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Tina Raritan, 31AZF.Pk.aftei which SCENES TN THE CIRCLE. lf dile. liautotti, Madge. Ilibop, and Young De% email. —To conclude with a coda BALLICT an which illae Amite Cnahnie will appear.—Conaniastwe at 7. MGR WALDO AT LONDON BILIDON„ Ten roaloazow—marnin g . 66m......i11imai5. AL Ufa LONDON, FRIDAY, SRPTEMBER 26. THE note in the Moniker on the Roman Ques tion is an act of reluctant homage on the part of the most irresponsible Government in Europe to the force of public opinion. It shows the uneasiness "of the French Government at the universal con demnation of its Italian policy, and may be taken as a proof that the EMPEROR feels his position in Italy becoming so uncomfortable and untenable as imperatively to require apology and defence. In this view, as a pleading at the bar of Euro pean opinion, the official note has a certain amount I of interest, but in other respects it is of little or no value. It does not touch the real question at issue, and except as a formal manifesto of the French Government, the proposals it contains would hardly merit serious notice. These pro posals are, indeed, so vague and so inconsistent, that it is difficult to extract from them any in telligible plan even of "conciliation." What they verbally amount to may, however, be soon stated. In the month of May last the EMPEROR., we are told, addressed • letter to M. Tsouve eL, maintaining the necessity for a policy of conciliation, and proposing a combination on the following basis :—" The POPE will lower the " barriers which separate the pontifical territory " from Italy, and Italy will give the necessary " guarantees for the independence of the POPE." " A double end (continues the EMPEROR'S letter) " will be attained by a combination maintaining " the POPE as master in his own domain, and' ', " lowering the barriers which at present separate " the States of the Church from the rest of Italy." To those who confront the actual facts of the case this looks very like trifling, though very possibly it may not have been so intended. No doubt a double end would be secured if the tyrannical owner of a slave plantation could remain master in his own domain while the barriers that separated the slaves from freedom were removed, but whether they would obey, whether they would freely submit to his hated rule, under these altered circumstances, is doubtful. This is hardly au extreme or exaggerated illustration of the posi tion in which the Pore stands to his subjects. What are the " barriers " referred to in the EMPEROR'S letter f The only " barriers which at " present separate the States of the Church from " the rest of Italy" are the sovereign authority of the POPE in those States, supported by foreign bayonets. If the Pors is to remain master in his own dominions when those bathers are removed, this could only be through the free choice of his subjects. The EMPEROR accepts this necessary consequence. "In order that the Pore may be "master, he should be independent, and his sway " should be freely accepted by his subjects." It would seem impossible for any but a singularly ignorant or romantic mind to contemplate the possibility of such a result. But the Imperial satirist not only expresses a sanguine hope of its accomplishment, but points out the way in which it is to be secured ;—" We must " hope that it will be thus when Italy engages " with Franco to recognise the privileges of the " States of the Church, and when the Pore, " returning to ancient traditions, shall recog " flute the privileges of the municipalities and " provinces, so that they may govern themselves." This is the EMPEROR'S scheme of conciliation. The Pore is to be independent by means of foreign support, and he is to be freely accepted as " master " by populations who " govern them " selves. " If this is not irony what is it ? The Foreign Minister's official explanation only adds new elements of confusion to his Imperial mu ter's contradictory programme. M. THOUVENEL undertakes to point out the part which the Italian Government is to play in this scheme, which is simply that of assuming the whole liabilities of the Papal Government without receiving any of its assets. While France would never consent that Rome should become the capital of the kingdom, the Italian Government is at the same time per fectly welcome to the Roman debt, and must in fact accept it in lieu of the capitaL " Italy would have "to renounce her pretensions to Rome, and en " gage with France to respect the Papal territory, " and assume the greater portion, if not the whole, " of the Roman debt." ?t is needless at this time of day to discuss the merit of such • proposal. If it was really offered in good faith six months ago, there could even then have been no serious expectation that it would be accepted either by Italy or the Papal Government. And since then the Roman question has passed altogether beyond the stage for feeble attempts at concilia tion, and imperatively demands a settlement. The French Government was, no doubt, perfectly right in attempting to come to some understand ing with the Holy See, and though the. scheme, as a whole, could never have been carried out, some of its proposals were reasonable and consi derate. They were, however, all equally rejected by the traditional obstinacy of tilt, Papal Government. The important point is to inquire THE "EXPUSB, into the political results of Uttt rejeetide finitively ascertain tho poem which P* now occupies in Italy. M. Tworrv'mrax indlistes to Cardinal ANTONILLI in