained by . a subsequent despatch, as meaning the French Consul only who represented all the other powers. The news altogether requires confirmation. M. Fould is somewhat indisposed at Vichy ; and although his Moms is not considered serious, Paris physicians hare been sent for to hold a consultation. A letter has been reoeived from Madrid which discredits the report that the Spanish government was preparing an expedition against the Riff pirates. It may be remembered that some months ago a provincial tribunal was called on to decide whether or not an aseiciation got up ostensibly in connexion with the famous Icarian oommunist scheme of the late M. Cabet was or was not to be oonsidered a secret political society—and that it decided the ques tion in the affirmative. Three days back, fourteen soi diamst Icarian. were tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Bordeaux on the charge of having formed part of a similar society. They ear nestly professed that they were simple-minded devo tees of the Icarian doctrine, which, in their eye, was perfectly harmless ; but it was proved that they held meet meeting., had in their possession sedi tion. pamphlets and even arms and ammunition, were in communication with chiefs of the revolu- tionary party, and had raised money on pretext that it was for a great Icarian loan. The tribunal acquitted oue of the prisoners, and condemned the other thirteen to periods of imprisonment varying from a fortnight to six months. The Prefect of the Lot-et-Garonne has addressed a circular to the mayors of that department, relative to frauds which are practised in the preparation of prunes, and recommends those functionaries and the commissaries of police to exercise a strict Burwell lanes over a branch of businem the amount of which in the department exceeds six millions. The cir cular states that the fraud consists in gathering the fruit before it has attained proper ripeness, then, after immersing it in boiling water, placing it in an oven, by which the skin alone becomes properly cooked, and the purchaser is thus deceived is the weight, while the fruit itself, remaining unripe in the inside, will not keep, nor be fit for exportation. The Noniterr publishes a decree nominating three engineers of the Ponts-et-Chausfies to the rank of knights of the Legion of Honour. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cir cular to the prefects of departments, in which he recommends the councils-general to vote a small scan annually to enable a few village schoolmasters and schoolmistresses to be sent to Paris, in the va cation of each year, to acquire the art of teaching deaf and dumb children, so that they may be able to give instruction to such as belong to their respeo tire places as have not been admitted to any asylum. The minister states that the system of teething the deaf and dumb by ordinary schoolmasters and sebeebniatreseeslsas already been practised with mo ose. in Paris, atilithat it entails little expense. THE INDIAN MAIL. (ay aticratc vaLrourn.) (now ova OWN 00151810111)3131T) SOUTHAMPTON, Sarcanay. The Indian mail-packet Colombo baa arrived, i tow of the Benue& ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. (in , ttmligrno riz.razirr.) Oro* ova owl( LIVERPOOL. Batumi?. The steam-ship Europa, which left St. John's, Newtons!lead, ea the 27th ultimo, Mir /epochal dames awed ►y the collision with the Arabia. mired here at nil this remain. She hes breeght no iinha SOUTHAMPTON, his arrived " the Aok th• ♦ Wks •• my gram.—crowww SWARD 07 , Dowmo-errurr, Stn. 3.—Tbs QOM U. Mw Mid of ol pleased OD appoint Jar Dego* Pas. (oover soolOsn• PENINSULAR MAIL. toe the weadar-W-Clold )of Toseovnes Idasd, to be GINNI/lel s = 1 Comonadwlio--Olief Is ad ens Os "sissy et 80IITRA11PTO/f, Fames Ilessiso. ; 111 r --" I , Glands sal its awaited's. lir Majorylar &balm The hie enteed with the p o w wo w meth fonsors, le id 'Sari to appear Midler Drib Boat* De., to4rialgo 611114 SI will i Is roe NMI odesy.—essone. fOr kit lAllbill WI lais MY lIL, ma WWI • few or Obe *oda ea taw s MRS. SMEAR BTowl.—Tho stithefetsot m Untie ponesins id the lildiiil wel pso Osionab". The Co- Soosa Is OA Tow's Celia; was OW by tho venal t dleftlelst soi , iamb. wee st Vigo whin th e Tarr let, sad the Harm prow thrares sal WON of Wan is Poil es her osofid fa Pat otto otodoi t u t port to tow t h o c o k.b o t o a os ib m po m intodon inbe 4 am illy • foir If Tarlimer ONO alatts at • notaaseat, or la dr Pablo • aro del Ora* or wont Mari to Itarsava.— __..., the Mara is o k i do o d al. adi l s a g at e rU l ge iiimargg.69 ‘.. o. vh. val. TITS INDIAN CormtamoN.—Colonel IL B. 111'..., " b o th " is Ka& =WE* &waft 12640 C.B.,Darry Adjurer-Grand of Ward, booboos oppolotor Jr rm. ii& fie P= —27/1 • witakey to this oomakirloa. 