general terms the alterna tive to which the Imperial Government would be reduced if its terms were rejected :—" If the " theory of immobility continues to be put for " ward, the Exritaos'a Government, although as " much as possible protecting the interests of the " Holy See, would be compelled to quit a situs " tion the prolongation of which beyond a certain " time would falsify its policy, and throw the " public mind into the greatest disorder." This was written six months ago. The Fosnow MINISTRE of France formally stated that the EMPRILOR'S Government would be compelled to " quit the situation" within a certain time on pain of falsifying its policy, and throw ing the public mind into the greatest disorder. It would be very desirable to know a little more preciael ily what M. Toorrvitszt means by " the " situation," which he asserts his Government would be compelled to quit. In one sense, no doubt, the French Government quits the situation every time it writes a fresh note on the subject. But it could hardly be used in this trivial sense in such an important document, and for such a serious pur pose. If it his any significance •at all proportioned to the place it occupies in M. TitouvxNEL's note, the " situation" must mean the occupation, and the Emr Eaott's Government is under a virtual pledge to evacuate Rome without delay. What ever may be the meaning of this clause of the note, however, the position of the French Government in Italy is now as perfectly defined as it is utterly untenable. The EMPREOR is imposing on the Roman people by force a government they detest, and wantonly preventing the Italian nation from completing the union it unanimously desires, and which is essential to its peaceful development, its growing prosperity, strength, and progress. That is the real position, and the facto which prove it are notorious. The Romans demand to have a voice in their own government, and protest against the foreign occupation that deprives them of this primary and essential right. The Italians at large demand the right of constituting themselves as a nation in their own way without foreign inter pretation, dictation, or controL And France, of all countries in the world, is the Power that per sists in denying these just demands, in withholding these primary and supreme national rights. Well may even a high-minded French Catholic like M. D'IIikUSSONVILLE, whose sympathies are with the POPE, protest against such an outrage on the generous character and instincts of the French people. M. D'IIACSSONVILLE has recently returned from a tour through the length and breadth of Italy, and he finds to his great sur prise that Italians of all classes and of every pro vince are ripe for national unity and bent on securing it. The Roman States are no excep tion :—" I am convinced that the Romans wish " for the Piedmontese with all their hearts, and " would already have called them in were we not " there to prevent it. As for myself, considering " the nature and origin, of our government, 1 " cannot but think that we have no right to be " there. Our government does not, it " would seem, depend on the old founds " tion of Divine right on the contrary, " it is very anxious not to be confounded with " other governments of a mixed character, who " look for the expression of the national will in " the adhesion of certain constituted bodies. No ; " our principle is that of universal suffrage—pure, " simple, and direct. By what right, then, are "we at Rome t Have we any doubts on the " subject 1 If that be the case, why do we not " consult the Romans on the government of " Pius IX. 1" Such is the judgment of one of the most moderate Liberals, as well as one of the most distinguished publicists in France. M. THOU VENEL'S prediction is on the point of fulfilment. By continuing the occupation of Rome under such conditions the EMPEROR'S Government is " falai " Eying its policy," and " throwing the public " mind into the greatest disorder." THE NEW ARCHBISHOP Or CANTERBURY. —We understand that yesterday Dr. Langley, Archbishop of York, received at his palace, at Bishopsthorpe, near York, a communication from the Premier, offering to him the primacy of England, which his grace at once expressed his determina tion to accept. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are enter Mining a select party at Drumlanrig Castle. . . • The Marquis and Marchioness Dominique Serra have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort, Lord and Lady Bestirs, and Prince Puckler•Muskaw have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris. The Marquis and Mar chioness of Waterford have left the same hotel for England. Lord ant Lady Southampton have arrived in town from the hie of Wight. Lady Otto Fitzgerald wag safely delivered of a son last evening at her residence in Carlton-bones-terrace. Her ladyship and infant are progressing favourably. The mirringe of Mr. William Gerald Seymour Fitzgerald to Jane Margaret Matilda, eldest daughter of the late Sir Norman Lockhart, was celebrated on Tuesday at the Scottish Episcopal Church, Lanark. The Earl of Chesterfield and a shooting party, ommisting of the Prince of Saxe Weimar and the Duke of Cambridge, have been staying at the noble earl's shooting box, at Newton Manor. ,On Tuesday the sportsmen started at Stoke Ferry, and from thence ascended the hill to Mrs. Tomlin's ; afterwards proceeding to Saxondale and neigh bourhood. Game was plentiful, and previous to luncheon ninety brace of partridges and pheasants, together with eighty couples of bares and rabbits, bad been bagged. The remains of the late Earl of Ellesmere arrived at Worsley Hall on Wednesday, from Scotland, for inter ment in the family vault. The funeral is expected to take place to-morrow. Mention is made in Turin letters of a present front the King of Italy to the young Queen of Portugal, and the value of which is stated to be not btu than 800,000 fr. It consists of two necklaces, a diadem enriched with brilliants and other precious stones, and an Etruscan bracelet. The tour of Prince Humbert of Savoy in Eng land and Russia is spoken of. The prince would, it is said. take advantage of his excursion to Lisbon, where he will accompany his sister, to visit London and St. Petersburg, and make acquaintance with the statesmen of those two capitals. The Colonial-office have intimated, in reply to representations with regard to the unprotected condition of the island of Labuan from pint c.. 1 attacks, that instruc tions will be forthwith sent to the Admiral on the Chma station to despatch as early as may be practicable to the meat cf Borneo some suitable vessel for the suppression of piracy in the Eastern Archips!ago. The second telegraph line across the continent of America will ran by way cf Los Angeles and Fort Yuma, and from thence nearly on the old southern overland mail route, through Memphis or Bt. Louis. An application is to tos made to Congress to allow an extension of the time for erecting the telegraph, which has been delayed in con sequence of she war. The Union publishes the following intelligence respecting the Fflgrims who have recently left France for the Holy lead :—" The caravan left Marseilles on the 31st of August. sad arrived at Malta on the 3rd inst., all in good health, though many bad suffered severely from sea sickness. The news from Palestine caused some appro. bensions as to the safety of the roads. as it appears that three Franciscan friars were attacked and plundered by Bedouins at Seagull. near Silo. The governor of Jerusalem, Burriga Packs, hastened to the spot, coot several of the sheiks of the tribe to Jerusalem in chains, and ietaehed Ti horsemen to arrest the robbers. This event is much to be regretted, but it does not forebode sty danger to the Pilgrims." FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1862 L 11. D. D.O.L L& - - ..... 29.80 SO 49 && 9 4r 0.15 Lamm ... 29.02 66 64 & 9 162 - Lam - Boma= - Mwaossmi 29.72 66 66 B.L Or 0.17 rourams 29.81 69 64 B.W. b - Gamma' 29.68 68 67 W. lr 0.18 VoisTrlA qtrizierowN 19.74 69 67 W.B.W. 4r 0.62 Moil Ham).- 29.74 00 68 & r - Livaaroor Prxmlomi 29.81 60 68 B.W. br 0.14 PINUP= 29.88 82 60 B. lr 0.12 188111 29.99 62 60 8. c - Niirmorra. . 29.91 61 00 8.8. W. lr 9(8 Pwasatoomi 29.92 62 59 B.W. o - Dorn - - B.&W. a- [mama 29.9.9 90 68 8.8. W. 16 0.01 iomioirrn - WARDOw.47OII 29.87 66 64 8.8. W. Sr 133 0.15 . 20.86 66 63 IL - 122 - 111rwooLAND 29.61 67 86 B.W. 6 0 - SATURDAY. •lURDAT. S. to W. and N.W., SOOTLARD. Westerly, fresh, show_ fresh, 'bowery. ery. S.W. to N.W., strong to DtzuarD. W.S. W. to W.N.W., • a gale, rainy gale, showers. S.Q.W. to W.N.W., W. CENTRAL. S.S.W. to W., strong, fresh tostrong, rainy. rain". S.W. to W.N.W., strong fl.W.Enocann. W.S.W. to N.N.W., to a gale, showers. strong, unsettled. S.W. to W., fresh, S.E. ENGLAND. W.•.W. to W.N.W., ;bowery. fresh to strong. S.W. to N.W., fresh, E. Coos[. W. to N., strong, showers. showery. The editor of the Courtier de Marseille states that he has received the first two numbers of a newspaper pub lished clandestinely at Naples under the title of Rome or Death. The newspaper is of the full size, with double columns ; it is printed on fine paper, of a blueish colour. It advocates republican principles, and recommends an armed rebellion. It announces that • secret association exists at Palermo, haring for its motto "United Italy— Rome its capital; the plibivite realised." Cases have lately been very frequently cited in the French papers of persons becoming exceedingly ill and even dying, in consequence of the stings of venomous flies, the said venomous quality being contracted by the insect from putrid substances on which it has settled. Near Soissons • shepherd lately died in four days, in consequence of one of these bites or stings. He took no heed of the first inflammatory symptoms and when be applied to a doctor it was too late. Two other persons in the same neighbourhood were similarly attacked, the symptoms being great swelling and inflammation, but fatal results were not anticipated. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—(8T REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) —The Sussex, from London for Melbourne. arrived here this evening to embark passengers. She reports signalling in the Channel the Cairngorm from Sydney June 18. She saw also today a ship standing up Channel resembling the Anglesey, due from Melbourne, with 6,000 (!) ox. of gold. A LIFEBOAT TOE DUBLIN-BAY.