1,1121,8001. kw • ebe court. OSBORNE, Sem 3. The following had audiences of her Majesty yes terday : the Right Hon. Sir Edward &darer Lytton, the Earl of Hardwick/a, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stinky, the Right Hon. 8. Walpole, the Hartle& of &lir bury, and lie Right Hos. J. Peel. Mr. Pfebar, iterieon-fn-Chief to the Metropolitan Police Irmo pressabod to her Majeety by the Right Hon. 8. Wal pole, and received the honour of knighthood. . _ - The Jodie Majesty. Itsel an sadism* of her Mr. J. Chapman, Midtown of the Great Southern at Intik Railway, and Captain C. Mangkai LP., bad ma M yrtle's with Mr. Hamilton at the Tramenry yesterday at the staged al the Indian and Ataltallen Telegraph Compay. Despatch= were received yesterday at the Coktiel-ones has the Governor of the Cape of Goad Hoge end the toed High Censeisakiaar of the lonian Islaseda. beepaakee yam sent from the Colcathd-elloe yesterday to the Gomesers of Canada, Ceylon, Hong Hong, the Mauri tius, sad Liam. In the notioe which appeared yesterday respecting Prises, Alfred, the name of the gentlemen who histruoted him should have been the Rev. W. R. Jolley. THE COUNCIL OF INDIA. Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, the new Indian Council wet for the first time. They aussabled is the beard-roma in whki; the Covert of Direaces base bela I. years emoseoseeil to Mid Ask ineetinp, M tbe ledla hoaes, In Leadea hell•street. Lord flesaley, the Seem eery of State for India, arrived at des Inellaehosse half an boar before the time of nsestilig. Mr. Henry Bedllie, joint remetsay he the Beard of Cl,man esti Sir George Clerk, the pensettent secretary, ewe she in et- Madance. The members of the Condi paws* were :-.Sir Frederick Carrie, late Chairman of the Cast of Directors; Sir Hoary Bewlinsoo, Gleams' Sir Robert Vivien, Sir Hoary Moctgomery, Mr. 3. P. Willoughby, Mr. Wm. Arbuthnot, Mr. Mills, Sir Imes Weir Hogg, Mr. BMW Meeroghtea, Captain Bostwick, as Mr. H. T. Primer. no Sr* Os are amines, of the Crews, sad She remedader ere pert of the elided mombees. Sir leas Lose.., ewe of the eight amaisated asereliers, wee, of 0011121, deist, se wee also Sir Preby Costley, saot►r of the Crown madams The whole of Ike sisead wombs., was, is elladesse, except Ceptels Shepherd, whit tem .beet from Maggot*" end Mr. H. D. Meager, who i. sidersieed be on the Continent end absent from a Medlar cows. At two o'clock lard Stealer leek the choir, out ea nosaaed the names it the mombsse to whim her Majesty, by MMus of thorium oaderred ea hoe by the Aet, hod been pleased to amafease to the Come. A Mara of the members sleeted try Na Court of Dirsatoef was she formally mad; mod the Couaell woe thee eoastitatod. The skiing, • w►leh hided upwards of two lours, was oompled Wily la mtlhaig the Mem reds of premium; sad the President, to exareles of the safesrfty couferrsd apes him by the Act, Abided tholCouudt tato oommittees, for the more eaavadeat traamoldea of boohoos, mad also aomiesed the Vies-Po feet, stieerfa, for that °Moe from swag the Coosa, efr Fiodorfek Canis, the late chairmen of the Bed ladle Com- PEr. NEWHAVEN, FRTDAT.—The French Ambassador landed has at 4 o'clock this afternoon, and left at 4.30 p.m. for the Pimlies terminus. At the Court at Osbarid Roane, Ws of Wight, the lad day ot asiaaler, : peerst ibe QindleS Red Isedleat lleNety la Osumi; her = R l:4ot= • to itete the Res. =ee l I ) to be sae et her of he as Me S a t= inWe anomenl ac soee beabiene• Isom. bar d 1118. y. It le Sio du e by her =toOsarall the dm& nee- Tanday. the 19th e tiareicer nets, be farther =all is Thursday, the day d Kemal= nad.— Wel-OFFICE, SEPT. 3.—Th. Qom hes been I.=pewe o.ell to ilia orders for the et led ~ ter Mejeety's Envoy sad lestWor t=illiarry to the Kier ot Prude, to sa et Oes IN Divides el the Pad Ctees, ei lighl eCkead ts. Cesse, of the Mod Boastamble Order of _ grog THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL We have received by the Overland Express oar papers from New South Wales and Victoria. The mall dates are July 16, from Melbourne; and July 11, from New South Wales. VICTORIA. We extract the following from the rummary given in the Mama-no Argus of July 15: POLITICAL.