—General Sir George Bowles, Loa, has just presented to the National Lifeboat Institution 265/., to enable it to station • new life boat and transporting carriage at Howth, near Dublin. The host, which is :to feet long, had her harbour trial yesterday in the Regent's Canal Dock, Limehouse, when the usual characteristics of self-righting and self water-ejection of this class of vessel were fully and satisfactorily shown, to the gratification of a number of persons who had assembled to witness the trial. The lifeboat and her carriage leave for their station on Saturday. on board of one o f the steamers belonging to Messrs. Malcolmson, who, in conjunc tion with Mr. J. Robinson, of Mark-lane, are ever ready to carry the boats, &c., free of charge. .EXPRESO FROM PARIS• THE DIPERLiL MANIFESTO RESPECTING ROME. (11011 OCR OWN 003118PONDONT.) PARIS. THURSDAY EVIIIRO. People rushed to buy the Moniteur this morning when the newsboys bawled out that it contained an "important letter from his Majesty the Emperor on the Roman question." I myself, though steeled by long experience against political enthusiasm, confess having felt no ordinary emotion when, on opening the wet leaves of the official journal, my eye lit upon two columns of large type, with the signature "Napoleon" at the bottom. So ! I men tally ejaculated (and here I was not wrong), the papers have been talking nonsense when they said that the Emperor's determination upon so gigantic a matter as the French occupation of Rome depends upon the weather at Biarritz, and must wait (Italy being all the time in agonies, and every day putting the peace of Europe in peril) until it suits the convenience of the court to come to St. Cloud. I did not, indeed, expect a satisfactory or even a candid solution. I looked for something dilatory, with a more or less disguised leaning towards the Gueronnibre doctrines ; but I did for a moment experience the fluttering excitement of supposing that I was about to read the Emperor's solemnly-expressed opinion upon the great and pressing Italian crisis, which occupies the minds of all political men at this moment. But oh, what a disappointment ! The date of the Emperor's letter is May 20, 1862. The Moniker, acknowledging, thus late in the day, the public anxiety on the Roman question—an anxiety intensified by the immense event of Garibaldi's fall on the field of battle before Italian arms—has nothing more apropos to communicate to the world than what the Emperor was pleased to say four months ago. This letter to M. Thouvenel is followed by a diplomatic correspondence growing out of it, the latest date of which is June 24. In these disclosures, taken as a whole, although there is the usual leaven of imperial duplicity and just enough of liberalism to keep alive the ire of the church, I cannot extract the smallest hope of that solution of the Roman question—viz., the with drawal of the French army—without which the powers of Europe must prepare for a general war, which may break out at any moment. Although the Marquis de Lavalette's letter from Rome, of June 24, confirming every indication from the papal court down to the present hour, states that the Pope utterly repudiates the French proposal for a reconciliation with Italy, and will never even grant any reforms in his dominions until the portions of it " usurped by Piedmont " be restored to him, the Moniteur heads the reproduction of the Emperor's state letter with the statement that " a reconciliation be tween the Holy See and Italy is still the object of his policy." This pretended clinging to an impossibility is but too strong a confirmation of the Gueronniere chuckle that no matter whe ther the policy of conciliation may succeed or not, France will remain at Rome till it does. That, I am afraid,is the whole pith of the matter—in other words, France will keep her hold upon Rome, and Iconsequently on Italy, by the right of the strongest, and will carry out the real object she had in sacri ficing hecatombs of men at Magenta and Solferino, viz., the substitution of French for Austrian do mination. Very remarkable are these words in M. Thouvenel's now published despatch of May 30 : Never, I loudly proclaim, ban the Emperor's government uttered a word of a nature to inspire the cabinet of Turin with a hope that the capital of catholicism can at the same time became, with the consent of France, the capital of the great kingdom which has been formed beyond the Alps AU our acts, all our declarations conspire on the contrary to show our firm and constant determin►tion to maintain the Pope in possession of the portion of his states which the presence of our flag has preserved to him. I here re sew that assurance, Monsieur le Marquis. Nothing so strong as this in favour of the tem poral power has appeared in any official document for a long time ; and certainly nothing like it was to be found in any of M. Billanit's ambiguous speeches delivered in the Senate and Corps Legis latif last session. Is this the reply to General Durando's circular ? And if so, how is it possible that Rattazzi can remain in office without an open rupture with France ? If the diplomatic oorre spondence with the Italian government for the period contemporaneous with the above, were to be published, as it must surely be ere long, it would not, lam persuaded, show any such categorical de claration in regard to Rome as that made by M. Thouvenel to Cardinal Antonelli. And if it do not—if one language was held to Turin and another to Rome—how shall the French govern ment defend itself from the charge of criminal du plicity I If, on the other hand, France told Turin plainly so long ago and so lately as May last that Italy should never be allowed to have Rome for her capital, how shall Rattazzi justify himself in the eyes of the Italian nation for having crushed their national hero, Garibaldi, on the pretext that he sought by perilous and irregular means that neces sary solution which the government was assured of having without commotion 1 Does not the truth now come out that Garibaldi's desperate and self sacrificing enterprise was promoted by the know ledge that Rattazzi was lulling the nation in a fool's paradise, when he professed to believe that the unity of Italy was to be hoped for from France. If Rattazzi be now obliged to confess that he knew all along that France did not mean Rome to be the capital of Italy, I think him the least enviable statesman in the world. If the above diplomatic correspondence were more recent, the Italian cause might derive some comfort from the following demonstration against a presumed non poseumus in M Thouveners instruc tions to the Marquis de Lavalette : You will have, however, to let it be understood that, if you are met as categorically as hitherto with the theory of immobility, the Emperor's government cannot make that the rule of its conduct ; and that, if it should unhappily learn for a certainty that its efforts to induce the Holy Father to accept an arrangement had become henceforth impossible, it would be under the necessity, while safe guarding as far as possible the interests it has hitherto covered with its solicitude, to find a means of extricatiog itself from a situation which, if prolonged beyond a certain term, would falsify its policy, and would only serve to throw the public mind into greater disorder. But the circumstances under which the Moniteur now lifts the diplomatic veil shows that the latter paragraph was a mere brutent fulmen. The Pope did again say non possumus. M. de Lavalette testi fies that he was met by Cardinal Antonelli with "the theory of immobility" just as categorically as before, and yet the Moniteur, echoing M. de la Gueronnihre, repeats that "conciliation between the Pope and Italy" is still the policy of the imperial government. Not a word now of "extricating itself from the situation of Rome which falsifies its policy." On the contrary, we hear of barracks being prepared at Rome for receiving fresh regi ments from France. It seems to me—and a me lancholy reflection it is—that the La Gueronnihre policy is triumphant. The Bourse was not affected one way or another ,by the Emperor's letter in the Moniteur. The ....,, THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (RLUTIIeIi TILIGIAM.) PLYMOUTH, Bart. 26. The Union Company's steamer Dane, with the Cape mail, arrived here this morning. She left Table Bay on the 21st, St. Helena on the 29th ult., and Ascension on the 2nd inst. She brings 53 passengers. The Cape parliament was prorogued oa the 9th ult. A motion for the complete separation of the two provinces had been rejected. The real grievances of the Eastern colonist, were being remedied. Parliament and government were concurring in nem= exertions for that purpose. The principal department complained of, " the roads and bridges," had been called to account by the Assembly and taken in hand by the Governor himself. A bill had been pawed for the construction of a railway from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town, the colonial revenue being pledged for the interest, at 6 per cent., on 750,000/. A proposal was made to introduce a bill for facilitating the administration of justice on the frontiers. It was, however, resolved to postpone the measure for another year, in order that the question might be maturely considered. A proposal had been made to petition the Governor to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country, but was re jected. 15,0001. had been granted for the immigration service this year. A large quantity of evidence and information respecting irrigation had been collected, and a bill on the subject would be introduced next session. Bills had been named for a railway from Wellington to Worcester, with a branch line to Mahnesbury. The long-pending separation movement bad been aban doned, and the state of feeling between the two provinces had become very favourable. The weather had been very boisterous, and rain bad fallen incessantly. The rivers throughout a great portion of the colony were dangerously swollen. Bridges had been washed away, and the roads in some parts completely de stroyed. The destruction of private property bad been enormous. The damage was entrusted at 50,0001. The shipping had also suffered severely. On the Bth ult. the brigantine Marietta and the barques Bate and Crystal Palace were driven ashore iu Table Bay, and became total wrecks. The crews were saved. The steamer Golden Fleece, from Calcutta, put into Simon's Bay on the 12th ult., totally diamastad. The captain was killed. The breakwater and dock works withstood the gales. The Norman arrived in Table Bay on the 12th. The Ariel reached Simon's Bay on the 21st from the W ai t Coast. No despatches had been received from Dr. Liviagston's expedition at Cape Town. Mr. Robert Moffatt, jun., died Lear Dettruman. The Rev. J. S. Moffatt was returning with his wife dangerously The Coquette, from Rio, bad arrived in Simon's Bay. Business at the Ceps was still very dull. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FItIDAY. B.IIPIIILBIR 24 II A.X. •lAS IN'rELLIGENCIL ENGLAND AND ROME. A postscript to a letter from Rome of the 20th, in the Temps, says :—" I believe it is certain that M. Lavalette has received from Paris a copy of a sort of note from England, prompting the cabinet of the Tuileries to evacuate Rome. To-day, on his return from Ceprano, the marquis read this note to the cardinal, but merely as a piece of information. The marquis, I can positively state, though speaking in the conservative language, does not pitch his words in so reassuring a key as that of M. de la Gueronniere." ROME. THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE "MONITEUR'S" COMMUNICATION. Thermal, concludes an analysis of the documents with remarking :—" The Emperor wrote, in his letter of May 20, It is most urgent that the Roman question should receive a definitive solu tion.' This urgency is far more imperative now than in the month of May; everyone knows it, and in publishing his letter in the .31°11,i/cur, the Emperor proves that he knows it better than any one else. This is the main point." The Sidle observes :—" This is the second time during the present year that the French govern ment has made known that its propositions have been rejected. It remains for us to learn what ars the present intentions of the French government. On the 20th May, 186% the Emperor described Italy as a new state, probably too weak to keep down anarchical tendencies. Since then Italy has given guarantees to the men of order ; it has bees recognised by two great powers, and its interests cannot be sacrificed to those of a temporal power condemned in the minds of the people, and which cannot or will not subscribe to any of the conditions laid down in the Emperor's I letters—that which we report to-day, and that which he addressed to Edgar Ney in 1849. To every demand of reform it replies by a non pas sumus, and to every demand of conciliation Italy replies by the word ' Italiam." The Debate says :—" As, moreover, the Moniteur does not append any commentary to the documents published in its columns, it would be rash to at tempt to determine too rigorously the motives which have caused the French government to make this communication to the public. Was it desired to attest its solicitude for the maintenance of what yet remains of the temporal power ? Has it wished to prepare for the evacuation of Rome ? Does it wish merely to divest itself of its responsibility I Does it, in fine, wish to reserve to itself a last chance of discharging the office of mediator► In our opinion we shall soon have clearer information upon this point." The Tempe says that the documents do not alto gether respond to the actual circumstances. "They are already some months old, and prior to the attempt of General Garibaldi Now, it is acknow ledged by everybody that this attempt, so far from having ameliorated the situation, has rather aggra vated it, and has rendered still more desirable that final settlement the urgency of which is fully recog nised in the correspondence published." The Indipendance of Brussels thinks that the whole question now is whether the delay referred to by the Tuileries cabinet, and beyond which it believes that it cannot remain in this untenable position, has expired, or is on the point of expiring. "The publication itself of these important documents in the Moniteur is a symptom which might easily be interpreted into an affirmative sense." The Nord asks :—" Will the eventuality an nounced by M. Thouvenel be speedily realised Such is the question which is the order of the day, and the declaration of the 30th of May leads in some measure to the solution indicated a few days ago by the Constitutionnel, viz., to leave the Sacred College in the premix* of the Roman populations, after guaranteeing the territory against all inva sion." PRUSSIA. "It appears by the last news from Berlin," says La Praise, " that the military party is gaining the upper hand. There is a rumour of making General Von Grochen president of the council. On the other hand Von Roon possesses the entire confidence of the King. It is alleged that, before attempting any new arrangement, the government will wait for the vote of the Chamber of Peers on the military budget. Should the upper house reject the amendment of the House of Represen tatives and adopt the proposition of the govern ment parliament, will be dissolved." (uvria's TZLICIIIAXL) ROME. ROME, SKr?. 24. The Marquis de Lavalette will leave next week for Biarritz, whence he will proceed to Spain. It is asserted that M. de Lavalette, having exhausted all diplomatic means of bringing about a solution of the Roman question, will not again return to Rome as ambassador from France to the Holy See. SPAIN. MADRID, Srrr. 25. It is asserted that the King and Queen of Portu gal will go onto Paris after the marriage. Ovations continue to be given to the King and Queen of Spain at Seville. GREECE. ATHENS, WT. 83 (yid Marseilles). The bill relating to the re-organisation of the National Guard has been voted by the chambers. The session was then cloeed. The soldiers who took part in the insurrection Nauplia and afterwards lied into foreign coun tries have been auunestied by the CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MILLEIBILLE6, Sen. 26. The Ireetis, with the above mails, arrived here at 7 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m. The Madrid journals of the 22nd state that on , the previous day their Majesties bad visited the University Museum Industrial School, and establishment of the Holy Trinity, at Seville. In the evening the exhibition of na tional dances took place on the square, at which the Queen and her consort were present. More than 100,000 per ' sons witnessed the spectacle. The number of visitors at Seville is so great that people for want of lodgings are forced to pass the night in the streets. The alcade has con sequently invited the inhabitants to leave the gateways of their houses open during the night for the shelter of those i without asylum. A new company has been formed for the cultiva tion of cotton in Algeria. The funds have been subscribed by wealthy merchants in Paris and Havre, with whom some of the most eminent manufacturers in Alsace and in Lorraine have associated themselves. This