—Pediment hi/ been in MOM since our lest summery, and it stands now adjourned to the 10th of August. We have thus been deprived of our ordinary topics of politica diesseeion, and should have been in • state of unwonted political quiescence bathe two extra-parliamentary enbjecei width have supplied both the public and the pal with rasher for force debate. One has been the exercise of govenunent patronage, the other the new regulations for the conceerkin to mining companies of leases of auriferous lands, About pernmege we have had some very bitter discussions, in which the feelings of religious animosity, which have Song been nnesiderisg here se elsewhere, have broken out. Mr. O'fihenasay, the Premier, is an Irishman and • Roman catholic, known to have the strongest predilections for his native country and kis creed. Nor is he the only catholic or Irish member of the cabinet. Great sensitive tome exists here with regard to the powers of official patronage, and the fear which was extensively entertained M the fret mention of the new cabinet—that a system ol fammatime would be introduced—appeared to receive ece- Irmadca Mill the nature of the early nominations mat by the ininleiry. Beard members of the catholic church, and owe Maher of the Irish members of the government, were aimed to fill vacancies that fell due. One minister's brother-in-kw became an acting colonial Burgeon ; another, a wardes at a gold field. There were certainly appearances that jumbled the impreseha that a policy of patronage wee about to be adopted, based on narrow principles of pereou4 party, or religious pretense* rather than on the bred grounds of competence. In tile impression originated amy against the government as a catholic government, and a die. position ca the part of protestant& to rally to the Team of the public service, and prevent its being "swamped ' by the members of a particular nationality, and the adherents of A particular church. This state of feeling has now toe great extent subsided. Possibly warned by the almost unanimous deprecation by the press of the policy which the early acts of the ministry appeared to indicate, they have done nothing in their more recent appointments either to create apprebension or to call for aware. In the department of land and works Mr. Duffy, the present president, has announced the intro duction of the system of competitive examination'', and the first 00011AOM of applying this new principle is fixed for Mon day next. Mr. Duffy has gained general credit for the adop tion of this principle, whilst the particular mode In which ha proposes to apply it has been subjected to some discussion. He throw, open each individual offlos which falls vacant in the sciestific or professions! branch of hie department, and it is to be feared that, as one consequence, it will be found that few persons will care to compete where there is only one prize to be gained, or that the majority of those who are necessarily time titer time rejected will soon sicken of the permit. A modification of • the English system would be preferable. If periodical exa mination, were held, and. certificates of competency given to a definite number of candidates—the number being deter. mined by the probable requirements of the public service fa a certain period—and the names of these genilemel recorded in the order of their melba, mesas • might than be filled up as they occurred wills much greater facility and satisfaction than by the : plan proposed. Apart from their nominations to raw °Mom the ministry have encountered censure fee the • known or suspected offer of political place to several mem. hers of the two house, of parliament Mr. George Wegg Horne, a member of the assembly, has been appointed to the new vice-presidency of the Board of Lend and Work,. This gentleman was a cabinet minis ter fa Mr. O'Shanamy's first government. The presidency of the sewerage and water commission was aka to Mr. M'Cotobie, a member of the legislative carnet, but was declined by him and conferred on Mr. Horne, who now holds it in conjunction with his other °Oka With the exception of Dr. Tierney, who has taken the poet of deputy-registrar for tha district of Melbourne—a poet which is pronounced by some to be quite inconsistent with the dignity of a seat in the upper house of islatnre—so other member of the legislature has been actually appointed toe place a ensoluntent, though overtures in almost every dimities have been reported, and made the matter of politica scandal. If the real secret histoty of the last month or two were known, it would probably be found that the free attersoce of ge isha opiates has madded a most salutary induces in &whin the tendency to a great evil. Morino Lianas. —As we have intimated, almost the only other subject of discussion, in the absence of immediate par liamentary logien has been the system of regulations issued ' for the 0060111111011 to mining companies of leases of sufferer' lands. The want of some arraugement by which a certain fixity at tame should eooourege the investment of capital he *Whig pornite, at • time when the necessity of capital, machinery, sad orpnieet ion for the further development of our anahrooe remoras, is every day more and more felt, has for a long time past been pressed on the attention of the , executive government. It was a matter of so complicated bearings that no code of regulations