is the fourth $ company of the kind which has been established within a few menthe. Some tradesmen are of opiniou that better results might be obtained had the efforts of these various parties been concentrated in one or two great companies. AMERICA. REPORTED BATTLE. The following telegrams have been received at Liverpool: " Now York 16th, Evenin, " A battle has occurred between the forces of M'Clellan and Lee, at Hagerstown. M'Clellan states that the Confederates were beaten, and retreated across the Potomac. "The Confederates are reported to have loet 15,000 men. "General Ren (1 Rea) was killed, and General Lee is reported to have been wounded. " The Confederates have surrounded the Federals at Harper's Ferry. It is reported that 16,000 (1,600 0 of the Federal cavalry have escaped, but it is stated that the residue will be forced to sur render. " The Confederate steamer ' 290,' formerly the Sumter, was boarded off Charleston by the pilot boat. it was reported that her commander had received 60,000 dollars in specie." The following private telegram has been received by Mr. Inman, of Liverpool : "New York, Sept. 17, rid Cape Ram. " There has been a terrible battle between M'Clellan and Lee at Hagerstown. M'Clellan reports that the Confederates retired across the Potomac. " The Federals are surrounded at Harper's Ferry. 1,600 cavalry escaped ; the remainder, it is sup posed, would surrender. " The Confederates are advancing on Cincinnati ; they are two miles north of Florence. " Gold down 3 per cent. " The steamer ' 290' was boarded off Charleston by a pilot." Rente, after borne fluctuations, left off within a shade of yesterday's quotations ; the last price for amount was the same as yesterday, 691 r. 15c.; foe cash it was 69fr. 20c., with a rise of 10c. Hubilier and the Italian Loan were without change. Hail. ways were from lfr. 2.1 c. to 2fr. 50c. higher. TEE INTKIMATIONAL IMBIBITION. The following is a list of the schools, parties, ke., visiting the Exhibition yesterday :--Cobston's 11,„, pital School, Bristol, expenses paid by trustees 126 ; St. Saviour's, Chelsea, Mr. and .11r. M'Garrel, 60 ; St. Peter's, Pimlico, Rev. T. Fulltr , 52 ; Lewisham, Southend, National, Rev. 8. Forster 24 ; Finchley, Church-end, National, R. P. R. White, 31 ; Paddington-greeu, Parochial, subscription, 13 ; Farringdon-street, British, su b. scription 10 ; Cambridge-heath Hebrew Sch oo l s, Palestine-place, Society for promoting Christiasity amongst the Jews, 60 ; Totteridge, p ar k School, Mr. R. Wilkinson, 25 ; 3rd City of don National, attending St. Nicholas Cole Abb e , Church, Rev. Dr. Kyuaston. Parties: Agricw• tural labourers, from Chenies, Bucks, Rev. Lod W. Russell, 22; artisans and operatives from lire. tol, individual subscription, 400 ; mechanics awl labourers from Eridge Castle, Tunbridge W e lt s Earl of Abergavenny, 110 ; Band of 40th Surr e y Rifles, Rev. W. A. Bowyer, 25 ; Agricultural labourers from Suffolk, Mr. J. Duolchild, 60. The highest temperature yesterday, as shoes by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers, was the nave, 64.8 deg. ; in the ga ll eries, 6 4.7 deg. ; in the west e rn annex, 69.3 deg. The read ings were taken at 3 o'clock p.m. The following were the total numbers admitted yesterday, compared with the corresponding day in 1861 : len One Shilling day. i Season tickets 3,434 'uscly, Sept. Y 6 ikayment Told 41,4$ One ShiUlna day. Thursday. Sept 2b iesson tickets 14.514 Tad 67,11 THE SMALLPDX IN SHEEP. I Wo are glad to be able to state that no fresh oat. breaks of thin disease have made their appear:we since our lut ; mid with a continuance of the dry, healthy weather whisk now prevails, we have= hope that, with ears, the word of the visitation has The most virulent ease that has occurred lately is that in Mr. Hulbert's flock at Langley Farm, Berke, but this may be attributed in a great measure to Mr. Holbert net knowing the symptoms of the disease when it first broke out. His flock consisted of CM Limbs sad 121 webers, and on the 16th suck a head had the malady &Chained, the; out of that number three lambs had died of the dime; and there were 121 natural mess of small-pox in the Beek. Hader these circumstances Mr. Hulbert very re,erelly had recourse to inoculation, and, under the 8 4 1 tintandlice al Professor Simonds, the operation has been performed by Mr. Drew, of Newbury. This last case, as well as the outbreak of the disease it Mr. Church's flock. are distinctly traceable to Mr. Neato's infected sheep which were purchased at Marlborough fair. Mr. Neste himself has, we hear, already lost 50 out of his Salt of 1,000 diseased estimals ; and it is probable that more will die before this malady is entirely eradicataL Mr. Pis Sock, we are glad to hear, is progressing favour. ably, and (with only a few exoeptions) may be said to hare mend through the disease. His losses, upon inoculated seam have been comparatively nil, and the same may he said of Mr. Hardiog's flock at Etchilbampton. There has been no further symptom of the disease either ks Mr. Dark's Sock at Avebury, Mr. Uiddings' at Horton, ass Mr. Church's at Aldbourne ; and in neither of these awes bore more than two sheep died. In the two tome seems nearly a fortnight has now elapsed shwa the dimmed sheep were separated from the Socks; and s the dime generally shows itself within 10 or 12 days after en aßbeal hem taken the infection, we hope that these ton may be proaounoed safe. Professor Simonds inspected Mr. Dark's flock on the 19th, and reported them to be sound ; he also examined two lambs and two ewes that been associated with the two lambs that had been butsi by order of Profaner Gamgee, and pronounced then also free from disease. So that matters altogether look better ; and, as we have said, with dry healthy weather a hope in the course of another mouth to bid good-bye to In small-pox from the Wiltshire Downs. We are glad, however, to Sod that a large number d flockmastors have joined the association for preventing the spread of the disease. In this they have acted prudentiy ; as in the event of so attack in their own docks they will 61 safe from pecuniary loss ; whereas, if the disease should le stayed, as we hope it will be, they will have nothiog pay beyond their entrance deposit of one guinea.—Dena Gazette of yesterday. IMPORTANT GUN EXPRZININTE.—Yeeterday the 120-pounder made it Woolwich, with Armstrou's coil isi Whitworth's rifling, was first tried with solid 12011). Whit worth shot at 600 yards. The shot went through the timi target, and buried ituif in the backing. The great feature the day was firing the Whitworth shell, weighing 1311 b„ the mine range. This struck with terrible force the cosmic' raising • sheet of done. Tha shell passed clean through iii guget, and also right through the wood backing sad their(' plate behind it, the shell exploding inside the framed the target, and setting fire to the supports. A yr tion of the side of the target was blown out, and tie fregmeuts of the shell were scattered about. The reed' excited general astonishment. and the proof of the deem tire character of the new missile was considered sudiciat Mr. Whitworth was warmly congratulated on his nava The charge was 25 pounds. The Great Mersey or Bora gun was next tried at 800 yards, with 75-pound chwa Two or three shots missed the target, bat one, after strikin the ground, went through the plate ; another went thrice the target, but not through the backing. A third fired to high, and carried off • top corner of the butt. The rd remain" uninjured. The last shot fired was from a emend bore 08-pounder, at 100 yards, which only indented lie target nearly four inches. Lord Clyde was amongst tie spectators. TEE BARON DR BRUNNOW.—The able and a complished arubassulor who has so many years werthil , represented the Czar at the court of St. JlllllE4'B has jas received a new honour from the Emperor. We learn the the insignia of the Order of St. Andrew have been Oleg in the hands of his Excellency Baron Brunnow by Hie Gortchakoff, • younger son of the Minister of Fat* Affair, who was despatched from St. Petersburg to law don for that purpose. The following is the letter &damsel by the Emperor to Baron de Bruouow :—" Baron KO Ivaciovitch,—Your long career, devoted to the tht and the country, remarkable for important *emu has always been distiognished by exemplary lei By applying constantly and successfully your or neat talents to public affairs you have fulfilled tie various missions which were confided to jeu bf the high confidence of my father of glorious memos. the present time, as our ambassador to the Queen of t;roi Britain, you still dedicate the fruits of your long experear to the maintenance and consolidation of friendly between the two countries. These services have at.rs our special attention to you. Wishing to give )ou a red of it, which may at the same time show ow gratitu.k. name you Knight of the Order of St. Andrew, and I , herewith send you the insignia, commanding you tome them according to the statutes. Assuring you of our re penal favour, we remain invariably your a ff ectionate AND' ANDER.—Taaieko Selo, August 30, 11482."—Port. AOCIDENT TO GENERAL LAWRENCE AND ots sir; LN PAWL — Yesterday as General Lawrence and hi: ole were driving dowu the ChampsdElyeies oue of the dohs the carriage somehow got loose, and striking wind Os sides of the horses, the a n i ;mals took fright and r' against a flame. The carriage was completely broken In tM shock, and Lady Lawrence io jumping out fell and fracinv.l her left arm. The general was hurt in the right Ira,. crowd at once collected, and General Lawrence end t" lady were coo veyod to the house of a friend in the Ayer , ' end were attended by Dr. Renard. One of the born oe so badly wounded that he had to be killed. DEATH Or DZ. SUENZ6.—We regret to leant t, sudden death of Dr. James Burnes, which happened 3 feu thus since at Manchester, whilst on his wedding tou r. was elder brother of the late Sir Alexander Burnes. vs fell at Cahn! in 1841, and himself formerly hull the 1 4 of physician-general at Bombay. Dr. Burnes, known in the literary world as the author of a too to the Angers of Scinde," was a magistrate ter . the counties of Forfar and Middlesex, and war of the most active of the visiting justices of the 1,31 Asylum at lianwell. The deceased gentleman received t!' Haeloverisa order of Knighthood its 1837. B first s , who was a daughter of the late Major rar Holmes, K.C.8., he had issue several emu the eldest whom fell in the Indian mutiny, when he lost hie life o heroic effort to rescue a little English child. This is commemorated in • handsome painted window, itt , executed for Dr. Burnes' native city of Mootrou ' SUDDEN Drarm—On Wednesday inonnisg ) 11 `, Kemp, • washerwoman of Widford, aged 64, tbe rot , ° the church clerk, while engaged in her domestic wort• deoly complained of feelingm and exclaims/ " Am.' . iog to die,'" sat down io her chair and almost mimed..., expired. A neighbour who was with her endeavour,' apply restoratives but without avail. It is suppve'l cause of death was threw of the heart.- 0, Chronicle.