could be readily fixed although th e goveronsent were invested by a recent act . parliament with full pswers. The right. ef the Mill i miner, and the avekleace of any policy which should pm- tioally lock ap the gold lands, or any undut i portions from coming immigrants an Wow head, Lod the limits claims of capital to areas security of ratans, were main potato to be considered. After neridenble delay, a series of draft regulations we kneed, and both the metropolitan and country press am emend in dimming their merits On the whole, we believe the opinion of the dig? community te in their favour, and measures are being rapidly adopted in various' districts to take early advantage a opportrmithe they afford for the occupation of considerable areal of aura felons land, and the Investment of capital in worlds( k This subject might be supposed to be of all others Meade of political but into the discussions of it in the mining jamas a amount of party feeling hasevi dently entered. A °pubertal of mining delegates, to te bald at an early deb in Xelboarne, will probably result in same . lecoromendations that will reader the eystem at present posed more perhet,, end nese seserali . ac ting able, whilst the WWII corporniess aa the nit kpow• as Mahar Boards, will enjoy the right a any Dew or amended regulations lbw Sew, net ineensietent with the Oald•fielda Act, and othnittlog then Ibr the approval el the aseasattre max& orWea hove this non prosp kprativelect that a nein' of sib, apoth stick nes re• . gibed by the wow meadow hats whisk our gold•delds y me pankg wit mesa be la peel waiks. he political i as el fhb COMM of slain hens are important. , i Dlgg gammen en snag* the man potent darts ponder pada; todussole. A call hes orison fre a mdeleholel - depseneen to be downed column to n ibs Alas. Already the diggings me the cabinet, sod it is felt that the miners on f r ' ot d are destin te amstitute a great political as well as industrial . power I. the sobs. At this moment the stability of the ministry doped& very greatly upon the mamma of approval awarded *Awe salkbat boa to the hew leedaff Me! tallow. Then ero in abet political incideats. an general shelter, whit the repeat coons of events bee pointed to es possibb mast be looked far sow for setae soothe le coma. Malmo:2.—Th* ohne mewl IFeeki=bli as = yet. Two section at the lbw hen to burst are In pennant etches nahoneek OR et beeserto• tine hem km monemek hila tehoeleanded to knit" a imp swohnot ma Mink . de nolselel• eve! OM ere ortei le the gnarl addend kbeer we be nethref l still soma nooks Ind delft base the heel* we palled tn. Mk • Apr seamed he their or /elk= teak , tb• gm thao. nal cd Pod lift OM Mew rhoilthie. at • km nb of thilisej ad naffs/ se• la the wino eon amen ohe• the ITA tor d = In eS a The ousliast ter the ' kined, k lowest teadenethg newly •Ol eil :Cresilloa ll i,. ',;:, l ad.esehlig the ana at MAK sennelly ergo the SO - 0 Mktg Enke was ea liknday Ono le the ant Ina ea in lin73thens, 2 iiß sr ead 0x—eme .. ..... 1 (I desk blithe Instil In ft wen to aeonly*lth the Tee ti ne' "7 4 6 3.64 their abaft' 10 a% lw. rearart t so de hesde at the treonettoo Maillit• . Th e seatran webs dews ap wit at MOS. ofollogififfoo annesseed es the Let lb that we Aid sera hen beill the aatbnd hew of ea omen of emorrodles. • Illenni ansibin of tin did Ifollensee theeoloss held lately ha la the anotheine Cfm a Aa s l ouresseen la Z e e i e o ar . tell ete V e Oh teeny has isasestasel • theb anna Ron the Bret dm sib eels end tine hidden he,, rennoil a nest usainetinisade lean Itimllle gre sat the he ha lode 1 with BIMINI • 114= itit fah . WNW le WO& to the hooks elates of a cote- 4 onik anew* as to lead paresseat &MOM , . i That the went he biome Ore alai end evils ash has seam slam the Ilea alittlew sata Ode nteeketeed othayeies. This kis wit hen le be petrobased etiweinally, but en, we hook as the hinds of the direstem ew elweehelieee of the as . 4 esnonsosant at the the het ad et t , reduebi k a mai/ago sa . a . t=tl wa5 ,,....y by rA impale= . ;6 4e lbstdy , 0 ; e•d ow the cuL eark rum e — r:w bairn model lo will aw. . - ' delegates from the barest llama di • '' AO of fare*: the proposed --1„. • ,w. ben hag lerwriAlwas. htely thief soonfori, foi 1110 , his beat ben ben tor by Ns . ie Mks deezt o nir the -4kk of well as oho Emma. sor ag = l o .mido • _.on en the nen somas or snored la hef a midair" MIL Irtlea ar AZ 4 ______.. ll a. with gentsaird al all leostins allkodaff the eloww.••_ _ __ ~...i e." 0.: thin interest It tee not yet geese whet the 7.. ,, ...- ettlitkO of the boned te te le. Ervarecs.—The revise* ii the ationy.oo obibuoll 'storm recently published in Ile flara., have .e - teed is all brambee. The total - plebeilt ended the fad duns was I.44 y er -• the ocaresporlboy peril t.